About
Hey, I’m Wayne
I build AI systems around real business problems and explain the thinking behind them.
For more than 30 years, I've worked where business and technology meet, across systems engineering, product marketing, sales management, and customer success. Today, I use that experience to explore what AI makes possible and turn worthwhile opportunities into systems people can use.
The Story
The business problem comes first.
I spent most of my career on the business side of technology, in systems engineering, product marketing, sales management, and customer success. That experience taught me to begin with the customer, the business need, and the result the work should produce.
I later began building n8n automation workflows and saw how connected tools could carry out work that used to require several separate processes. When newer AI development tools arrived, the range and pace of what I could build expanded again.
The important change was not that a single prompt could suddenly do everything. Dependable systems still need business context, human judgment, testing, and improvement. The change was that useful work that had once required more time, money, or specialist capacity had become possible to explore.
StackEngine grew from that possibility. I use AI, agents, data, code, workflows, and human judgment to build focused systems around business needs. Marketing Engine is the first focus, connecting business knowledge, customer understanding, market intelligence, decisions, execution, and learning.
What I Bring
The experience behind the systems
Business and technology experience
Three decades across systems engineering, product marketing, sales management, and customer success help me see both the business need and the system required to support it.
Problem-first systems thinking
I start with what the business needs to understand or accomplish, then choose the tools and design the work around that purpose.
Connected work
Useful systems carry knowledge from research into decisions and execution, then preserve what the results teach us for the next round of work.
Building through real work
I develop and improve systems while using them on actual business needs, showing what works, what changes, and what still needs to be learned.
Right Now
Where I’m focused
Developing Marketing Engine
The first focused StackEngine system connects business and customer understanding with market intelligence, marketing decisions, execution, and learning.
Building AI systems for business
StackEngine looks for worthwhile applications of AI and builds focused systems around the work a business needs to understand, improve, or accomplish.
Working directly with businesses
The work can be done for you, or a system can be installed around your business and taught to you or your team.
Explaining and sharing the work
YouTube, StackNotes, and the community make the thinking, decisions, workflows, lessons, and practical material behind the systems visible.