About
Based in South Texas. I work with a great team building Harva, advise a small number of operators on AI, and write both fiction and non-fiction when I find the spare time. This page is the long version.
I'm William E. Steele, based in South Texas. Most weeks I'm working somewhere between McAllen, Weslaco, Brownsville, or SPI, where my team and I run harva (formerly Supply Pay) , a cross-border trade finance and B2B SaaS company serving buyers and sellers in the international perishable goods trade. When I am not doing that, I am helping other builders through a small consulting and teaching practice. My work sits where software, capital, attention, and AI collide, which turns out to be a fascinating intersection at this moment in time.
What I do
My time splits a few ways, between professional projects and family. On the consulting and teaching side, I work with businesses, associations, and regional governments to provide AI advisory and intensives. The current programs and applications all live at Curious Builder.
The through-line is the same across all three: take a non-obvious technical shift (right now, AI) and figure out what it actually does inside the shape of a real business. Not the keynote version. The version where someone has to decide on Tuesday whether to hire a person or ship a prototype.
The useful questions are almost always the ones that sound too practical to be interesting. They're the interesting ones.
Credentials
I have had the pleasure to pitch and learn from some of the world's best entrepreneurs, like Steve Forbes, Richard Branson, Brett Hurt, and John Mackey; harva has raised roughly $113M across debt and equity to date; I have given workshops and talks at events like RGV Startup Week and several others. These are a few of the fun things I have experienced in my journey as a builder that helps lend some credibility to the initiatives here.
Books
Two so far, both published in 2022. A non-fiction book on AI and a sci-fi novel, both by William E. Steele.
How Our World Was Changed Forever By Artificial Intelligence
My first non-fiction book. Written on the other side of the GPT moment, about what it actually means for the world that these systems exist. Audiobook followed a few weeks later. Grab a copy.
The Spark
My first novel, and the opening of a science-fiction universe I'm calling Beyond The Light. Grab a copy.
Elsewhere
- X · @will_e_steele
- LinkedIn · in/william-e-steele
- YouTube · @william.steele
- Instagram · @william.e.steele
- Harva · harva.ai