B7 Collective is the parent company for six independent ventures, each run with the same standards a much larger organization would apply to its best work. The structure is small on purpose. The output is meant to be useful, durable, and worth standing behind.
B7 Collective LLC was formed in 2024 as the parent company for a portfolio of independent projects founded and operated by Karim Baz. The collective is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, and runs entirely from there.
The structure is intentional. Each venture has its own audience, voice, and economics, and is run as if it were the only thing on the desk. The collective exists to keep the books, the brand, and the operating standards consistent across all of them.
The six ventures look different on the surface: a consulting practice in Maryland, a library of classroom resources, a focus app for Apple devices, a YouTube channel of public-domain readings, an entrepreneurship program for kids, and an AI-as-coach toolkit for older students. Different audiences, different products, different economics.
What ties them together is a shared posture toward the moment we’re in.
Real work, delivered to real people by someone who follows through and stands behind it, is increasingly rare. That is the standard each venture is built around.
The collective exists to do the opposite of each of those, in six places at once.
The work spans four disciplines. Six ventures sit across them, with one operator behind all of it.
Six principles run through every venture in the collective.
Every venture turns down work that conflicts with its values. Engagements, products, and content are accepted on fit, not on fee, and the work is never led with price.
Most clients see meaningful progress quickly, but the real product is the system underneath the early win. Quick fixes are not the deliverable. Durable change is.
Clients and customers leave with full ownership of the work. Templates, playbooks, and recommendations come with no clawbacks, no retainer pressure, and no upsell engineered into the close.
Volume is not the goal. A small number of well-fit engagements each year is the goal. Each venture screens for industry, posture, and problem before saying yes.
Deliverables are concrete and useful. The standard is that an engagement leaves the client with something they can actually use, not a slide deck and an invoice.
No client, customer, or reader is made to feel small for not having it figured out. The posture is calm, candid, and respectful. The work meets people where they are.
Karim is a PMP-certified Project Manager with a delivery background spanning federal research and consumer software. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a Project Manager at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health, contracted through Axle Informatics. He led system integration and SDLC work across multiple research platforms there.
Earlier, he held management roles at T-Mobile and operating roles in nonprofit education. He holds a BA in English from the University of Maryland and is actively enrolled in a Master of Healthcare Administration program. The MHA is part of a deliberate pivot from technology project management into healthcare administration.
He lives in Germantown, Maryland with his wife and four children. The collective grew out of a simple idea: that small businesses, students, and the people who run them deserve the same level of operational discipline, design care, and project management practice that the largest organizations take for granted.
Keystone Pathways takes engagements only in Montgomery, Prince George’s, and Howard counties. Staying local allows for in-person observation when the business is customer-facing, and keeps engagements within real reach.
The other five ventures operate nationally. Lessons with Mr. B serves teachers and homeschoolers across the United States. Clarity Now will be available in the Apple App Store. The Reading Sessions publishes on YouTube. Build Something Good is live at buildsomethinggood.com and works at home, in homeschool co-ops, or in classrooms. Foundations + AI is live at foundationsplusai.com, serving middle and high schoolers nationally.