Daniel J. Stott
Operations, technology, and AI adoption leader. I find where work is stuck, build the system that fixes it, and stay through implementation.
Who I Am
Over 20 years working across enterprise technology, retail, live entertainment, and consulting. It's a career that looks unusual on paper and makes complete sense in practice. The pattern is the same everywhere: organizations have problems they've been solving the wrong way, and I'm good at diagnosing that before anyone builds anything.
At Apple I helped launch a customer support channel that scaled to 8,000 advisors worldwide. Through Stottly I built an AI operations platform that returned 9,000 management hours a year to a 12-location restaurant group. The work looks different every time. The approach doesn't: observe before designing, understand before building, and measure what actually changed. I do my best work with organizations that need someone who can move across strategy and execution without losing either.
A conservative estimate: 500+ AppleCare advisors directly coached, plus performers, crew, and students led and mentored across 30+ theatrical productions and four years of teaching at SCCC, plus countless retail teams managed across many organizations.
Building Through Stottly Enterprises
Since founding Stottly Enterprises in 2025, I've turned the patterns I kept seeing in client work into six ventures, each running as its own brand with its own site and team focus, backed by Stottly Enterprises.
Agentic Forge
A business operating system built to replace the separate tools companies stitch together for project management, communication, documents, and AI, with one coordinated workspace. Preview build live now; full release still being shaped.
Explore Agentic Forge →StottifAI
My AI adoption and product venture, built to make artificial intelligence practical for small and mid-sized businesses. AI opportunity assessments, custom roadmapping, proof-of-concept builds, custom app development, local model deployment, and generative media pipelines.
Explore StottifAI →Gurilla Studios
My full-service media studio based in Davenport, FL. Brand, content, production, and distribution, under one roof, for clients who need their story told with polish.
Explore Gurilla Studios →CartCurios
My product curation venture, publishing research-backed roundups of top-rated products across home, tech, kitchen, lifestyle, outdoor, and beauty. Runs as its own brand, TopRated Picks, at cartcurios.com.
Visit CartCurios →CryptoifAI
An autonomous crypto trading system built inside StottifAI, pairing pattern-trained models with a disciplined, always-on risk layer. Live and trading real funds since February 2026, still free to use. The v2 release, shipped this July, made the bot's reasoning visible in real time, so users can see whether it's watching, training, or paused instead of guessing.
Explore CryptoifAI →D.E.E.D.S.
My first App Store app: a private personal operating system bringing tasks, goals, health, relationships, business, calendar, and reflection into one calm command center. Currently in alpha ahead of a public launch this August.
Explore D.E.E.D.S. →How I Work
Every organization already holds the knowledge it needs. The work is uncovering it before designing anything.
Observe
Watch how work actually happens before assuming what the problem is.
Listen
Talk to the people doing the work, not just the people managing it.
Question
Ask until a real pattern emerges rather than a convenient one.
Understand
Confirm the real problem before proposing any solution.
Build
Design and implement only once the problem is the right one.
Iterate
Adjust based on what actually happens, not what the plan assumed would happen.
Core Capabilities
Program & Project Management
Leading initiatives from discovery through implementation and adoption.
AI Implementation & Adoption
Applying AI as a practical tool for discovery, iteration, and delivery.
Operational Modernization
Redesigning workflows and systems people actually use.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Aligning stakeholders across engineering, ops, and the field.
Executive Communication
Translating complexity into clear decisions for leadership.
Process Improvement
Measurable gains in efficiency, consistency, and quality.
Strategic Planning & Budgeting
Setting direction, and the financial plan to actually get there.
Change Management
Guiding teams through transitions without losing momentum or trust.
Team Development & Coaching
Building capability in the people who carry the work forward.
Restaurant Operations Platform
Turning 12 locations of paper-based operations into one digital, bilingual system.
The Problem
The franchise relied on paper-based operational books and manual reporting across 12 locations. Managers completed food safety and compliance tasks inconsistently, and information was hard to share across locations. Communication was fragmented between English-only and Spanish-only managers, and administrative work kept managers in the office instead of on the floor.
Discovery
Rather than gathering requirements from a conference room, I spent a week observing four managers in their normal environment, interviewed every manager who had time to speak with me, and mapped the existing paper workflows. I designed the platform around how managers already worked, instead of forcing them into a new process.
- Standardized Checklists. Consistent daily operational, food safety, and compliance workflows across every location.
- Centralized Communication. One system for managers instead of fragmented, location-by-location updates.
- Written Translation. Manager-to-manager messages in the platform were translated between English and Spanish in real time, so language was never a barrier to consistency.
- Live Spoken Translation. A built-in speech translation tool let managers communicate on the spot with team members or customers speaking a different language, no separate app or delay required.
- Reduced Admin Burden. Less time on paperwork, more time on the floor coaching employees and serving guests.
Results
The math behind the headline number: roughly 50 managers × 30 minutes saved per day, conservatively, × 360 operating days a year ≈ 9,000 hours returned annually. Beyond the numbers: managers spend more time on the floor with employees and customers.