Agents & automation
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Alexandria (Lex) Hamilton
Alexandria Hamilton Consulting
AI Systems Architect building Orinyx, AI governance software for healthcare. I live in the messy middle: governance rigor on one side, the joy of vibe coding on the other. I build my own products in public and teach founders to do the same with care.
Alex Rezvov
Independent / blog.rezvov.com
Alex Rezvov is a software engineer and technical author at blog.rezvov.com. Alex has spent years investigating real-world edge cases in autonomous software systems, writing widely cited engineering post-mortems on multi-agent deadlock, token context exhaust, and automated supervisor watchdog daemons.

Christopher Gallagher
AI Sales Training
Chris is an AI consultant and sales strategy expert with extensive experience integrating AI solutions into sales and leadership processes. Specialising in real-world use cases, including the deployment of Microsoft Co-Pilot and custom AI systems, Chris helps businesses at any stage of their AI journey—from those just starting to explore AI to those deploying advanced agentic AI systems—unlocking enormous time efficiencies at scale and improving sales execution. Whether it’s account mapping, deal qualification, tracking deal health, or winning bigger deals, Chris helps teams leverage AI to improve every aspect of sales. For leadership, AI-driven solutions enhance coaching, forecasting, and drive increased customer lifetime value (CLV), among many other business-critical areas. Chris is highly unusual in the AI consultancy space in that he's an expert in Sales & Leadership, AI, Training & Development, and has a high level of AI technical knowledge, including being an expert prompt engineer. This means one consultant for the concept, design, build and embedding of your Sales AI strategy. He has references and real life use cases which very large and smaller organisations that can help to expedite your AI journey and partnership with large MicroSoft Azure MSPs for Enterprise Co-Pilot projects.

