Bradley Gauthier
1986 Born in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

The arc

From a cable TV channel on a reservation to sovereign AI infrastructure.

The chronological version. Some chapters compress decades; some decades barely contain a chapter. Everything is an evolution. Drag the year above to scrub.

  1. 1986

    Born in the Northwoods.

    On a Native American reservation, deep in the woods.

  2. 1992

    Climbing satellite dishes with my father at age six.

    Gauthier Cablevision & Electric. The community TV channel was the first thing I helped run.

  3. 1998

    Started Precision Computer Solutions in seventh grade.

    First paid project: Mike Murphy Fish Decoys. Geek Squad was a decade away from rural America.

  4. 2004

    St. Norbert College. Business, psychology, and economics in three years.

  5. 2007

    Took a Fortune 200 corporate job in Chicago. Sixty-eight thousand in student debt.

    A short detour. Workplace depression set in fast.

  6. 2008

    Quit. Founded Visible North.

    Marketing, websites, conversion, search. The first time I worked entirely for myself.

  7. 2009

    Started writing at blog.bradleygauthier.com.

    Eighty-six essays in three years on minimalism, productivity, and finding work that fits.

  8. 2011

    Co-founded Academy on the Go with Greg Hartle. Launched the CouchSurfingCEO persona.

    Five thousand students online. Slow-traveling the country with one carry-on.

  9. 2013

    Founded Sitecast. Built the platform that's been underneath everything since.

    Site builder, cloud IDE, automation. With my partner Rubie, then and now.

  10. 2015

    Accepted into Starve Ups. Began mentoring at the University of Portland.

    One of twelve businesses in Oregon's oldest accelerator that year.

  11. 2016

    Began integrating IBM Watson into Sitecast. The pre-LLM AI era.

  12. 2019

    Transitioned Sitecast to GPT-2. The agent thesis took shape.

  13. 2022

    GPT-3.5 dropped hallucinations enough to ship reliable agents.

    Rex the Rental Copilot followed. A growing swarm of autonomous agents underneath the platform.

  14. 2024

    Founded Synova Industries to produce and run AI-first companies. Quantum Pipes, infrastructure for autonomous intelligence, hit stride.

    Lucy.md, born from caring for my dad. A companion for families navigating complex care.

  15. 2026

    The autonomous-org thesis as the active bet. Prime Conductor brewing.

    One founder. No employees. Composable infrastructure. The platform that compounds across ventures.