Most AI consultants either can’t code or can’t lead. Scott Howard Swain does both – building systems your team will actually use six months later instead of abandoning.
The story
Most AI consultants fall into two camps: strategists who can’t code, or coders who can’t lead. Neither builds systems that last.
Scott Howard Swain spent 30 years writing code professionally and seven years training an AI chatbot to understand human needs. That combination matters more than you’d think.
The pattern we’re seeing: companies hire AI consultants who deliver sophisticated systems, then vanish. Six months later, the team is drowning in tools nobody understands. The automation breaks. The efficiency gains evaporate.
Scott’s approach inverts that model. He sits next to your developers while building workflows. Mentors while implementing. Codes alongside your team instead of handing off complexity and hoping it sticks.
His background in conflict resolution since 1990 shows up in unexpected ways – smoother adoption, less resistance, teams that actually embrace automation instead of fighting it. The cognitive empathy expertise means workflows designed around how people actually work, not how machines want them to work.
Here’s what nobody tells you about AI integration: the technical implementation is the easy part. The hard part is building something your team will actually use six months from now.
You need someone who can spot the inefficiencies your team has stopped seeing, write the code to fix them, and train your people to maintain what gets built.
That’s not most consultants. That’s a player-coach who multiplies your team’s abilities instead of creating dependencies.
