Your Do-Everything AI Marketing Partner

Brainiest delivers on the promise of AI for everyday businesspeople. We’ve created an innovative AI service that delivers quality results without complex prompting. Brainiest applets maximize productivity and creativity for your business.

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Who We Are

The Brainiest team is comprised of marketing and engineering professionals with careers spent analyzing how technology affects business processes and everyday life. We’ve been at the forefront of the development of innovative solutions that apply technology to improve real-world experiences, from Intel’s first 32-bit microprocessor, to big data systems, to marketing AI. We don’t develop technology for the sake of having more technology.

Brainiest harnesses AI to pull out the inner marketing genius inside every business owner and marketer. 

Rather than replacing humans, we believe in helping small and midsized business marketers unlock their full potential. 

Leadership

Mike

Mike McGowan

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Alan

Alan Steinberg

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Scott

Scott Goble

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Our Story

Brainiest is a concept born over lunch at a Cheesecake Factory in Arizona, as most great ideas are. 

Longtime friends, marketing professionals, and former Intel colleagues Alan Steinberg and Mike McGowan met to discuss the emergence of AI. Mike, who was already providing machine learning consulting services in medicine, real estate, and other sectors, had an idea for an AI platform that could generate marketing content for small and midsize businesses.

The Challenge

Historically, everyday businesspeople not only struggled with the time required for endless creative revisions and fine tuning, but they couldn’t keep up with the need for additional updates when market conditions changed. Sales could change their pitch on the fly, but marketing content and strategy lagged behind.

AI promised to be a game changer, but Mike’s clients grew frustrated by the generic results being produced by ChatGPT and unrealistic expectations created by early AI players. Users were led to believe simply typing a couple sentences into a white box would deliver the world, but AI under delivered. It could only generate usable content if the user had significant training in prompt engineering.

The Smarter Solution

Alan and Mike got in touch with Scott Goble, another fellow Intel alum, and started the development process. The vision was to create an AI platform capable of generating valuable results by guiding small and midsized business users through the marketing consulting process.

Instead of forcing users to spend hours on trial-and-error prompting, they would create an AI platform displaying the same questions an experienced marketing consultant would ask during a discovery meeting. The answers would provide AI with the information required to produce high quality results on the first pass.

What started as a tool with a handful of purpose-built applications has quickly grown into a full toolkit with dozens of generative, strategic, and analytic applets, each designed to perform a specific marketing function.

We call it Brainiest because it’s the smart way to optimize day-to-day processes with exceptional results.

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Mike McGowan

Lead AI Architect and Developer

Mike McGowan has been part of the driving force behind some of the most innovative, impactful technologies of the past several decades. He has programmed virtually every type of computer, from mainframes and minis to microprocessors and microcontrollers.

Known internally as the AI guru of Brainiest, Mike ensures our platform lives up to its name and enables smaller companies to produce high-quality marketing output with maximum efficiency. During his nearly 20 years with Intel, Mike served as a product manager for the development of Intel’s first 32-bit processor and the 386 processor, which sparked the PC revolution.

Mike’s extensive marketing and editorial background includes:

  • Director of marketing for DevelopOnline (cloud-based software development).
  • Director of marketing for Corrent (security and encryption solutions).
  • Director of marketing for Deepdive Technologies (electronic discovery and big data).
  • Managing editor for Control Engineering magazine.

Mike pioneered the development of machine learning-based adaptive control systems for managing solar energy, battery storage, and citywide smart utilities. He has also consulted companies in the development and deployment of machine learning models for a variety of applications.

When Mike unplugs, he enjoys playing classical violin, viola, guitar, and piano and has performed professionally.

Alan Steinberg

CEO

Alan Steinberg has been driving innovative technology to market for 50 years. In his role as Brainiest CEO, Alan is steering the ship as lead strategist and key spokesman to ensure Brainiest continues to deliver maximum value for small and midsized business marketers.

Prior to developing Brainiest, Alan was responsible for a series of landmark “firsts” as a senior product marketing and strategic planning executive with Intel and CEO and Director of Strategic Planning for DevelopOnline (cloud-based software development):

  • The first university microprocessor course at Temple University.
  • The industry’s largest-volume Microcontroller 8051.
  • The first 32-bit embedded microprocessor.
  • The first SuperScalar embedded microprocessor.
  • The first online advanced software development program for microprocessors.

Alan has also served as CEO and Director of Strategic Planning for Deepdive Technologies (electronic discovery and big data) and Customer Loyalty Accelerator. His journey with Brainiest is the latest and perhaps the most rewarding chapter in a storied career highlighted by the development of technological breakthroughs that changed the game for organizations and people around the world.

An avid runner, Alan runs 10-plus miles a day to stay in shape while thinking through what’s next for Brainiest.

Scott Goble

Senior Vice President of Technology

Scott Goble draws upon decades of experience in technology development to ensure Brainiest applets are reliable and easy to use, and consistently produce high-quality results for users.

Scott has held senior leadership positions for Microsoft (Principal Software Engineering Manager), Intel (Director of Software Engineering), and Honeywell (Technical Manager), applying his expertise in marketing, engineering, software development, and quality oversight to deliver solutions that create positive change for businesses and consumers. Scott has received four U.S. Patent Awards in I/O processor architecture and played a central role in the release of Windows 10.

He has led many major technology initiatives, including:

  • The development of Symbol Generator software for flight displays used in the Gulfstream IV’s all-glass cockpit.
  • The development of Display Unit firmware for flight displays in the first commercial airline utilizing an all-glass cockpit.
  • The architecture, development, and release of the i960® I/O Processor.

Scott is excited to continuously refine Brainiest to help everyday businesspeople be more creative, productive, and innovative.

When he’s not knee-deep in technology, Scott enjoys spending time with family, especially his grandchildren, and exploring the Pacific Northwest.