I'm a strategist, leader and builder interested in data, analytics and AI..
Applied Intelligence
My vision. My direction. My prompts. Unfortunately most of the troubleshooting was mine, too. But most of the work was completed by AI.
- GabrielBairdAI.com - AI projects & Custom GPTs
- Formerly Inconceivable - AI notes
- Cleveland Cup - tech-enabled golf league
About Me
I’m most excited by what AI is making possible—for individuals, teams, and organizations reimagining how we think, work, and decide.
My career began in journalism, where I wrote over 1,000 stories for major metropolitan newsrooms. That training—asking sharp questions, finding the story, and communicating with clarity—still shapes how I lead, build, and solve.
I’ve led data and analytics initiatives across real estate, finance, and tech, helping companies modernize their intelligence infrastructure. Today, I’m Business Intelligence Manager at IRG Realty Advisors, where I lead a team of data engineers and developer-analysts. We’ve built a cloud-native data lake and warehouse, wrapped a self-service analytics portal in a custom web interface, and redefined how insight flows through the business.
Outside of work, I run a tech-enabled recreational golf league—the unlikely sandbox that lured me from analytics into AI. As Director of Data, Analytics & AI for the league, I began with Tableau dashboards, then expanded into a full-stack architecture using BigQuery, Python, and OpenAI tools. I’ve built a natural language–to–SQL chatbot, a generative document summarizer, and a modular framework for spinning up agentic AI tools—for running the league and othe use cases.