Most AI speakers describe someone else's transformation. I hold the AI seat in my own group and I have held it for years. 72 agents run in production for me right now, and I can name every one. 80+ web apps and 375+ Base44 apps are live. I talk about how that got built, what it cost me, and the parts I got wrong first.
No forecast about where the technology goes next. No slides you have seen before. I take a small number of dates a year, so the brief form below is the fastest route to a yes or a no.
Borders down, innovation up
Keynotes, panels and the bit afterwards. If you want to know how I hold a room before you commit a slot to me, this is the honest version.
On the panel
Sports Tech Nation
The panel
Five on a stage
The monetisation panel
Sports Tech Nation
At La Liga
Chamber of Commerce
At Atletico Madrid
Web Summit
On the floor
Web Summit
ICE London
The bit after the talks
Sports Tech Nation
Pick one and I will write the talk around your audience. Ask for a blend of two and it gets thin, so I would rather you chose.
This is the job I actually do, not a case study I read.
I hold the AI seat across Play Fund Win, Discount Vouchers, Cherished, Trusted Media and Onyxia. I walk through the operating standard I wrote for them, the approval gates, and the places where a person still has to sign. None of it is a pilot. It has been running my companies for long enough to have broken a few times.
Every agent I run started as something I did by hand.
I take one from that first manual version through to live, with the review step and the spend cap that keep it honest. Then I go through the ones that failed, and why. That second half is the useful half, and it is the half nobody puts on a stage.
4+ acquisitions and 850+ domains, so I have made this decision often.
Buying something that already works usually beats a year of building it. I explain how I look at a small business, what I pay attention to first, and what makes me walk away. I also name the ones I should have walked away from and did not.
80+ web apps and 375+ Base44 apps, none of them built by an engineering department.
I show the stack, the guardrails, and the review that stops bad code reaching anyone. This one works best as a workshop, because the room stops listening and starts building about twenty minutes in.
Boards do not ask about models.
They ask who is accountable when it gets something wrong, and whether that is written down anywhere. They ask what happens if one vendor changes its terms. I take those questions one at a time and give the answer I use in my own businesses. This is not legal advice and I say so on the day.
Half of every speaker page is a list of what you get. The other half is usually missing, so here it is. What I need from you is the part that decides whether the session lands.
Twenty to forty-five minutes, one subject, no panel afterwards unless you ask.
Forty-five to sixty minutes, a chair, two to four of us.
Half a day or a full day, laptops open, building.
Remote or in person, forty-five to ninety minutes.
Quotes, background briefings, on-record interviews.
Six steps, and none of them involve an agent, a bio request or three weeks of silence.
The form below asks for the date, the format, who is in the room, how many of them there are, and what they should be able to do afterwards. It also asks when you need an answer, so you set the clock rather than waiting on mine.
I take a small number of dates a year. If it is not a fit I say so and tell you why, so you can go and book somebody better suited rather than chasing me.
A short call with whoever is running the event. What the audience came for, what has already been said from that stage, and the one thing you want them doing differently on Monday.
Not a deck I reuse. If your organisation needs slides signed off, you have them 48 hours ahead.
48 hours ahead
I stay for the session after mine and for the coffee. Most of the useful conversations happen there rather than on the stage.
A workshop gets a written follow-up of what the room built and what it still needs, plus the templates and prompts I used, yours to keep.
Founders and investors
AI dinner, London
I would rather lose the booking here than in the room. Read the second list first.
None of that is a judgement on your event. It just will not work.
Stages, panels and press. If you want a reference from any of them, ask and I will put you in touch with the organiser.
Web Summit 2024 · November 2024
The Sports Tech Podcast · September 2024
SportsTech Europe 2024 · June 2024
Founders Weekly · May 2024
TechCrunch · April 2024
I used to take these by email and spend three messages asking the same questions back. So here they are up front. It takes about four minutes and it gets you a real answer instead of a call to discuss having a call.
Take what you need without asking. If you need something that is not here, put it in the brief above and I will send it the same day.
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Dean Lynn runs many ventures at once and 72 agents in production across them.
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Dean Lynn has been in business 20+ years and has made 4+ acquisitions. He runs many ventures at once, among them Play Fund Win, Discount Vouchers, Cherished, Trusted Media and Onyxia. His group has worked with 1,000+ organisations and holds 850+ domains. He runs 72 agents in production, alongside 80+ web apps and 375+ Base44 apps. He builds the systems first and writes the rules for them second.
Clubs and governing bodies. Naming any of them as a client is accurate. Naming them as an event I spoke at is not.
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