Hey, I'm Brad Groux 👋 - Join my Community

Co-founder and CEO of Digital Meld, host of the Start Small, Think Big podcast, and builder of AI systems that survive contact with real work. If you want to talk shop about agents, automation, PRDs, SOPs, and shipping useful things, Join my Community.

Visit bradgroux.com to book me for a keynote, workshop, or panel, and see my upcoming appearances at where.bradgroux.com.

• 🛠️ AI Dev Days: Public research and education companion to the AI-Native Operating Framework, with reusable events, curriculum, labs, and tool-specific tracks.

• 🧠 BrainMeld: Multi-assistant knowledge orchestration for local workspaces and Obsidian vaults, with validation, review queues, conflict prevention, citation anchors, and audit trails.

• 🐝 Buzz: Self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents build together on a relay you own. I’m a passionate user, evangelist, educator, and contributor.

• 🤝 DealMeld: Multi-tenant CRM and digital sales room with deal pipelines, secure collaboration, agent-ready APIs, and AI-assisted company intelligence.

• 🖊️ dm-annotate: Native, local-only macOS screen annotation tool for demos, classes, design reviews, screen shares, and recordings.

• 📝 Minimal Transcript: Minimalist Chrome extension that downloads YouTube transcripts in one click — no popups, no ads, no accounts — clean and timestamped, ready to drop into Codex, Muse, OpenClaw, or Buzz.

• 🧩 Open Framework Commons: Shared principles and boundaries for the Open Framework Ecosystem.

  • 🧭 AI-Native Operating Framework: Open business operating framework and method for defining, documenting, applying, and improving the standards and procedures through which people and AI perform work.
  • 🎯 Focus Operating Framework: Open individual operating framework for directing attention and preserving continuity.
  • 🌱 Influence Operating Framework: Open business operating framework for building meaningful influence through useful contribution, trusted relationships, accountable judgment, and continuous learning.
  • 🔗 Relationship Operating Framework: Open documentation framework for stewarding real relationships across time while preserving continuity, commitments, consent, boundaries, and human responsibility.

• 🚀 sstb.ai: Public home for the Start Small, Think Big operator community, events, AI Operator Lab, training, and advisory.

• 🎙️ Start Small, Think Big: Conversations with builders and operators about the messy middle of turning ideas into useful systems.

• 🔲 Veritas Kanban: Local-first task management and orchestration for people working with AI agents, with a visual board plus optional CLI, MCP, workflows, and governance. It now ships as a signed and notarized macOS app, too.

25+ years in enterprise IT. I went from managing infrastructure to architecting platforms at scale and building AI-powered products and tailored systems. I co-founded Digital Meld to help businesses stop drowning in manual processes and use AI and automation where it actually moves the needle: operations, data pipelines, decision support, and business intelligence.

• 🦞 OpenClaw: Open-source personal AI assistant and agent runtime. I served as the Microsoft maintainer and liaison, building Teams and Microsoft ecosystem integrations for real-world deployments.

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Swift, Rust, C#/.NET, SQL
• Applications: React, Vite, Astro, Mantine, Tailwind CSS, SwiftUI, Electron
• Cloud and data: Node.js, Cloudflare Workers/Pages/D1, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Docker
• Microsoft: Azure, Microsoft 365/Graph, Power Platform/Dataverse
• AI systems: LLMs, agent orchestration, MCP, RAG/knowledge graphs, computer vision

• 💜 Volunteer with The Longhorn Project at NASA JSC and Elijah Rising
• 🎓 Student mentor to hundreds of students from:
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Houston
  • Rice University
  • University of St. Thomas
  • Blinn College
  • and more
• 🌎 Supporting member of the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston
• 🎤 Member of the National Speakers Association Houston
  • 🗣️ Speaker on AI for business, agent workflows, and practical automation

Interviews, podcasts, panels, and news appearances.

• GitHub, August 27, 2026: OpenClaw Went Viral. Meet the Maintainers Building and Securing It.
• Burn The Map Podcast, July 30, 2026: Burn The Map: Turning AI Into Operational Leverage w/ Brad Groux
• Brad Groux, July 28, 2026: Personal AI in 2026: OpenClaw + Codex Developer Workflow - Own your operating model; rent your tools
• GitHub, July 17, 2026: Rubber Duck Thursday with OpenClaw's Brad Groux and @acolombiadev 🦞
• WorkModern, March 31, 2026: He Gave OpenClaw Access to Teams - Brad Groux on the Enterprise AI Integration Changing Everything
• Brad Groux, March 5, 2026: You’re Not Ready for AI Agents Until You Fix Your Workflow and Structure | OpenClaw Use Cases
• Brad Groux, February 19, 2026: How Personal AI Agents Drive 10x Productivity (You're Doing It Wrong) - OpenClaw, Claude, and Codex
• Automation Testing with Joe Colantonio, January 8, 2026: A Practical AI Guide for Business Leaders with Brad Groux
• Vision Pros Live, December 1, 2025: AI for Smarter Business: Vision and Automation with Brad Groux | Session 1
• UnHacked Podcast, September 8, 2025: UnHacked#58: The AI Advantage: How Small Businesses Can Compete Like the Big Guys w/ Brad Groux
• Future Factory, June 24, 2025: Empowering Boldness in Business | Brad Groux
• Digital Meld, June 20, 2025: AI Is the New Space Race: Energy, Ethics, and Global Impact - from WAC Houston | Episode #0015
• Universal Podcast Network, June 19, 2025: Book 101 Review in its Fifth season, featuring Brad Groux as my guest.
• Microsoft Reactor, May 14, 2025: AI Agents Vlog - Brad Groux - Digital Meld, Inc.
• BBC World News, October 25, 2012: Brad Groux Discusses Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface On BBC World News - 2012/10/25

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