A.J. Otranto

Buildingwith AI.

Most teams don't need another AI strategy deck or another chatbot. They need small, specific tools that fit how they actually work. That's what I build.

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I help people figure out where AI actually fits into what they're doing.

I spent the last decade in advertising. I know what enterprise systems look like from the inside, how work moves across platforms, and what breaks when you scale. I've launched products both at brands and inside agencies. I've also started a few businesses of my own, which means I spend most of my time surrounded by entrepreneurs and engineers trying to build real things.

Now I'm taking everything I've learned and building my own products. Not just for fun (although it is fun), but because I kept running into the same gaps. Tools that are too expensive for mid-size businesses. Dashboards that don't match what teams actually need. Status docs that nobody wants to maintain. So I started building alternatives.

What I Do

Build & Advise

I partner with teams to figure out where AI can actually help. Not consulting from a decade ago. I'm building every single day, which means the advice comes from what's working right now, not what worked in 2019.

Let's build something

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Create & Explore

If you only need one feature from Monday.com, you can build something custom. I build side projects that replicate SaaS tools in ways that actually fit how I work. The creativity of building things is what drives all of this.

Built it for myself first

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The Platform

A growing platform of tools I've built for myself and a handful of consulting clients I work with on the side. Each one came from a real gap I kept running into. Still evolving, still figuring out the shape of it as I go. If something here looks useful to you, reach out and I'll get you set up.

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AEO Audit

Answer Engine Optimization

For marketing teams: see if you show up when people ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity about your category, and what to do if you don't.

This came from my advertising background and understanding how AEO actually works. I saw how expensive the existing tools are. Products like Profound are great for Fortune 500 companies that need super in-depth reporting, but for the mid-size businesses I know personally, there's a much simpler solution that gets them most of the way there. So I built one.

  • Multi-engine citation testing
  • Competitor benchmarking
  • Weighted AEO scoring (A+ to F)
  • Scheduled monitoring & trend tracking

Status Doc

Real-Time Project Tracker

For project leads: one place for tasks, meeting notes, timelines, and the exec recap, instead of stitching together five tools.

My entire career, I have never found one tool that handles status tracking the way teams actually need it. Not just tasks, but meeting notes, timelines, visualizations, all in one place. Every tool I tried was either too simple or required a PhD to configure. So I built what I actually wanted to use.

  • Table, Kanban, Calendar, Timeline views
  • AI chat assistant & auto-recaps
  • Real-time collaboration & presence
  • Executive summary PDF export

Looker Mock

AI Dashboard Generator

For data teams: turn a written brief into a clickable dashboard mock in minutes, not the usual three-day back-and-forth.

There's a gap between what data teams deliver and what stakeholders actually want to see. This tool lets you mock up a Looker dashboard from a brief in minutes, not days. I think there's a future where this is more AI-native, but for right now, this bridges that gap.

  • Brief parsing via Claude AI
  • 23+ chart types (bar, line, pie, funnel, geo, etc.)
  • Auto-generated filters & metrics
  • Client-ready in minutes, not days

New Business Intel

AI Prospect Research

For sales / new business teams: a full prospect dossier (financials, SWOT, competitor map, pitch angle) before your first call.

Built originally for a private client who needed prospect research at scale. Turns out a lot of teams spend hours manually researching companies before a pitch. This automates the entire dossier, from financials to competitor mapping to pitch strategy.

  • 17 research sections auto-generated
  • SWOT analysis & competitor mapping
  • Go/No-Go pitch recommendation
  • AI chat for strategic Q&A
AEO Audit
Status Doc
Looker Mock
New Business Intel

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