Denver, Colorado

BryceWadley

Intelligent Operations & Change Management

I turn manual, high-stakes business processes into governed AI products — and lead the teams that ship them.

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Years

AI / ML

Product Leader

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01 — The Résumé

Accomplished leader in transformation and intelligent operations.

I design and lead the development of business applications using AI/ML, Alteryx, and Microsoft's Power Platform — modernizing manual processes into state-of-the-art software. Across an 8+ year career at Grant Thornton I've guided global, cross-functional teams through high-stakes product and change initiatives, with builds responsible for >$100M in projected revenue generation and resource-hour savings — driven by automation, machine learning, and disciplined judgment about where AI does (and doesn't) belong.

Experience

Grant Thornton

Jan 2020 – Present

Remote · Global

iasc.x — Power Platform Factory Lead

Lead an international Agile team building AI/ML and automation products on Microsoft Power Platform, Alteryx, OCR, and Python — turning manual, spreadsheet-bound finance and operations processes into governed, production software used across the firm and its clients.
Helped bring empower.x to market — Grant Thornton's change-management application, built on the alyx® platform — giving practitioners data-driven stakeholder, readiness, and impact assessments to run enterprise change faster.
Shipped a portfolio of iasc.x solutions — change management, composite tax automation, fraud analytics, digital assembly, and executive-suite reporting — with builds responsible for >$100M in projected revenue generation and resource-hour savings.
Built a remote-first Agile delivery framework spanning discovery, build, and ongoing support that measurably improved cross-team collaboration and delivery speed for globally distributed teams.
Owned end-to-end product management from discovery through support — balancing automation opportunity against risk, user trust, and a clear view of where AI should not be used.

empower.xPower PlatformAlteryxAI/MLOCR & PythonProduct Leadership

Grant Thornton

Sept 2016 – Jan 2020

Global · Travel

Finance Management & Enterprise Transformation Advisor

Advised on finance-transformation programs across current-state analysis, future-state design, vendor selection, and business-case development for procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and ASC-842 lease-accounting efforts.
Managed remote, cross-functional staff on global engagements — traveling to assess client operating models and redesign how finance organizations work.

Finance TransformationASC-842P2P / O2CVendor Selection

Capabilities

AI & Generative Models

LLMsMachine LearningAutomationFederated Learning

Product & Project Management

Agile / ScrumStakeholder AlignmentRoadmapping

Change Management

Organizational TransformationLeadershipTeam Empowerment

Intelligent Automation

Power PlatformRPAPro-code Development

Data & Insights

Power BIAlteryxAzureSQL

Business Process Optimization

Finance TransformationFuture-State Design

Education

2015 · GPA 3.89

Master of Business Administration

The University of Tulsa

2014 · GPA 3.58 · 4.0 (London)

B.S. Business Administration — Finance, Marketing & Accounting

Oklahoma State University · Regent's College, London

Earlier & Interests

Graduate Assistant · The University of Tulsa

Led university accreditation efforts and served as SEO of a multi-million-dollar student investment fund that grew to exceed its benchmarks.

Risk Sport Professional · Oklahoma State University

Coached participants through intrinsic and extrinsic motivation while balancing ability, risk, and team dynamics — reducing sales-cycle time by 60%.

Rock climbingSkiingHikingYogaBuilding AI agentsBusiness ops & new tech

02 — The EngineA year-plus in the making

Everyone will carry their own agentic SDLC.

The advanced offering of a modern product leader isn't a résumé of past projects — it's a system. A personal, portable software development lifecycle, run by a coordinated team of AI agents, that the individual owns, improves, and carries everywhere.

I've been building mine for over a year. It takes a raw idea and carries it the whole distance — to a deployed, global platform — with the discipline, review, and testing that keep the code genuinely good at every step. It was ready before the organizations were; when Grant Thornton matured enough to use it, I bolted it on, improved their system from the inside, and kept refining. No matter where I go, I always have my agentic SDLC — and it compounds.

This engine built the two products below — and a great deal of Grant Thornton work I'm not able to show publicly.

From a one-line idea to a global platform

Idea→

Spec→

Plan→

Build→

Prove→

Ship→

Global platform

What makes it different

Spec-first, always

Every change runs a full OpenSpec lifecycle — proposal, design, specs, tasks, implement, document. Intent is written down and agreed before a line of code exists. Nothing ships on a vibe.

An org, not a bot

Not one chatbot — a coordinated team of specialized agents: requirements, product, and parallelization planners feeding backend, AI, frontend, review, release, and docs builders, all under an orchestrator.

Adversarial quality

Five validation layers and five testing tiers — including 'defeat' tests written to break the code, and real-browser verification where screenshots are read back and checked with actual eyes.

Idea → global platform

The same pipeline that scopes a one-line idea carries it through parallel builds, proof, and gated deploys until it's a production platform real people use — not a demo that dies in a notebook.

Self-improving

Persistent memory, pattern-hunting, and a seven-level maturity model mean the system learns from every build. It gets measurably better the longer it runs.

Portable & owned

A year-plus of work, entirely mine. It bolts onto whatever organization I join and improves their system from the inside — and leaves with me, sharper than before.

What it has built

Prospecta

Public

LinguaFlow

Public

Grant Thornton

Confidential

1yr+In the making

5×5Validation × testing

7Maturity levels

∞Always improving

And here is what it built↓

LiveProject 01 — FinTech

Prospecta

An AI portfolio & advisory platform, live in production.

Prospecta pairs an AI advisor chat with an automated portfolio scheduler — built end-to-end, deployed, and running. It's the clearest expression of how I think: real users, real money, real judgment about where the model leads and where a human must.

AI AdvisorPortfolio AutomationFull-stackProduction

Open Prospecta↗

myprospecta.com

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LiveProject 02 — EdTech

LinguaFlow

Human-to-human language learning, reimagined.

A mobile platform that connects real learners with real teachers — using AI only as backend scaffolding (transcription, question-matching, quiz generation from human-curated content), never as the tutor. Privacy-first, with 6,000+ passing tests behind it.

React NativeHuman-first AISRS FlashcardsPrivacy

Open LinguaFlow↗

03 — In the Press

Grant Thornton — the platforms my team builds

Grant Thornton

empower.x launches to streamline change management

The change-management application I helped bring to market — built on the alyx® platform — giving practitioners data-driven stakeholder, readiness, and impact assessments.

2022Read ↗

Grant Thornton

alyx™ — a concierge-enabled platform for transformation

The intelligent-automation platform our Intelligence Automation Service Center (iasc.x) builds on — pairing subject-matter specialists with technologists.

2020Read ↗

Accounting Today

Grant Thornton launches empower.x change-management application

Industry coverage of empower.x — automated data visualization and reporting on stakeholder impact, engagement, and change readiness.

2022Read ↗

Selected releases and coverage of the alyx® platform and the empower.x change-management application my Intelligence Automation Service Center team builds on.

Let's build something

Get in touch

brycewadley@gmail.com

(918) 407-9794LinkedIn ↗Denver, Colorado

BRYCE WADLEY