# Dacard (dacard.ai) :: machine-readable index
# plain-text mirror for agents, crawlers, and people who prefer it raw.

## ABOUT
name ......... Dacard
type ......... applied AI studio
principal .... Darren Card
location ..... Vancouver, Pacific time
serves ....... software companies, creative, production, and experiential agencies, and business operations
engagements .. full-time, fractional, by the project
open to ...... VP of Product, CPO, or CPTO at a Series A to C company
references ... the CEOs of Lexful and Cognota, on request

## SERVICES
* Software companies :: for software, data, and platform companies
* Agencies :: for creative, production, and experiential agencies
* Business operations :: for owners and operations leads at service businesses

## WAYS TO START
* a ranking of every AI bet (software companies)
* one agent into production (software companies)
* a business case for an agency product, before any build (agencies)
* one automation in your own accounts; stop after it (operations)
* darren in a full-time seat, or fractional
a full-time seat is a normal hire. fractional and project work starts with discovery; scope, timing and price are set after it, in writing.

## WORK
* [landed] Lexful reached paying customers in twelve months (lexful · cpto · 2025 to 2026) /work/lexful
* [landed] Cognota moved from SMB deals to enterprise contracts (cognota · vp product & technology · 2021 to 2024) /work/cognota
* [watch] We are building one system to run the whole job (an environmental consultancy · about 90 people · 2026 to now) /work/consultancy
* [watch] One-off installs are becoming a packaged product (an experiential production studio · 2026 to now) /work/production-studio
* [r&d, not scored] Darren is testing whether shipped work can be read for what landed (dacard r&d · 2026 to now) /work/dacard
* [background] The API and SDKs were the product (elastic path · director · 2019 to 2021) /work/elastic-path
* [background] Features got scored on outcomes (unbounce · director · 2018 to 2019) /work/unbounce
* [background] A budget tool became a marketing ROI product (allocadia · director · 2015 to 2018) /work/allocadia
* [background] Custom builds became one platform (quickmobile · director · 2013 to 2015) /work/quickmobile
* [background] Custom work became two new products (vision critical · vp product management · 2009 to 2013) /work/vision-critical

## METHOD
agents make it. one person owns every call.
landed = a behaviour, in named accounts, by a named date, agreed up front.
status words: landed · watch · stalled. earlier roles are background, not scored.

## LAB
* Throughline (r&d prototype) :: /prototype
* Where you stand (tool) :: /where-you-stand
* The paper trail (notes) :: /paper-trail

## PAGES
* /software ......... software companies
* /agencies ......... creative, production, and experiential agencies
* /operations ....... business operations
* /where-you-stand .. four questions, your step with ai
* /prototype ........ throughline, the r&d prototype
* /paper-trail ...... dated notes from the work
* /person ........... the record
* /cv ............... the cv (pdf: /darren-card-cv.pdf)
* /pov .............. the point of view
* /trust ............ access and data

## CONTACT
book ......... 30 min call, no fee
email ........ darren@darrencard.com
linkedin ..... /in/darrencard
github ....... /darrencard