Builder. Founder. Systems Thinker.

Justice Conder

Applied AI · Agent Infrastructure · Full-Stack

I build software that turns complex workflows into working systems. My experience spans 15+ years in web development, enterprise delivery, distributed protocols, and AI automation, taking problems from discovery and architecture through implementation and deployment. Most recently, I founded and built ClawBank: infrastructure that lets AI agents form companies, open bank accounts, execute contracts, and resolve disputes. My strength is connecting the business problem to the technical details, then staying hands-on until the system works.

Experience

Work History

Experience

ClawBank

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Founder & Builder
  • Founded and built a production platform that lets AI agents form U.S. companies, open bank accounts, maintain corporate records, and negotiate and sign contracts.
  • Architected the platform around Elixir/Phoenix and LiveView, with Python/FastAPI services, background jobs, and third-party API integrations.
  • Unified banking, wallets, company formation, and DocuSign signing behind REST APIs, MCP tools, a CLI, and an SMS interface.
  • Built agent-to-agent contracting with onchain agreement records, escrow-backed milestones, and Kleros arbitration on Base.
  • Extended the platform with ClawBank OS: an agent-operated workspace for websites, business documents, marketing, and daily execution.
  • Adoption as of September 22, 2026: 1,633 agents, 95 USD bank accounts, 16 U.S. companies incorporated, and 45 contracts with 129 milestones.
  • Platform activity at the same snapshot: approximately $298K in total value moved across 27,949 onchain transactions; 556,848 x402 transactions and 996 services listed.
  • Website & Docs & Adoption metrics

Thrive Protocol

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Head of Growth & Innovation
  • Designed and built the Thrive Guardian Network API, an x402-powered marketplace for programmatic research and project evaluation.
  • Implemented deployable agents that gathered, normalized, and scored public project data against private evaluation rubrics.
  • Connected those workflows to Thrive's internal data lake and decision systems, turning unstructured research into structured diligence inputs.

Quadratic Accelerator

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Cofounder
  • Cofounded and launched a bonding-curve-based funding platform, reaching the top ten launchpads by total value locked on DefiLlama.
  • Launched 12 projects with integrated identity verification, Passport proof-of-humanity, and anti-sybil protections.
  • Connected funding mechanisms, participant incentives, and onboarding into a repeatable project-launch process.
  • Acquired by Thrive Protocol in August 2025.
  • Website & Whitepaper

Polygon Labs

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DAO BD & Treasury Governance
  • Led technical business development for DAO tooling, helping ecosystem teams select and deploy governance and treasury infrastructure.
  • Designed and launched Polygon's community grants program, turning ecosystem funding goals into a working allocation program.
  • Served on the PolygonDAO grants committee and coordinated the Ethereum Adoption DAO and Metaverse Alliance DAO.

BanklessDAO

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Governance Solution Engineer
  • Cofounded FRAG Stack, a decentralized frontend stack built around Radicle and IPFS.
  • Served as the inaugural Governance Solution Engineering lead, translating governance decisions into the DAO constitution, operating handbook, and proposal standards.
  • Contributed to OpsGuild and co-authored the Sobol Cartographer program, documenting organizational structure and responsibilities.
  • Cofounded the Project Management Guild and Modern Agilist Podcast to develop and share practical delivery methods.

UPMC Enterprises

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Lead Program Agilist
  • Designed the delivery and scaling model for MyUPMC's 45+ engineers, aligning team boundaries with product ownership.
  • Reorganized work into cross-functional teams and specialist groups to coordinate delivery across a growing healthcare software platform.
  • Created the MyUPMC Agility Handbook and delivery metrics framework; founded the Agile Working Group and MyUPMC University to make the approach repeatable.

Highmark

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Program IT Team Manager
  • Organized four engineering teams to migrate three enterprise content systems to Adobe Experience Manager.
  • Introduced programmatic ETL-based migration rather than treating the work as a page-by-page rebuild, improving speed and data consistency.
  • Coordinated cross-team dependencies and made delivery progress and technical risks visible to engineering and business stakeholders.

Fraction Software

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Blockchain Consultant
  • Advise organizations on whether blockchain is the right tool for the problem, with a focus on Ethereum and decentralized application architecture.
  • Evaluate platform tradeoffs, integration requirements, and smart-contract constraints before committing to implementation.
  • Translate business requirements into technical options and explain architectural decisions to non-technical stakeholders.

33 Mile Radius

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Product Lead
  • Led the transition from a local, single-user application to a containerized, cloud-based platform serving multiple users.
  • Decoupled the application interface from backend build processes so jobs could run concurrently instead of blocking one another.
  • Built a small engineering team, led post-acquisition product integration, and delivered analytics and revenue dashboards.

