The story
I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, where you learn early that nobody is coming to smooth things over for you. You figure it out, you show up, and you don't apologize for taking up the room you're in. I'm five feet tall. I have never once been short.
I spent the first stretch of my career helping employers and their attorneys get leave and benefits programs right, which is where I learned to read the law closely and to care about the person on the other end of the policy. Then I spent most of the next thirty years inside SaaS companies, running revenue operations and customer success. I ran onboarding for companies whose entire future depended on whether a new customer stuck around past month three. I built the Green-to-Growth Framework because churn data was being thrown away when it should have been read as growth intelligence. I was the person you called when the problem was ugly, cross-functional, and nobody else wanted to own it.
Somewhere in there I had four kids and moved to Colorado. Executive function in our house is a team sport, and for a long time I was most of the team. I watched the help on offer for brains that run a different OS: it hovered, it nagged, it tried to sand people down until they looked compliant. None of it protected them. None of it got out of the way.
We don't make anyone normal. We make them unbreakable.
NixIt is what I built instead. It works over text message, because that's what people actually have in their hand. It connects the individual, the people who love them, and the coach who works with them, without turning any of them into a supervisor. It is armor, not compliance.
I hold a master's degree in organizational leadership and a bachelor's in communication and public relations. I sit on the advisory board of Women in AI Colorado. I live in Broomfield, Colorado, just outside Boulder, where the air is thin and the view does most of the talking.
Why NixIt
NixIt AI is SMS-first executive-function support for neurodivergent people and the families and coaches around them. No app to open, no streak to keep, no one looking over your shoulder. Investors can request the deck and one-pager through the contact page.
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Kathy M. Long is the founder and CEO of NixIt AI, SMS-first executive-function support for neurodivergent people and the families and coaches around them. She spent thirty years running revenue operations and customer success for SaaS companies before building the product her own family needed. She lives in Broomfield, Colorado, with her four kids.
Kathy M. Long is the founder and CEO of NixIt AI, an SMS-first support platform that helps neurodivergent people manage daily life by text message and connects them with their family circle and their coach. She started NixIt after three decades of operating experience and a house full of brains that run a different OS, convinced that the help on offer hovered too much and protected too little.
Before NixIt, Kathy spent roughly thirty years in SaaS, running revenue operations and customer success at several companies and creating the Green-to-Growth Framework, a method for turning churn data into growth intelligence. Earlier in her career she supported employers and their attorneys on leave and benefits programs. She was the general manager at Farmshare and founded AdeptExec.
Kathy grew up on the South Side of Chicago and now lives in Broomfield, Colorado, outside Boulder. She holds a master's degree in organizational leadership and a bachelor's degree in communication and public relations, and serves on the advisory board of Women in AI Colorado. She speaks on AI for neurodivergent lives, founding in disability tech, and running a company and a family of six at the same time.