FRACTIONAL CTO · AI BUILDER · 25 YEARS IN MEDIA

You're doing workyour software should be doing.

I build the AI systems that do it instead — so you get back to the part only you can do.

I make the systems I used to buy. Fractional CTO. AI builder. 25 years in film and television, with a computer-science degree in AI. Now I build the systems that make it all work together.

NBCUniversalLA Times StudiosBuzzFeed WebMD/MedscapeE!/SnapchatColumbia CS

What's not working for you? →

// the_call_i_keep_getting

It usually starts like this.

"I have five dashboards and still can't answer a simple question."

"Someone on my team spends Sunday night moving numbers between spreadsheets."

"We bought the tool. Nobody uses it."

Every one of those is the same problem wearing different clothes: the business already knows the answer, and nobody can see it. That's the work — find what's buried, and build the thing that surfaces it. I've done it in entertainment, in health publishing, in news, and for owner-operators with no technical staff at all.

Media & entertainment Health & science publishing News & editorial Consumer brands Live events & venues Real estate Owner-operated businesses

// what_i_do

I build the AI that works for you.

Three ways in. The work underneath is the same.

01

Fractional CTO

Technical judgment without a hire. I pick the stack, kill the tools that aren't earning their place, and build what's missing.

02

AI operating layers

Not a chatbot. Not an automation that saves ten minutes. The layer that tells you what's happening before you'd have noticed.

03

Fixed-scope builds

One problem, one system, one price. Email triage across accounts. Outreach pipelines. Dashboards that answer the question you keep answering by hand.

// proof

I built it for my own business first.

KNKY Comedy is the live-entertainment brand I founded — and where I proved the system before putting it in front of anyone else. These numbers are its, not a client's.

12

OF THE LAST 15 LA SHOWS
SOLD OUT

157%

OF CAPACITY
NEW YORK DEBUT

+37%

MONTHLY TICKET REVENUE
YEAR OVER YEAR

Five disconnected platforms, no connective tissue, data everywhere and insight nowhere. I built a live dashboard, velocity monitoring that flags a soft week before it happens, an agent tying ad spend to audience behavior to conversion, and a layer that runs the day-to-day. Built in house instead of licensed — which is the whole argument.

// background

Twenty-five years of making things that shipped.

Now: founder and executive producer of KNKY Comedy, with a featured show at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival.

Before: Head of Development & Strategy at LA Times Studios, where I sold the studio's first documentary with ABC News — The Randall Scandal, for Hulu. AI content consultant to WebMD/Medscape, hired by the CEO to build Medscape2050. Executive producer at BuzzFeed Studios. At NBCUniversal's Digital Lab I built a $10M+ premium digital studio — 120+ episodes, 250M+ views — and created Face Forward with Snapchat: 5M+ views an episode inside 48 hours, a Webby and a Telly. Co-founder and SVP of Soul of the South Television, a broadcast network in 35M+ households across 28 markets.

Executive producer of Tropicália, an award-winning feature documentary. Series for E!, Snapchat, TLC, Speed Channel and Discovery. Branded work from Microsoft to the Kardashians.

MFA, Peter Stark Producing Program, USC. BA in computer science, Columbia University — concentration in AI.

// contact

What's not working for you?

Tell me where the data stops talking, or where your week disappears. That's the conversation.

maurice@mauricejames.ai