You have the ideas.I build the machine.

I'm Brian Bautista, a Creative Technologist and Data Scientist at Trusted Media Brands, based in Mesa, Arizona. I build AI tools and automation on Google Cloud. Before that I spent thirteen years at GoDaddy, moving from server administration and website security into art direction and creative leadership. I have run the servers and I have run the creative team.

It is someone who works out where AI actually belongs in a company's day-to-day work and then builds it, instead of demoing what AI could do in theory. That is the job I do, whatever it gets called: my title is Creative Technologist and Data Scientist, and the same work is advertised as AI Engineer, AI Creative Strategist, or Forward Deployed Engineer. In practice it means tools creative teams use every day, like the automation that carries thirteen magazine brands from a dropped file to a published cover. I was a Senior Art Director before this, which is why the tools land with the people who have to use them.

I write it. The AI builds on this site (the magazine cover pipeline, StockPull, the analytics dashboard, the OneLapse timelapse app, the Starrd video generator, the AI art print pipeline) were designed, built, and deployed by me, several of them end to end as independent products. I also run the creative team behind every Trusted Media Brands title, so I know what a team will and won't actually adopt.

ChatGPT gives you an answer once. I build the system that does it every day with nobody driving: error handling, an approval step where a human should sign off, a cost you can predict, and an owner when it breaks. Every AI system on this site is running in production with real users, not sitting on a laptop as a demo.

It is the half of the job that happens before anything gets built: framing the decision, finding where the data really lives, and settling what "better" means as a number. In practice that has meant a CLIP visual-scoring layer that ranks StockPull's image search on what a photo looks like rather than how it was tagged, and replacing a paid Supermetrics subscription with BigQuery and dbt so the team owns its own numbers. A model earns its place or it does not ship.

Yes. I'm open to full-time roles (Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative Technologist, AI Engineer, AI Creative Strategist) and I take on project work for small businesses and teams alongside it. The fastest way to reach me is [email protected].

Both. Alongside the internal AI tools I build at Trusted Media Brands, I take on project work for small businesses: automating the process that eats someone's whole week, building the internal tool nobody sells off the shelf, and brand, video, and photography work. I have been making brand films for local business owners since 2019. The fastest way to start is [email protected].

I price work per project, and quote it after a conversation about what the project involves. There is no public rate card, because the work ranges from a Google Cloud automation to a brand film and those are not the same job. The way to start is to email [email protected] and say what you need done.

Google Cloud is the center of it: Eventarc, Cloud Run, and Cloud Storage for the automation, BigQuery and dbt for the data, and Python for the analysis. On top of that, Next.js, TypeScript, React, Supabase, and Stripe for the products, and Claude, GPT, CLIP, and a rotating set of image and video models for the AI. I work in the Adobe stack too, from the art-direction half of my career.