2006–2008/09
The real technology pivot: teaching college courses online
Beginning in 2006, Brian served as adjunct faculty at California State University, East Bay and taught Recreation-related courses online. The experience showed him that teaching did not have to depend on a student and teacher being in the same room. A 2022 public profile describes this as roughly three years of online teaching, extending into 2009.
2009–2010
SuccessAdvising.com: trying to move academic advising online
After teaching online, Brian began exploring whether academic advising could also happen digitally—so students could receive guidance without always coming to an office in person. SuccessAdvising.com became an early expression of that idea. The institution around him was not yet fully ready for the model, but the idea stayed with him: use technology to make knowledge and support more accessible.
January 2010
Brian's Online Success Services begins
Brian formalized the next step as Brian's Online Success Services—using the internet, websites, search, social media and digital tools to teach, advise and help people build visibility without requiring every interaction to happen face to face.
PUBLIC The 2022 Life Coach Code profile records January 2010 as the start of Brian's Online Success Services.
2011–2015
Building websites, social presence and digital community
Brian supported minority-owned businesses with search and social media marketing and built and maintained the Black Men Speak website and social presence in Oakland. The pattern was already clear: learn the technology, then use it to help people be seen and connected.
2018
“The Apexboss innovates again!”
Brian was publicly writing about digital innovation and a mobile app years before generative AI became a mainstream business conversation.
October 2021
The “Black & Latino Father Entrepreneurs” idea becomes a defined product audience
While participating in Marisa Murgatroyd's Experience Product Masterclass through Live Your Message, Brian defined an Experience Product focused on online marketing and coaching for Black and Latino Father Entrepreneurs. His milestone work repeatedly described teaching fathers to use software tools to generate new customers.
2022
Digital entrepreneurship becomes part of the public story
A public profile documented the longer path from online teaching to digital marketing, website creation, Boss Mobility and service to Black and Latino Father Entrepreneurs.
2022–2023
Nowsite and AI-enabled marketing experimentation
Brian used Nowsite as a working digital-marketing environment, building websites, testing CRM and marketing workflows, and learning how AI could support content and business development rather than remaining an abstract technology.
PUBLIC Brian publicly recommended Nowsite in 2023 on Alignable; archived project records also document Nowsite 2.0 presentations and AI-assisted marketing experiments.
December 2023
“Who Are The Human A.I. Fatherhood Entrepreneurs?”
The words fatherhood and AI were now explicitly connected in Brian's public work. The focus was not replacing people with machines—it was exploring how fathers and entrepreneurs could remain engaged while learning to use emerging technology.
May 2024
AI consulting becomes an explicit direction
Brian publicly wrote that Boss Mobility as an AI consultant was the pivot he was moving toward, describing AI as a bridge for Black and Latino entrepreneurs and emphasizing continuous learning, inclusion and practical use.
2024
AI Boss Mobility course and Nowsite learning spaces
Brian created and recorded AI Boss Mobility educational material for Black and Latino mothers and fathers, using Nowsite websites as part of the learning environment.
2024–2025
Teaching Baby Boomers to cross the technology gap
Brian increasingly described his role as simplifying complex technology and helping Baby Boomers enter the AI era without feeling pushed aside. That bridge-building role became central to AI Boss Mobility.
2025–2026
From learning AI tools to building AI systems
The work expanded from content and individual tools into agents, knowledge bases, automation, orchestration and practical business implementation. Brian's own systems became the laboratory.
2026
The Brian Digital Twin becomes a working demonstration
The journey reaches the current stage: one human identity, one authoritative knowledge source, and AI that can educate, answer questions, explain offers and extend access without making Brian the bottleneck.