A quick introduction
Hi, I’m Billy.
How I help businesses automate their work, and how I keep up with what’s new in AI.
Applied AI · Automation · Implementation
Applied AI
Applied AI
& automation.
I connect creativity, code, and AI to build practical systems for real workflows—from small-business reporting to creative production.
Billy Benson · Nelson, New Zealand · Open to remote work and relocation
Selected workFrom creative production
From creative production
to useful systems.
Systems that connect information, reduce manual work, and help people make decisions.
Applied AI & automation
AI CFO
A custom AI-assisted financial reporting system brings QuickBooks, a web platform without an API, Slack, and AI-classified job photos into one database. A custom dashboard provides reports, analysis, and recommendations grounded in the business’s goals.
Custom integrationsAI photo classificationReporting dashboard
AI Explorer
I built this tool for our Not for Nerds AI community. It is backed by a curated database of AI releases relevant to the community. Search in plain English or use filters to find tools for a specific need.
Curated dataPlain-English searchCommunity-focused
AI Explorer
Creative technology
Creative instincts paired with code, automation, and production experience.
Creative production automation
Built After Effects automation tools that cut file-packaging time by about 80% and are used by creative teams around 25 times per month.
After EffectsTeam workflowRepeatable automation
Creative Showreel
A one-minute cut of my video editing, motion design, and AI imagery work for brands and creative teams (June 2025).
Video editingMotion designAI imagery
Not for Nerds
AI community tutorials.
A few video examples from our Not for Nerds AI community.
Claude (Cloud) Scheduled Tasks for Automation
The Secret to Better AI Web Research
Claude Code & GitHub for Non-Nerds
In their words
Remarks
“Your level of innovation and delivery is awesome. The sheer number of POC’s you have delivered and the significant time savings they’ve created are very valuable.”
“Billy has been my go-to Super 8 wedding video editor across multiple projects. His speed, attention to detail, and creative eye are second to none.”
My storyCreative roots.
Creative roots.
Technical range.
I moved to New Zealand in 2014 to start my first business. I grew it and sold it three years later. After two years in Southeast Asia, where I developed my videography, editing, and coding skills, I returned to New Zealand to study and teach CGI before moving into social media advertising.
Over four years at Shuttlerock, I crafted ad creative for major brands, led creative sessions with clients, built tools and tutorials for a team of 200+ designers, and launched our AI-imagery offering. When existing tools couldn’t produce hundreds of video variations, I built the automation that could. That mix of creative and technical work still shapes how I build: understand the process, experiment, and make the result useful.
Today, I bring that experience to AI and automation projects and to Not for Nerds, the community I co-founded to help non-technical people make sense of AI. I’m a US/New Zealand dual citizen based in Nelson, open to roles across the US, NZ, and Australia, remote or relocating.
Away from work, I perform, host open-mic nights, play soccer and disc golf, cook New Orleans food with my wife, and dream up the next business idea.
Let’s talkHave a real workflow
Have a real workflow
to make better?
I’m open to applied AI and automation opportunities.