Common Ground Ventures

Common Ground, an operator-led group in Phoenix, Arizona. We build, fund, operate, automate with AI and protect companies from the inside, and we carry the work from strategy through execution instead of stopping at the recommendation.

Five principals each lead one discipline: Jesse Fowler (Execution and Development), Alex Prince (Capital and Investment), Jimmy Khounlavong (Brand), Robby Prochnow (Technology and AI Architecture) and Nick Scavio (General Counsel). Jesse is a general contractor and developer. Clients get the people who do the work, in a defined seat with defined accountability.

Typical engagements: a fractional CRO, CMO or COO seat; go-to-market strategy and brand creation for technical founders; construction channel development and estimating support for builders and pre-construction firms; development advisory for Phoenix real estate; AI-assisted operations and reporting; and search and AI-answer-engine readiness for local service businesses.

How we work: a free first conversation to find the one metric that matters, a pre-agreed baseline and deadline, and a fee tied to that metric. No monthly retainer. We build for founder-run companies at roughly $10M or more in revenue.

The group grew out of Jesse Fowler's fractional practice, running since 2016, and the principals formed it as Common Ground in April 2023. Recent work includes brand, fractional CMO and go-to-market for a Montreal measurement company, construction channel and talent generation for a national architecture and engineering pre-construction firm, and a five-month go-to-market build for a B2B software company.