Bringing AI to the 33 million businesses that built America's economy
They say AI will kill small business. I'm building the infrastructure to prove the opposite — that AI is how Main Street survives, competes, and wins.
The biggest technology shift in a generation is about to wash over 33 million businesses. Most don't have a CTO, a strategy team, or a vendor they trust to walk them through it.
Congress passed the AI for Main Street Act with near-unanimous bipartisan support. The federal government recognized what anyone paying attention already knew — small businesses aren't being left behind by accident. They're being left behind by design. Enterprise AI was built for enterprise budgets, enterprise teams, and enterprise patience.
The gap isn't access to AI. It's access to translation — someone who can turn enterprise technology into Tuesday-morning workflows for a landscaping company. Someone who can sit across from a plumber, a florist, or a second-generation hardware store owner and say: here's what this actually does for you, here's how you start today, and here's why your competitor is already doing it.
That's what's missing. That's what I'm building.
AI is coming to replace us
Every headline tells small business owners the same thing: AI will eliminate their jobs, their companies, their livelihoods. The fear is real. But the narrative is wrong. AI isn't a pink slip — it's the single greatest opportunity small businesses have had in a generation to compete with companies ten times their size.
The counterculture nobody's built
Every major tech company is playing defense on the AI narrative. Not one credible voice with enterprise experience is standing up and saying "here's how this actually helps the little guy — and here's the infrastructure to prove it." That's the gap. That's the movement. That's what I'm building.
The connective tissue between enterprise AI and Main Street
Not another consulting deck. Infrastructure — the training programs, the community partnerships, and the documented playbooks that make AI adoption real for businesses that don't have a tech department.
ExecAcademy.ai
AI leadership training for executives and teams. Hands-on workshops, coaching, and keynotes that take leaders from AI-curious to AI-fluent. Alumni and clients from Salesforce, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Harvard, and Walmart.
Community AI Literacy Programs
Partnering with Chambers of Commerce and Small Business Development Centers to deliver AI literacy programs in communities across America. Practical, working sessions that take a skeptical business owner to their first real AI implementation — before they leave the room.
The Main Street AI Movement
A strategic counterculture to the AI doom narrative. Positioning AI not as a threat to small business but as the tool that restores leverage to local operators. Content, advocacy, and infrastructure designed to ensure the businesses that power local economies lead the AI era — not get left behind by it.
"Marcus is one of those rare people you meet in life that can see the future as bright as day and bring it to life in a way that inspires everyone around them."Dr. Natalie Petouhoff — Author, Speaker & AI Strategist
I've been in the room.
Twenty-five years building, launching, and sometimes losing companies in the intersection of technology and storytelling. I'm not a consultant who just read about AI. I'm an operator who's used these tools in the trenches — and trained others to do the same.
Built & Led
Advised & Consulted
The building starts now.
The work is already underway. Workshops delivered. Communities engaged. Infrastructure being built — city by city, business by business.
If you're a company, a Chamber, a policymaker, or a community leader who sees what I see — let's talk about what's possible.
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