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Adrian Johnson — Founder & AI product builder

I build AI-native
products.

Fifteen years designing digital products for TD Bank, Scotiabank, and the Government of Canada. Today I create and build AI-native ventures, taking products from customer problem to shipped software.

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The ventures

Four companies, in progress.

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Previously

TD Bank · Scotiabank · Transport Canada · Employment and Social Development Canada · MPAC · Home Depot Canada · Investors Group

What I do

Four ways to explore

A career told in four movements.

Ventures, AI, enterprise transformation, and the principles behind how all of it gets built.

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Founder & Operator

01 — Building Companies

Building companies and new markets

Syncopate, Axis, Agreed, Latin Music Canada, Creative Titans — five ventures, five markets.

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AI Product Builder

02 — Advancing AI

Designing for an AI-native future

Agentic systems, intelligent products, automation, human–AI interaction, AI-enabled workflows.

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Enterprise & Government

03 — Transforming Organizations

Transforming complex organizations

TD, Scotiabank, Transport Canada, ESDC, MPAC, Home Depot Canada, Investors Group.

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Product Strategist

04 — Leading People & Practices

How I build, and why

Seven principles: start with the problem, workflows before features, build to learn.

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The through-lines

Ten ideas I keep building around.

Every project on this site is really a variation on the same short list. Curiosity leads. Systems follow. Accessibility is the ethic. Learning is the compound interest.

  • 01

    Curiosity

    The first tool.

  • 02

    Building

    Ship, learn, ship again.

  • 03

    Systems thinking

    Zoom in. Zoom out.

  • 04

    Human-centered design

    Real people, real edges.

  • 05

    Leadership

    Teams, not tickets.

  • 06

    Technology

    A means, not a mood.

  • 07

    Artificial intelligence

    As material, not magic.

  • 08

    Accessibility

    The design ethic.

  • 09

    Entrepreneurship

    Founder mind, always.

  • 10

    Continuous learning

    The long compound.

Selected impact

Fifteen years of shipped work, measured.

Years building digital products
15+
Reduction in design rework at Scotiabank
60%
Shorter development cycles
30%
Improvement in platform usability
40%

Contact

Building something, or rethinking how you build?

I'm interested in conversations about AI-native products, autonomous teams, and what software looks like when intelligence is part of the operating model.

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