Building companies — and a cause — from Fargo.
I'm Cecilio Benn, founder of Mavenu Group. I build managed AI revenue operations for home-service companies, and I'm laying the foundation for a national child-protection initiative. This is where both stories live.
About
I built my body of work — a company, a ten-piece portfolio, a cold-outreach operation — from an iPhone, nights and weekends. I tell people that with pride: constraints don't decide outcomes, resourcefulness does.
Today I run Mavenu Group from Fargo–Moorhead, working with home-service companies that lose revenue to missed calls, slow follow-up, and open estimates — and I advise on the digital strategy behind fixing it.
What I'm Building
Mavenu Group
Managed AI revenue operations for home-service companies. Five systems — AI reception, missed-call recovery, estimate follow-up, lead qualification & booking, and customer reactivation — run as one revenue engine. mavenugroup.com
Mavenu Business Center
A future home for Mavenu in downtown Fargo — 214 Broadway — where the company, its partners, and the city's next builders work under one roof. In formation.
Child Protection
A national child-protection initiative based in Fargo, focused on the technology side: online CSAM detection and reporting pipelines to NCMEC, and hash-matching partnerships with the organizations already fighting this at scale. In formation — more soon.
Why
Some things you don't choose — they choose you, usually in the hardest chapters of your life. I'm a survivor of child sexual abuse, including exploitation online. For a long time I carried that quietly. I've decided to stop carrying it quietly, and to build in the open instead — companies with Fargo roots and national reach, and advocacy with the same ambition.
Contact
The fastest way to reach me is email: hello@mavenugroup.com. I'm also on LinkedIn and Facebook — that's where I post what I'm building, as I build it.