We build AI that amplifies what people can create — starting with the businesses where the productivity gap gets closed.
Real GDP per capita growth · 2014–2024
71.4%
Canada’s GDP per capita as a share of the U.S. — down from 83.1% in 2014. Growth of 0.4% a year: third-lowest among 38 advanced economies, and below the OECD average for the first time on record.
Source · The Hub (2026), OECD
Small teams, larger output.
Automate routine. Keep judgement.
Applied intelligence is the lever.
I co-founded Daily Hive in 2008 and spent the next fourteen years building it into a national publisher. Along the way, I learned that what makes a business grow often has little to do with the product itself. Three lessons stayed with me, and they're the reason Brilliant exists.
Work on your business, not just in it.
Most owners spend their days in the business: serving customers, putting out fires, keeping things running. The time you spend stepping back to fix what isn't working is just as valuable. But strategy only goes so far. The right technology is how you act on it. It clears bottlenecks, speeds up processes, and gives your team better tools, and that renewed energy shows in their work.
Your cash conversion cycle matters more than you think.
An invoice paid late isn't just a delay. It's money you could have reinvested in your business for a greater return, and that cost compounds over time. Shortening the gap between doing the work and getting paid is one of the fastest ways to fund your own growth.
People still make the business.
Even the best technology doesn't run a company. People do. When your team wants to be there and feels empowered to work together, they adopt new tools willingly and bring creative ideas the technology can amplify. Culture is what turns technology from an expense into an advantage.
That's how we approach every engagement at Brilliant. We start with your business: where the bottlenecks are, how cash moves, and who your people are. Then we apply AI where it makes the biggest difference. Canada's small and medium-sized businesses are where our productivity gap will be closed, and I'd like to help yours lead the way.
Built ventures at the intersection of media and technology for 17 years, including co-founding Daily Hive and scaling it into one of Canada's largest digital publishers. He now leads Brilliant as an applied research lab, setting the direction for how one engine turns into many applications and pushing the case that capability, not headcount, is what closes the country's productivity gap.
Systems and security engineer with a background at Apple Security, where he worked on the hard end of trust, privacy, and scale. At Brilliant he architects the research engine underneath every product surface — agentic automation, behavioural modelling, and the private network intelligence that keeps sensitive work inside its own perimeter.
Three active hubs. A fourth on the way.
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