Sherwin-Williams

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Developer
  • Recreated an acquired company's web catalog in 24 hours during an emergency migration, keeping it online while its legacy server was retired.
  • Extracted product data into JSON and generated static pages with Handlebars.js, choosing a small, deployable solution under a hard deadline.

Truth for Life

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Developer
  • Built and maintained frontend experiences and campaign landing pages.
  • Brought existing code into Git and established a shared workflow with third-party developers.
  • Introduced BrowserStack-based cross-browser testing and structured bug reporting to make releases easier to verify.

Sherwin-Williams

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Developer
  • Developed and maintained corporate web properties and partner sites.
  • Built a multilingual European portal with international stakeholders and translators, adapting content and layouts across German, French, Russian, Italian, and other languages.
Education

Education

Education

Stark State College

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Computer Programming and Database Design

Associate's Degree - Graduated with academic distinction.

Certifications

Scrum & Agile

STMAC - Scrum Team Member - International Scrum Institute

SMAC - Scrum Master - International Scrum Institute

SSEAC - Scaled Scrum Expert - International Scrum Institute

SCAC - Scrum Coach - International Scrum Institute

PSM I - Professional Scrum Master - Scrum.org

PSK I - Professional Scrum with Kanban - Scrum.org

DevOps - Scrum Alliance

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist - Scaled Agile, Inc

Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner - Scaled Agile, Inc

CSM - Scrum Alliance

A-CSM - Scrum Alliance

AI for Scrum Masters - Scrum Alliance

Blockchain & Web3

Blockchain: Foundations and Use Cases - ConsenSys Academy

IBM Blockchain Essentials - IBM

IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer - IBM

Certified Blockchain Expert - Blockchain Council

Certified Cryptocurrency Trader - Blockchain Council

Blockchain & Healthcare - Udemy

Certified Blockchain & Healthcare Professional - Blockchain Council

Certified DAO Expert - Blockchain Council

Certified NFT Expert - Blockchain Council

Metaverse Professional - 101 Blockchains

Token Engineering Fundamentals (1 & 2) - Token Engineering Academy

Technology & Development

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - AWS

Google Analytics for Beginners - Google

GitLab 101 - GitLab

Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer - Python Institute

Business & Strategy

Mastering Business Models - Strategyzer

Certified Platform Design Toolkit Facilitator - Boundaryless

Certified Rendanheyi Expert - First Level - Boundaryless

Platform Strategy Masterclass - The Platform Institute

Team Topologies - Team Topologies Academy

Platform as Product - Team Topologies Academy

Selected Work

Portfolio

My Portfolio
The Bitbay
The Bitbay

Early project (~2010): pay Bitcoin for a P2P file download. A Java applet in the browser connected people with private BitTorrent tracker links.

Historical
Vypr Pad
Vypr Pad

Headless launchpad: no UI. Send tokens to an ENS domain and get the counterparty token back. First of its kind.

Q/Acc
Q/Acc

Cofounded a bonding-curve funding platform that reached the top ten launchpads by TVL and launched 12 projects. Acquired by Thrive Protocol in August 2025.

Ghost Nil
Ghost Nil

White-hat smart contract exploit scanner. A test of long-running continuous scans with a local 8B LLM, about six hours at a time. Code not shared.

Tiny-model evals
Tiny-model evals

Companion to the tiny-models paper. Benchmarked the smallest models, then with RAG, to see how results differ — a learning exercise, not a claimed breakthrough.

Cybernetic Org Design
Cybernetic Org Design

Book compiling years of DAO, governance, and politics learnings, boiled down for engineers.

Agent Fight Club
Agent Fight Club

First attempt to expose MolochDAO contracts with enough context for agents to use them autonomously and safely.

Wiretap
Wiretap

Started as a P2P social network for agents; became convenient email for agents.

Hype Man
Hype Man

Weekend experiment exposing social and marketing services over x402.

ClawBank
ClawBank

Production infrastructure for agent-run companies: banking, legal entities, contracts, and arbitration, accessible through APIs, MCP, CLI, and SMS. Built end to end on Elixir/Phoenix.

Business Bench
Business Bench

Formalize a business-operations harness and benchmark it. Early stage. Measure macroscopic outcomes (business success), not only microscopic metrics.

Skill Shop
Skill Shop

Buy and sell private GitHub repos via x402. Agents post repo access with a special Markdown file and the GitHub Skill Shop app.

JAMBook
JAMBook

Historical. Fork a repo plus git static hosting for a private writing environment. Daily writing in the browser with GitHub as the backend — don’t break the chain.

