Steve Brownlie

Director of Consulting Services

Confuse The Machine · Full-time

Nov 2022 - Present (2 yrs 7 mos)

Dudley, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Confuse the Machine specialises in AI consultancy for marketing and sales outreach. Delivering advanced customisation to sales teams, enabling them to focus on dealing with warm responses instead of spending hours researching and cold outreaching prospects. Our team also has experience building business analytics and reporting platforms, and customer service/onboarding agents using the latest generative AI from OpenAI (chatGPT etc), Google Vertex AI and many open source models. Visit https://confusethemachine.com

Chief Technology Officer

BeyondCode.ai · Contract

Jan 2024 - Present (1 yr 5 mos)

Estonia · Remote

Delivering exceptional AI projects for enterprise brands including Banks, major Ecommerce stores and more. Primarily in document analysis, legal, finance and customer support (chat and email) verticals.

Director of Consulting Services

Reach Creator

Aug 2015 - Present (9 yrs 10 mos)

Dudley, United Kingdom

Working as a fulfillment agency for top Digital and SEO agencies, as well as in-house marketing departments, we provide outreach for link building and influencer marketing. Whether you want us to negotiate paid product reviews, or deliver coverage and links organically through our 'public relations' style outreach, we're able to get the job done. We wear the 'hat' you want us to wear, and take away all the challenges your team faces to execute for your clients, or your business.

Director of Consulting Services

Palladous

Jun 2014 - Present (11 yrs)

Dudley, United Kingdom

Palladous provide a complete package of business growth services specialising in using online strategies and an education based (media first) marketing approach to grow businesses and help them to improve their sales processes. If you're not sure why your business isn't selling online, despite 85% of customers making buying decisions online, get in touch. If you want your business to be the go to expert for local and national journalists when your industry is in the news, we can make those connections for you, and make sure the coverage you receive translates into sales - not just in the short term, but into the long term by building your site's authority, and your reputation locally and/or nationally. Most businesses with a web presence are missing out on a relatively easy 5-15% growth just from a few simple fixes and that's before the real PR, branding and content strategy is started - how much difference would that make to your sales and bottom line?

Project Highlight: Explainer Videos Can Boost Your Sales

Up to 80% more visitors become customers when you have video on your sales pages and on your site. Get in touch if you're interested in making your site more successful with one of our professionally produced animated videos.

Director of Consulting Services

Verticem Ltd

Aug 2012 - Present (12 yrs 10 mos)

Dudley, United Kingdom

Verticem Ltd provides executive level consulting to agencies and corporations.

Project Highlight: Verticem Ltd: Enterprise Consulting

Enterprise Consulting Services

Owner, LightningHTML - Web Design And Coding Agency

LightningHTML.com · Full-time

Aug 2021 - Sep 2024 (3 yrs 2 mos)

Dudley, England, United Kingdom

At ReachCreator we were endlessly helping clients develop stylish animated linkbait pages and other marketing assets. As part of that we've built a team of highly skilled web designers, coders and devs. As it has grown it made sense to spin that out to a standalone business and LightningHTML was born. It's the design agency we built to support our own clients and marketing, now available to everyone! In 2024 Lightning HTML merged with our operations at Confuse The Machine.

Head of Operations

Wait.co.uk

Apr 2013 - Jun 2014 (1 yr 3 mos)

Oxfordshire

Wait.co.uk is growing fast with over sixty UK based, professional copywriters with expertise in all fields from finance writing to health SEO copywriting. Tasked with supporting the growth of the business to be one of the premier suppliers in the UK my role includes:

• Overseeing the hiring of our professional writers, SEO copywriters, editors, proofreaders and researchers
• Managing the direct sales staff and their contacts with customers to improve conversion
• Mentoring the editing staff to enable them to support and improve the performance of the writers they manage
• Designing the workflow and processes that enable the business to scale smoothly and always deliver the highest quality to customers

Copywriting for the web is a competitive niche where customers expect the best but are very price sensitive due to the nature of the commodity. To compete, the Wait writing service takes a razor-sharp approach to quality to set ourselves apart as the only provider delivering web content at a strong price point without sacrificing quality.

Head of Search Marketing

Warlock Media

Feb 2012 - Jun 2014 (2 yrs 5 mos)

Self employed project manager specialising in search, currently contracted to head up the Search Marketing Operations at Warlock Media. I only look after the toughest clients from sectors such as travel, finance, logistics and pharmaceuticals for one of the best worldwide digital marketing and search engine marketing agencies.

Content & Marketing Manager

ProBuyToLet.Com

Jun 2011 - Jan 2013 (1 yr 8 mos)

West Midlands

Part owner of the business my role is to manage the editorial and content team at what has become a notable landlord advice and news portal in the UK aimed at providing Buy To Let finance information and property news.

Affiliate Marketing & Content Manager

Fountains Hosting

Apr 2008 - Feb 2012 (3 yrs 11 mos)

Managed a range of web properties, primarily in the Finance and Online Gaming sectors to increase revenue, develop new content and affiliate partnerships. Managed the project to deliver a new Intranet for a large NGO in the US.