Trent McNellyAI workflows + product deploymentFractional + full-time / California / Remote
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AI Workflow & Deployment Strategist / AI Product & GTM Builder

Ideas are infinite. Structure requires taste.

I design and build AI products, agentic workflows, and creative systems—with the evaluation, permissions, and receipts needed to deploy them.

Fractional + full-time / California / Remote

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The offer

One workflow, made clear enough to build.

Isolate one valuable workflow, define its human and system boundaries, and leave with a decision-ready proof plus a path to production.

01

Find the value

Choose one consequential workflow where AI can remove friction, improve a decision, or create a capability worth adopting.

02

Define the boundaries

Map context, actions, permissions, evaluation, handoffs, and the moments that must remain under human control.

03

Build the proof

Build and test the smallest working system that can earn a real production decision—not a deck pretending the hard parts are solved.

What I bring

Capabilities across the work.

Context + action + permission

Agentic workflow design

Bounded agents, human approvals, evals, provenance, provider controls, and receipts that survive the demo.

Strategy + launch

Product & GTM

Product direction, positioning, adoption, and launch systems—from ambiguous opportunity to a decision teams can act on.

AI + full-stack

Working product proof

React / Next.js, TypeScript, Swift, data pipelines, model APIs, interactive systems, test contracts, and release discipline.

Spatial + creative technology

Experience systems

Thirty-five-plus AR experiences, 12 AR-enhanced products, and 3D, motion, Unity, Unreal, and browser-based spatial work.

Deployment + adoption

Operating in the room

Executive translation, cross-functional delivery, enablement, and measured release gates across product, creative, and engineering.

How I work

A technical method, in service of a human outcome.

01

Reconstruct

Gather the human, technical, cultural, and commercial views before naming the problem.

02

Declare

Define what should become different before optimizing the work.

03

Iterate

Build, read the result, compare it with the intention, and revise.

04

Cultivate

Select the direction that holds and turn it into a durable system.

Commercial proof

Selected evidence.

A business grown 100×. Live AI products. Three agentic operating patterns with the proof level and the unproven edge left visible.

OPERATING PROOF / ASTROREALITY / 2018–2020

From $10K to $1M in monthly revenue.

I taught myself Blender to bring photorealistic 3D production in-house — cutting roughly $500K a year, funding sharper pricing, and lifting conversion. Campaign content reached tens of millions of views while product, creative, and engineering held to one strategy across US and Beijing teams.

Role
ACD / PM — product, creative, and campaign leadership; 12 AR-enhanced products shipped.
Mechanism
In-house 3D pipeline → lower costs → sharper pricing → higher conversion, amplified by eight cross-channel campaigns.
Reach
Content in the tens of millions of views; single pieces up to 40M.
Receipt
Self-reported; full case brief with timeframe and contribution available on request.
LIVE INSTRUMENT / V4.1

VibeScore

Four models. Eight emotional channels. One versioned receipt that exposes disagreement instead of hiding it.

Angle
Intent is not impact.
Artifact
Multi-model AI instrument + public proof surface.
Role
Founder, product strategy, system design, orchestration, interface.
Limit
Interpretation, not a verdict or a measure of human worth.
VibeScore result receipt showing a score of 546 and emotional channels
RECEIPT 546 / FOUR-MODEL CONSENSUS / METHODOLOGY PUBLIC

Agentic workflow proof

How the agentic work is bounded.

These are not three chatbots with new names. They are three distinct forms of agency: a live evidence pipeline, an approval-bound publishing agent, and a multimodal evaluation-and-generation workflow.

01

Context

What the system may know, where it came from, and what must stay attached to the work.

02

Action

What it may prepare, change, recommend, or execute—and what remains human work.

03

Permission

Who approves, which destination is allowed, and where the workflow must fail closed.

04

Evaluation

How quality, disagreement, regressions, and real-world usefulness are measured.

05

Receipt

The version, inputs, outputs, decision, destination, and result a person can inspect later.

LIVE SYSTEM

World Wide Vibes evidence pipeline

A scheduled workflow can gather, qualify, score, aggregate, and publish evidence without pretending the automation is the authority.

Workflow
Allowlisted sources → bounded ingestion → VibeScore reads → provenance-aware aggregates → public current/history/source views.
Evidence
The public product is live, and the repository defines the scheduled pipeline, source floor, scoring basis, release contract, and dated evidence surface.
Guardrail
The scorer basis stays labeled as scan, consensus, mixed, or unknown. Editorial approval and production promotion remain separate gates.
Supports
Evidence-backed monitoring, research automation, and provenance-aware public data products.
Open live system
VERIFIED WORKING PROOF

SignalChain approval-bound publishing agent

An agent should be able to prepare the work while the person retains authorship, destination control, final approval, and a usable receipt.

