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About Brandon Painter, M.B.A., M.S., M.Ed.
I Build the Systems Around the Work People Know Best.
I started by teaching myself how to design websites, build funnels, and sell online. That work grew into e-commerce, digital products, online courses, automation, applied AI, UX/UI, and immersive training.
Today, I help small-business owners turn what they know into websites, customer systems, automated workflows, AI-supported tools, and learning experiences that people can understand and use.
The Origin Story
I Went Online to Learn How to Sell Myself. I Ended Up Building an Entire Practice Around It.
The path was not linear. Each stage exposed another part of the business that had to work.
Self-Directed Start
YouTube University, Funnels, and Positive Coaching
While earning my Master of Education in Positive Coaching, I was also teaching myself how to present and sell my work online. I studied website design, funnels, offers, and digital marketing through YouTube and Russell Brunson’s books, training, and ClickFunnels ecosystem. His approach to offers, funnel architecture, and direct-response pages still influences how I think about websites today.
First Practical Systems
Websites and E-Commerce Came Before AI
I began building websites and online stores. That work taught me that a site is never only a set of pages. The offer, message, checkout, customer information, fulfillment, communication, and follow-up all have to support the same outcome.
Learning Center
Information Products, Workshops, and Backend Workflows
At a learning center, I saw how much time was spent creating workshop materials, handling registrations, following up, and delivering information repeatedly. We turned five-hour workshops and bonus resources into digital products, workbooks, and password-protected website pages for teachers and students. Those systems reduced printing, made the information easier to carry, and created new revenue beyond the live workshop.
Early Vision
Courses, Group Coaching, and Virtual Learning Before They Were Required
I kept advocating for online courses, virtual tutoring, group coaching, and digital classes because I believed they were becoming the next form of access. The idea was not to replace the teacher. It was to extend the teacher’s knowledge beyond one room and one scheduled event.
The Pandemic Pivot
When the In-Person Model Stopped, the Digital Model Had to Work.
Students stopped coming in person. Workshops were cancelled. The business needed a different way to teach, communicate, and deliver value.
Virtual Delivery
Zoom Became a Learning and Support System
I learned Zoom deeply enough to help teachers use it, support students when they had questions, and prepare for a future in which one-on-one appointments and classes would not always happen in the same room.
Course Building
Information Products Became Online Learning
I combined what I knew about websites, workbooks, workshops, digital products, access, and follow-up with online-course architecture and learning-management systems.
Operating Lesson
The Experience Is Larger Than the Content
A course can contain excellent information and still fail when enrollment, navigation, instructions, access, reminders, support, or the learning path are confusing.
UX/UI, Psychology, AI, and Automation
I Shifted Away From Standalone UX Design—Then Brought It Back Into Everything.
I began studying UX/UI because I wanted online courses and digital systems to be easier for people to understand. I completed several courses in the Google UX Design program, but did not finish the entire certificate because generative AI changed my direction.
UX Gave Me a Better Language for the Human Experience
Research, information architecture, interaction design, usability, cognitive load, and interface decisions helped me explain why technically correct systems could still be difficult to use.
ChatGPT Felt Like a Revolutionary Shift
As ChatGPT emerged, I remembered advice that when you witness a genuinely revolutionary technology, you should move toward it rather than wait for certainty. I began exploring AI deeply because it felt like a new way to extend knowledge, roles, support, analysis, and business capability.
Automation Connected the AI to Real Work
AI could draft, explain, organize, and reason. Automation could move data, trigger follow-up, route tasks, update records, and connect the result to the rest of the business. That combination became more important to me than offering UX design as a separate service.
UX/UI Is the Bridge Between the System and the Person
Today, UX/UI is integrated across websites, forms, CRM systems, dashboards, automated journeys, AI assistants, onboarding, support, online courses, and immersive training. The technical system and the human experience are designed together.
UX/UI is not the decoration added after the technology is built. It is the bridge that helps a person understand the technology, trust the process, and use the system correctly.
Where I Am Today
Six Capability Areas That Now Work Together
I work where websites, human behavior, business operations, learning, automation, and AI overlap.
Websites + UX/UI
Design the Public Experience and the System Behind It
Websites, funnels, service pages, forms, customer journeys, interfaces, and the information people need to understand the offer and complete the next step.
GoHighLevel
WordPress
Divi
Webflow
Automation + CRM
Move Repeated Work Through Reliable Workflows
Lead capture, scheduling, payments, communication, reminders, customer information, handoffs, follow-up, and internal task movement.
GoHighLevel
Make
Zapier
n8n
Applied AI
Build AI Around Roles, Knowledge, and Quality Rules
Assistants, agents, governed knowledge, reusable skills, support systems, content workflows, analysis, and business tasks with defined human oversight.
