Donahue
Luke Donahue

Luke Donahue

Spreadsheet jockey by trade, storyteller by inclination.

Professional

I lead Customer Success for OEM Data Products at J.D. Power, and most of what I do is build the tools that make a team’s performance visible, and the stories behind it easy to tell.

Data only changes a decision when someone can follow it, and the analysts I work with make that happen. Our team delivers hundreds of high-quality analyses to OEM executives every year, and they power decisions that shape the whole industry. In order to retain and grow our analytical talent, I designed our analyst curriculum to teach Data, Analysis, Client Management and Communication skills.

I’ve built processes rooted in data collection, aggregation, and analysis that help our Data & Analytics, Customer Success team deliver better insights, add more value, and help our clients make better decisions. One is a live dashboard that flags at-risk accounts within days of a change in engagement.

Now
Senior Director, Customer Success Operations, J.D. Power, Troy, MI. Since 2018.
Storytelling
A weekly webinar for 1,000+ automotive professionals. Dashboards in Tableau and Power BI.
Before
Eaton, American Axle and Fiat Chrysler, in key account management and sales. 2013 to 2018.
Education
MBA, Ross School of Business, 2018. B.S., University of Michigan, 2013.

New Enterprise Forum

I serve on the board of directors of New Enterprise Forum in Ann Arbor. Each year I coach a few early-stage startups, and I help market our monthly networking events.

Role
Director, Board of Directors. Since 2018.
Coaching
A few startups a year.
Marketing
Our monthly networking events.

Pointe Ventures

Pointe Ventures is where I run my entrepreneurial work: starting and testing companies of my own, and backing a few of other people’s.

I’m a very small-time angel investor. I support local startups with their initial seed funding and with the practical help that gets them started.

HunnyDone was the company I founded, a home management service for homeowners around Detroit that reached paying subscribers and a little over $100K in revenue. Kindred, a relationship-tracking app for iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch, and Kin & Heirs, estate planning software for law firms, are what I’m building now.

Investing
Angel investor, very small scale. Seed and support for local startups.
Pointe Angels
Executive Committee. 2023 to 2025.
Founded
HunnyDone, 2023 to 2024. BInbox.ai, 2025 to 2026. Kindred, 2026. Kin & Heirs, 2026.
Building
Kindred and Kin & Heirs.

Projects

Analytics

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Kindred

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A relationship-tracking app for iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch that I’m building — a cadence for every person in your life, built on Contacts and iCloud, with no accounts and no servers of its own.

Kin & Heirs

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Estate planning software for law firms that I’m building — client intake, attorney review, signing and filing in one system of record, and the finished documents released to next of kin when they need them.

HunnyDone

02

A home management company I founded in southeast Michigan — a local home manager on subscription, with an app and a record of the house underneath.

The Seeklore Universe

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A fantasy world and the things built inside it — the novels and their reader, the card game, and a slot machine set in the same pantheon.

Tools

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