Build with AI

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! As an AI Automation Expert and AI Research and Development Specialist, I have a wealth of experience in helping tech teams enhance productivity through innovative AI solutions. With a background in developing AI-based products and integrating automation into existing workflows, I've successfully coached over 100 individuals to leverage AI tools for maximum efficiency. My expertise spans from creating technical content and conducting workshops to guiding companies in adopting AI technologies seamlessly. If you're looking to optimize your processes and harness the power of AI, let's connect and explore how I can assist you in achieving your goals!

My goal is to help people learn how to build with AI - not just talk about it. At my current company, I was tasked with figuring out how AI can augment our operations so our people can deliver more value, faster. I mapped workflows across every department, identified where the manual lift was highest, and built and deployed AI agents to handle that work. It's now running. That process - going from basic AI chatbot tools to working AI agents across a real business - is exactly what I coach on. The professionals who learn to build with these tools now will have an enormous edge. And you don't need to be in a senior role or have a technical background to get started. You just need to know where to look and how to think about the problem. My coaching is for ambitious professionals who want to get ahead of the curve - whether you're looking to stand out in your current role, make yourself indispensable in a job search, or just figure out where to start. We'll identify the highest-impact opportunities in your world and get you from curious to actually building.

Welcome to my profile! With extensive experience in AI and digital transformation, I specialize in helping clients leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline processes. At KPMG, I lead AI go-to-market strategies and develop AI products, while at CIBC, I designed and deployed AI solutions that transformed business operations across multiple units. My background in consulting and strategic advisory, combined with hands-on experience in AI implementation, equips me to guide you in harnessing AI for your business needs. I've successfully coached 5 individuals in optimizing their workflows with AI, and I'm eager to help you achieve similar results. Let's connect to explore how AI can revolutionize your productivity!

Welcome to my profile! With a robust background in AI orchestration and workflow automation, I bring a wealth of experience from both academic and enterprise environments. As a System Development Engineer at MBL Partners, I lead the design of intelligent automation systems, ensuring scalable and measurable outcomes. My role as an instructor at Arizona State University further enriches my ability to translate complex AI strategies into practical, operational execution. Having coached 5 individuals, I specialize in helping clients navigate the intricacies of AI and automation, from systems architecture to data engineering. Let's connect to explore how I can assist you in achieving your AI and automation goals!

Currently building AI products full-time at King's Cross Labs — I've clocked 200+ hours, and in the tools every day, so I know what actually works vs. what's just hype - Ran a 10–15 person team across 8 countries as CEO of Parallax — automations weren't a nice-to-have, they were survival. That company was acquired by Phantom ($3B) - 20,000+ followers built by teaching non-technical founders and professionals how to use AI in plain English — I know how to make this accessible - First-gen immigrant who broke into Silicon Valley without a network or a feeder school — I've always had to find smarter paths. AI is the biggest one I've found - Forbes 30 Under 30 · Kleiner Perkins Fellow · South Park Commons Founder Fellow ($400K) Who this is for: Founders, startup/SMB owners, and career professionals who are tired of being busy but not leveraged with AI. Let's get you time-rich with AI!

I've been building software and infrastructure since the C64 era, which gives me a rare perspective in the automation space: I don't just know AI tools, I understand the full stack underneath them. As the founder of two companies and an n8n Ambassador for Vienna, I build process automations that I use myself every single day. My accounting is 80% automated, my invoice processing runs without me, and my email triage sorts itself. I'm not teaching theory from a slide deck; I'm sharing systems I've built, broken, fixed, and rely on personally. What makes me different as a coach is that I speak both languages: I can go deep on technical implementation with developers, and I can explain the same concepts to a business owner who just wants their invoicing to stop eating their weekends. I work primarily with SMBs and startups who are drowning in repetitive admin work and don't realize how much of it can run on autopilot. My approach is practical and honest. I'll tell you what's worth automating, what's overhyped, and where AI actually delivers real value versus where it's just a shiny distraction.

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.

I help people understand, build, and use AI in practical ways. Whether you’re building an AI product, improving your workflow, exploring automation, preparing for AI/data roles, or figuring out how AI applies to your business, I can help you turn broad ideas into clear next steps. I’ve worked on technology across very different environments: the Olympic Games, startups, and AI implementations for real businesses. I’ve scoped projects, built tools, designed workflows, evaluated business cases, worked with technical infrastructure, and used AI hands-on across products, data, automation, LLMs, prompts, agents, and operations. My goal is to make AI feel less overwhelming and more useful. I’ll meet you where you are and help you move forward with more clarity, confidence, and practical judgment.

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.