David Taylor

Track Record

The standout moments.

Projects built, teams turned around and businesses exited. No theory. Just outcomes.

Stellar Voice Agents website: Never lose another lead

Lead Generation / Multi-Industry

AI Voice Agents: Lead Follow-Up at Scale

Stellar Voice Agents builds AI voice systems that automatically call new leads, qualify them through natural conversation, and book appointments. Industry-agnostic by design, currently deployed in real estate, with bookkeeping, accounting, and other verticals next.

Every inbound lead phoned within minutes, every time. Natural conversations, objections handled, appointments booked without growing the human team.

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Agency Operations / AI-First Build

Mindsheep Work: An Agency Operating System Built AI-First

Built Mindsheep Work, the system the whole team runs on: projects, time tracking, chat, calls, client email and e-signing in one place, connected to Mindsheep Books for accounting and to Sheepherd, our AI development environment.

Projects, time, team chat, calls, client email and e-signing in one self-hosted system across three brands, connected to Mindsheep Books for invoicing. Built AI-first in about three months.

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GroupFound website: social networking platform for entrepreneurs

Social Networking / AI-First Engineering

GroupFound: Leading a 100% AI-First Build

David went to GroupFound's founder with a proposal: don't build this the traditional way, build it AI-first. As CTO he is now leading that build, a social networking platform for entrepreneurs, with a tight-knit senior team facilitating AI rather than hand-writing code. It's working.

A full social platform built 100% AI-first, with zero traditional, line-by-line coding. Development started in March 2026; launch is targeted for November 2026.

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David Taylor in an office

Digital Content Marketing

Zero to Exit in 6 Months

Co-founded a digital content marketing agency in late 2023, identified an emerging market opportunity, scaled with AI-accelerated execution and offshore talent, and exited within six months.

Co-founded, scaled, and successfully exited a digital content marketing agency in just six months.

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David Taylor presenting to a team

Digital Marketing / Cross-Cultural Leadership

Leadership Consulting: CEO Mentoring & Operational Transformation

Retained as a leadership consultant for 18 months by the agency that acquired David's six-month-exit business. Mentored two successive CEOs and the wider team, ran leadership workshops in Thailand, helped build the agency's AI content creation systems, supported cross-cultural recruitment, and led operational transformation across 4 countries.

Reduced operational costs by 20%+ while improving team output by 35%, across teams in Slovakia and the Philippines, through two CEO transitions.

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Vodafone logo

Telecommunications

Enterprise Operations: Vodafone / iiNet

As Senior Development Manager at iiNet (Australia's second-largest DSL ISP, since acquired into what is today Vodafone Australia), inherited in-house systems generating $900M revenue and serving 750,000 customers, and turned the operation around as headcount shrank.

50% reduction in operational incidents · $6M revenue recovered in one year · 99.9% SLA on systems generating $900M revenue across 750,000 customers.

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