OpenAI
AI Agents
Knowledge Systems
Governance
Courses + Learning Systems
Turn Expertise Into Structured Learning
Curriculum, lessons, enrollment, access, payments, support, workbooks, toolkits, memberships, knowledge products, and learning outcomes.
Tutor LMS
Course Architecture
Training Design
E-Commerce + Digital Delivery
Connect the Offer, Checkout, Fulfillment, and Customer Record
Online stores, digital products, subscriptions, payments, product funnels, and integrations between the public experience and the operating system.
Shopify
WooCommerce
Stripe
Digital Twin + AI Avatar Learning
Prototype AI Coaches, Digital Instructors, and Interactive Course Experiences
I am exploring how course knowledge, recorded lessons, live avatars, digital instructors, and AI coaches can work together across websites and online courses to support understanding, practice, and measurable learning outcomes.
AI Coaches
Live Avatars
Digital Twins
Learning Outcomes
Roles, Education, and Public Work
The Work Is Shaped by Business, Coaching, Learning, Design, and Technology.
Current Roles
Business, AI Systems, and Entrepreneur Support
Founder + Principal Consultant:
BP Online Consulting and Management, where I plan and manage connected website, automation, AI, and learning systems.
AI Systems Research + Prototyping:
Independent study and experimentation with AI assistants, agents, governed knowledge, course-based AI coaches, live avatars, and digital learning experiences.
Coach, Reviewer + AI Panelist:
1 Million Cups Columbia, supporting entrepreneurs as they clarify their ideas, presentations, messages, and next steps.
Advanced Education
M.B.A., M.S., M.Ed.
Master of Business Administration — ThePowerMBA.
Master of Science in Internet Marketing — Full Sail University.
Master of Education in Positive Coaching — University of Missouri.
Professional Development
Coaching, UX/UI, Marketing, and Project Work
Coach U Core Essentials and Advanced Coaching programs.
Coursework in Google User Experience Design.
Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce, Meta Social Media Marketing, and Harvard Business Publishing project-management study.
Where I Want to Go Next
AI Workforces, Digital Twin Learning, Live Avatars, VR, and 360° Content
These are active areas of independent research, prototyping, and experimentation. They are not presented as fully deployed client systems.
Agent Research
An Experimental AI Workforce Library
I maintain an experimental repository of approximately 1,000 agent definitions across roughly 40 departments, along with hundreds of AI-assistant concepts. I am studying how specialized agents may coordinate, preserve state, use governed knowledge, and support real work in the future.
Digital Learning Research
AI Coaches, Live Avatars, and Digital Instructors
I want to combine course videos, curriculum, learning outcomes, assessments, and the complete course knowledge base with an AI coach that may appear as a live avatar or digital instructor. The goal is to explain, reinforce, practice, and support learning without replacing the human instructor.
Immersive Exploration
VR and 360° Learning Through Hands-On Experimentation
Using a VR headset at home made me recognize how immersive environments could support learning, demonstrations, practice, and a stronger sense of presence. I have since taken a deeper look at VR, 360° video, immersive course design, and how those formats could connect with websites, online courses, and AI.
Ed.D. Direction
Possible Doctor of Education Study Beginning Fall 2027
I am considering an Ed.D. focused on applied, practice-based research at the intersection of AI, digital twins, live avatars, immersive learning, online courses, and measurable learning outcomes.
Development Partners
Experiment With Emerging Learning Formats
I am interested in collaborating with educators, trainers, creators, organizations, and business owners who want to prototype AI-supported courses, digital instructors, live avatars, 360° media, immersive demonstrations, or experimental learning experiences.
How I Work
Clear Thinking, Connected Systems, Managed Execution, and Client Ownership
Clarity
Explain the Complete Situation
Define important terms, show how the pieces connect, and make the next decision understandable.
Systems Thinking
Look Beyond the Isolated Request
A website issue may be a message issue. An automation issue may be an ownership issue. The visible problem is not always the root problem.
Managed Execution
Move From Advice to Working Results
Organize responsibilities, dependencies, testing, documentation, education, and follow-through.
Ownership
Teach People How to Use What Was Built
The client and team should understand their roles, the system, maintenance requirements, and what to do when something changes.
The Next Step
You Do Not Need to Know Which Technology or Service Comes First.
Share the business situation, desired outcome, timeline, and what is getting in the way. The Fit-Check determines whether BPOCM has the right expertise, capacity, budget fit, and implementation ability.
General Contact
Contact BP Online Consulting and Management
Use the form to ask a question, share what you are considering, or request a 30-minute Fit-Check meeting.
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(573) 639-9333
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Admin@BPOCM.com
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3610 Buttonwood Dr. #200
Columbia, MO 65201
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We typically respond within one business day.