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North America and Latin America · Based in Panama
Everyone is selling you AI.
Nobody is accountable.
Businesses without an IT department are now making AI decisions every week: what to use, what to automate, what to keep private. I help owners make those decisions safely, then build the ones worth building. Twenty years of running technology in regulated industries stands behind the advice.
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Get the free AI resourcesThe Approach
Assess first. Then build.
- Security and governance judgment first, tools second
- A paid assessment before any build, so decisions come before spend
- I build what we decide on. Advice alone is not the job.
- Plain language. No hype, no jargon, no AI theater.
- You own your accounts, your data, and your vendors
- Fundamentals that survive the model changes arriving every quarter
Who This Is For
You run a business without an IT department. One of these sounds like you:
- You keep hearing about AI and feel behind. You want to learn to use it yourself.
- You want AI working inside the business, and you are not sure where to start.
- Your website is dead, or nobody owns your systems, and the technology just needs to work.
- You are already using AI, and nobody has checked whether it is safe.
Why Scott Steele
Judgment first. Credentials behind it.
Twenty Years in Regulated Industries
I ran infrastructure, security, and governance for firms answering to financial regulators, across North America, Europe, and Australia on a $1M+ annual budget. That is where the safety judgment comes from.
Hands On With AI Since 2023
I have worked with these tools since their public release. Watching every version arrive is what buys perspective on what has changed and what keeps changing.
Daily Use for the Last Year
I use these tools every working day, on real business problems, including the ones inside my own company. Currency comes from practice, and the practice is recent.
13 Vendor Certifications
Ten from Anthropic, three from OpenAI. They corroborate the experience. They are not the resume; the twenty years are.
Start where you are.
Three ways in. Every one ends in the same conversation.
Door 01 · Leads
AI Adoption for Business
For businesses deciding what to do about AI, or already using it badly. A paid assessment maps where AI helps you, where it exposes you, and what to do first. Then I build what we agree is worth building.
- Paid assessment before any build
- Security and privacy judgment built in
- Implementation done for you, not just advised
Door 02 · The On-Ramp
AI Training
For owners who would rather learn to run it themselves. Weekly guided sessions, one hour at a time, hands on from the first session, building a real thing your business actually needs.
- One hour a week, hands on from session one
- Built around your real work, not exercises
- Offered worldwide
Door 03 · The Foundation
Business Technology
Websites, analytics, business systems, and vendor accountability. The foundation the rest stands on. This is business consulting, not device support: no laptop, desktop, or printer repair.
- Websites built, rebuilt, or rescued
- Search and analytics set up properly
- Systems and SOPs someone finally owns
No prices are listed on this site because I quote one fixed price after we talk. Panama, Latin America, and North America are different markets, and a number that is fair in one is wrong in the others. Every door starts with the same discovery call.
Common Questions
Questions Answered
Who You're Working With
Scott Steele · AI Consultant
Twenty years designing, stabilizing, and running technology in regulated industries: finance, reinsurance, investment management. I managed multimillion-dollar infrastructure, led recovery through real incidents, and built governance that financial regulators accepted. I have been hands on with AI tools since their 2023 release, and in daily working use for the last year.
The through line is accountability. Businesses without an IT department are now making AI decisions, and nobody is answerable for whether those decisions are safe. That is the job I take on.
Not sure which door is yours?
Book a discovery call. It is a plain conversation about your business and what you are trying to do. Thirty minutes, no pitch. If one of the three doors fits, I will tell you which one and quote one fixed price. If none of them fits, I will tell you that too.