About Douglas Campbell

Designer, builder,
systems thinker.

I create AI and design agentic systems that fit how people actually work, and teach others to do the same.

Hi, I'm Douglas

25+ years helping people win with technology.

My title these days: Agentic Systems Architect. As fractional CSIO at Growth Science Capital Holdings, I build the systems their companies run on. I also lead RAIZOR, an agentic studio, and document work on my R&D lab.

I trained as an industrial designer, before moving into brand strategy, web design, marketing and events for brands like Google, the Getty, UCLA, and TED. Since 2023 I've worked full time on generative AI, automation, and agents.

My edge is translating between executive pain, team workflows and the systems that fix them, where strategy, build and human adoption all matter. I'm hands-on: I build what I talk about, and run my own work on it.

What I believe

The best technology does not replace people. It gives them more room to think, create, connect and lead.

The long way round

How a designer ended up building agents.

1998
Harrow School, England

Studied at Harrow School in England, with a focus on math, art, and design and technology. It laid the foundation for what I love most: combining those fields.
2002
RISD & MIT

BFA in Industrial Design from RISD, including project collaboration with MIT. On graduating I launched ProjectFresh, my web design practice, and became an early pioneer of the digital nomad life, working remotely throughout Asia.
2007
TED, MindshareLA & charitable adventures

After working with the TED conference, I was inspired to launch into experiential marketing with MindshareLA: almost 200 salons, conferences and gatherings in Los Angeles, mixing presenters from Caltech, Art Center, USC and UCLA with unique artistic and musical performances and interactive installations. Plus The Tuxedo Travels and Cause It's My Birthday, which mixed social media, charity and adventure.
LA years
Syyn Labs & event production

Born of Mindshare Labs, Syyn Labs paired artists with engineers, made OK Go's viral Rube Goldberg video, and launched brand experiences from Google to the Getty, building installations, curating presenters, and managing full event production.
2015
Cross Campus

Chief experience officer for a boutique coworking company as it launched new locations around Los Angeles: producing and hosting events, improving the member experience, and shaping the team's culture.
2017
A sabbatical in southern Oregon

A retreat from events and technology, spent restoring Trillium, a wilderness retreat community, advising others on land stewardship, and sitting still long enough to publish my novel, The Motorcycle & The Molecule.
2020
Rogue Media

Back to work in the remote COVID online boom, launching Rogue Media, a fast digital agency: brands, websites, campaigns, automations.
2023
Back to design roots, and into AI

Product design education re-up, low-code app building, then deep into generative AI for business.
2024
RAIZOR

Founded RAIZOR, my agentic studio; launched Agent Otto, a content marketing automation suite of tools, and The RAIZOR Report, a weekly AI news podcast published entirely by agents.
2025
Growth Science Capital

An Agent Otto demo became a full time CSIO role at Growth Science Capital, building AI systems and tools for a portfolio of companies.
Now
Agentic systems, in the open

Fractional CSIO at GSC, agentic systems architect through RAIZOR, startup mentor at UF and community builder with GNV.AI, sharing what I build and learn through ProjectFresh and Nexus R&D.