Vision. Precision. Grace.
"The problems we take on are hard—if they were easy, someone else would have solved them.
We demand excellence, and we lead with humility. The risk of failure is real, and the communities we serve have faced systemic setbacks before us. That demands grace.
This work isn't about us; it's about the people we serve."
— Daniel Soliman
What I Do
High stakes. All in.
I work with family offices, governments, impact funds, and foundations on challenges where the stakes are high and the playbook hasn't been written.
Whether you are deploying capital, from philanthropic grants to market-rate impact investments, or actively building the solution, the goal remains the same: understand the true scope of the problem, bring the right people to the table, and deliver a tangible outcome.
It starts with listening: what are you trying to accomplish, who is it meant to serve, and what stands in the way? The people closest to the outcome shape the direction from the start.
How I Work
Questions. Team. Outcome.
Every engagement begins with focused questions — what does this work need to accomplish, who needs to be in the room, and what does success actually look like? I work in three iterative phases, each one pressure-tested before the next begins.
Understand the problem
Assess · Test · Learn
Pressure-test the thesis before anything moves. What does the data say? What do the stakeholders need? What are the real constraints — not the ones on paper?
Assemble the team
Configure · Evaluate · Adjust
Researchers, operators, technologists drawn from a deep bench and selected for what the work demands.
Deliver the outcome
Build · Measure · Refine
Build the solution. Measure its impact against the thesis. Refine until the outcome meets the standard. This isn't a handoff — it's a cycle that runs until the work lands.
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Understand the problem
Chronic disease patients in underserved communities are managing care alone between clinic visits. Conditions go unmonitored. Preventable episodes drive them to the emergency department. The system carries the cost of a gap it never closed, and the target customers carry the consequences: worsening health, lost income, and a cycle of crisis care that replaces the continuity they never had.
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Assemble the team
The solution has to reach people where they live and scale without losing that proximity. That requires two things working together: trusted relationships on the ground and infrastructure that extends their reach.
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Deliver the outcome
The team included care coordinators, a clinical advisory board, a health technology partner, and a data analytics group. They built an intervention that met patients in their communities and gave payors a reason to invest in prevention over emergency response.
The Thinking
Use what serves the work.
Frameworks existed. A first principles methodology for building an impact thesis did not. So I built one. What started as a book became an open access ecosystem: tools, research, a curated library, and a primer for those starting from zero.
Proof
In practice.
$1B+
Impact investments structured and advised on across real estate and healthcare.
See one of the communities we helped developZero → National Scale
Property Tax-Aide started as an idea that sat on my desk for six months. It became me and a part-time analyst — and grew into a 15-state program, a best-in-class fintech product with thousands of trained volunteers resulting in low-income seniors securing millions of dollars annually.
Read one of our success storiesPeer-Reviewed Research
Impact IRR methodology published in The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing and supported by JPMorganChase — a new methodology for aligning impact with capital leveraging modern portfolio theory.
Read the research