AI in Your Business, Directed by You
John M. P. Knox is the founder of Moving Average
Your team already has AI. The hard part is getting them to use it, then designing processes around it that work and keep working. I help CEOs and founders find the processes most critical to their strategy, direct AI to improve them with the people who will run them, and test the results on real examples from their business.
John brought together a group of people for a 1 hour call that provided more value than a week’s worth of one-off conversations.
Jonathan Zacks · Founder & CEO, GoReminders
Since March 2026, John has hosted more than 20 AI roundtables with CEOs and founders of software companies, including the AI-in-business sessions at MicroConf in the US and Europe. In Reykjavik, both sessions were full, with about 40 founders in all. The same needs come up across those sessions: getting the team to use AI and deciding who owns it, getting business context into it and keeping it current, and automating heavy manual processes without losing control of permissions and data.
He directs AI in his own business every day. An AI chief of staff runs his briefings and follow-ups, and an SEO auditor keeps a log of its own experiments. Other automations turn meeting transcripts into blog posts, prepare social posts and personalized email to his list, and handle IT tasks.
That work rests on more than two decades of technology leadership across seven industries and multiple economic cycles. AI is his seventh innovation cycle. As an investor and advisor, he works with founders and boards on the hard technical and organizational calls behind how a product scales. The visible problems — a team that will not use AI, an automation that worked once and drifted — rarely sit where they show. The roots run deeper: how strategy, process, and communication connect. John's work is finding the roots and fixing them at the source.
Core Expertise
AI in Business: Choosing which work AI should take on, team adoption and ownership, getting business context into AI and keeping it current, and safe delegation: permissions, data and security
Technology Leadership: Multi-million dollar product strategy, enterprise platform development, mobile technology commercialization, and infrastructure supporting billions in transactions
Organizational Development: Cross-functional team leadership, strategic talent acquisition, merger and acquisition evaluation, and crisis management
Growth Strategy: B2B SaaS scaling, digital marketplace optimization, customer success frameworks, and post-acquisition integration
Risk Management: FDA-regulated medical device development, semiconductor validation, quality management systems, and compliance frameworks
Proven Results
- More than 20 AI roundtables with CEOs and founders since March 2026, including MicroConf in the US and Europe
- 99.9% reliability in mobile platforms serving millions of users
- Billions of dollars in commerce enabled through technology infrastructure
- Apple App Store features and coverage in major publications (Wired, CNET) — two current apps developed by AI with a human in the loop
- Class III medical device development from concept through clinical trials
- Hundreds of executives mentored through organizational transformations and growth
Writing on AI
- AI Delegation: What Founders Hand Off and What They Keep
- What CEOs Need to Know About AI
- The Four Levels of AI Adoption: From Chatbot to Autopilot
Industry Experience
Healthcare & Life Sciences: FDA-regulated medical device investor and technologist; sports wellness monitoring platforms; clinical validation and commercialization strategies. Founder of MedTech Connect and the MedTech Summit.
Enterprise Technology: Strategic technical leadership at major marketplace platforms (HomeAway/Vrbo, Evernote); B2B SaaS scaling expertise; enterprise customer success.
Semiconductors & Manufacturing: Advanced microprocessor development and validation; performance optimization; hardware-software ecosystem management.
Consumer Technology: Product leadership for tens of millions of users; user engagement optimization; monetization and retention strategies.
Economic Resilience
John has navigated multiple economic cycles, including the dot-com bust, 2008 financial crisis, and COVID-19 pandemic. That experience shapes how he reads growth and crisis risk today.
Investment & Advisory
As a limited partner and mentor with TinySeed, John provides strategic guidance to B2B SaaS companies on technology, organizational development, and growth strategies. His advisory work includes due diligence for technology acquisitions, designing high-performance organizations, and leadership assessment frameworks. He also hosts the Executive AI Roundtable, where CEOs and founders compare what they are doing with AI and what is working. He leads Executive AI Build, a four-week program in which each leader improves one process with AI alongside the person on their team who will run it.
For the full list of advisory specialties and how engagements work, see the Skills page.
Professional Foundation
Education: Dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
Author: Conquering Your Engineering Internship and other books and guides for engineers
Industry Engagement: Speaker at Business of Software Conference and MicroConf Istanbul (2025); host of the AI-in-business sessions at MicroConf US and Europe (2026)
Continuous Learning: Organizer of cross-industry strategic events; sponsor of executive development programs; dedicated to advancing next-generation technology leadership
Praise
A few endorsements are below. For the full picture — testimonials, recurring roundtable attendees, engineering case studies, and where John shows up in the broader operator community — see the Results page.
On the AI roundtables
John led an AI roundtable in Reykjavik. As a German, I was impressed by the efficiency of this format. I learned so many practical use cases from my peers in a very short amount of time, and I could ask any questions to understand what works and what does not. In one hour, we went over all the important departments of our SaaS company: marketing, sales, development, personal assistant, chief of staff, ... You name it. John has a great talent to keep the pace in a good range: not too slow, so we had enough time to understand a lot of use cases, but not too fast to be confusing. 5/5 stars.
Christian Asche · CEO, coveto ATS GmbH
John’s AI Roundtables are a great place to meet with like-minded practitioners talking through how they’re approaching AI. What’s working and what isn’t, without all the hype.
Nathan Tyler · CEO, BlinkMetrics
What’s really great is that you’ve got smart entrepreneurs turning up. It’s an inside track on what people are experiencing in their organizations.
Mark Littlewood · CEO, Business of Software
On working with John
This is gold. The way John broke it open with the idea of mapping cleanup areas and overlapping them with feature work really clicked. That map gives both me and whoever comes onboard a clear starting point and a way to make progress without needing to pause everything for a massive overhaul. It also helps frame the work in a way that feels achievable and grounded in real product needs.
Joel-Olivier (Jobo) Baussan · Co-founder, CargoFax
As a TinySeed mentor, John has provided great insight into many product and business questions I’ve had. We also had several conversations about hiring and managing engineers, and his experienced perspective as an engineering leader was incredibly valuable.
Matt Zunert · Founder, DebugBear
John has always been quick to respond to our inquires with his wealth of knowledge and network of subject-matter experts. He’s transparent on what he can provide advice on and when we would recommend another expert. I’m appreciative of all the help he’s provided over the years.
Schoneck Shoaf · COO & Co-founder, 1 Second Everyday
I’m a super-fan of everyone and everything related to John and BoS.
Jason Cohen · Founder, WP Engine
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