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Christian Bader

Practice Lead

Christian Bader

Christian Bader has spent years as a forward-deployed engineer across banking, real estate, SaaS, and e-commerce — embedding directly with teams to identify operational leverage points and build the systems that capture them. He now leads the integration of AI and automation across all Echelon engagements. He graduated #1 in his department from Stanford with both a BS and MS in Management Science & Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

Projects

We embed with organizations, learn how they operate, and build the systems that move them forward.

Trinity Mortgage Fund

Solving a deal drought and a treasury problem from a single data model

Automated Deal PipelineTreasury ManagementLLM Integration

Trinity was in a deal drought. We built a scraper that surfaces hot leads the moment properties in their target zip codes and deal ranges change hands. Mapping their full deal history into a unified ontology to personalize outreach revealed a second problem: $90M+ in committed loans with fluctuating deployment, where dead cash and over-commitment both cost money. We solved both from a single data model: an automated deal pipeline and a treasury management system.

State Bank

AI-driven financial reporting for a $100M community bank

Financial AutomationAI AnalysisFDIC Analytics

A community bank with manual book close processes and limited transparency in financial reporting. We mapped every GL line across raw actuals and budgets to canonical categories, then built a full reporting system on top: AI-powered analysis, automated formatting, FDIC competitor benchmarking, and an auth-gated portal where board members and shareholders each see exactly the information they're privy to.

Quinta de Sant'Ana

From one estate to three on a single operations platform

Full-Stack PlatformWorkflow Automation

A Portuguese wine estate running 90+ weddings a year across spreadsheets and paper. We built a full-stack platform with role-based dashboards for kitchen managers, wedding planners, and couples. The system enabled expansion from one estate to three with remote operations management, profit trend analysis, advance planning, and bulk vendor deals across events.

AI-native network management for a venture community

AI PlatformGraph DatabaseCommunity Intelligence

Echelon operates as a network of businesses, including a venture capital firm. NORA is the AI-native platform that manages that network. It captures rich qualitative details about people across the community, embeds them into an underlying graph database, and surfaces high-value connections among trusted members at a scale that would be impossible to maintain manually.

Moxley Public Health

AI-powered community health assessments at national scale

Data IntegrationAI Report Generation

A fully manual public health consultancy running on spreadsheets in Google Drive and hand-gathered statistics. We built data pipelines unifying their core public health metrics with the SurveyMonkey API, then layered in AI-generated drafts of community health assessments. In-house experts review each draft and add qualitative community data. The result: dramatically increased capacity to produce reports without scaling headcount.

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