Inventor · Founder · Storyteller · Builder

I build complicated things. Then I make people care about them.

I’ve spent more than 25 years building businesses, developing technology, and translating complex ideas into stories people understand. Today I bring that experience to executive storytelling and AI-powered content production, from finding the point of view to building the system that delivers it.

Patent awardedFounder + CEOSimon & Schuster author120 podcast appearances
Kirsten Karchmer giving a keynote to a full audience
The point of view first.Then the system that delivers it.
26 yrsin reproductive health, 20 of them in clinic
1patent awarded, plus 1 provisional
500K+social audience built founder-first
#1of 19 MenuFit creators by views in my first 10 days

What I’m doing now

Brand storytelling & AI‑powered content production

Independent Creative Strategist · 2025 to present

After building audiences for my own companies, I now create content for brands including Procter & Gamble, Stripes and MenuFit.

  • Procter & Gamble
  • Stripes
  • MenuFit
  • Vidaya
  • Growplex
  • WHIPP
  • Develop distinctive, platform-native content for consumer brands, adapting storytelling, messaging and creative execution to different products and audiences.
  • Ranked #1 among 19 creators in MenuFit’s content program, with 168,800 views in 10 days, 2.4× the reach of the second-place creator.
  • Built an AI-assisted production workflow covering ideation, scripting, filming, editing and cross-platform distribution, so high-volume content gets made without a traditional creative team.

Selected work

Three case studies. Proof, not adjectives.

Three screens from the Conceivable Report: the cover, a Conceivable Score of 43, and a fertile-window calendar

Case study 01 · Inventor + founder

Conceivable: turning a clinician’s way of thinking into technology

After 20 years in clinical practice with about 10,000 women, I kept seeing the same thing: the signs that a woman’s reproductive system wasn’t running at its best were sitting in plain sight, in her cycle and her temperatures. I founded Conceivable to turn that clinical reasoning into software.

What the patent covers

US Patent 10,467,382 B2, Conceivable basal body temperatures and menstrual cycle, granted November 2019. I’m a named inventor with two co-inventors. It covers a mobile-app method that uses cycle, lifestyle and basal body temperature data to find where a woman’s patterns depart from an optimal fertility state, and to match personalized recommendations to what it finds.

What the product is designed to do

The product has grown past the patent. It’s designed to identify subclinical factors, score where a woman stands, individualize what she does next, and learn from her feedback through Kai, its AI guide. These are product features, not patent claims.

The storytelling job: make a patent about basal body temperature mean something to a woman who’s been trying for a year.

More on Conceivable →
Kirsten Karchmer talking with attendees at a summit

Case study 02 · Founder-led audience

Conceivable: building the audience before the ad budget

I built Conceivable’s audience the founder-led way: by being the person on camera, on the page and on the mic, explaining women’s health plainly enough that people passed it on.

  • 500K+social audience
  • 390Kfollowers across two TikToks, all organic
  • 4.2Mviews on my top video
  • 120podcast appearances
  • Seeing Redmy book, published by Simon & Schuster

Want to see the videos? My UGC portfolio has the organic reels, and the press page has the coverage.

Case study 03 · AI content operations

MenuFit: #1 of 19 creators in my first 10 days

When MenuFit brought me into its creator program, I didn’t just film videos. I built the system around them: scripts modeled on what was already going viral, a filming plan, AI-assisted editing, scheduled distribution, and a review of what worked that shaped the next batch of scripts.

  • 168,800views in my first 10 days
  • #1in views out of 19 creators
  • 2.4×the reach of the second-place creator
MenuFit creator leaderboard showing Kirsten Karchmer in first place with 170K views, ahead of second place at 70.7K and third at 69.7K
MenuFit’s creator leaderboard, November 2026, at 170K views. Other creators’ faces and last names blurred.

Executive voice

Your expertise, in a voice people actually listen to.

Most leaders don’t lack ideas. They lack the one sentence that makes the idea stick, and a way to say it again next week.

I’ve done this for my own companies for two decades, from clinic floors to stages to a 30-second video. Here’s how I work with a founder or expert.

Kirsten Karchmer speaking on stage
  1. 01

    Interview

    I interview founders and experts the way I interviewed patients for 20 years: listening for the thing they say three times without noticing.

  2. 02

    Find the point of view

    Every expert has one idea only they can say. I find it, name it, and test it against what the audience already believes.

  3. 03

    Translate complexity

    Patents, clinical research, technical products. I turn them into plain language without dumbing them down.

  4. 04

    Create recurring formats

    One-off posts don't build a voice. Formats do: a series, a signature segment, a question people come back for. My newsletter, The Second Opinion, is one.

  5. 05

    Make it platform-native

    One insight becomes a short video, a LinkedIn post, a newsletter and a keynote, each built for how people actually use that platform.

The production system

From one recording to a week of content.

This is the workflow I run today. Everything marked “In use” is how my current content gets made. “Building next” is where it’s headed.

  1. 01

    Capture

    Lives, interviews, voice notes and long recordings.

    In use
  2. 02

    Find the story

    Transcripts read for the point, not the clock. Every cut lands on meaning.

    In use
  3. 03

    Create

    Scripts modeled on what's working right now, written in the speaker's own voice.

    In use
  4. 04

    AI-assisted production

    Transcription, captions, audio leveling, overlays and b-roll, with a human making the final cut.

    In use
  5. 05

    Publish

    Scheduled to YouTube and Facebook from one place, with TikTok and Instagram versions ready to post.

    In use
  6. 06

    Learn

    Every batch reviewed against what performed. What wins becomes the rules for the next scripts.

    In use
Building next

Performance data flowing straight back into the next script drafts, without me pulling the numbers by hand.

Looking for UGC or on-camera brand content instead? See my UGC portfolio →

Employers and founders

Let’s build something interesting.

Hiring for executive storytelling, content strategy or AI-powered content production? Or building something that needs its story told? Tell me what you’re working on.