Years operating
25
SEC · State · Fortune 250 · Cultural
We install the operating systems that get the business out of your head — without losing the judgment that built it. Twenty-five years inside SEC-regulated environments, the Florida Governor's office, Fortune 250 utilities, and 8-figure-revenue cultural institutions. The operator you bring in when AI has to survive contact with regulators, boards, donors, or fiduciaries.
Outsource your thinking. Don't outsource your understanding.
Most AI consulting sells software and leaves you with another thing to babysit. We don't.
We install operating systems that keep your judgment, your relationships, and your team's capacity at the center — and use AI to remove the repetitive work that gets in the way.
Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice. So we don't talk tools until we've mapped how you actually make money. We don't build dashboards until we know which questions need answering. And we don't sell hours — we sell outcomes.
The category we serve: operators whose judgment is the product. Founders, principals, fractional executives, and institutional leaders whose reputation was built on personal expertise and whose business has now outrun their ability to be in every email, every quote, every decision.
Different industries. Different stakes. Same pattern — the principal's judgment is the product, and the business has scaled past what any one brain can hold.
Owner-operators in B2B distribution, sourcing, professional services, regulated trades, and high-craft retail. Revenue $1M–$15M. The founder is still the operating system.
Performing-arts organizations, regional economic-development entities, foundations, and chambers. Mission-driven, board-governed, donor-stakeholdered. Where the work has to survive scrutiny.
Senior executives at Fortune 250s, regulated utilities, government agencies, and CRE platforms — where AI has to clear IT, security, and compliance review before it leaves the deck.
A documented, repeatable methodology — refined across 25 years of regulated, government, enterprise, and cultural-institutional implementations. Most engagements run through all three phases in 30 days.
Seven recorded discovery interviews. On-site session with leadership. We name where AI can add value — and just as critically, where it would weaken your judgment, relationships, or fiduciary posture. Prescription without diagnosis is malpractice.
Quick wins inside the actual workflow. Guided practice with the SSO methodology — our Synthetic Special Operations research team that runs queries across GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok in parallel. You're not learning AI. You're learning to direct it.
Live working software. Operating playbook for the team. AI workflows with explicit guardrails. The judgment stays yours; the labor moves into the system. Outcome: 30% efficiency gain in 30 days, or you don't pay the second half.
Treat AI like an overeager intern who wrote a first draft for you at 2am. You still edit it — but the hard part isn't starting from scratch.
Identify high-leverage tasks → workflow integration → human amplification, not replacement → measurable 20–40% efficiency gains.
Human insight at the apex. AI capability and desired outcome at the base. Measurable efficiency happens only at the intersection.
Fixed-fee. Time-boxed. Installed working systems on your infrastructure. You own the code, the data, the operating playbook the moment we hand off. Never hourly.
Jumpstart Journey™ — 1:1 executive transformation. 3 live sessions plus personalized GUIDE. Operational fluency for the principal.
The signature engagement. Workflow diagnosis, data model, working dashboard, AI workflow framework, new-hire playbook, 30-day roadmap. Five deliverables — never more, never less.
Full team gets operational fluency. Clarity / Confidence / Capacity / Demonstration sessions. Nonprofit and standard rates available.
Productized fractional executive layer — Strategic Director / CMO / Season Architect functions backed by the ThoughtLeap operating model and team.
Discovery → Implementation → Optional Advisory. Full bespoke "Identic AI" install (Greyhawk-class). For institutions where AI has to clear IT, security, and compliance.
Every project below is documented with real numbers, deployed artifacts, or named principals. None of these are mockups.
A founder-operator scaling a relationship-driven sourcing business with one new hire. Quote-to-invoice trapped across email, WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and memory. We installed the first operating layer — a live working web app with vendor response links, decision capture, and pro-forma export — in nine days.
Four-year engagement as Marketing Director then Fractional CMO. AI-augmented operating layer (Brandon → Skippy → Daniela → Kayla) delivering integrated marketing and revenue ops at 30–60% of comparable-tier cost.
