Cooper Tenney
Data science and economics at Stanford, class of 2028. Currently co-founding NeoStrat.
Now
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2026 — now
NeoStrat
Co-founder & CEO · product and build
AI-native strategic planning for nonprofits. Stakeholders answer interview questions by voice on their own time; the platform synthesizes themes with verbatim quotes, a SWOT, and a draft strategic plan that leaders review async. Every voice, one plan, two weeks — instead of a six-month consulting engagement. Four-person founding team; MVP shipped and demoed, first design partner in September 2026.
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2026 — now
Stanford Football — Player Valuation Tool
Built to the Assistant GM's PRD · April 2026 – present
Takes a recruit profile and returns calibrated year-by-year probabilities of four career outcomes (bust / depth / starter / impact), then a dollar valuation of a proposed NIL offer. Trained on 45k+ recruit profiles and 230k player-seasons from CollegeFootballData plus PFF grades. Replaced circular percentile labels with absolute thresholds, which exposed a real risk spread across eligibility years, and rebuilt retention curves for the transfer-portal era. Ships as a single self-contained HTML file for projecting in a room.
Work
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2026
Pareto Agent
Product Management · employee #6 · June – September 2026
$3.5M-funded startup automating B2B renewals. Ran discovery across 15+ customer calls and found that admin loss — the champion leaving — was the worst pain point, which became our first feature. Owned an agentic loop that locates a responsive champion and a prototyped customer-facing dashboard with telemetry. Shipped to design partner LeanData and iterated on their feedback. Operated as PM, designer, and engineer; demoed 15+ times to VCs and partners.
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2025 — 26
Stanford Open Consulting Society
Data Science Analyst · September 2025 – June 2026
Designed a pricing analytics platform that ingests arbitrary business datasets and runs automated data-quality and pricing audits: column detection, leakage and ID-column removal, outlier analysis, XGBoost with TF-IDF for text, Bayesian hyperparameter search, and PDF diagnostics — behind a web UI a non-technical user can operate.
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2025
Norwest · Redpoint Ventures
Growth Equity Research Intern · VC Summer Analyst
At Redpoint, analyzed 150+ defense-tech startups across AI, autonomy, and robotics to map the market and recommend sourcing sectors. At Norwest, built screening models across sports analytics and software businesses. Sitting in on founder pitches redirected me toward building at an early-stage company rather than evaluating from the outside.
Projects
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2026
Chapter HQ
Operations platform for a 105-member Stanford fraternity
Started as a full member-facing dashboard for dues, house points, events, and files with Stripe integration. Rescoped after the chapter president said member adoption would be too hard: cut it down to single-purpose admin tools the exec board actually uses. One Supabase backend, four schemas (identity, points, dues, attendance), DB-enforced roles, bank-feed payment matching, 91 members imported. Points and dues modules in use today.
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2026
Quantifying the Caitlin Clark Externality
DATASCI 112 final project
A difference-in-differences study isolating one player's effect on WNBA attendance and revenue from league-wide growth. Scraped four seasons of WNBA and NBA data; tuned KNN, random forest, and XGBoost via 5-fold CV to a 1,590-ticket RMSE on pre-breakout data. Found $32M in surplus ticket revenue and 8,600+ additional fans per game — value the Indiana Fever captured and the player did not.
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2026
The Renewals Hub
Buyer-side renewal portal · demo built at Pareto
A read-only portal that gives a B2B buyer everything they need to evaluate a renewal without a sales call: contract history, renewal options, a countdown, year-over-year MSA changes, an ROI calculator pre-filled with their data, and a chatbot linked to qualification context. The seller sees engagement without having to check in.
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2026
Property Manager Sync
One-day build
Automates a property manager's coordination loop: reads bookings from an Airbnb iCal feed, syncs them to Postgres, and hands guest and date info to the partner resort so they can set up key access. The sync never overwrites anything a human typed.
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2025
NFL Draft Outcome Classifier
CS109 probability challenge
A multiclass model predicting pro outcomes for draft prospects, deliberately constrained to draft-day-available inputs only — trading hindsight accuracy for something usable at the moment teams actually pick. ~26% lift over baseline on position-specific models. Drew interest from Stanford Football staff and became the precursor to the valuation tool above.
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2025
Fantasy Football Draft Board
A live-draft ranking tool with custom tiering, built because every existing option was either paywalled or unusable during an actual draft. Designed the interface from scratch.
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2025
Roster Check-In & Dues Reconciliation
Stanford Club Baseball
Attendance tracking for a ~40-person program, replacing a clipboard and a group chat. Then a script matching incoming Zelle transfers against the member roster to close out a dues cycle without manual bookkeeping. Unglamorous, and the thing that saved the most hours.
Elsewhere
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2024
Diamond Dollars Case Competition
Won SABR's 2024 competition with a model estimating the expected run value of foul balls, and a "foul ball ability" metric for evaluating swing decisions. Only high school team selected; presented to MLB front-office executives.
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ongoing
Around campus
Captain, Stanford Club Baseball. Executive board, Phi Kappa Psi. VP Recruitment, Interfraternity Council. Before Stanford: varsity baseball captain and newspaper editor-in-chief at Branson.