Your time, and your team's. Practical AI and automation for successful Okanagan businesses that don't have a deep technical bench — one step at a time. Personally guided by Ryan Gallagher — a business operations expert with thirty years of breaking problems down and rolling out practical solutions, without redoing everything.
Most owners want the same few things: fewer hours lost to the repetitive work, better quality, and a business that doesn't need them in every decision. AI is simply the most practical way, right now, to get there — one step at a time.
You want to use AI. You don't want to do it wrong, buy the wrong thing, or rip out what already works. That's exactly who I work with — here in Kelowna, one step at a time.
I'll help you, hands-on, put AI to work in your own job — your inbox, your numbers, your decisions — until it's second nature. One-on-one, here in Kelowna. Proficient in 30 days.
If that's you, the first thirty minutes are free.
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Who I am, who I help, and why I think operational AI is the biggest opportunity Okanagan businesses have had in a long time.
The story, in words, until the film is shot. Press play to hear it read.
Most owners I talk to want the same few things. AI is simply the most practical way, right now, to get there.
The quoting, chasing, retyping and reporting that fills your evenings — handled.
Good people doing the work you hired them for, not feeding the admin.
The same job done the same way every time — and caught when it isn't.
A business that runs well without you in every decision.
A plumbing company, a dental clinic, a winery, an accounting office, a hotel, a small manufacturer — different work, the same machinery underneath. That's where the hours go, and that's where we get them back. One step at a time.
Onboarding, schedules, the questions that come to you because nobody wrote the answer down. Put the answers where your team can find them.
The way a job moves from first call to final invoice. Make it run the same way every time — without you pushing it along.
Accounting, CRM, booking, spreadsheets. Connect what you already own so information moves between them instead of through you.
Sorted, drafted, followed up, filed — the inbox stops being the job.
Every enquiry answered, every quote followed up, nothing lost in a voicemail at 7pm.
Checks that happen on every job, not just the ones you had time to look at — and a flag when something's off.
The common questions answered instantly, the real ones routed to a person, every one of them on record.
Invoices out on time, receipts matched, month-end numbers you can trust without a weekend of spreadsheets.
Pick the one that sounds like your week. Each has its own page — what it looks like done, and how we'd start.
Staff trying ChatGPT on their own is a start. It isn't the same as AI wired into how the business runs — accounting, CRM, scheduling, reporting, the workflows that eat your week.
That second thing is where the return is. And it doesn't begin with an overhaul. It begins with one high-value job, done properly, that proves itself in a month.
Why haven't we done this yet? The ten things owners say — answered →
A free 30-minute conversation, then a short look at how work actually flows through your business today.
What's worth doing, in what order, and what it's worth — or a set of options if there's more than one sensible path.
Hands-on, alongside your team, until it's running. Then it's yours.
The same free thirty-minute conversation first. From there, one of three shapes — and you can move between them one step at a time.
A standing seat at your table — monthly or quarterly — so your team makes good decisions about AI, processes and automation, and doesn't buy the wrong thing twice.
One-on-one, hands-on coaching for you — or whoever runs the day. We put AI to work in your actual world: your inbox, your numbers, your decisions. Proficient in 30 days.
The foundation your business runs on — connected systems, automations, and the internal apps your team actually uses — built AI-first, handed over, and yours.
I see a business in terms of data and workflow. When you describe what's going wrong, I can usually see where the bottleneck is — because I can see the flow, and I've worked with the pattern before. What I bring to an Okanagan owner isn't a slide deck about AI, and it isn't a developer's view either. It's the judgment to break a problem down, find the practical fix, and roll it out without redoing everything.
I work directly, with a small number of businesses at a time. If we talk and it isn't a fit, I'll tell you.
Recent coverage of BackRoadIntel's work. These articles report on that company — they are not endorsements of Visgo.
Thirty years of making businesses run better — five of them my own. Business systems, education systems and databases, and high-tech hardware and software. Here's the arc, and two projects you can see for yourself.
Co-founded StudentsAchieve — one of Canada's first web-based gradebooks — and built it from the original architecture to acquisition in 2008. Then led product and modernization across SRB Education Solutions' K-12 management systems and databases, and founded MotivationEngine, behaviour-change software used from construction companies to universities.
Head of Engineering at FunnelEnvy in the Bay Area — machine-learning personalization for enterprise marketers. CTO at Strawhouse, scaling consumer brands with proprietary adtech. Fractional CTO at Clevr, where the platform got up to ten times faster and more stable.
Co-founded Sofia Family — hardware and native software for parental controls across every device. Fractional CTO/CIO at KXI Wildertec, automotive robotics and ADAS. And since 2024, CEO and co-founder of BackRoadIntel — a sensor, video and AI platform run by a fully agentic team.
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My latest venture: improving backroad observability, worldwide. Phones and sensors on ordinary vehicles turn every drive into a road record — and the company behind it runs AI-first with minimal headcount, because the operations were designed that way from day one. Everything below is automated, built on my Visgo Framework:
KXI WildertecComputer-controlled suspension for extreme off-road trucks — sensors, actuators and control software working together at the speed the terrain demands.
You bring your goals; Ryan brings an honest view of where automation can give you time back — and where it can't. No cost, no obligation, no pitch.
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