Ash Borden
AI Automation & Solutions Architect · Business Systems Designer · Integration-Focused Platform Builder
AI Automation and Solutions Architect with 9+ years across digital operations, e-commerce, and workflow design. I build practical business systems that connect AI services, APIs, and automation platforms, turning messy operational needs into governed, well-documented platforms for small and mid-sized businesses.
Professional Experience
AI Solutions Architect
Ai Omelette · AI Automation & Design Studio
- Architect a proprietary AI operations platform unifying CRM, finance, scheduling, and analytics under a governed agentic operator, replacing disconnected point tools.
- Design and deliver AI-enabled automation for agencies and SMBs, leading discovery, solution design, implementation, and documentation.
- Build multi-stage n8n orchestration with human approval steps, retry logic, kill switches, audit history, and scheduling.
- Design structured data engines across 20+ interconnected Notion databases for content state, approvals, and audit history.
- Build agentic multi-LLM workflows routing across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini with structured extraction, validation, and fallback patterns.
Content & SEO Strategist
SolarWeb · Canadian Solar Information Platform
- Built a Canadian solar information platform with provincial guides, verified installer directories, cost data, and rebate calculators across multiple utility territories.
- Structured it around reusable content systems and search-friendly information architecture for lead generation and future automation.
Manager & E-Commerce Director
Canadian Solar Wholesale Inc.
- Grew a dormant wholesale solar brand from zero to $1.2M+ in annual revenue by building the digital infrastructure, e-commerce operations, and vendor systems from scratch.
- Led the transformation from a parked WordPress site to a full Shopify storefront with catalog, payments, fulfillment, and customer communications.
- Managed B2B sales pipelines, vendor negotiations, purchasing, and contractor coordination across Western Canada.
Operations & Marketing Lead
IPS Integrated Power Systems
- Led marketing operations, website management, product content, sales enablement, and lead generation, translating customer and sales needs into clearer workflows and materials.
ESL Instructor
Chungnam University / Berlitz
- Taught conversational and academic English to multilingual groups of 15–30+ learners, building facilitation, curriculum design, and communication skills.
Selected Architecture & Automation Projects
AI Client Portal & Operations Platform
Proprietary WordPress + React Application
- Architected an AI operations platform (an ‘AI COO’) on a React 19 front end over a custom WordPress REST backend: 40+ database tables, 190+ REST endpoints, and passwordless magic-link client access.
- Built an agentic AI operator with 100+ governed tools across CRM, finance, scheduling, and analytics, with a central write-policy layer, human-in-the-loop gates, audit logging, and semantic memory.
- Delivered a full CRM and revenue engine: lead scoring, a weighted opportunity pipeline, a ‘next best action’ command queue, and an auto-generated daily operating brief.
- Added self-hosted booking, autoresponder sequences, an AI email inbox, a form builder, a document/PDF engine, a reconciled P&L, and Meta Ads analytics with full-funnel ROAS, hardened with SSRF/IDOR remediation and a sandbox kill switch.
Monsieur Omelette Chat
Multi-Tenant AI SaaS Platform
- Architected a cloud-native, multi-tenant AI chat platform with configurable per-client assistants and per-tenant AI provider selection.
- Built with a React dashboard, Vercel Functions, GitHub CI/CD, Upstash KV, and a public embeddable widget, with HTTP streaming for real-time responses.
- Implemented governance and security: admin authentication, per-tenant isolation, per-site provider keys, CORS, rate limiting, and key management.
WordPress Automation Plugin
AI Site Control Plane
- Built a hardened REST control plane (v5.0.0) with token-authenticated endpoints for publishing, SEO metadata (RankMath), pages, media, menus, and newsletters.
- Established reusable patterns that let an external AI/MCP layer operate a live production site end to end, alongside n8n orchestration and human review.
Local LLM Infrastructure
Self-Hosted AI Operations
- Deployed a local AI stack (Ollama, Open WebUI, AnythingLLM) to keep sensitive data off third-party APIs and enable rapid model testing.