Nick Ford

It wasn't even guaranteed that it was going to turn into a full-time thing.

Um,

But I went into it betting on myself and went full throttle into that role, which ended up flourishing into a full-time career.

Full-time, 2017, November 2017.

Very recently.

So I started getting into it, I would say...

I'd say a year ago, but really started digging into it probably six months ago.

A year ago, AI isn't a new thing, but over the past year, it's been all the rage.

AI is everything.

Everybody has AI in their company names and so on and so forth.

Six months ago, I actually started a regular digital agency doing things like SEO and lead gen and things of that nature, but

Me, like everybody else, is like, okay, I need to pivot or at least add on some type of component for AI.

for AI.

Right.

And then once I started looking at AI where I could apply AI, a lot of, of, um, what could be done with AI, it really goes well with automation, kind of like ATM machines and merchant services, like AI and automation almost go hand in hand.

I just started looking at the automation piece.

Um, and I think, you know, my first product or customer was my wife because she also, um, owns her own business, um, to travel agency.

So, um,

I actually went and built out this big thing for her that I can definitely get into later if you want me to give some examples of some of the work that I've done.

But yeah, I've only been doing it for like six months so far, have a handful of clients.