I Spent Years Finding What Was Limiting Business Growth. Now I Build the AI Systems That Fix It.
Twelve years across growth, marketing, and operations. The problem was rarely the strategy. It was the infrastructure. AI made it possible to fix that infrastructure in ways that were not available before.
Twelve Years Building Growth Systems. Then AI Changed What Was Possible.
I started with computers the same way I approach everything. Taking them apart to understand what was actually happening underneath. That same instinct drove me into SEO and digital marketing, then into demand generation at Transcat (NYSE: TRNS), then eight years as VP of Digital Marketing Strategy at Community Proud. I got good at growth because I refused to credit results I could not explain at the mechanism level.
In 2025 I went deep on AI infrastructure. Not the hype, the systems. Six Google Cloud Generative AI certifications in three months, built and tested against real business problems before I said a word about it to clients. That work led to founding Cobham Consulting Group with Larnelle Cobham in August 2025. The goal was simple: find the operational problem, design the system, and build it. No vendor relationships. No platform bias. One person accountable to the outcome.
Andre Cobham
AI Automation Consultant & Systems Architect
The Ecosystem
Two Companies. One Integrated Stack.
Arising Media Inc.
Lead generation, digital marketing, SEO, and e-commerce growth. Built for B2B companies that need consistent pipeline, not one-time campaign spikes.
Cobham Consulting Group
AI infrastructure, local model deployment, hardware setup, hosting, and IT solutions. Built for organizations that need AI running inside their own environment, not a vendor's.
I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Andre at Hearst for more than eight years, during which Andre has competently and confidently managed some of our most sensitive client relationships. I have always been impressed with his ability to communicate complex strategies and data sets in relatable ways that garner buy-in and turn into actionable business insights.
Rob Cibelli · Director, Advertising Sales at Hearst · Verified LinkedIn Recommendation
Education
SUNY Fredonia
B.S., Business Administration and Marketing. At SUNY Fredonia I founded The Raphy Report. A multi-topic news and variety web series that moved into the university's business incubator and was covered by Buffalo Business First.
Certifications
6 Google Cloud Generative AI Certifications
I earned these in three months in 2025 because I wanted to understand the full stack of what I was recommending, not just the surface layer. Generative AI Leader Specialization, Gen AI for Transforming Your Organization, Gen AI Foundational Concepts, Gen AI Apps for Transforming Your Work, Gen AI Beyond the Chatbot, and Gen AI for Navigating the Landscape.
Practice Infrastructure
Production-Grade AI Infrastructure. Every Recommendation Validated Against a Running Stack.
My home office runs a Proxmox hypervisor serving multiple VMs. Ollama handles local model Inference. llama.cpp sits underneath for quantized deployments. I test models from Hugging Face, run them through real business scenarios, and only recommend what works at the scale a growing business actually needs. I do not recommend cloud tools I have not used. I do not recommend local infrastructure I have not run myself.
30 Minutes. Honest Assessment. No Pitch.
You describe what is eating your time. I tell you honestly whether I can fix it, what it takes, and what it costs.