Historical — no longer live
Speaking

Talks

Speaking
Cities Justice has spoken NYC Texas Detroit Cleveland Denver Bali Thailand Hong Kong Bogotá Paris Brussels Lisbon
NYC Texas Detroit Cleveland Denver Bali Thailand Hong Kong Bogotá Paris Brussels Lisbon
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Recommendations

Recommendations

Justice shares his passion for problem solving and building better software with those around him. I have been impressed by his expertise and knowledge of agile and Scrum methodologies. If anyone deserves a t-shirt that reads “Plays nicely with others” Justice is the guy!

Bruce Gay
Director of Program Management

My conversations with Justice was one of the factors that began to peak my interest in crypto years ago. His passion for blockchain, and its understanding of its potential was obvious in our conversations. While some professionals in the space are only about hype, Justice would answer my questions in a way that demonstrated deep knowledge on the subject, clearly knowing crypto & blockchain inside and out. He has only continued to build on this passion and knowledge for blockchain over the years in his free time. Justice is someone who wants the best for the team, and wants to have a positive impact. He is a professional who wants to get along with everyone. He cares about getting it right, and if he doesn't he shows self awareness and camaraderie to smooth any bumps in the road. His technical ability, people skills, and understanding of how pieces of an organization should fit together is a rare find. The crypto space would benefit from Justice's deep knowledge of blockchain from both a product and technology perspective.

Krista Krebs
Product Strategy

Justice is an extremely passionate and talented individual which has made him a great coworker. His collaboration and problem solving abilities have helped to overcome a number of challenges that our organization has faced. Over the years Justice and I have worked very closely together and have managed a number of large teams and initiatives that have lead to successful and on-time releases. Justice is eager to learn and spends much of his time continuing to improve upon his knowledge of agile process and his skillset as a team leader. In addition to what he brings to the team as an agile leader, his personality is a light in the room and he is always very engaged and interested in getting to know his coworkers. It's been a pleasure working with Justice over the years!

Caylen Harris
Product Manager

Justice is a great person to have in your organization. I’ve worked with a lot of Agilists, Product Managers, and Process People. And while all have had great intentions, not every one of them was cut out for the task at hand. Justice is razor sharp with Agile skills, but he has certain knack with soft and technical skills . That really helps him meld in to the SDLC, at the same time as melding into Product Steering. I’ve watched him execute, extremely complex planning sessions first hand. And over the past several years I’ve witnessed him saddle a somewhat unwieldy team, and helped shape it into a lean, process driven, human (patient) focused organization. He’s done all of this humbly, compassionately, diplomatically and with respect to all involved. And off of the record, he’s been a good friend.

Andrew Mortimer
Software Engineer

Justice is a passionate Sr. Scrum Master. He and I worked on AEM Project; his shared passion of Scrum mutually fostered a collaborative experience. He managed four teams consisting of twenty members to orchestrate the migration of three enterprise content management systems to Adobe Experience Manager. He lead agile ceremonies and introduced a Nexus-based Scrum of Scrums to deliver an improved cross-team product increment at the conclusion of every sprint. I do hope that we get to work on projects in future.

Himanshu Bhatia
Agile Project Manager

Justice has been a great team mate and colleague. He started the agile process build out with our current project and has been an advocate for following proper scrum procedure. He is a very pleasant person to work with and very knowledgeable about process.

James Wyman
Engineering Manager

Justice GETS IT. He is a hard worker and enjoys solving problems and finding ways to work better and more efficiently. Justice is also one of the most passionate people I have met in the industry and is a total technologist, enamored with the future of development and learning code. I know he's going to be an asset as other people become burned out and "set in their ways," Justice will continue to seek new answers and hone his skills and knowledge and make a great addition to any team who is looking to infuse not just another hand behind the wheel, but a life force into their collective.

David Puerto
Senior Microsoft engineer

Justice's passion for all things tech is truly inspiring. He is dedicated to exploring any and every option when it comes to creative problem solving and and he expects the same of his team. His love of software development and his awareness of the current tech landscape is apparent in every conversation. He would be a valuable asset to any team that shares his level of dedication to accomplishing a positive outcome for their project.

Nelson Foltz
UX Designer

You won't find many developers around like Justice, and he'd make a great addition to any development team. Justice has a constant conquest to learn new tech, and the ability to carve out a strong development path for a new project. He also knows how to continue to move a project forward and get things done, while ensuring a project is still shipped with all intended deliverables. I strongly recommend Justice to any leading tech firm looking for an emerging developer to fit a demanding development position.