Six-plus-year continuous engagement transforming a regional EDC from invisible to site-selector shortlists. Brand architecture, annual EOY reporting, market briefs, deep-research dossiers. Rob Sitterley inducted into the Southern Economic Development Hall of Fame in 2025 (Brandon wrote the supporting nomination).
Multi-year fractional CMO engagement. Q3 2025 audit produced 27.14% YoY revenue lift in 11 target ZIP codes and a self-initiated 43% reduction in Brandon's own monthly fee — savings of $37,800/year passed to the client. Multiple #1 Google rankings; record August month.
Comparable scope at those firms: $75,000–$500,000 and 90–120 days for an operations sprint; $500K–$5M+ for a full transformation. ThoughtLeap.ai delivers Forward-Deployed Engineering at operator-velocity pricing — fixed-fee, time-boxed, working software in week two. You own the system.
No agency overhead. No junior associates running the work. Six named principals — each on every engagement they're scoped into, from kickoff to handoff.
Twenty-five years inside high-stakes operations — SEC-regulated environments, Florida Power & Light, Enterprise Florida, the Office of the Governor, and the Florida economic-development apparatus. Deployed Salesforce CRM across all 67 Florida counties. Architected FPL's first External Affairs CRM under dual SEC + Public Service Commission compliance. Registered Florida lobbyist; architect of the 2017 Data Center Tax Exemption legislation. OpenAI beta tester eighteen months before public release. Founding Vice-Chair, 1909 Foundation ($66M cumulative economic impact). FSU MBA (Marketing + Management Information Systems, dual concentration). Bilingual English/Spanish.
Senior engineering depth across enterprise-grade systems deployed in demanding environments and used at global scale. Pairs on architecture, security, multi-user authentication, integration work, and the hardening that turns a working app into a durable operating system.
Former art director for the Zac Brown Band. Owns creative direction across brand identity, gala creative, ad campaigns, and seasonal content systems. The brand voice that lets ThoughtLeap engagements land culturally as well as operationally.
EdD, Gratz College. Background in Jewish education and instructional design. Brings adult-learning rigor to the Jumpstart Journey and Foundation Program curricula, ensuring AI fluency lands and persists with client teams.
Operations and integration lead based in Bogotá. Owns deployment, QA, and post-launch cadence on every engagement scoped beyond a Discovery Sprint. The reason Tier 4 engagements stay on schedule.
Formerly of OMFGCO, with brand and design work for Gap, Google, adidas, Ace Hotel, MUJI, and others. Available for Tier 4 and Tier 5 engagements where the brand surface is part of the scope.
I started in 2002 teaching small-business owners — craftspeople who today would be on Etsy — how to put themselves online before the platforms existed. By 2012 I was deploying Florida's first statewide Salesforce CRM across all sixty-seven counties from inside Enterprise Florida. By 2017 I was architecting FPL's first External Affairs CRM under dual SEC and Public Service Commission regulation — and helping draft the Florida Data Center Tax Exemption legislation as a registered lobbyist.
By 2019 I'd gotten OpenAI beta access eighteen months before the public and started building the operating systems I needed for myself first — single dad of twins, one autistic; adult ADHD; running a multi-client consulting practice across Palm Beach and the Texarkana regional development organization. The scaffolding became a product. The product became ThoughtLeap.
Today I run ThoughtLeap.ai as the AI implementation practice for leaders who can't afford to get it wrong — operating across performing arts, regional economic development, home services, commercial real estate, defense investing, legal services, and high-stakes cultural institutions. Plus the founder-operator businesses scaling past memory.
What I believe: we don't automate people out of the picture. We help them get their time back and do their best work. The brand is called For The Humans because that's literally who it's for.
We don't automate people out of the picture. We help them get their time back and do their best work.
AI is the multiplier. You're still the system. Your judgment, your relationships, your taste, your willingness to say no — those are what built the business and they're what will scale it. Our job is to make the repeatable parts of your work easier to find, hand off, and replicate — without weakening the human relationships that made the business worth building in the first place.
Outsource your thinking. Don't outsource your understanding.
Email Brandon directly. Twenty minutes is enough to know if a Discovery, an Operational Intelligence Sprint, or a full Strategic Implementation fits. If it doesn't, we'll say so on the call.