Build with AI

Welcome to my profile! My background spans building Ed-tech startups and running educational programs at industry leaders in the technical training space. I specialize in helping founders and professionals harness AI tools to elevate their careers. My experience includes running workshops and creating educational content to cohorts of professionals looking to apply AI to their roles. Additionally, as an Author at Pluralsight, I develop courses on AI for Design and Software Development, and coach dozens of aspiring authors. I'm passionate about guiding you through your AI journey. Let's connect and explore how I can help you achieve your goals!

Seasoned strategy consultant and AI coach with over a decade of experience leading operational and systems transformations across U.S. government agencies, startups, and nonprofits. As a Wharton MBA and former international partnerships lead, I’ve spent my career helping teams work smarter by building better systems and processes. I’ve taught dozens of professionals how to integrate AI into their daily work, saving hours each week, improving communication, and creating measurable impact. My coaching blends strategy, structure, and hands-on learning to make AI practical, approachable, and directly tied to career growth.

Welcome to my profile! I’m the Head of GMs at Leland and a former consultant at Boston Consulting Group. I work on growth and operations and spend much of my time building automation that removes manual work from our team’s day-to-day processes. At Leland, I built an AI-powered email pipeline that fully manages inbound messages. The system classifies emails, drafts replies, and routes them to the right teammates through Slack. I’ve also helped design automated sales workflows that support lead qualification and customer communication for our bootcamp business. My perspective comes from building these systems as a non-technical operator. If you’re a founder or business professional who wants to start using tools like Claude and workflow automation platforms to reduce manual work, I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned.

I'm an official n8n Ambassador and I build AI automations for a living. Not demos: systems that run every day inside real companies. Some of what I've built: • For Welyk, a tech recruiting firm: automations wired into their CRM so a small team handles more hiring work without adding headcount. • For Fairmind: R&D on an AI product that writes the specs coding agents need to ship faster. • For my clients: a LinkedIn growth agent with Claude and Apify, and a career profile builder that interviews you and organizes every application. Who I work with: professionals and founders who want one specific process off their plate, built with n8n, Claude and the tools they already use. How it works: we pick one workflow, build it live on your real data, and you leave with it running plus the know-how to extend it. Before tech I was a circus artist. It taught me the thing I bring to every session: practice beats theory.

I spent a decade in Revenue Operations before finding my way into AI, and I haven't looked back. Today, I lead GTM AI Strategy, Enablement, and Engineering at Gong. I help our sales, marketing, and customer success teams actually put AI to work to drive measurable revenue outcomes. My RevOps background turned out to be an unlikely superpower here. I've always been wired to figure out how work actually flows, where the friction lives, what's worth systematizing, and how to make complexity disappear for the people doing the job. Turns out those instincts translate pretty well to building AI-powered workflows and upskilling teams to use them. What gets me out of bed: making hard things simple, building things that scale, and watching people realize they're capable of way more than they thought. If you're thinking through how AI fits into your GTM motion, or just want to swap notes, I'm always up for it.

i'm now coaching people on how to better maximize whatever AI-based tool they use -- helping you ask the right questions and get answers that matter: a few use cases on agentic design: • building an AI agent or designing Claude projects with the right context, using best practices to elevate your process and final output. • deep research: designing intelligent prompts, asking the right questions to get to the bottom of anything, whether it's a passion project or corporate forensics / due diligence -- then following up to make sure no stone goes unturned -- there are infinite permutations of what this might entail. i've helped 3 different businesses with this now, and about 15 real humans. it's been fun, in large part because it feels like building a dynamic skillset that's immediately testable and learn-from-able. it's also something, if you're actively investing yourself, that you ought to get good at yesterday. • life planning: whether you're charting out the next 3-5 years of your career, planning a wedding, or figuring out which direction to take your business, these thoughts cause head-fog. i help people figure out how to maximize these tools, so they're living better and working more productively. • single use cases: need to figure out how to navigate your state's health marketplace? building a personal budget? getting a vacation itinerary together? bring an idea, and we'll go. i'll also help you dig into sources, understand the limitations of what these tools can and can't do, and help you spot pitfalls in an AI tool's output so you know when and how to challenge your GPT of choice -- and integrate your own critical thinking to make sure it's as thorough and accurate as something you might research independently.

I spent 5 years at OpenAI (2016-2021) during the foundation of modern AI, followed by 3 years as Head of AI - Product Experience at Spotify, where I led teams building AI systems that served 500M+ users. I wasn't just using AI tools. I was in the rooms where architectural decisions were made about how humans and AI systems should interact at scale. That experience taught me something critical: the professionals who thrive in the AI era aren't the ones with the most tools, they're the ones who understand system architecture. After leaving Spotify, I transitioned to independent consulting and immediately hit the same wall my clients now face: tool chaos. I was paying $847/month across 15+ AI subscriptions, constantly context-switching, and seeing diminishing returns. So I applied the same systems thinking I used building products at OpenAI and Spotify to my own productivity stack. The result was the MAO Framework. A methodology that helped me consolidate to 6 core tools while tripling output. Since then, I've helped dozens of professionals (from Microsoft PMs to JPMorgan strategists) escape tool overwhelm and build AI productivity systems that compound rather than just consume budget. I teach what I've built, tested, and proven in my own consulting practice.

Bring an idea, a workflow, or a question—and we’ll turn it into a practical next step. I help professionals, founders, and developers learn by building: identify a useful problem, choose the right tools, create and test a prototype, and understand how to improve it. I’m a Product Engineer at Gametime, where I build production AI systems and workflows for live-event discovery and venue imagery using tools including AWS, Temporal, Claude Code, and Codex. At Pluralsight, I created hands-on generative AI and machine learning labs and built internal AI tools for content teams as a Senior Creative Technologist. I’ve created 28 courses and labs, taught software development, and spent a decade building technical learning experiences. I also hold an M.A. in Education and Human Development from George Washington University. We can work on AI fundamentals and prompting, agents and automations, AI-assisted coding, or evaluating and improving a workflow. Sessions meet you where you are, whether you’re new to AI or already building. You can explore my work at raleighaiguy.com and pluralsight.com/authors/danny-sullivan.

I am an AI Automation and Implementation expert and the lead curriculum developer for Leland's AI Builder Program. I have personally trained hundreds of people on AI. I can help you build an AI system in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini that will run your personal life and make you money in your business. I've trained groups of 100+ business professionals, MBA students, and job seekers on exactly what AI is, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to use it more powerfully. I know how to take this complex technology and simplify it to understandable concepts and actionable builds that will help you feel confident that you can master AI. Let me help you get caught up on AI and using it effectively today!

Building AI tools for Mercor in the PE / PC and alternative investment categories PowerUser of Base44 leveraging agent loops daily to accomplish manual tasks with speed, accuracy Built sales outreach tool to help fill pipeline of actionable opportunities for few side hustles run