Joe Salowitz is a post-exit founder experienced in designing impactful products that find market fit.
45+ APPS & PRODUCTS DESIGNED FOR BRANDS YOU KNOW
Joe builds businesses, period.
For 15+ years, Joe has designed apps and experiences for over 45 companies and startups, helping them to find product/market fit and acquire 50M+ users (to date). Most recently, he co-founded, built and scaled Lead Scout, exiting in 2025 after acquisition. He continues to design products, help product teams find product-market fit, speak & write.
Product Design Leader
Designing bold products for forward-thinking teams and startups.
Co-founder of Lead Scout
Industry leading field sales platform for residential home improvement contractors. Founded in 2021 and acquired in 2025.
Other Work
Teams I've been on have shipped 45+ products that have acquired 50M+ users I've led design at and coached 16+ startups and teams and been a key member of 40+ strategy and innovation projects I've spoken at 11+ events & panels I'm a board member & advisor at Kanvarta, and a founding investor at StorySmith AI.
More about JoeFeatured Work
Below, you'll find a few projects that I'd like to highlight. Currently, I'm intensely focused on going deep with teams that are dedicated to a more meaningful future, from building ethical AI, to creating a more sustainable environment, and beyond.
Lead Scout – Co-founded a top field sales app for home service pros
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Co-founded, built and scaled Lead Scout into one of the top field sales apps for home service pros. We built Lead Scout to help residential contractors coordinate their field sales teams, track all of their prospects, and close more leads.
Track leads on your map
Trademarked in 2024
Pratexo – Led design for 4 core products in EV network analytics and AI-predictive maintenance
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Pratexo is at the bleeding edge of renewable tech and AI-powered predictive maintenance. I led design and worked across hardware and software teams to design 4 products, bring them to market, and get traction with their first customers.
Pratexo is a platform that utilizes detailed sensor data and AI to help businesses with complex electric infrastructure (like EV charging networks and renewable energy companies) ensure their systems are always on and running at max efficiency.
Using AI for predictive maintenance
Committed to environmentally responsible tech
Boston Children's Hospital – Set a design vision for a global leader in pediatric care
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Boston Children's Hospital, one of the nation's leading pediatric care institutions, needed a bold new vision for their digital presence. I led a design team to reimagine their digital experience from the ground up.
Providing the most advanced pediatric care in the world
An iconic 155 year old brand
StorySmith – AI-powered storytelling platform
Founding investor & product designerStorySmith's platform utilizes their own propertiary, privacy-first LLM to allow filmmakers to efficiently create compelling narratives from transcripts. I coached the founders, led product design, became their founding investor, and continue to advise the team as they are building and scaling the product.
Using AI to revolutionize pre-production for non-fiction editing
I designed custom branding for StorySmith
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Design archives
Below you'll find some hobby design work, pro bono projects, concepts, and a few other random aesthetic musings from my design archives.
