Player-coaches ship AI that sticks. Scott codes with your devs, builds real workflows, and transfers capability so your team owns it—not some consultant who vanishes.
The story
You don’t need “an AI rockstar.”
You need a player-coach who can actually ship.
At Creative Robot, every time we’re brought in to “get AI moving,” we see the same pattern:
– When AI is owned only by strategy, nothing ships.
– When AI is owned only by coders, it doesn’t stick with the business.
– When AI is owned by a player-coach, the whole team levels up.
That’s where Scott Howard Swain lives.
Scott has 30 years in tech and still writes production-grade code. He doesn’t just *talk* AI; he sits with your devs, opens an editor, and builds:
– AI workflows wired to your real systems, not slideware
– Automations that actually reduce manual work [instead of creating new busywork]
– Guardrails so leaders can trust what’s deployed
Clinical version: Scott integrates human-centered AI into existing teams and systems, then mentors your developers so the capability becomes internal, not dependent on a vendor.
Street version: he makes sure AI isn’t some fragile pet project that dies the minute the consultant leaves.
If you want AI that your leaders can trust and your developers can own, get a player-coach—someone like Scott who can both architect and code, and who measures success by how much *your* team grows.