Danni Zaks
Certainty Lab
Partner and Founder Co-CEO of Certainty Lab Head of Digital Strategy & AI‑Enabled Growth, Certainty Lab For more than two decades I have lived at the intersection of data, psychology and technology—turning marketing uncertainty into measurable growth. My career began in the late 1990s, when “Digital” meant dialing‑up and hand‑tuning search‑engine algorithms. Since then I have led global SEO and PPC programs, architected full‑funnel ABM engines, managed 250+ performance campaigns across Google Ads, Meta/Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and programmatic display, and woven behavioral‑economics thinking into board‑level marketing decisions. Today, at Certainty Lab, I channel that 25‑year journey into building precision solutions that help leaders act with confidence in an AI‑defined world. An Evidence‑Driven Marketer in a Lab Built for Certainty Certainty Lab exists to reduce the Problem of Uncertainty (POU), by fusing hard science with advanced AI. My role is to convert that mission into practical, market‑moving outcomes. The Library — Theoretical Unit we Distill the newest findings from behavioral psychology, decision science and persuasion research into actionable journey maps, copy formulas and strategic frameworks. Experimental Ground — Empirical Unit Run high‑velocity growth experiments—SEO sandboxes, paid‑media pilots, multivariate UX tests—and feed the winning patterns back into our data models for continual optimization. AIPLS — Applied AI Precision‑Living Solutions Oversee the creation of production‑ready AI agents that uncover audience insights, personalize content at scale and predict campaign performance long before a single dollar is committed. Core Competencies Digital Business Development— Identifies new revenue corridors, secures partnerships and spins up GTM motions that scale from pilot to global roll‑out. AI Agent Engineering — Blueprints and oversees intelligent agents that listen, learn and act across the entire customer lifecycle. Campaign Leadership at Scale — Directed 250+ multi‑channel campaigns with relentless ROAS and LTV optimization. Marketing Automation Architecture — Builds serverless, event‑driven ecosystems that connect CRM, ad platforms and analytics in real time. Performance Marketing — 15+ years of hands‑on SEO, PPC and programmatic leadership across SaaS, healthcare, finance and nonprofit sectors. Account‑Based Growth (ABM) — Creates micro‑segment scoring models and intent‑data loops that turn suspect lists into pipeline. Behavioral & Decision Psychology — Applies Kahneman‑inspired heuristics and nudges to craft friction‑free digital journeys. Executive Client Stewardship — Trusted advisor to C‑suites in Fortune 500 firms and mission‑driven NGOs, translating complex analytics into clear strategic choices. Professional Certifications & Leadership Google Ads Certified — Search & Display specializations SEO Specialist Certification — Advanced technical & content optimization Meta/Facebook Certified Media Buying Professional— Performance and creative ABM Program Leader— Proven expertise in orchestrating ABM initiatives Cutting‑Edge Toolkit & Methodologies Generative Creative AI — Deploy diffusion & LLM pipelines that automatically generate and A/B‑test thousands of ad creatives every week. RAG‑Powered Knowledge Graphs — Build retrieval‑augmented QA engines that turn disjointed documents into on‑demand, conversational knowledge bases. AI‑Accelerated Business Development — Design AI workflows that compress partnership scouting and proposal drafting from weeks to days. Custom LLMs for Digital Audits — Train domain‑specific models that perform full‑site SEO/UX audits in under an hour. 3‑Day POC/MVP Sprints — Lead cross‑functional workshops that transform raw ideas into clickable prototypes within 72 hours. Data‑Backed Storytelling Dashboards — Auto‑generate executive‑ready visual narratives that tie metrics to strategic decisions. Low‑Code Automation Playbooks — Launch modular Zapier/Make scripts that replace repetitive campaign ops, saving 20+ hours per month. Selected Milestones Global Campaign Command — Orchestrated and optimized 250+ paid‑media campaigns across five continents, sustaining double‑digit ROAS growth. Brand Steward to Market Leaders & NGOs — Managed the digital presence for dozens of flagship brands and mission‑driven nonprofits, amplifying share‑of‑voice while safeguarding reputation. Front‑Line Applied‑AI Mastery — Led first‑wave deployments of generative‑ad engines, predictive lead‑routing and autonomous bid strategies, shrinking time‑to‑insight by 60 %. Idea‑to‑MVP in 72 Hours — Built rapid‑validation pipelines that transform raw concepts into demo‑ready POCs within days, accelerating stakeholder buy‑in and compressing innovation cycles. Non‑Profit Digital Empowerment (Pro Bono) I believe that social impact organizations deserve the same caliber of data‑driven growth enjoyed by the world’s best commercial brands. Through pro bono engagements I guide NGOs in Digital transformation, marketing automation and AI‑powered business development, enablנing them to operate with enterprise‑grade efficiency while advancing their critical missions. From end‑to‑end CRM implementations to AI chatbots that amplify donor engagement, these collaborations convert purpose into measurable, scalable results. My Philosophy “Uncertainty is not the enemy of growth; it is the raw material of insight.” Marketing success today depends on **precision learning loops**—systems that sense weak signals, decide autonomously and adapt at speed. At Certainty Lab I build those loops. By weaving cutting‑edge AI with a quarter‑century of marketing craft, I help organizations move from intuition to evidence, from guesswork to clarity, and from static campaigns to living, self‑optimizing ecosystems.
Dhruv Bhatia
Forward Deployed HQ
ForwardDeployedHQ is a forward-deployed engineering agency built around one problem: most voice agents work in the demo and fall apart on real calls. We deploy AI voice agents into real businesses and do the unglamorous part, the production hardening. Tuning latency and endpointing, fixing the failure modes that surface at volume, and building the eval harness that proves the agent works before your customers find out it doesn't. You get a system that survives contact with real callers, and the evals to keep it that way.
Dontez Akram
Snag-A-Rag / Independent
Dontez Akram is an e-commerce entrepreneur and AI agent builder based in Atlanta. After building seven-figure brands like Snag-A-Rag, Dontez pioneered the development of executive Mission Control interfaces that connect autonomous marketing and inventory agents directly into operational business dashboards.
Douglas Cockburn
HelloHorizon Ltd
Hey, I'm Douglas. I'm your local AI consultant. I've built up my experience through delivering real AI solutions to local businesses through my agency, HelloHorizon. I'm excited to work together.
Dr. Andrew Ng
AI Fund / DeepLearning.AI
Dr. Andrew Ng is a globally renowned AI pioneer. He is the Managing General Partner of AI Fund, Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Co-Founder of Coursera, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He previously led Google Brain and served as Chief Scientist at Baidu. Dr. Ng has educated millions of engineers and executives on machine learning and agentic workflows.
Dr. Jim Fan
NVIDIA
Dr. Jim Fan is a Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA where he leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) lab. Jim completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University under Fei-Fei Li. He is the creator of Voyager, the first lifelong learning embodied agent in Minecraft powered by LLMs, and MineDojo, which won the NeurIPS 2022 Outstanding Paper Award.

