Where I started
I came from a marketing and operations background, not software engineering. When AI tools started getting genuinely useful around 2022, I was one of those people who spent too many hours testing everything.
I got obsessed with finding what actually worked for non-technical people and small businesses. What prompts got useful output. What tools were worth paying for. What workflows saved real time.
Where I've spoken
Long before AI, I spent years on the training and speaking circuit, helping small business owners and real estate agents at associations, brokerages, and industry events get better at social media and technology.
I've keynoted at RE/MAX R4, Inman, and NAR from 2018 through 2022, training rooms of agents and business owners, not just talking at them.
What I built
I started building AI systems for real clients, a cannabis dispensary, a food service business, a management company. Voice AI, customer service automation, loyalty dashboards, content systems.
That became SimplySync AI, my automation agency. Every client build taught me something new. And I realized the biggest gap in the market wasn't the technology, it was practical education from someone who was actually doing the work.
Why I teach
Most AI content is made by people who've never run a real client engagement. It's theoretical, demo-heavy, and divorced from what actually works when you're building something a real business depends on.
Your Handy AI Guide exists to fix that. Everything I publish comes from live work. If I use it with a client, I document it. If something doesn't work, I say so. The goal is to save you the months of trial and error I went through.
The "Handy" thing
My last name is Handy. I can't help it. But it fits, because "handy" is exactly what I want this to be. Not the most sophisticated AI content. Not the most academic. Just the most useful.
AI that actually works. By someone who actually builds it.