About Brian

My name is Brian Lloyd-Newberry. I've been building software for thirty years — startups, unicorns, large enterprises, billion-dollar acquisitions — and I spent almost 16 years at Cox Automotive, most recently leading their Product and Technology Innovation Lab, where I led the charge on bringing Generative and Agentic Intelligence into a large product development organization at enterprise scale.

In January 2026 I left to found Waking State Convergence, LLC — an Agentic Intelligence research, advisory, and coaching practice — and to write more deliberately about what I've found.

The current preoccupation: the gap between what humans mean and what computers can receive, and whether agentic AI finally closes it. The first answer is here.

I live in Atlanta, GA. Father, spouse, dog parent. I build things with Claude Code and think too much about category theory.

Experience

With over 30 years in software engineering, architecture, data, and AI, I've:

• Built and scaled systems across 2-3 person startups, rapidly growing unicorns, and large enterprises
• Led technology and architecture teams through billion-dollar acquisitions
• Led a Product and Technology Innovation Lab, driving the adoption of Generative and Agentic Intelligence across a major product development organization
• Shipped products powered by AI before most teams knew what to call it
• Mentored dozens of technologists and had the privilege of leading some of the best teams I could have hoped to work with
• Learned as much from the people I worked with as anything I built

Focus Areas

• Agentic Intelligence systems, architectures, and implementation at scale
• The gap between human meaning and machine representation
• Categorical and compositional approaches to software and AI
• Human-AI collaboration and the future of programming
• Advisory, research, and coaching for individuals and organizations through Waking State Convergence, LLC

Media & Publications

Articles, interviews, and mentions:

• EPAM Advances Strategic Collaboration with AWS on Generative AI - EPAM Press Release, April 2025 Quoted on delivering successful generative AI projects at Cox Automotive

• dbt Labs Surpasses $100M ARR Milestone - dbt Labs Blog, February 2025 Quoted on empowering teams with data ownership and improving data quality

• Building a Mature Analytics Workflow - dbt Labs Webinar Panel, 2024 Panelist discussing Analytics Development Lifecycle with leaders from Salesforce and dbt Labs

• Cox Automotive Case Study - AWS Customer Success, 2022 Featured discussing cloud architecture and innovation

Speaking & Presentations

Recent:

• Cox Automotive's Blueprint for Agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - AWS re:Invent 2025, December 1, 2025 IND3329 — Building and deploying agentic AI at enterprise scale

• Making the Case to Invest in Improving Resilience - AWS Summit Toronto 2024 Well-Architected Framework and resilience

Open Source & Projects

• Stealth Browser MCP Server - Model Context Protocol implementation for stealth browser capabilities using Playwright (6,100+ downloads)
• Clipboard MCP Server - MacOS Clipboard access via Model Context Protocol

Engage

If you're thinking about agentic AI for your organization — as a strategy, an implementation, or a research question — I'd like to hear about it. If you want to talk about what comes after the notation, I'm here for that too.

I'm open to:

• Advisory and consulting — helping individuals and organizations of all sizes navigate Agentic Intelligence adoption through Waking State Convergence, LLC
• Coaching — helping people of all walks of life integrate Agentic Intelligence thoughtfully, augmenting their judgment rather than replacing it
• Peer collaboration — working with other professionals in software, AI, change management, coaching, and adjacent fields who are thinking about the same transitions
• Speaking — on Agentic Intelligence, the future of software, categorical computing, and the gap between human meaning and machine representation
• Research collaboration — if you're working on something at the intersection of AI, programming languages, or human-computer interaction
• Conversation — if something here resonated and you want to continue it

Reach out at engage@brianln.ai or connect on LinkedIn.

A contact form is coming. For now, email is the fastest path.

Connect

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• GitHub

About This Site: My personal platform for thinking out loud about AI, software, and what comes next. All opinions are my own.