Mark Shust
Full Stack Developer

Hands down, Justice is probably the most EPIC bro nerd I know. He is incredibly passionate about the latest and greatest technology and always seems to be learning something new on the side. He has a love for programming and will be an absolute asset to any team. I highly recommend Justice as a developer.

John Urbank
Senior Front End Developer

Justice’s enthusiasm and positive attitude is contagious. All of his teammates fed off of his energy, and not one of them had a single negative thing to say about his management style or professional acumen. Additionally, Justice’s technical background as a developer sets him apart as a manager; his ability to decompose problems and articulate solutions with his peers made the difference in the success of the work his team accomplished. He constantly evangelized new technologies and encouraged many of his peers to invest in their own professional enrichment. The breadth of his skill sets is astounding, but his ability to inspire and encourage others is even more remarkable to me. I wouldn’t think twice if offered the opportunity to work with or collaborate with Justice in the future. Justice *is* that good.

J.T. Gralka
Agile Coach & Developer

You will rarely find a manager with both technical and management skills. Justice has both. I always felt comfortable discussing requirements even from technical prospective. Justice is not like typical Manager, He is friendly and helping. I really admired his commitment and honesty with the organization. He has guts to reduce development time by adopting different programmatic approaches. I really liked his Idea of 'Programmatic transformation from Angular to AEM'. That was an amazing concept! I have no doubt that it reduced estimation from months to weeks, if not days. Not only did it gave piece of mind to the dev team, it also saved huge on org budget. Having a manager like Justice is a blessing. I believe, where ever he will go, wheather dev and org, both will be happy to have him.

Abdul Kareem
Senior Java Developer

They say that you meet a few people in your life that make an memorable impact on your life. Justice is one of those people. His passion for life, knowledge of technology, and his contagious enthusiasm will rub off on anyone he works or is friends with. There is no better person and/or technologist in North East Ohio, and probably the rest of the country for that matter. This may sound like a little much; it's not. Once you've met Justice you'll understand. He's truly a one-of-a kind person both personally and professionally.

Ryan Lazuka
Crypto Venture Capitalist

Justice is one of the most knowledgeable people in his industry. His strategic and creative approach allows him to simply craft the perfect sequence to problem solve any situation that arises. Upon leading a development team, it allows his team members to feel their importance, focus on their core strengths, and continue to grow in their weaknesses. Justice possesses such a love for life in general that when you spend long periods of time with him, that transfers to you. You will never regret a moment you get to work with him. Very down to earth and always loving to bring out the best in people, Justice is one of a kind.

Randy Chmielewski
Internet Marketing

Justice is the kind of programmer who is obviously passionate and devoted to his career. It is this passion that allows him to keep learning new things about programming languages and techniques in order to always stay up to date in his field. Justice also carries himself with honesty and integrity. He would be an asset to any company.

Bryan Cable
Senior Software Design Engineer

Justice has been simply the best CIO, the best project manager I ever met. He was a source of motivation, whatever he was giving me positive or negative feedbacks. I loved chosen technologies, professional and personal suggestions and basically all the way he was managing our remote team. From a professional point of view I would highly recommend him, without any hesitation. I... really hope we can work again together in the future.

Daniele Gazzelloni
Senior Application Developer

Justice is a passionate and knowledgeable technologist with a special focus on agile frameworks and data-driven process management. He is uniquely able to quickly identify industry trends and cutting edge approaches that are able to benefit our organization’s development teams. It has been enlightening to observe Justice’s process of thinking as he discusses the rationale behind why a given approach should be implemented.

Rick Pollick
Program Agilist

I really enjoyed working with Justice as he was one of few managers I've had who looked after the well being of his team. He was one of the most energetic leaders within the department that genuinely prioritized the quality of our team's output and finished product. Justice came in every day with a positive attitude that was contagious to the rest of our group and vital to keeping our team moral at its highest when things got rough. I consistently looked forward to our daily scrum and felt comfortable coming to him with any problems because he was always ready to make time to sit with me and find a solution. I admire him most for always looking at the bright side of any situation and finding a way to grow from it. He is personable, passionate, and has motivated me to stretch myself in new directions as a developer.

Alison Falk
Product Manager

Justice Conder is a Software Engineer who I've had the pleasure to know and train on Product Scoping. His knowledge includes analysis and design of complex web applications using a variety of open source technologies. During the time Justice and I served as volunteers for the Celebrate Recovery ministry and he proved himself to be dependable with solid problem solving skills. Overall, Justice is a talented individual who I would recommend for any technology position.

Kirk McCutcheon
Allstate Insurance Company IT