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Welcome to my profile! With a robust background in M&A and corporate finance, I bring a wealth of experience in strategic execution and value creation to the AI, automation, and agents space. As a Vice President at Azurest Partners, I've led complex transactions and implemented innovative strategies that have driven significant EBITDA uplift and enterprise value growth. My experience spans across various industries, including digital health and cybersecurity, where I've successfully managed acquisitions and strategic expansions. I am passionate about leveraging AI and automation to optimize business processes and enhance decision-making. Let's connect to explore how I can help you harness the power of AI and automation to achieve your strategic goals.

Most AI coaches teach you tools. I build you systems. There's a difference between knowing how to use ChatGPT and having an automated workflow that researches, synthesizes, drafts, and delivers — without you touching it. That's what I build with you. I'm a practitioner-first AI operator with deep hands-on experience in n8n and Claude. I've built automation workflows across finance, healthcare, and tech that handle research pipelines, inbox triage, and content production at scale. I contract with Width AI, was recently invited onto the n8n podcast, and I run my own agency on the very systems I teach — not because I talk about AI, but because I operate on it daily Here's how I work with you: → Session 1 — Audit: I diagnose your current workflow and identify your 3 highest-leverage automation opportunities → Sessions 2–5 — Build: We build one system together, live. You leave with something running, not just notes → The goal: You stop manually doing the things AI should be doing for you I work best with corporate professionals who are drowning in research, inbox management, or content that takes too long — and who want to actually fix it, not just learn about it. If that's you, let's talk.

Welcome to my profile! With over a decade of experience in data science and AI, I have a proven track record of mentoring and guiding aspiring data scientists and AI professionals. As the founder of a stealth AI startup and a former lead data scientist at Helm, I have developed cutting-edge machine learning pipelines and innovative AI solutions. My extensive experience includes mentoring students at Springboard, where I helped them master Python programming and data analysis, preparing them for successful careers in data science. Whether you're looking to enhance your skills in AI automation or develop sophisticated context-aware technologies, I'm here to help you achieve your goals. Let's connect and create a tailored plan for your success in the AI field!

Welcome to my profile. I care about AI that actually works in the real world, not just in demos. A lot of my work has lived at the intersection of AI, product, and execution. I’ve spent time building and thinking about systems that do more than generate text. They have to fit into real workflows, earn trust, and create outcomes people can rely on. That perspective comes from working across healthcare, cybersecurity, product, and growth, where I saw firsthand that the hardest part of AI is rarely the model itself. It is figuring out how to make the system useful, usable, and adopted. What I bring as a coach is a mix of technical depth and product judgment. I can help you think through AI automation, agents, workflows, retrieval, evaluation, and system design, but I also care deeply about problem framing, user trust, go-to-market thinking, and how to turn an idea into something people actually want to use. I’ve also spent a lot of time teaching and mentoring, whether through building AI communities, designing product-building curricula, or helping students and builders translate ambitious ideas into clear execution. If you’re exploring AI agents, trying to scope an automation project, preparing for product or PM roles in AI, or just want someone who can help you think more clearly about where this space is going, I’d love to help.

Sam brings a rare combination of academic depth and real-world execution to AI agent development. Armed with a Master's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with coursework in Deep Learning and Data Mining, he bridges theory and practice as Director of Data Analytics at WPP and Co-Founder of AsembleAI. His hands-on expertise is publicly demonstrated through AIAgentLab, a production-ready open-source repository featuring 10+ AI agent applications spanning multi-agent data intelligence systems, RAG pipelines, financial analysis bots, and LLM-powered research assistants built on LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vertex AI, and more.