Workflow
Supplied idea → six editable formats → revision-bound renders → exact destinations and timing → immutable approval dossier → provider receipt.
Evidence
Ninety-four tests pass; shared Apple targets build; the simulator journey verifies all six formats, channel drafts, media bindings, and fail-closed approval controls.
Guardrail
No live Postiz connection, physical-iPad journey, external draft, scheduled post, or public URL receipt has been claimed.
Supports
Human-in-loop agents, approval systems, permission design, and accountable content operations.
ON-PAGE CASE / PRIVATE BUILD
WORKING PRODUCT PROOF

VibeScore CATs multimodal workflow

Model and provider orchestration becomes useful when every transformation can be inspected, withheld, or traced back to its declared input.

Workflow
Timed media moments → two emotional arcs → seam evaluation → bridge brief and target arc → optional provider asset → methodology receipt.
Evidence
The local Studio and API run end to end, with tests covering the request contract, analysis modes, policy withholding, provider jobs, idempotency, and receipts.
Guardrail
Every external generation requires explicit send confirmation. V0.1 is product proof, not evidence that a score predicts audience response.
Supports
Multimodal agentic workflows, evaluation design, provider boundaries, and inspectable decision support.
ON-PAGE CASE / PRIVATE BUILD

The stack is the practice

A connected working stack.

This is what “strategy that comes to fruition” looks like: one connected practice. Point it at your business — read the market, set the angle, test the work, deploy it, and run the room.

  1. 01
    Read the marketWorld Wide Vibes

    The emotional and cultural field around your category, made spatial and legible.

  2. 02
    Set the strategyAd+Vantage

    Audience, feeling, gap, and direction resolved into one portable Strategy Receipt.

  3. 03

    Compare declared intent with a bounded emotional reading before you spend—and keep the interpretation inspectable.

  4. 04
    Deploy the journeyAd+Venture

    Turn the campaign into a measured opt-in journey: activation, behavior, and value.

  5. 05
    Run the roomAd+Verb Studio

    Projects, artifacts, reports, and receipts held in one decision environment.

From the seed of an idea to a decision-ready build your team can evaluate and finish.

Selected surfaces

Current public surfaces.

Three current public surfaces you can inspect without taking my word for it.

The working field

The wider working field.

Every entry names the contribution, the evidence, the boundary, and the paid work it supports. Links open a public surface or an on-page proof record.

01

Flagship products

The clearest public expressions of the method and its commercial value.

  1. LIVE PRODUCT
    VibeScore

    A multi-model emotional feedback instrument that returns an eight-channel, versioned reading while keeping disagreement and limits visible.

    Role
    Founder; product strategy, evaluation design, model orchestration, interface, and implementation.
    Evidence
    Live four-model receipt, public proof page, and reproducible validation repository.
    Limit
    Interprets selected content and declared intent; it does not predict audience response or measure human worth.
    Supports
    Creative evaluation systems, AI product strategy, and model-comparison workflows.
    Open
  2. FRONT-END PROTOTYPE
    Ad+Vantage

    A guided creative-strategy room that turns audience, feeling, gap, and direction into a portable Strategy Receipt.

    Role
    Product strategy, workflow design, interface, and front-end implementation.
    Evidence
    Openable guided workflow that resolves audience, feeling, gap, and direction into a portable decision record.
    Limit
    Front-end product proof; no claim of completed client adoption or production integration yet.
    Supports
    AI-assisted strategy rooms, decision records, and cross-functional alignment.
    Open
  3. LIVE PRODUCT
    World Wide Vibes

    A spatial cultural-data product that makes the emotional character of world events visible without reducing them to a flat feed.

    Role
    Founder; product, evidence architecture, data pipeline, editorial system, interface, and release design.
    Evidence
    Live public product with dated source headlines, measured history, provenance labels, and scheduled ingestion and scoring.
    Limit
    Measures language in a defined news corpus; it does not measure what a population feels or predict events.
    Supports
    Evidence-backed monitoring, provenance-aware AI systems, and public data products.
    Open
02

Engine instruments

Focused tools that apply one emotional-feedback engine to distinct creative workflows.

  1. LIVE INSTRUMENT
    Image Analysis

    A multimodal workflow that reads campaign imagery, reports its emotional vector, and names the visual drivers behind the result.

    Role
    Product and interface design, multimodal orchestration, and implementation.
    Evidence
    Live instrument returning an emotional vector and named visual drivers for supplied campaign imagery.
    Limit
    A structured interpretation of selected creative, not a verdict or a performance forecast.
    Supports
    Multimodal review tools and creative preflight workflows.
    Open
  2. INSTRUMENT PROTOTYPE
    Story Composer

    A narrative tool that scores individual beats as they are written so a creator can compare the emerging arc with a declared emotional target.

