Dan Weinbeck

Data ScienceData EngineeringBusiness IntelligenceAgentic AI

12+ years helping companies turn data into business results.

Freelance Consultant & AI Engineer · Chicago, Illinois · MBA, University of Iowa

I build data products that ship and interfaces that make sense. I’ve helped create and implement the data & analytics strategy at several Fortune 500 companies, working across Marketing, Sales, and Operations. I specialize in data science, data engineering, business intelligence, and AI strategy.

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Capabilities

I help organizations turn messy data into clear signal, enabling data-driven decision making, automated insights, and AI-driven efficiency.

Data & Analytics Strategy Consulting

A clear plan for what to build, in what order, and why it matters to the business — from data vision to a roadmap your team can actually execute.

Roadmaps
Operating Models
Prioritization
Data Org Design

Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and AI Engineering

The build layer: pipelines, warehouses, dashboards, and production AI features — engineered on a foundation that scales, not slideware.

Pipelines
Warehouses
BI & Dashboards
Production AI

AI Strategy, Training, and Enablement

Help your team adopt AI with judgment — what to use, how to use it well, and where the guardrails belong.

Adoption Strategy
Hands-on Training
Workflow Design
Governance

Technology Stack Assessments

An honest read on your current stack — what's working, what's costing you, and the highest-leverage moves to make next.

Architecture Review
Gap Analysis
Cost & Risk
Vendor Selection

Selected Outcomes

Cut a Fortune 500 business group's reporting sprawl by 65+ reports — lower maintenance, faster decisions.
Stood up a marketing analytics function from 5 to 11 people, serving 1,000+ marketers with timely BI.
Turned daily search data into a weekly brand-health leading indicator across 7 markets.

Not sure which fits? Let’s talk it through.

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Featured Engagement · 3 Days

Turn one messy workflow into a build-ready automation plan.

A fixed-scope AI Automation Audit: I map one important workflow, give every step a verdict, and hand you build-ready specifications. A plan — not a list of AI ideas.

See the AI Automation Audit What you receive →

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Day 1
Map the work
02
Day 2
Find the opportunities
03
Day 3
Turn it into a plan

Explore my Published Apps

Web-based Tools for Planning and Efficiency

Productivity

Tasks

Manage workflows, projects, tasks, and sub-tasks

Full-featured task management with workspaces, projects, sections, tags, subtasks, effort scoring, and board views. Built with a standalone PostgreSQL backend.

Next.jsPostgreSQLTailwind CSS

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Finance

Envelopes

Zero-based budgeting with digital envelopes

Manage your monthly budget using the envelope budgeting method. Allocate income to categories and track spending in real time.

Next.jsFirebaseTailwind CSS

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Productivity

Blinders

Focus session tracking and analytics

Track focus sessions from iOS, view analytics dashboards with streaks, completion rates, and focus trends. Syncs automatically with the Blinders iOS app.

Next.jsPostgreSQLRecharts

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Education

Lessons

AI development micro-lessons in 60 seconds

Learn AI concepts through interactive micro-lessons. Multiple choice, free-text with AI grading, and lesson-only cards covering RAG, prompt engineering, and agent architecture.

Next.jsPostgreSQLDrizzleGemini

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Productivity

Notes

Capture and organize thoughts

A simple personal note-taking app with markdown support and tag-based organization. Capture ideas, format with markdown, and find notes quickly.

Next.jsFirebaseTailwind CSS

Enter App

Board Room

Multi-agent advisory meetings

Chat with your AI agents in real-time meetings. @mention specific agents, watch them respond with streaming text, and get meeting summaries when you're done.

Next.jsFirebaseAI SDKSSE

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Agents

Create and manage AI advisory agents

Build a personal board of AI advisors. Configure each agent with a specific role, expertise, and LLM provider. Use them in Board Room meetings for multi-perspective advisory sessions.

Next.jsFirebaseAI SDK

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Explore Development Tools

Single-function AI Development Utilities

Planning

New Phase Planner

Plan product phases with structured AI guidance

When you have an idea for more than a trivial set of updates to your product, use this GPT to break it into actionable phases.

Open Custom GPT

Requirements

FRD Interviewer

Generate requirements through guided conversation

This GPT asks you questions until it has enough information to create a simple but comprehensive functional requirements document.

Open Custom GPT

Branding

Brands

Extract brand identity from any website

Submit a URL and get back colors, fonts, logos, and assets with AI-powered confidence scoring. Uses Playwright for deep page extraction.

Open Tool

Requirements

FRD Generator

Create functional requirements documents from specs

Provide your project specifications and get a structured FRD document with user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements.

Open App

Research

Compare AI models side-by-side in real time

Send a prompt to two AI models simultaneously and see their responses stream side-by-side. Choose between Standard and Expert tiers for different model combinations.

Open App

Weather Agent

Live demo of the Tool Use design pattern

Type a US city and watch a Gemini agent decide to call a weather function, see the live tool-call trace, and read the model's natural-language summary built from the result.

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AI Strategy

How to Know If Your Business Is Ready for AI

A practical readiness framework from a senior data & analytics consultant: five dimensions to score, the data prerequisites that actually matter, and the failure modes that sink most first AI projects.

Jul 1, 2026 · 7 min read

AI ReadinessData Strategy

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Agentic Design Pattern