I build production AI systems.
Curtis Foster — AI Product Manager & Applied AI Builder
And I've spent 20+ years shipping the complex programs that make them real — at Verizon, HP, and my own ventures.
Founder and lead engineer of two live, multi-model AI platforms. Named inventor on 5 granted U.S. patents. Open to AI roles — full-time, contract, or fractional.
An independent reviewer agent grades every output before it ships.
Three ventures. All live. All built to be verified.
Ziggyloo — the AI tutor home, adapting to each child. Live at ziggyloo.com.
Ziggyloo
An AI tutor built for children who learn differently.
Ziggyloo is a live AI tutoring platform for neurodiverse children ages 3–10. It pairs each child with Ziggy, a warm AI tutor that adapts to how they think, feel, and learn — inside a safe world of games, personalized storybooks, and original music.
- Multi-model AI orchestration across OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini.
- A 5-layer long-term memory architecture (structured signals · Pinecone semantic vector memory · AI-distilled learner profiles · a proactive-insight engine · parent-shared context) so the tutor genuinely remembers each child.
- A dedicated AI safety & evaluation stack: an independent-reviewer content-integrity pipeline, a child-welfare safety classifier, and a 2,000-scenario red-team simulation harness.
- Full stack shipped solo — React Native/Expo, Node/TypeScript, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Redis, AWS, CI/CD.
Zentoko
The AI marketing team every brand wishes it had.
Zentoko is a live, multi-brand generative-AI platform that turns a single brand brief into a complete marketing engine — strategy, on-brand images and video, market intelligence, and content that schedules and publishes itself across platforms.
- Multi-tenant platform on a 125-model data schema serving multiple live consumer brands.
- An AI marketing-strategy engine (hook libraries, JTBD audience framing, content-pillar mapping, competitor whitespace analysis, flop-diagnosis feedback loops).
- A market-intelligence layer that scans a brand’s site and competitors for trends and gaps, plus a full marketing-plan generator (intake wizard → web scan → PDF).
- Automated end-to-end scheduled publishing and a generative-video pipeline (Imagen/Veo → FFmpeg on a job queue) with per-call AI cost telemetry.
Brands built & managed on Zentoko
Not a demo — live consumer brands whose strategy, content, and publishing run on the platform, managed end-to-end from one workspace and compared side by side in a single live performance view.
A relocation-guidance product — ranked country shortlists, move plans, and a members app — built and run entirely on Zentoko.
safehavenguide.comA self-reliant-household brand — content, newsletters, and a members app — created and managed end-to-end by Zentoko.
mainstaykit.comThe drone venture’s market presence — photoreal product content and strategy — produced on the same platform.
soninhybrid.comThe children’s AI-tutor brand — its blog, social, and campaigns run on Zentoko alongside the app itself.
ziggyloo.comSonin Hybrid
Hybrid-electric drones for first responders — and 5 patents behind them.
Sonin Hybrid is my hybrid-electric drone venture, building the longest-endurance, fully-equipped aircraft for law enforcement, fire, and government agencies. I led it from concept through a granted 5-patent portfolio and the product vision for the Recruit drone.
- Named inventor on all 5 granted U.S. patents — powertrain architecture, torque control, engine/pitch control, landing systems, and product design.
- Purpose-built for first responders: extended flight time carrying sensors, sirens, speakers, and lights.
- Led R&D, product vision, and IP strategy end to end.
Five granted U.S. patents.
Named inventor on five granted U.S. patents, assigned to Sonin Hybrid, LLC. Every one is verifiable on Google Patents.
Twenty years of shipping.
Director of Strategic Implementation — Tranzact Insurance Services
2025–2026Led 14 strategic initiatives to production; +17-pt CSAT/NPS, 92% first-contact resolution, $43M annual operational savings.
Senior IT Project Manager — Tranzact Insurance Services
2014–2024Lead PM for Verizon Vehicle back-end (Detroit Auto Show launch); directed 300+ IT staff across 30 partner companies; 1,800+ releases at 98.4% on-time across a $175M program.
Project Manager / Business Analyst — Hewlett Packard
2013–2014Drove a six-month program with $4.2B annual revenue impact; delivered governance, continuity, and security frameworks.
Project Manager / Business Analyst — Verizon Wireless
2011–2013Took a 6-years-stalled release to launch in ~5 months; designed a BI system projected to lift efficiency 40–60%.
Founder & Principal Consultant — Nested Technologies
1999–2025Independent software consultancy; built IHG’s hotel-to-hotel referral system generating ~$20M/yr across 206 hotels, still in use.
What I bring to an AI team.
AI / ML
Product / Delivery
Engineering
Leadership
The whole system, not one part.
For two decades I led complex technical programs at Verizon, HP, and InterContinental Hotels. Then I stopped talking about AI and started building it — and I haven’t stopped since.
Across hardware and software, the lesson has been the same: the magic is never one component — it’s how the whole system holds together. That’s the instinct I bring to AI products, where memory, safety, evaluation, and cost matter as much as the model itself.
Quick answers.
Who is Curtis Foster?
Curtis Foster is an AI product manager and applied AI builder based in Atlanta, GA. He has shipped two live multi-model AI platforms — Ziggyloo, a children’s AI tutor, and Zentoko, a multi-brand AI marketing platform — and is a named inventor on 5 U.S. patents, after 20+ years leading technical programs at Verizon, HP, and InterContinental Hotels.
What AI systems has Curtis Foster built?
He builds production AI systems end to end: multi-model LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with vector search, long-term memory architecture, AI evaluation and guardrails, generative image and video pipelines (Imagen, Veo), speech (ElevenLabs, Deepgram), and per-call AI cost and telemetry engineering. Ziggyloo and Zentoko both run this stack live.
What patents does Curtis Foster hold?
He is a named inventor on 5 U.S. patents covering hybrid aerial-vehicle powertrain architecture, generator-load torque control, coordinated engine-speed and propeller-pitch control, a retractable landing-support assembly, and an ornamental drone design.
What roles is Curtis Foster open to?
AI-focused roles — product, technical product, or applied AI — on a full-time, contract, or fractional basis. He works from Atlanta, GA and is open to remote.
What is Curtis Foster’s background?
Two decades of technical program leadership at Verizon, HP, and InterContinental Hotels — including a hotel-to-hotel referral system generating roughly $20M a year across 206 hotels — followed by hands-on AI product building. The through-line is systems thinking: memory, safety, evaluation, and cost matter as much as the model itself.
Let’s build something ambitious.
Open to AI-focused roles — product, technical product, or applied AI — full-time, contract, or fractional.