Gabe Fletcher
Makers Help Desk
Agentic Full Stack Developer (AFSD) Expert - Bolt.New, Replit, Lovable, Cursor, Swift & more. If you need help with your application trying to fix a bug, or want someone to act as a technical co-founder to help you, all you need to do is ask. I help newer builders learn how to use LLM Builder tools to build their dream application & also take on projects building inside of those eco systems. I help Marketers, Founders, and Makers repair their broken video content (or non-existent) strategy, help them develop messaging that strikes a nerve so deep within their ideal client that they feel stupid saying no.

Goda Go
AI Productivity Hub
I am Goda and I am curious about the intersection between CREATIVITY and TECHNOLOGY. I love research, creative Marketing, Collaboration and Project Management. As a Product Marketing and Project Manager, YouTube Content Creator, and former Architect, I bring a diverse and highly creative perspective to customer-centric projects. Whether designing product marketing campaigns, doing customer segmentation, collaborating with internal and external key players, or simply sharing my insights and experiences on my YouTube channel, I lead with a self-starter mindset, confidence and an open mind to listen and learn. I am driven to empower and inspire creators from all walks of life to thrive in this digital revolution with powerful generative AI tools and thought-provoking ideas. Everybody can be a creator.
Hamel Husain
Parlance Labs / ex-GitHub
Hamel Husain is an AI consultant and founder of Parlance Labs. Previously a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub, Airbnb, and DataRobot, Hamel teaches engineers how to build, evaluate, and fine-tune production LLM systems. His guides on evaluation-driven development and domain-specific fine-tuning are widely used across top AI startups.
Harrison Chase
LangChain
Harrison Chase is the co-founder and CEO of LangChain, the widely adopted open-source framework for building context-aware reasoning applications and autonomous multi-agent systems. Prior to founding LangChain, Harrison led machine learning engineering teams focused on generative models and autonomous agents. His work centers on making agent loops predictable, auditable, and resilient through graph-based state machines and fine-grained evaluation harnesses.

Isidore Mikorey-Nilsson
Synseria
As an artificial intelligence entrepreneur, I help companies transform their processes through automation, data, and software development. From strategic analysis to deployment, I design customized, secure, and high-performance AI solutions that generate measurable and sustainable gains. My approach combines technical expertise and an understanding of business challenges to maximize impact.
Jerry Liu
LlamaIndex
Jerry Liu is the co-founder and CEO of LlamaIndex, the leading data framework connecting enterprise data sources to large language models. A former machine learning engineer at Uber and researcher at Two Sigma, Jerry's focus is on structured retrieval-augmented generation, multi-document query synthesis, and automated data agent orchestration.
Jess Stetson Mason
OpenClawConsultant.com
Jess Stetson Mason is an AI automation consultant and video educator who runs OpenClawConsultant.com and the @JessAutomates technical channel. Jess specializes in production VPS deployment, systemd sandboxing, UFW network isolation, and connecting autonomous agents to CRM, e-commerce, and enterprise communication channels.

Joël Capt
Peakora
Joël is the CEO & Founder of Peakora. Peakora is the leading Go-To-Market Design & Engineering partner in DACH. By building end-to-end marketing and sales systems, we helps scale lead generation, revenue, and CRM operations. Our GTM experts identify what is blocking growth, design the full go-to-market setup behind it, and build the systems that execute it. From targeting, messaging, and sales conversion to CRM, automation, and AI-driven operations.
John Nay
Norm Ai
John Nay is the founder and CEO of Norm Ai, a regulatory AI platform that turns complex government regulations into executable compliance agents. He is also a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX). John's research bridges AI safety, computational law, and agentic workflows for legal and financial compliance.
Leo Ye
MyClaw.ai
Leo Ye is the founder of MyClaw.ai, an ecosystem directory and curation platform for autonomous AI skills and agent plugins. Leo focuses on developer ergonomics, automated metadata indexing, and benchmark scoring to help builders discover reliable extensions for their agent frameworks.

