The first girl to play football at my middle school and my high school.
I played wide receiver and kicker in middle school and kicked for a Texas 6A high school team. I didn’t wait for anyone to ask me.
I’ve always loved building things.
I want to understand how every part works, why something isn’t working, and how I can make it better.
That started with engineering competitions, then became a product, then my own business, and now an AI company.
The things I’ve built have gotten a lot bigger. The part I love hasn’t changed.
What I’ve built
Everything I’ve built has gotten bigger than the one before it.
Here’s how that’s gone so far.
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01
Jess Sports
When I was about twelve, I came up with the idea for the Caño Cage, a modular soccer cage for training and small sided games.
With my dad’s help, that idea became a real product. I worked tournaments, talked directly with customers, helped with installations, and personally brought in more than $20,000 in sales.
$20K+
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Purple Wake Austin
Purple Wake started with me teaching friends how to wakesurf. I turned it into a business by building the website, booking and payment systems, advertising, camps, and customer experience.
Last summer, Purple Wake brought in $8K+ in revenue in two months. Today, reviews, Google search, and referrals bring in most of my customers.
$8K+
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03
TheEverlasting
TheEverlasting is the biggest thing I’ve built so far.
We’re using AI to capture people’s life stories, turn them into films, and build Everlasting Presence, a digital twin grounded in what that person actually said while they were alive.
My role has been figuring out how to bring the different technologies together into a system that actually works, while learning how real people respond to AI along the way.
I’ve been building for a while.
For about eight years, I competed in Destination Imagination.
My team was given engineering problems with rules, but no instructions for how to solve them. We had to design, build, test, fix, present, and compete.
I was doing that long before I ever took an engineering class.
- 1st Place
- 3rd Place
- Global Finals
- DaVinci Award
Beyond the builds
The sport my family’s first business was built around.
I play club soccer at Alabama, and before college I was head coach for soccer and cross country at International School of Texas.
I grew up on Lake Austin.
If it’s on the water, or under it, I’m in: wakesurfing, wakeboarding, foiling, kiteboarding, diving. The lake is also where Purple Wake started.