AI Automation & Agents

My journey being in the deep end of the AI industry (in Silicon Valley), through Stanford courses, and real-world experience, testing, and tooling has equipped me with the materials to help you enhance productivity through AI tools! I am passionate about helping clients harness the power of AI to streamline their workflows and achieve their professional goals.

Coming from a non-technical background, I taught myself AI through hands-on experimentation, “vibecoding” functional prototypes, and staying on top of the latest tools and developments. I understand exactly how to make this technology accessible, practical, and impactful for anyone. I've advised Fortune 500 companies, startups, and research institutions on using AI to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and launch entirely new products. My work spans AI strategy, product development, and automation, always with a focus on turning cutting-edge capabilities into real-world results.

I coach mentees, product managers, and founders on the latest AI automation tools (Cursor, Zapier, n8n, vibe coding tools such as Figma Make, eval tools such as Anthropic). I’ve helped organizations and mentees save hundreds of hours a year using these tools to automate workflows, status updates, document creation, and backlogs. Expertise of how and when to apply to these to your daily workday as well as to your business can give you a significant advantage over the competition and help land $200k-$300k+ compensation roles in AI and product management. I use these tools in my principal product manager position today to run a $26B revenue stream at Nike to save several hours in daily admin tasks, to speed up the product development lifecycle with stakeholders, and to properly evaluate AI agents in real-time.

Most people teaching AI agents right now learned it six months ago and turned it into a course. I'm not that person. I'm currently building two AI ventures simultaneously — a stealth cybersecurity startup focused on agentic AI behaviour, and Arctic Owl, an AI and B2B SaaS design studio where I build production AI agents for real clients with real workflows. Not demos. Not proofs of concept. Systems that actually run. I founded the Claude Builder Club, a 300+ person community of developers and founders building with AI, and I've shipped everything from autonomous prospecting agents that find and qualify leads without human intervention, to social intelligence pipelines that scrape and synthesize signals across Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube. I do this work every single day. What I bring to this category that nobody else can: I combine the systems thinking of a Senior TPM who built infrastructure at Google DeepMind — where I designed frameworks for AI clusters that influenced over $100M in capital decisions — with the hands-on founder experience of someone who is actively in the market figuring out what agentic AI can actually do right now. I know how to build agents, how to architect the systems around them, and how to help you think through what's actually worth automating versus what sounds good in theory but breaks in production. If you want to build AI agents that work — for your business, your career, or your clients — I can show you exactly how.

No theory. No outdated playbooks. Just battle-tested systems running in real enterprise environments today. Official Clay Creator, n8n Ambassador and Expert Partner, v0 Ambassador, and Mastra Agent Ambassador with 16+ years of enterprise IT experience across organizations including Deutsche Telekom, Accenture, Deutsche Bahn, BMW, HDI, and KfW. The Expert Partner status on n8n is held by fewer than a handful of practitioners globally. What gets built here are complete systems: outbound engines, AI pipelines, and automation that eliminates manual work at scale, backed by $5.5M in verified client savings. Full stack coverage across Clay, n8n, v0, Mastra, and Claude AI means clients always work with what is relevant right now. Frankfurt Clay Club host. W-JAX speaker.

As a passionate advocate for leveraging AI and machine learning to drive growth, I bring a unique blend of experience from my roles at Leland and Soma Capital. At Leland, I focus on growth strategies, while at Soma Capital, I scout for early-stage talent in the tech space, including AI-driven startups. My background in management consulting with Deloitte has equipped me with the skills to analyze and implement innovative solutions. I'm excited to help you navigate the AI/ML landscape and achieve your career goals. Let's connect and explore how I can support your journey!

Welcome to my profile! With over a decade of experience in building and investing in startups, I bring a wealth of knowledge in AI, automation, and technology innovation. As a General Partner at Philo Ventures and Director of BYU's Sandbox Program, I have mentored numerous students and entrepreneurs in launching successful software startups. My journey includes co-founding Data Spark, which was acquired by Threecolts, and leading product development at Randall Reilly during its growth to a billion-dollar valuation. If you're looking to harness AI and automation to transform your business, let's connect and explore how I can help you achieve your goals!

My expertise isn't just about knowing what a tool does; it's about understanding how to stack them together to build a real, automated system. I've seen so many people get lost trying to find one "magic" platform. My theory is that the real power comes from using "glue" platforms like N8N or Make to connect the tools you already use. It's about designing an entire, visible workflow—letting your data in Airtable or your processes in Notion talk directly to your sales outreach in Smartlead. I've used this exact approach to solve complex, real-world problems, like automating a client's entire purchasing order system. We took a 40-hour-a-month manual nightmare and cut it down to five. I believe these visual, node-based tools are a game-changer because they let you see your process, taking automation out of a "black box" and putting you in control.