Grant Kurz
Founder & CEO @ DeepStation
About
Grant Kurz is the Founder of DeepStation, a global AI community of industry professionals with experience from leading organizations such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Coinbase, Bloomberg, Cisco, crewAI, and many more. DeepStation is an official OpenAI Academy Launch Partner, and has provided over 100 presentations and workshops on AI with a mission to accelerate AI education globally so the world can stay ahead of the AI wave. The entrepreneur also provides consulting services, spearheading AI applications & software development projects for clients. Grant created the AI system of an AI Call Center for one such client, which could talk on the phone with leads to schedule meetings and provide more information about the company, as well as message via SMS in a similar way. The client’s AI Call Center accomplished a deal with one of the top USA political campaigns for conversational AI to handle campaign donations during Grant’s contract. Grant has been a software engineer for over 10 years and is a serial entrepreneur. Before DeepStation, the engineer automated factories for companies such as Coca-Cola and Stanley Black and Decker during his tenure at Syscon International. He implemented Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems across many factory machines so factory floor workers can more easily access machine manuals. The founder previously built a global crypto analytics company by the name of CryptoScenarios, which was acquired by CoinLedger.io after achieving over 400,000 active users. Additionally, Grant partnered with Bitwage to develop Bitcoin Dollar Cost Average, which was featured in Forbes, Coindesk, Cointelegraph, and Yahoo Finance.
United States
Miami
Computer Software
Reliability, Technical Engineering, HTML, Databases, Next.js, JavaScript, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), React.js, TypeScript, Python (Programming Language)
Experience

Founder & CEO
Miami, FL
• OpenAI Academy's first technical AI workshop hosted by DeepStation • Hosted Google Cloud Hackathon bringing Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin to speak at his first Miami tech community event • Partnered with Nova Southeastern University as a technology partner • Hosted the first Florida AI Summit in Miami with speakers from Microsoft, Red Hat, OpenAI, and more! • Created partnership with Ramaiah Institute of Technology in India, hosting multiple community workshops and sessions with over 450 attendees for the first session • Grew to over 4,000 members globally • Launched the leading AI/ML community in Miami, providing AI education in the form of workshops and presentations, with titles such as “Measuring and Benchmarking LLM Capabilities” and “Unleashing the Power of Azure AI Studio.” • Featured speakers with experience on AI/ML from prominent companies such as Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Coinbase, Bloomberg, BMW, NearAI, Vanguard, Oracle, crewAI, Visa, IBM, Techolution, Cisco, and more. • Developed a partnership with Miami Dade College, the largest college by student body in the USA, where DeepStation is now hosted at the AI Center of Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus. • Initiated the 1st Quantum Conference in Miami called “Quantum and the Future of Computing Conference” where leading Quantum & AI Scientists from Paris, Thailand, India, California, etc., flew in to speak.

Chief Executive Officer
United States
• Developed an AI agent for phone calling and texting leads for a startup client on contract, which was then picked up by one of the top political campaigns in the USA. • Created applications seen by over 1.2 million people globally, used by over 400,000 active users, and featured in several well-known organizations such as Forbes, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Nasdaq, and Yahoo Finance. • Launched Crypto Scenarios, which was acquired by CoinLedger, providing users in approximately 190 countries the ability to understand one's portfolio utilizing multiple pricing and market cap scenarios. (Acquired Link: https://coinledger.io/blog/coinledger-acquires-cryptoscenarios) • In January of 2020, Consultabit and Bitwage launched the Bitcoin Dollar Cost Average Calculator. The tool has since been used around the world in over 140 countries.

Senior AI Engineer
• Created an AI powered text messaging and phone call product to automate sales operations for a startup client, essentially acting as a system to ask and answer intake questions, qualify leads, perform follow ups, and schedule clients for meetings, demos, etc. - all in the form of natural conversation • Automated call centers and sales operations over SMS and phone calls with LLMs • Built with Python, FastAPI, ChatGPT, Claude, and Bland AI • Used LLMs to analyze phone call transcripts and SMS messages to determine lead intent for opting out, scheduling meetings, sending payment confirmations, etc

Senior Software Engineer
• Automated factories and implemented AI for companies such as Coca Cola and Stanley Black & Decker, as well as created software to gather real-time data analytics from factory machines and scheduling machine job tasks • Created a large language model (LLM) AI agent utilizing a vector database to easily interface with large amounts of factory machine manuals and documents. • Integrated RAG (retrieval augmented generation) system with Python, NextJS, FastAPI, and ChromaDB to gain insights from large factory machine manuals for plant floor workers across the United States • Trained software engineering colleagues on AI on topics ranging from vector embeddings, vector dabases, RAG systems, prompting best practices, risk & compliance, and onboarding to GitHub Copilot • Solved numerous problems such as moving all developer task data from a previous task management system to Monday.com with GraphQL • Generated an over 100x increase in the number of factory machines connected to Syscon International through Django optimization

Founder & Full Stack Software Engineer (Acquired by CoinLedger.io)
Miami, Florida, United States
Acquired by CoinLedger - (https://coinledger.io/blog/coinledger-acquires-cryptoscenarios) The leading portfolio tracker & market cap comparison tool in the blockchain industry. CryptoScenarios accumulated over 1.2 million views, and over 400,000 active users according to Google Analytics. In 2021, the blockchain tool at one point received 50,000 users per month

Investor and World Traveler
- Invested in various micro-cap companies in my investment portfolio - Built out several applications during my time as a full-time investor - Lived in Seoul, South Korea for 3 years during this time - Lived in Tokyo, Japan for 6 months

Director's Assistant
Orange County, Ca.
Attend board meetings with prominent partners from Ernst & Young, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Grant Thornton, RSM, Haskell & White, Moss Adams, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and additional organizations Reach out to Board Members, CEOs, CFOs, accountants, lawyers, and other related positions to join over 500+ business leaders for our Annual SEC Conference Perform various functions such as being a liason between CCRG's director and board members, Constant Contact email marketing, clientele emailing, vendor price negotiating, website content production, and Grant proposal writing

Marketing
Silicon Valley, Ca.
Developed Bitwage’s alpha launch press-release titled "4 Benefits of Using Bitcoin Payroll" which was disseminated to Crypto Biz Magazine, blockchain news organizations, as well as Reddit. The Reddit launch post received a 95% upvote rate. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2bbdhq/bitwage_announces_release_of_first_formal_bitcoin/

Intake Counselor
Prominence
Calabasas, Ca.
Demonstrated how Prominence exceeded competitions’ ability to accomplish potential and current clients’ goals as a professional over-the-phone respondent and contract negotiator Completed extensive paperwork regarding each call, consisting of client assessments, financial information, insurance pay-outs, and thorough contact information

Intake Counselor
Malibu Horizon
Malibu, Ca
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