William Bryden

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.