Matt Colin

Matt Colin

AI Automation
For Your Business

I help people do more of what they love by automating what they don't.

Work with meSee my work
20+
years inside enterprise systems
500+
contributors used platforms I built
$1M+
saved annually at Global Payments
20+
businesses served

How I work

Three moves. Same playbook every time. The job isn't to dazzle with AI. The job is to find the bottleneck and remove it.

01

Diagnose

Sit with the team. Watch the work. Find the hand-off where the business is losing days, not the tool that looks the most outdated.

02

Build

Ship the system, not a slide deck. Boring infrastructure first, then the magic. Production from day one, even when day one is small.

03

Hand off

Document, train the operator who owns it, then leave. The win is the system running without me. Not me running the system.

Where I've operated

Global PaymentsHeartland Payment SystemsSamtecStreet ModaStorytime for Toddlers

About

I spent twenty years inside enterprise systems that move money, people, and product. I ran innovation and automation programs at Global Payments. I rebuilt servicing programs at Heartland. I led engineering as a CTO before that.

What I do now is the same thing I always did: find the thing slowing the business down, then build the system that fixes it. The difference is the toolkit. AI didn't change what slows businesses down. It changed what's possible to fix.

Not prototypes. Not decks. Things that actually run.

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Selected work

Four shipped systems. One playbook: find what's slowing the business down, then build the thing that fixes it.

Storytime · product shot

Storytime for Toddlers

Bedtime story in under 60 seconds

Personalized, voice-narrated stories generated on demand. Built solo, end-to-end, in production.

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AI coaching platform · system diagram

AI Coaching Platform v1

Featured in Forbes, Inc., BBC

Architected and shipped a production AI coaching system. Bootstrapped, no venture capital.

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I2I · before / after diagram

I2I · Ideation to Implementation

$1M+ saved annually

Internal innovation pipeline at Global Payments. 500+ contributors, ideas to shipped systems.

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Boarding & underwriting · workflow

Instant Boarding, Underwriting & TID

Days to minutes

Compressed merchant onboarding from a multi-day manual workflow to a same-session decision.

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What I do

AI process engineering for businesses that need things to actually run.

The toolkit changed. The job didn't. Find the bottleneck. Build the fix. Hand it off so it runs without me.

  • Workflow audits
  • AI agent design
  • Production builds
  • Operator handoff

Process diagnosis

Where the business is losing days. Mapped, ranked by where the days are leaking, and scoped to a real fix.

Production AI builds

Agents and workflows that ship. Not prototypes. Not decks. Things that actually run.

Operator coaching

Train the person who owns the system once I leave. The win is it running without me.

Fractional engagements

Senior hire inside the room for a quarter or two. Then gone, with the system left running.

Latest

Where I think out loud. LinkedIn for posts, YouTube for longer breakdowns, Loom for working through specific problems.

WritingArticle

Everyone automates the busywork. I automate the judgment underneath it.

Tools automate the searching and the sending. The hard part they skip is the judgment: which lead is worth your time, what earns a reply. That's the part I encode.

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LinkedInRecent post

Most "AI strategy" decks describe a tool. The ones that work describe a workflow.

The companies that get value from AI in 2026 are not the ones with the most models. They're the ones who figured out where the hand-offs break.

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YouTubeLatest video
Video thumbnail · 12:04

How I'd rebuild merchant boarding with one engineer and Claude.

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More on LinkedIn and YouTube.

Get in touch

Want to talk? Pick a way. DM me. What's slowing your business down?

matt@mattcolin.comLinkedInBook a call

Or download my resume.