Empowering Canadian Businesses With practical AI.

I’ve been through one digital transformation already — I watched print die and helped build what replaced it. Now we’re here again, and this time I’m not watching from the sidelines.

Empowering Canadian Businesses With practical AI.

I’ve been through one digital transformation already — I watched print die and helped build what replaced it. Now we’re here again, and this time I’m not watching from the sidelines.

ABOUT DAVID

25 Years In the trenches.
Now building with AI.

I’ve spent 25+ years at the sharp edge of digital marketing — including the years at AutoTrader Canada when we helped turn a print directory into a digital powerhouse that eventually sold for $750 million.

I’ve trained digital teams coast to coast for AutoTrader and Yellow Pages, and I’ve done SEO at the enterprise level for clients like StarTech.com, Honda, Ford, Skedaddle, Truly Nolen, and dozens of franchise systems across North America. Now I’m building AI-powered systems that actually work for real businesses.

"My agency is already dead. People just haven't started covering up our body and shoveling dirt over top of us."

Credentials at a glance
Experience
25+ yearsDigital marketing
Enterprise clients
StarTech, Honda, Ford
Training
National TrainerAutoTrader & Yellow Pages
Certification
Google CertifiedAnalytics & AdWords
AI practice
Open Claw PartnerAI Consultant
Franchise SEO
Skedaddle, Weed Man & more

"Had David in as the keynote speaker for our AI Strategy team kickoff, and he set the tone for everything that's followed. His talk was engaging, practical, and gave our staff a strong baseline in AI without getting lost in theory. More importantly, it was clear he genuinely understands where this space is headed and what organizations need to be thinking about now. I'd highly recommend David if you want your team actually ready for what's coming, not just talked at about it. He's absolutely worth having in the room to get your people thinking, talking, and moving forward on AI."

WHAT I DO

Practical AI, installed by someone who's actually run a business.

I’m not selling you a prompt library. I find the work in your business that a machine should be doing, build the system that does it, and train your people to run it after I leave.

AI WORKFLOW AUDIT

For businesses that know AI matters and have no idea where to start.

A working session through how your team actually spends its week, ending in a written map: what’s automatable now, what needs data cleanup first, what should stay human, and the order to do it in. You get the document whether or not you hire me for the build.

One working session. Fixed scope — you get the map either way.

SYSTEM BUILD

For businesses that know what they want automated and need it built.

Reporting dashboards, content operations, data pipelines between systems that don’t talk to each other. Built on your stack, documented so your team can maintain it, with the failure modes written down instead of discovered later.

Project-based, scoped to what actually needs building.

FRANCHISE & MULTI-LOCATION

For franchise systems and multi-location brands scaling local SEO.

Twenty-five years of this, including enterprise programs for national brands and franchise networks across North America. Site architecture, location page systems, local profile content at volume, and the governance that keeps forty locations from publishing forty different versions of the truth. Retainer or program-based.

Not sure which one you need? That's what the audit is for.

FEATURED POST
BUILDING WITH AI
13 min read · Apr 24, 2026

Meta’s MCI tool recorded employee workflows to train AI agents. Two days after Reuters exposed it, Meta announced 8,000 layoffs. The documented story.

LATEST POSTS

Real talk on AI & what’s working.

No hype, no fluff — just what I’m actually building and what Canadian businesses need to know.

NEWSLETTER

Don't Miss the Pivot

I write about what I’m actually building — AI systems, the agency reckoning, and what comes next for Canadian businesses. No filler, no recycled hot takes.