AI Implementation · CRM · Marketing Operations · Business Systems

I turn business problems into systems people can actually use.

I bring 33+ years of business, marketing and communications experience together with hands-on AI implementation, CRM improvement, automation and workflow design.

I start with what is not working. Then I figure out what is getting in the way, what matters most and what kind of system will actually help.

Sometimes the answer is AI. Sometimes it is CRM, automation, marketing, a better process or a simpler use of tools the business already owns. The technology changes. The business judgment behind the work does not.

Consulting · Fractional · Contract · Project-based · Selective Remote Employment

Mark Stiles, AI implementation and business operations strategist

Who I Work With

Two Ways Organizations Work With Me

For Businesses

Need help with your business?

AI, CRM, sales follow-up, marketing operations, automation or a workflow that has become harder than it should be. I help you figure out what is actually happening and fix it.

See How I Help Businesses

For Employers & Recruiters

Considering me for a role?

AI implementation, marketing operations, CRM, business systems, project leadership and remote work. Review what I can own inside a team.

View Experience & Résumé
33+ years Business, marketing and communications
47 → 86 CRM health improvement
101 Renewal tasks activated
6 → 12 Healthcare clinic locations during seven years of marketing leadership

Business owner since 1995. Digital marketing agency founder since 2009. Hands-on AI and business systems work today.

The Real Problem

Technology usually is not the hardest part.

Most organizations I talk with already own plenty of software. What they are missing is a clear picture of what is broken and a system people will actually use. The situations below are the ones I see most.

CRM data nobody trusts

Overdue tasks pile up, histories go stale and the team quietly goes back to memory and spreadsheets.

AI without a repeatable process

People experiment with AI tools on their own, but nothing is documented, reviewed or consistent enough to rely on.

Marketing that does not connect

Tools and activities that each work a little but never work together, so effort goes up while results stay flat.

Follow-up that lives in someone's head

Sales follow-up depends too heavily on memory, so renewals slip and good accounts go quiet without anyone noticing.

Information scattered across systems

The answer exists somewhere, in an inbox, a spreadsheet, a CRM field or a document, but nobody can pull it together quickly.

No clear starting point

Everyone agrees something should change. Nobody agrees on which problem should be fixed first.

How I Help

Assess. Build. Lead.

Three ways to bring me in, from a focused diagnosis to hands-on implementation to ongoing leadership.

Assess

Understand what is really happening

Diagnostics, audits and workflow discovery that replace impressions with a defensible picture of the problem and a sensible order of work.

Build

Design and implement a practical solution

CRM cleanup and restructuring, workflow design, automation, marketing systems and practical AI implementation, documented so people can run it.

Lead

Put the system into use and keep improving it

Fractional, contract or embedded implementation leadership that keeps the work moving and helps the team adopt what was built.

Featured Results

Real business problems. Measurable change.

CRM Audit · Sales Operations · Workflow Design · AI-Assisted Analysis

From CRM clutter to a sales system people could act on

More than 400 overdue activities, unclear renewals and a CRM the sales team no longer trusted.

Result: CRM health score improved from 47 to 86. 101 renewal tasks activated. 12 verified sales conversations and 6 booked follow-up appointments from the client's outreach.

Read the case study

For Employers & Recruiters

An experienced operator you can hire in more than one way.

If you are staffing a role in AI implementation, marketing operations, CRM or business systems, the experience page is built to answer your questions quickly.

Hiring or staffing a role?

I fit roles in AI implementation, AI business operations, marketing operations, CRM and sales operations, business systems, workflow automation, digital transformation and implementation project leadership. Fractional, contract and selective remote employment all work.

Method

How I Approach Implementation

Seven steps, refined across three decades of business, marketing and technology work, that end with a system in daily use.

  1. Understand
  2. Diagnose
  3. Prioritize
  4. Design
  5. Build
  6. Put It Into Use
  7. Measure

Tell me what is not working.

Describe the problem in a few sentences. I will give you a straight answer about whether I can help and what a sensible first step would look like.