Serve Jesus first
Faith gives my work its purpose and shapes how I treat the people involved. The goal is not simply to succeed; it is to serve faithfully with what I have been given.
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I believe in what people can become.
Hi, I'm Kyle Hearn. I follow Jesus, love my family, and have spent most of my life building—companies, systems, opportunities, and sometimes the confidence someone needs to begin. I started my first company at 17, but the work that has meant the most is recognizing potential in people, saying it out loud, and helping them do something real with it. Today I serve through TechSavvy Consulting, You Can Make It With AI, mentoring, and the Tulsa community I call home. That is what Hope-Giving Builder means to me.
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Hope-Giving BuilderAn identity from Christ. A calling to give hope and build what helps.
What drives me
Service is the thread running through everything I build.
I serve Jesus first, then my family, my community, and the people entrusted to me. That service takes different forms: building a company that helps businesses grow, encouraging someone to become an owner, sharing what I have learned through YouTube, or simply showing up when someone needs help. I love the work because I love seeing people gain confidence, take ownership, and move into what they are capable of.
See what others can become
Some of the most meaningful moments in my life have been encouraging people to become owners. Several now lead successful companies of their own.
Turn hope into something real
Hope becomes useful when it turns into a decision, a business, a team, a tool, or a next step someone can own.
How I serve today
One calling, expressed in different ways.
The businesses, the channel, mentoring, and community involvement are not separate identities. They are ways I can use what I have learned to help someone else move forward.
SERVICE · OWNERSHIP · COMMUNITYTechSavvy
You Can Make It
Helping other builders
TechSavvy
Consulting
Building a Tulsa IT company that works like part of the client's staff—not a distant outsourced vendor. We learn the business, care about its growth, and take responsibility for the technology behind it.
Visit TechSavvy ↗TEACHING · CREATIVITY · ACCESSYou Can Make It
With AI
Giving people a practical way to explore AI and turn plain-English ideas into working tools. I share the process because useful knowledge should create more builders, not just more spectators.
Explore the channel ↗MENTORING · SHARING · ENCOURAGINGHelping other builders
move forward
I share lessons from building, buying, merging, and selling companies—and encourage people when I see a business owner or builder in them before they see it themselves.
Follow along on LinkedIn ↗Continued learning
Keep learning so I can serve responsibly.
Experience matters, but service also requires humility. New risks, tools, and responsibilities deserve current training and careful judgment.
View credentials on LinkedIn ↗How I'm wired
I see possibilities—and then I start building.
I tend to notice connections between people, ideas, and systems. I ask questions until I understand what matters, then look for a way to turn the answer into something another person can use. I care deeply about the people involved and take responsibility seriously.
Notice the potential
I often see ability in people before they are ready to name it themselves. Encouraging that possibility is one of the ways I most naturally serve.
Give ideas a structure
An idea becomes useful when it has an owner, a first step, and enough structure to survive beyond the original conversation.
Care enough to be candid
Serving someone sometimes means encouragement; sometimes it means saying the honest thing and staying present while they decide what to do with it.
Build beyond myself
I do not want to remain the permanent bottleneck. I want to build companies, systems, and people that can grow beyond my direct involvement.
Assessments have described me as both Commander and Coach. The Coach fits the way I listen and encourage; the Commander fits the part of me that wants to turn a good conversation into something real.
My journey
I learned business by taking responsibility for one.
Starting at 17 meant learning in public. Growth, acquisitions, merging teams, and selling taught me that what you build matters most when it genuinely serves people.
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Starting early
01Mentor Technologies at 17
I started Mentor Technologies in Tulsa while I was still a teenager. I knew technology, but running the company taught me the deeper work: earn trust, care for the customer, keep learning, and take responsibility when something matters.
GROWTH
Building and combining
02Organic growth, three acquisitions, and a merger
I grew Mentor organically, purchased three technology companies, merged a phone and cabling company into the operation, and built Reflection Backup Solutions. Those pieces were eventually brought together as one company.
EXIT
Completing a chapter
03Selling what I had built
I sold the combined business I had spent years building. The exit mattered, but the greater education came from serving customers, leading a team, integrating companies, and carrying responsibility when the answer was not obvious.
TODAY
Serving in new ways
04TechSavvy, teaching, and community
Today I build TechSavvy to serve as real IT staff for growing businesses, share what I am learning through You Can Make It With AI, encourage other builders, and invest in my family and community.
Why Hope-Giving Builder
Hope came before the name.
Hope-Giving Builder is the identity I believe Christ gave me. Jamie Winship's teaching on true identity gave me a reason to search myself honestly, pray, and listen for an answer instead of choosing a title that merely sounded good.
When I looked for the pattern, I saw it. More than once, I recognized ability in people and encouraged them to start businesses of their own; several now lead successful companies. That is the hope-giving part: helping someone see what God may be forming in them before they fully see it themselves.
Builder comes from the life I have spent creating companies, teams, systems, and opportunities. Christ is the source of the identity. Serving people is how I try to live it.
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Family time · Tulsa, OklahomaBeyond the work
The people I serve first are at home.
Faith, family, and community give the rest of the work its meaning. Outside the office, I enjoy the things that make me stretch, pay attention, and keep learning—rock climbing, hiking, West Coast Swing, bowling, strength training, and playing guitar.
Rock climbingHikingWest Coast SwingBowlingStrength TrainingPlaying Guitar
Let's connect
Tell me what you're building—or what you believe could be.
I enjoy meeting people who care deeply about their work, their community, or an idea they cannot shake. Share a little context and I'll read it personally.