Who I Am & Why It Matters
I’m Doneyli, Principal AI Architect at ClickHouse. Before that: founding team at Snowflake’s AI practice ($0 to $100M ARR). 20+ years building data and AI systems across Elastic, Cloudera, Deutsche Bank, and Verizon.
I lead Montreal’s AI community, speak at conferences (including TEDx), and write about what actually happens when you build AI at scale.
✔ Built production AI systems at enterprise scale; not demos, not POCs
✔ Translated technical complexity into business strategy for Fortune 500 clients
✔ Grew an AI practice from zero to $100M ARR as a founding team member
✔ 20+ years from hands-on development to solution architecture
Most AI content is either too technical for decision-makers or too fluffy for builders. This newsletter lives in the gap: practitioner depth with enterprise translation.
What you get every week:
Build Logs - “I Built X” tutorials with real code, real failures, and working GitHub repos
Signal Reports - What’s actually changing in AI, stripped of hype
Pattern Briefs - Frameworks extracted from enterprise deployments
Framework Deep-Dives - Named models you can apply to your own work
Choose your path:
Free - Weekly frameworks, pattern recognition, and signal analysis. The concepts, architecture, and “what and why” of everything I build. Genuine value, not a teaser.
Paid ($10/month or $96/year) - The full practitioner lab report. Complete “I Built X” tutorials with production code and config templates. 10+ implementation tutorials and growing monthly. Every new Build Log tutorial is included automatically.
“Free posts show you what’s possible. Paid shows you exactly how to build it.”
Founding Member ($200/year) - Everything in paid, plus:
Free AI Readiness Assessment ($500 value), private Chat, and monthly group AMA
Priority access to future workshops and cohorts
This is proximity, not a discount.
The guarantee: I will never write content I wouldn’t want to read myself. No filler. No sponsored content. No “10 tips” posts. If an issue doesn’t deliver, email me.