Liam Ottley
Morningside AI
Liam Ottley is the founder of Morningside AI, an AI development company based in Auckland, New Zealand. With a background in eCommerce and digital marketing, Liam has spent his adult life as an online entrepreneur, driven by a passion for innovative projects and a desire to make AI education accessible to all. His entrepreneurial journey began during a gap year in Edinburgh, where he transitioned from traditional education to the world of online business, gaining invaluable experience in digital marketing and eCommerce. In 2022, Liam rekindled his interest in coding and machine learning, teaching himself Python and exploring language models like BERT. This newfound focus led him to launch a YouTube channel dedicated to AI entrepreneurship, which has rapidly grown to over 116,000 subscribers. Through Morningside AI, he aims to empower other entrepreneurs by providing resources and education to help them start and scale their own AI agencies. Liam's journey reflects his commitment to continuous learning and innovation, as he strives to build a leading AI development firm while impacting the lives of thousands through accessible AI education. He is excited about the future and the opportunities that lie ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.

Marcelo Tavares
GT70 Digital
Empowering entrepreneurs and businesses to transform and automate their processes with AI. Backed by 30+ years of high-tech industry expertise in digital transformation, engineering innovation, R&D, and cutting-edge integrated software development for engineering solutions.

Mark Fulton
Reinventing.AI
Mark Fulton is the founder of Reinventing.AI and Agent Ops Club. He builds AI applications and agent workflows, and teaches entrepreneurs and practitioners how to put them to work. His open source AI Employees project packages scheduled business roles as editable files for AI coding agents. His writing and teaching cover agent operations, automation, AI application development, and human approval boundaries. He also founded the Vibe Coding is Life community.

Mat Mathews
Vapi.ai
Mat Mathews is a seasoned technology evangelist and leader in the field of conversational AI, currently supporting Vapi, a Y Combinator-backed startup. Vapi empowers developers to efficiently build, test, and deploy voicebots and other conversational AI solutions within minutes, revolutionizing the deployment process. With over 15 years of experience in developer relations, enterprise sales, and community building, Mat specializes in fostering partnerships, technical strategy, and field enablement to drive innovative product adoption. A former leader at Splunk and Cisco, Mat brings extensive expertise in building enterprise pipelines, executive-level engagement, and strategic product feedback. His work at Vapi combines his passion for technology and his commitment to simplifying complex processes for developers and enterprises alike. Mat’s contributions have positioned him as a key figure in the tech ecosystem, where he continues to nurture relationships with stakeholders and champion cutting-edge AI technologies.
Matt Ham
ChatSMB
Matt Ham is an AI entrepreneur and 3x founder who has spent his career founding companies and consulting on marketing. operational and management solutions. Matt has strong analytical skills and specializes in growing companies by building robust and scalable systems. Matt ran his first company while in grad school at Columbia University, starting his first independent venture two years later. Since that time, he has continuously owned one or more businesses in online marketing, retail electronics repair, management consulting, and AI development with multiple successful exits. Matt is currently working in AI, on a mission to help small-medium businesses (SMBs) overcome operational challenges required to cost-effectively grow their business by building, refactoring, and automating processes using software and AI. He believes that by utilizing commercial software technologies, integrating systems, and intelligently designing frictionless workflows customized around a business need, SMBs can reduce operational costs to scale while simultaneously improving service consistency and quality.
Misbah Syed
BuiltByOU / Clawable.ai
Misbah Syed is an AI educator and software builder based in Vancouver. As founder of BuiltByOU and Clawable.ai, Misbah teaches practical AI development to thousands of builders, while shipping production applications including BrainyDocuments and DocsRouter that transform complex PDF and knowledge bases into verifiable multi-agent reasoning graphs.
Necati Ozmen
VoltAgent
Necati Ozmen is the founder of VoltAgent and the creator of the awesome-openclaw-skills initiative. Necati built the largest independent verification pipeline for autonomous agent tools, analyzing over 13,000 public skills and filtering out malicious prompt-injection payloads, unverified dependencies, and insecure execution scripts.
Nikhil Kumar
Operabase / OpenClaw Marketing
Nikhil Kumar is a growth engineer and founder of OpenClawMarketing.com, where he publishes exhaustive technical guides on replacing expensive SaaS subscriptions with autonomous, self-hosted AI agent workflows. Nikhil specializes in autonomous content research, programmatic SEO, and high-converting marketing funnels driven by LLMs.

