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Founder72Current founder
79th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
YC alum and 2x founder building Conveyor, an AI-native customer trust platform
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Operator · 97th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Conveyor, an AI-powered customer trust platform he founded in 2021.
- Y Combinator S14 alum — Aptible went through YC's Summer 2014 batch.
- Past founder and CEO of Aptible, a DevOps and compliance platform he co-founded in 2013.
- Aptible was co-founded with Frank Macreery, confirming co-founder history.
- GitHub account @chasballew confirmed as his account, with bio listing 'Founder & CEO @conveyor'.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Conveyor, an AI-powered customer trust platform he founded in 2021.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past founder and CEO of Aptible, a DevOps and compliance platform he co-founded in 2013.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Y Combinator S14 alum — Aptible went through YC's Summer 2014 batch.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)conveyor.com ranks #308,316 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Aptible was co-founded with Frank Macreery, confirming co-founder history.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account @chasballew confirmed as his account, with bio listing 'Founder & CEO @conveyor'.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Active on Hacker News as @chasb with 803 karma.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active GitHub builder with 58 public non-fork repositories.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account is over 5 years old, created in January 2013.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Hacker News karma of 803 places him in the 500–1,999 tier.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Top Hacker News post 'HIPAA 101 for Software Development Teams' received 251 points.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Conveyor has raised $59M in total funding across 3 rounds.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Most recent public GitHub push was 87 days ago, indicating active coding within the last year.
What you likely need
You're at the inflection point between Series A traction and Series B readiness, so the highest-value Festival moments for you are tight-knit rooms with enterprise security buyers (CISOs, GRC leaders) and B2B SaaS investors who can either become customers or lead your next round. You also need GTM talent fast, making founder-to-founder hiring dinners and YC network activations disproportionately valuable right now. Lean into events where your technical credibility and AI-native compliance narrative can do the selling for you.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA Series B prep dinner for B2B SaaS founders who've raised $40M–$80M and are 12–18 months out from their next round, to pressure-test data room structure, NRR benchmarks, and enterprise logo storytelling with peers who've just run the process
- introsA closed-door roundtable for CISO and GRC leaders at Fortune 500 companies — sourced through the RSA Conference and Cervin Ventures networks — to demo Conveyor's AI-native Customer Trust Platform and generate warm ICP pipeline
- introsA YC S14 alumni dinner focused on enterprise compliance and SOC 2 automation, where Chas can re-engage his batch network and surface Conveyor as the go-to solution for the hundreds of YC companies navigating security reviews
- hiringA happy hour for B2B SaaS founders actively hiring founding PMM and Sales Engineer roles at the $1M–$5M ARR stage, to swap candidate pipelines, referrals, and GTM hiring playbooks with peers facing the same capacity constraint
- positioningA dinner for founders and security practitioners who've had top-ranked HN posts in the AI and security space — modeled on Chas's 251-point 'HIPAA 101' hit — to workshop follow-up content strategies and amplify the 'AI for Security Questionnaires in 2025' narrative
- tacticalA small tactical workshop for enterprise SaaS founders productizing ROI frameworks into website calculators and sales tools, where Chas can pressure-test Conveyor's enterprise sales velocity ROI calculator with founders who've already closed Fortune 500 deals
- introsA Cervin Ventures portfolio office hours session pairing Conveyor with CISO and security-buyer contacts across the firm's enterprise network, specifically to generate warm intros to GRC decision-makers at Sprout Social and Zapier-tier companies
- positioningA YC enterprise customer network dinner for AI-native security and compliance founders, where Chas can showcase Conveyor's 98% automation case study with Sprout Social and position the MCP server launch as the defining proof point of the AI-native Customer Trust Platform category