I've spent my career helping some of the world's biggest companies turn AI and data into measurable P&L outcomes. Crescendo brings that same playbook to your team — senior work, directly delivered, no agency overhead.
Check out our newest platform, Sonar. Run it on your business — we build the Blueprint to win your market.
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Most local business owners are running blind. Thousands a month on marketing, social, SEO — and no clear answer to whether any of it is working. Sonar scans four pillars in one pass — reviews, competitive position, visibility across Google and AI search, and technical foundation — and turns each gap into a Blueprint: the 3–5 highest-leverage changes you can make, priced by what it costs if you don't.
I started my career in high-stakes private equity, where I developed the analytical discipline and decision-making instincts that still shape how I approach every engagement. From there I moved into management consulting and eventually into a senior role leading Data & AI strategy for enterprise clients. Across all three, the through-line has been the same: learning how capital allocators, operators, and technologists actually think — and translating between them.
I've led enterprise-scale AI and digital transformation programs across financial services, retail, hospitality, and entertainment — turning AI strategy into operational reality for Fortune 100 teams. My work spans the full arc: C-suite roadmaps and competitive assessments through hands-on implementation of agentic AI systems, data infrastructure, and intelligent automation.
I'm trained in both business strategy and modern technical execution — Python, SQL, cloud platforms, and the full agentic AI stack. I can present to the board in the morning and ship production code by that afternoon. That combination is rare, and it's why every engagement I take moves faster than a traditional consulting project.
Today I keep my client list deliberately small. When you hire Crescendo, you hire me — not a delivery team. That means you get the exact same thinking, the exact same code, from first call to final system. Here's how that works in practice:
Every engagement is tailored, but the shape is consistent: start with a diagnostic, choose a build, stay on retainer if you want ongoing leadership. No RFPs, no SOW theater, no surprise invoices.
Before any build. Two weeks understanding your business, your data, and the bottlenecks actually costing you money. You leave with a written assessment, a ranked list of AI opportunities, and a concrete scope of work. The diagnostic fee credits toward whatever we build next.
Six build archetypes we ship. Each is a working system your team can run independently when we're done — not a slide deck. Most clients come in through the diagnostic and pick the build that maps to their priority opportunity.
24/7 conversational intake forms and voice AI that book appointments, qualify leads, and route urgent calls — before your team even logs in.
See the demosIngest reviews across every platform, extract sentiment and themes, and draft responses at scale — in your voice, queued for approval in a 15-minute sitting.
See the demoRewrite your website so it shows up in Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Perplexity citations. Most small-business sites are structurally invisible to AI search.
See the demoEmployees get instant answers to handbook, benefits, and policy questions — with citations to the source doc. HR stops answering the same fifty things every week.
See the demoMulti-step AI agents that span your systems — onboarding pipelines, client-health dashboards, operational diligence, back-office automation.
See the demoBespoke AI for odd-shaped problems that don't fit a template. Start with a diagnostic, leave with a working system designed for your exact business logic.
Start with a diagnosticFor clients who want ongoing strategic technology guidance without the cost of a full-time CTO or Head of AI. A senior operator on retainer — on call for decisions, architecture, vendor selection, and roadmap reviews. Most engagements start after a discrete build and extend into a multi-quarter partnership.
Pick your industry — see a live Blueprint we built for a real business in that space. Reviews, search visibility, AI coverage, tech health, the action plan we shipped.
See live demosNo signup. No sales call. Just pick your industry and read the audit.
The Fortune 100 pattern library, applied to mid-market problems. Every case below is a real client, with real results.
Built a custom AI reputation audit system that pulls reviews across platforms, runs sentiment analysis, and generates actionable recommendations — turning weeks of manual work into a 90-second automated process.
Deployed a Claude-powered internal chatbot that ingests employee handbooks and HR policies, then answers employee questions in natural language 24/7 with citations to the source policy.
Built an AI diligence system for an $800M mid-market PE fund that ingests target financials, org charts, and operational data, then generates a 40-page operational diligence memo in two hours — work that previously took analysts three weeks per deal.
Replaced a manual 3-day customer onboarding process with an automated pipeline that handles contract intake, data collection, kickoff scheduling, and resource provisioning — all triggered by a single form submission.
Built an AI voice and chat intake agent for an 8-clinic medical group that captures insurance, medical history, and visit prep before the patient arrives — replacing a manual 45-minute process and delivering handoff-ready context to clinical staff in under 10 minutes.
Every tool below is working software running right here on this page. No signup, no demo call, no download.
Pulls Google reviews, segments customers by lifetime value, and drafts retention campaigns grounded in the brand's actual review language — not generic AI copy.
Veo 3.1 video and Nano Banana stills, all filtered through a BrandBrain voice fingerprint so the output sounds like the brand — not generic AI.
Rewrites your website so you start showing up in Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT answers.
Answers the phone at 2 a.m., takes appointment requests, and routes urgent calls to the on-call partner.
Pulls reviews across 8 platforms, runs sentiment and theme analysis, drafts partner-voice responses, and produces a one-page weekly action plan — in about 90 seconds.
A portfolio cockpit for agencies and consultants — health scores, narrative insights, and anomaly detection across every retainer.
Captures leads 24/7, qualifies them conversationally, and books appointments straight into your calendar.
★★★★★"Gavin transformed how we think about our online presence. He didn't just hand us a report — he built a system we actually use every day. The ROI was clear within the first month."
★★★★★"Gavin is the rare consultant who can think strategically and actually ship code. He understood our business in two meetings and delivered something our engineering team couldn't build in six months."
★★★★★"Working with Gavin felt like having a senior partner from a top-tier firm in our corner — without the political games or inflated invoices. He's direct, fast, and genuinely invested in outcomes."
★★★★★"We hired Gavin for a two-week AI assessment and ended up extending the engagement for six months. He identified automation opportunities we'd missed for years — and then actually built them."
★★★★★"The combination of financial acumen from his M&A background and real technology chops is unusual. He speaks our investors' language and our engineers' language. That's rare."
★★★★★"Gavin is my go-to whenever we need to evaluate new technology or build an internal tool. He's saved us from two bad vendor decisions and built three tools that are now core to our operations."
Book an intro call. I work with a small number of clients at a time — I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.
