About
Sterling Curran
Sterling Curran is a fractional operating partner who helps companies sell, serve, and scale. He earned it from the seat: starting as a full-commission BDR and rising through seven promotions to VP of Operations, then co-founding SalesAi, a conversational-AI platform for sales and support teams, and scaling it from $0 to $6M+ ARR in roughly eight months as COO, owning GTM, operations, finance, hiring, and the product and engineering team, while building the team to 60+.
He also founded AI Indy, Indiana's fastest-growing AI community, and contributes to the Indiana AI Task Force. A former collegiate football player and an Ironman and HYROX competitor, Sterling brings an athlete's discipline to the systems he installs: CXO-level help, without the overhead.
Track Record
How I earned it, from a full-commission sales seat to COO of an AI company.
- $0 → $6M+
- ARR, in ~8 months
- 0 → 60+
- team, built over time
- 2×
- Mira Award nominee
- AI Indy
- founder of Indiana's fastest-growing AI community
- Every seat
- Started on the sales floor at Kennected and climbed to run its operations, earning each step by carrying the number first.
- Both sides
- Built the go-to-market motions and became the integrator the whole company ran on, then led it through its asset sale.
- Zero to scale
- Co-founded SalesAi as COO and built it from a blank page: the revenue engine, the operating system, and the team behind both.
- AI-native
- Put AI agents to work in real customer environments, founded the AI Indy community, and helps shape Indiana's AI policy.