Trained Brains / About

Thirty years of taking new technology mainstream.

Trained Brains is led by Tony Taylor. The job has always been the same: take technology that works in the lab and make it work in the business, then stay until the team runs it on its own.

A 1990s broadcast control room transitioning into a modern AI workspace

Why Trained Brains

The technology works. Adoption is the hard part.

Every major technology arrives before its market is ready. Streaming video did. Video over IP did. AI agents do now. Most businesses have tried AI, and few have it doing real work every day, because the gap is rarely the model. It is the wiring, the guardrails, the training and the follow-through.

Tony has spent his career in that gap, between engineers who build something new and the customers who have to trust it with real work. Trained Brains applies the same playbook to AI agents: one role, one measurable outcome, proved in shadow mode, and supported after go-live.

Track record

Where the playbook comes from.

Each of these was new technology that had to win over cautious buyers before it went mainstream.

1995–2000 · Streaming

Employee #37 at RealNetworksJoined when streaming audio and video on the internet were brand new, and helped take them to a mass market.

Video over IP

HaivisionChampioned the development of SRT, the low-latency video transport protocol that went on to be adopted widely across broadcast.

2013–2019 · Broadcast

Director of Business Development, StreamboxOwned the company’s revenue quota and met it three years running. Streambox’s Low Delay Multi-Path technology won a 2018 Technical Emmy®.

Hollywood post-production

Remote review for studio productionsDeployed remote review systems for productions at Company 3, Disney and Netflix, including Netflix’s Extraction, and trained the crews who ran them.

2024–present · AI agents

Trained BrainsBuilding and running AI agents in production: a Marketing & Web Coordinator for a legacy music estate, an in-house Recruiting Coordinator, and the AI Office Coordinator that answers our phone line.

Working with us

Small on purpose. Built to outlast us.

Buyers rightly ask what happens if a small firm disappears. Our answer is built into how every Brain is delivered.

You work with the builderThe person who maps your role is the person who builds it and supports it. No hand-off to a junior team after the sale.

Nothing runs on our serversYour Brain runs on hardware you own, with your data and credentials on it. If we stopped tomorrow, it would keep working.

Standard tools, written downEvery Brain is built on standard tools (n8n, Claude and the Model Context Protocol) and ships with a runbook, so any experienced automation engineer can pick it up.

We stay for adoptionShadow mode, training and monthly reports are part of the work, not extras. A Brain is finished when your team runs it, not when the demo works.

Talk to Tony

Pick one role. See what it would look like.

Design your Brain in three minutes, or book a 30-minute walkthrough and we will build the workflow live with your examples.

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Thirty years of taking new technology mainstream.

The technology works. Adoption is the hard part.

Where the playbook comes from.

Small on purpose. Built to outlast us.

Pick one role. See what it would look like.

Hear a Trained Brain on the phone.

Pick one role. We’ll turn its repetitive work into a Trained Brain.