Zach spent more than 16 years in marketing and creative services, building the systems behind the work: project workflows, file conventions, paid media coordination. When AI arrived, his first thought was that his career had a shelf life. Then he saw the old pattern: every tool that changed an era met resistance, and the people who learned it went further than they could have without it. So he jumped in, and found that AI on its own has no judgment, no taste and no feel for a client. With an expert driving it, the ceiling lifts. He built the first Stak for marketing teams he worked with, and today he leads the product and the services around it.
“AI without human expertise is just a super calculator. We supply the expertise.”