    Role
    Product concept, narrative workflow, scoring integration, and interface.
    Evidence
    Openable beat-level editor comparing an emerging emotional arc with a declared target.
    Limit
    Instrument prototype; it does not predict story quality, preference, or commercial performance.
    Supports
    Human-in-loop creative tools and real-time decision support.
    Open
  3. WORKING PRODUCT PROOF
    VibeScore CATs

    A content-aware transition workflow that measures two timed media arcs, evaluates their seam, and produces an inspectable bridge brief and receipt.

    Role
    Product strategy, versioned contract, gateway, provider boundaries, browser studio, and validation design.
    Evidence
    Working local Studio and test suite cover timed-media analysis, seam evaluation, bridge generation, provider consent, and the final receipt.
    Limit
    V0.1 under validation; there is no claim that transition scores predict human preference or campaign outcomes.
    Supports
    Multimodal agentic workflows, evaluations, and consent-bound provider integrations.
    Read proof
03

Systems and ventures

Products that connect strategy, participation, artifacts, and decisions into larger systems.

  1. PROTOTYPE WORKSPACE
    Ad+Verb Studio

    A workspace that connects projects, artifacts, emotional reads, Bridge Reports, and receipts into one decision-making environment.

    Role
    Product architecture, workflow design, information model, interface, and implementation.
    Evidence
    Openable workspace proof connecting project context, artifacts, reports, emotional reads, and decision receipts.
    Limit
    Prototype workspace; client-team adoption and production operations are not yet proven.
    Supports
    Decision environments, context architecture, and AI workflow adoption.
    Open
  2. ACTIVE PILOT
    Ad+Venture

    A participation-planning system that turns campaigns into opt-in journeys with observable activation, behavior, completion, and value exchange.

    Role
    Venture concept, participation model, product strategy, interface, and implementation.
    Evidence
    Openable pilot surface mapping attention, opt-in, action, completion, and value exchange as separate stages.
    Limit
    Active pilot; the planning system does not yet prove campaign lift or participant demand.
    Supports
    Participation journeys, activation design, and measurement planning.
    Open
  3. VERIFIED WORKING PROOF
    SignalChain

    An approval-bound Apple workflow that turns one supplied idea into six editable campaign formats and an exact-destination delivery dossier.

    Role
    Product strategy, native architecture, approval contract, implementation, and QA.
    Evidence
    Ninety-four passing tests, shared Apple target builds, and a verified simulator journey with revision-bound media and exact-destination controls.
    Limit
    No live Postiz connection, physical-iPad exercise, or external publishing receipt yet.
    Supports
    Human-in-loop agentic deployment, permissions, approvals, and audit trails.
    Read proof
  4. ACTIVE COMPANY
    Ad+Verb Labs

    The company architecture that organizes one emotional-signal engine into strategy, participation, research, and creative workflow products.

    Role
    Founder; portfolio strategy, shared evidence architecture, product systems, brand, and GTM.
    Evidence
    Public company surface connecting live products, openable prototypes, research, and one shared receipt model.
    Limit
    A coherent product ecosystem and operating practice; breadth alone is not evidence of market demand.
    Supports
    Multi-product architecture, venture studios, and product-to-market systems.
    Open
04

Research and proof

Public methodology, reproducible tests, and evidence supporting the product thesis.

  1. PUBLIC RESEARCH
    Vibe Engine Validation

    An open validation suite publishing the scoring methodology, fixtures, benchmark results, limitations, and reproduction scripts behind the engine.

    Role
    Research framing, methodology, fixtures, benchmark design, and public documentation.
    Evidence
    Public repository with versioned methodology, benchmark fixtures, limitations, and reproduction scripts.
    Limit
    Tests reproducibility and scoring behavior; it is not human-outcome or production-performance validation.
    Supports
    Evaluation systems, model audits, reproducible research, and trust architecture.
    Open
OPERATING PROOF / 2017–2023

Brands that shipped with me in the room.

Louis Vuitton, Snap, Oculus, NextVR, Kid Cudi, NBA, Wimbledon, NFL, Live Nation, World of Dance, and AAA game launches — creative direction, AR and spatial media, and launch strategy inside real constraints.

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Contact

Start with the problem.

01 / Three days / $2,500

Workflow diagnostic.

One workflow truth map: where context breaks, which actions should be automated, what must stay human, and whether a build is justified.

Scope the diagnostic
02 / Two weeks / $7,500

Integration First Sprint.

One bounded workflow, a working decision-ready proof, evaluation plan, permission model, and a production handoff your team can use.

Scope a sprint
03 / Fractional + full-time

Put me in the room.

AI workflow deployment, product and GTM strategy, creative technology direction, and high-leverage special projects.

Discuss the role