About Brandon Dey
Founder, ML Builder, Data Scientist, Writer
Brandon is building AI systems and businesses in AgTech, ClimateTech, and OceanTech. With over a decade of data science experience across the enterprise, public sector, and start-up community, he’s spent his career designing full stack machine learning systems—from data pipelines to ML algorithms to hardware—to deliver real outcomes in places where innovation often stalls.
Rebuilding America’s Innovation Engine
Brandon Dey has dedicated his career to American innovation. From analyst to data scientist to systems engineer to entrepreneur, he has seen how incentives, bureaucracy, and misalignment can prevent elite engineers and scientists from solving big problems. At General American Intelligence, he builds and launches R&D-driven ventures that serve communities most in need of intelligent systems in sectors spanning agriculture, manufacturing, climate, and maritime.
Bridging Research & Production
Brandon’s work turns complex quantitative research into scalable businesses and useful products. Whether through deep-learning research, operations research, econometrics, autonomous agents, or rapid MVP development, he has shown that intelligent systems can go from whiteboard to the real world with the right process for retiring risk. He helps organizations think differently and plan responsibly—systematically reducing risk, optimizing for value, and designing for impact at every stage. He has witnessed firsthand what happens to America’s innovation edge when we don’t. Today, his work focuses on restoring America’s role as an engine of practical, scalable, responsible innovation, so we can pull the future forward faster, more sustainably, and more humanely.
Brandon Dey’s Story
Brandon grew up in rural Wisconsin, where his mom cut hair and his stepdad was a truck driver. After high school, he worked summers in a ductile-iron foundry, which taught him that college was the way out. He studied economics and applied math, which led to an R&D job as a data scientist inventing AI software for the Senior Living industry. Wanting to make more money, he got into Wall Street and Financial Services, building asset-allocation algorithms to better junkmail rich people. Realizing there was more to work than money, he turned back to communities of real people, serving as a senior data scientist at Kroger, and then Publix, before settling into a technology-leadership role at the world’s largest Microsoft Azure cloud partner, where he consulted for major American brands as an AI R&D leader. He credits whatever success he has to his wife and to the giants on whose shoulders he stands, including mentors from Bell Labs who believed technology should serve real people. Today, Brandon builds practical AI software tools to help our environment, our farmers, our factories, and our neighborhoods work better. He’s a husband and dad, but he’s still the Wisconsin kid who loves to play outside and climb trees, trying to leave things a little better than he found them.