You don’t need to understand transformers to get value out of AI. You need someone who’s already built the thing you’re trying to build and can hand you the shortcut. That’s me. I’m a startup founder and AI architect who turns “wouldn’t it be cool if AI could…” into systems that run on their own. Inside operating companies I built automation that took work measured in hours and turned it into minutes, the kind of cost savings leadership could point to on a slide. I advise a medtech company on its AI architecture and tooling decisions, the kind of high stakes calls where picking the wrong platform costs months, and I build agentic systems hands on every week. Here’s what that means for you. I coach the practical stack you’ll actually touch, the Claude API, n8n, Salesforce, custom agents, plus the judgment around it: what to build, what to buy, what to skip, and how to tell when an AI project is about to quietly waste three weeks of your life. Whether you’re a founder chasing leverage without hiring, an operator drowning in repeatable work, or someone technical ready to go from reading about agents to shipping one, you’ll leave a session with a concrete next step, not a reading list. I’m in the arena building this stuff for real, so you get what’s working this month, not what was true in some course recorded last year. If you want to understand AI, there’s a blog for that. If you want to build something with it that survives contact with reality, let’s talk.

Frankly speaking, with almost a decade of experience in tech, I have designed, managed, shipped, sold, supported, and launched world class products for brands such as Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, SERHANT, Sotheby’s, DJI and more. As a top performer, I’ve delivered record breaking KPI results in multiple roles. Throughout my career I have successfully led product through the entire product launch process including design, strategy, onboarding, support, sales, marketing, and ops. Most recently, I founded my own AI company and for one of my clients I led product ops and design for a 200k ARR (run-rate) in 2025 and hosted an AI film Festival with Rivian. Lastly, I have learned robust problem-solving abilities and my mentors/friends have taught me the importance of humility, passion, and a strong desire for continuous learning. Career highlights: 🎖 Broke the company record for their primary KPI thrice. • 100% Customer rating for product design and client service. • Founded an AI automation and design company, Lucky Day Labs where I led product ops, design, and support for a client SaaS reaching $200k ARR. • Launched an online academy teaching students AI first app building using Lovable. • Wrote and delivered a keynote speech to an audience of 40+ on the future of art and work in an AI world. • Published an AI research paper “An Overview Of GPT Models” which provides an under the hood look at how Generative Pre-trained Transformer models function and advocated for MoE implementation in 2023 (before it was cool). • Multiple scholarships for academic achievement and contribution to the arts. • Ranked top 1% globally in code written on Lovable as a Diamond level builder with over 1.6m lines of code written. Skills: 🪄 Product design, A.I and Machine Learning, Customer Experience, Web Design, Start-ups, Team leadership, Photography, and Video Production.

I bring more than 15 years of experience turning complex business challenges into practical technology solutions. At PwC, I led digital transformation, automation, AI, and emerging technology initiatives, managing multidisciplinary teams and helping deliver more than 200 automations. Today, I co-lead technology ventures in AI, financial services, blockchain, and social impact, giving me hands-on experience taking ideas from strategy and validation through product development and market launch. As a Build with AI coach, my strength is helping founders and professionals identify the right use cases, simplify technical decisions, design effective workflows, and build realistic MVPs. I combine business strategy, product thinking, process design, and practical experience with AI tools to help clients move beyond experimentation and create solutions that deliver measurable value.

My startup has raised $14M to build the future of the agentic internet. I'm an avid OpenClaw user and have used it to automate dozens of workflows in my company.

Most people have an app idea and no idea how to start. I fix that. I'm a Product Manager & Strategist at LinkedIn, and outside of work I do exactly what you're trying to do: I build and ship AI products on nights and weekends. My meal planning app NutriPlan AI reached 4,000+ organic users with 20% premium conversion, I run an autonomous AI agent that manages my job search, and my GPS walking game is live on TestFlight. All of it built solo with Claude Code, Cursor, and the modern AI stack. You don't need to be an engineer to do this. You need someone who has made every mistake already and can route you around them. The credentials behind the coaching: at LinkedIn I led a five person pod that took a GenAI recommendation product from zero to launch for 25 million users, and I co-defined an agentic AI roadmap with a $50M+ revenue target alongside executive leadership. I coach the way I build. We pick your idea, scope an honest MVP, choose the right tools for your skill level, and get a working product in front of real users. You leave every session with something that works, and you leave the engagement with something live.