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TeeMajor

Strength is sovereignty.

Founder, Sqwod Performance Coach Author American in Berlin
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The Mission

I build for the 80% the fitness industry ignores.

The industry sells to the 20% already winning — the lean, the young, the already-athletic. I build for everyone else. The parents, the post-injury, the time-poor, the intimidated, the people who were told the gym wasn't for them. Strength belongs to all of them.

01

Strength as sovereignty

Strength isn't vanity — it's autonomy. A strong body is a form of self-government: the freedom to carry your own life, on your own terms, for longer.

02

Military precision, human warmth

Trained in the discipline of the armed forces, delivered for real people. Systems that are exact, repeatable, and forgiving — built to fit a life, not consume one.

03

One million strong

The goal is simple and serious: help 1,000,000 people get strong and Sqwod up. Sovereignty, scaled.

What I'm Building

The Sqwod
Ecosystem

One fitness company, three layers that feed each other: a private gym you unlock with your phone, an AI coach in your pocket, and the software brain that runs both.

01
The Place

Your gym.
Nobody else's.

Private, on-demand gyms. Book an hour, unlock the door from the app, own the room. Train without an audience.

Sqwod Pod storefront, Berlin
The flagship

Sqwod Pod

Two Berlin locations and growing.

2Berlin locations
400+Bookings / month
Sqwod Pod Kollwitzkiez interior
KollwitzkiezPrenzlauer Berg · Berlin
Sqwod Pod Weissensee interior
WeissenseeBerlin
By the hourUp to 3 guestsApp door unlockNo contract
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The Coach

Don't read about it.
Try it.

This is the real Sqwod member app, running live in this page on sample data. Pick a screen, or just tap around.

Open a screen
  • ReadinessReads how recovered you are before it writes your day.
  • ProgramWrites your plan around your goal and your pod hours.
  • FormCorrects your technique, rep by rep.
  • RhythmNudges you before you fall off.
LiveReal app, sample data. Tap around.
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The Brain
Train Data Smarter coaching Stay longer SQWOD OS The flywheel

AI isn't a feature.
It's the company.

Elite coaching has always been rationed to the 20% already winning. AI is how I put a world-class coach in the pocket of the other 80%.

Sqwod OS, the nervous system

Every booking, session and effort score feeds it. It schedules the pods, predicts capacity, spots members about to drift and briefs coaches. More training makes the coaching smarter.

One founder, full stack

Door hardware, member app and operator platform, designed and shipped founder-led with AI as engineering and design partner. The output of a much bigger team, capital-efficient by design.

04
Scale
B2B · Gym-as-a-Service

The Pod, plug-and-play.

The same model, packaged for coaches, studios and companies that want their own gym without building one. We supply the equipment fit-out and the software: booking, app door access, member management and the AI coach. They run it as their own. Every new pod makes the network smarter.

Equipment fit-outSoftware platformApp door accessAI coach included
In development

Echo

The AI accountability partner. Checks in, keeps members on rhythm and closes the loop between sessions.

Building

Forge

The AI content engine. Turns one session into a week of shareable media, automatically.

Building

Sqwod OS for studios

The brain behind our pods, licensed to other studios.

Building
The Journey

Both sides
of the table

Driving commercial revenue at scale for fast-growing startups — while building founder-led products from zero.

2024 — 2026

Senior Account Manager

Compado · Berlin

  • Grew a book of 20+ global partners across performance-marketing verticals.
  • Added +€5M annual revenue at ~30% margin.
  • Drove ~60% YoY growth on the portfolio.
2021 — 2024

Head of Growth, Partnerships & Community

Actio

  • Onboarded 600+ coaches to the platform.
  • Cut acquisition cost by −40% CPA.
2019 — now

Founder

Sqwod

  • Founder-led fitness ecosystem — Pod, App, and the OS underneath.
  • Building for the 80% the industry leaves behind.
2017 — 2019

Business Development & Performance Marketing Manager

Spark Networks

  • Launched 92 events across 18 US & Canada cities.
  • Scaled revenue across 6 markets.
Service

Military Fitness Trainer

U.S. Armed Forces · incl. Kyrgyzstan

  • Built and led performance programs for service members on deployment.
  • Where the discipline behind everything was forged.
Education

BSBA

Bryant University — Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Author

Urban Calisthenics

Published by Penguin Random House, 2018.

Fitness & Accomplishments

The work
behind the
philosophy

Olympic-level athletes, U.S. military branches, and celebrities — coached across three continents.

As featured in Women's Health
On TV: E! Just Jillian
Just Jillian · Episode 2 · highlights
Just Jillian · Season finale · USS Midway · highlights
3Continents coached
1Published book
∞Reps owed
Olympic athletes · U.S. military branches · Celebrities · Women's-health & fitness photography
Connect

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something strong

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