Matt Colin
I help people do more of what they love by automating what they don't.
Three moves. Same playbook every time. The job isn't to dazzle with AI. The job is to find the bottleneck and remove it.
Sit with the team. Watch the work. Find the hand-off where the business is losing days, not the tool that looks the most outdated.
Ship the system, not a slide deck. Boring infrastructure first, then the magic. Production from day one, even when day one is small.
Document, train the operator who owns it, then leave. The win is the system running without me. Not me running the system.
Where I've operated
I spent twenty years inside enterprise systems that move money, people, and product. I ran innovation and automation programs at Global Payments. I rebuilt servicing programs at Heartland. I led engineering as a CTO before that.
What I do now is the same thing I always did: find the thing slowing the business down, then build the system that fixes it. The difference is the toolkit. AI didn't change what slows businesses down. It changed what's possible to fix.
Not prototypes. Not decks. Things that actually run.
Read the case studiesFour shipped systems. One playbook: find what's slowing the business down, then build the thing that fixes it.
Personalized, voice-narrated stories generated on demand. Built solo, end-to-end, in production.
View case study →Architected and shipped a production AI coaching system. Bootstrapped, no venture capital.
View case study →Internal innovation pipeline at Global Payments. 500+ contributors, ideas to shipped systems.
View case study →Compressed merchant onboarding from a multi-day manual workflow to a same-session decision.
View case study →What I do
The toolkit changed. The job didn't. Find the bottleneck. Build the fix. Hand it off so it runs without me.
Where the business is losing days. Mapped, ranked by where the days are leaking, and scoped to a real fix.
Agents and workflows that ship. Not prototypes. Not decks. Things that actually run.
Train the person who owns the system once I leave. The win is it running without me.
Senior hire inside the room for a quarter or two. Then gone, with the system left running.
Where I think out loud. LinkedIn for posts, YouTube for longer breakdowns, Loom for working through specific problems.
The companies that get value from AI in 2026 are not the ones with the most models. They're the ones who figured out where the hand-offs break.
Read on LinkedIn →Want to talk? Pick a way. DM me. What's slowing your business down?