Nitch Hiltgen
Mister Nitch
Mister Nitch is a French director, art director and visual artist augmented by generative AI. With over 25 years of experience in creative advertising, he has built an identity rooted in precision, style, emotion and detail. A visual signature that bridges soul and technique. Winner of the Best Ad Award at the 2025 AI Film Festival in Cannes, Mister Nitch represents the new generation of hybrid creatives capable of merging artistic intuition with algorithmic rigor. For him, AI is not just a tool, it’s a true creative partner, an extension of human vision in the pursuit of beauty and meaning. His method combines strategic depth, artistic precision, craft excellence and sharp control over AI workflows. This multi-skilled approach allows him to create full-scope 360° campaigns that blend storytelling, style and performance. Advertising works that stand out for both their emotional power and narrative coherence. Agencies and brands that work with him seek a premium finish, an artist’s eye with accessible production, accelerated timelines and seamless communication from brief to delivery. Mister Nitch is a strategic partner who can translate creative intent into highly controlled production, across sectors such as luxury, fashion, beauty, tech, automotive, food & beverage and entertainment. In essence, Mister Nitch embodies a new kind of creative direction: augmented, sensitive and uncompromising where technology amplifies vision and each project becomes a singular visual experience.
Oliver Drobnik
Drobnik KG
Oliver Drobnik is an Austrian systems engineer and long-time open-source author who created DTCoreText (6,400+ GitHub stars) and SwiftMCP. With decades of low-level systems engineering experience on Apple platforms and Unix kernels, Oliver focuses on deterministic model context protocols (MCP), tool-call parsing reliability, and local agent runtime stability.
Rakesh Patel
ManageMyClaw / Space-O Technologies
Rakesh Patel is an enterprise software architect and founder of ManageMyClaw. With deep expertise across custom software development and cloud operations, Rakesh helps mid-market and enterprise organizations operationalize autonomous agent fleets with SLA-backed managed hosting, security reviews, and disaster recovery runbooks.
Sebastian Maniak
Solo.io / Sheridan College
Sebastian Maniak is an AI Go-to-Market strategist at Solo.io focusing on AI gateways, API orchestration, and cloud-native connectivity, and a professor of Applied Network Security and Infrastructure as Code at Sheridan College. He designs secure production agent topologies, specializing in multi-tenant communication channels, access controls, and private LLM gateway routing.
Shreya Rajpal
Guardrails AI
Shreya Rajpal is the founder and CEO of Guardrails AI, an open-source and enterprise platform that guarantees structured, validated, and safe outputs from large language models. Before founding Guardrails AI, Shreya spent years at Apple working as an ML engineer on autonomous systems and perception reliability.
Simon Willison
Datasette / Independent
Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, co-creator of the Django web framework, and an independent AI researcher. Simon coined the term 'Prompt Injection' in 2022 and has published seminal security research on LLM threat modeling, data exfiltration via image rendering, and sandboxing autonomous tool-using agents.
Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Smol.ai / Latent Space
Shawn Wang (Swyx) is the founder of Smol.ai and co-host of the Latent Space podcast. Formerly Head of Developer Experience at Airbyte, Temporal, and Netlify, Swyx published the widely influential 'AI Engineer' manifesto in 2023, identifying the emergence of software engineering dedicated to harnessing foundation models and building autonomous applications.
Tony Grant
Tony Grant Consulting
Tony is a thought leader within the online marketing and AI landscape. His analytical skills are perfectlly aligned with the task of AI Creation and Generation for entrepreneurial endeavours.
Ty Shane Howell
LaunchMyOpenClaw / 10xColdLeads
Ty Shane Howell is an automation consultant and founder of LaunchMyOpenClaw and 10xColdLeads. Ty specializes in building resilient event-driven outbound pipelines, agentic lead qualification systems, and custom CRM connectors that replace manual data entry with multi-step reasoning workflows.
Violetta Bonenkamp
Mean CEO / Fe/male Founder
Violetta Bonenkamp is an AI founder and systems architect who writes on autonomous startup operations at blog.mean.ceo. Violetta specializes in building asynchronous multi-agent coordination architectures that leverage session keys for identity, 15-minute cron heartbeats, and decentralized event buses to run enterprise operations with minimal human oversight.
Yohei Nakajima
Untapped VC
Yohei Nakajima is an investor and autonomous agent developer known globally as the creator of BabyAGI, an early open-source milestone in autonomous task-driven agent loops. As General Partner at Untapped VC, Yohei invests in early-stage technical founders while continuously researching autonomous software routines and agentic workflows.