Santa Barbara coastline from the water

La Paz, México

Ben Battles

AI operator · instructor · consultant

About

Product leader and full stack builder who takes AI systems from prototype to production. Demonstrated experience in large-scale agent orchestration, teaching applied gen AI, and consulting on AI strategy. Years spent across LATAM leading multilingual teams, studying cultural differences, and collecting too many plants.

Built in California, building in Mexico

Work

Operations

Agentic Systems

Agent architecture for messy, high-volume operations — built to scale.

Teaching

Applied AI

Teaching founders to build AI products — zero to shipped.

Consulting

AI Strategy

AI tooling, vendor evaluation, model selection, and system design.