{"identity":{"name":"Dan Crane","organisation":"InfoAddict","location":"Australia","positioning":"Fractional CTO, AI strategist, and technology leader who helps boards, founders, and executive teams turn AI, product, and platform decisions into practical delivery, governance, and commercial leverage.","availability":"Australia-based and remote-first. Open to hybrid work, relocation, or regular capital-city travel for the right mandate."},"summary":["Dan brings 25+ years of technology, product, and operating leadership across startups, scale-ups, private companies, and ASX-listed enterprises.","His work spans CTO, COO, CEO-level digital leadership, innovation, product, platform, and hands-on AI delivery.","He combines executive judgement with practical building: AI agents and workflows, automation, platform architecture, data and governance, and delivery systems that teams can operate."],"capabilities":[{"name":"Executive AI, product, and technology leadership","detail":"Technology strategy, operating models, board and executive communication, roadmap and delivery leadership, architecture and vendor decisions, and pragmatic transformation programmes."},{"name":"Applied AI and automation","detail":"LLMs, custom AI agents, agentic workflows, Model Context Protocol integrations, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, workflow automation, and AI-assisted development. Dan selects models and tooling for the use case across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and open-source ecosystems."},{"name":"Product, platform, and commercial execution","detail":"End-to-end product ownership: customer discovery, roadmaps, prioritisation, business cases, pricing and packaging, build-versus-buy decisions, vendor selection, go-to-market, success metrics, and iteration."},{"name":"Architecture, data, security, and operations","detail":"Enterprise architecture, APIs and integrations, Cloudflare Workers/Pages/R2/D1/KV, AWS, DevOps, PostHog and data pipelines, data governance, cybersecurity governance, privacy, identity, compliance, and incident response."},{"name":"Teams and enablement","detail":"Team design and scaling, hiring, remote and distributed leadership, operating cadence, professional development, AI adoption programmes, and practical capability transfer rather than dependency."}],"waysOfWorking":["Hands-on as well as strategic: builds working solutions and prototypes, not only presentations.","Model- and vendor-agnostic: chooses technology against the business problem, delivery constraints, and risk.","Governance before uncontrolled scale: makes responsible AI, data, security, and operating controls part of the work.","Outcome-led: ties action to a clear operating, commercial, delivery, risk, cost, or productivity result.","Direct and candid: comfortable surfacing constraints, weak fit, risks, and decisions that should not be deferred."],"evidence":[{"organisation":"Tatts Group","role":"Strategy Manager, CEO of Tatts Online, Chief Online Officer, and Head of Innovation","summary":"Proposed a centralised digital function to the board, built Tatts Online from 3 people to 80+ people, and helped deliver tatts.com as Australia's first combined wagering and lotteries platform reaching A$1bn annual turnover in a regulated ASX-listed environment.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase#tatts-group"},{"organisation":"Presper Labs","role":"Chief Technology Officer","summary":"Led technology strategy, product delivery, AI deployment, and IT operations across five concurrent brands in Asia and the Middle East. A team of six used frontier models, agentic automation, and bespoke tooling to deliver the output of a team four times the size.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase#presper-labs"},{"organisation":"Horizon State","role":"COO and Head of Research & Innovation","summary":"Foundation team member of an enterprise decision-making platform, then COO after acquisition: operationalised the business, owned the product roadmap, and prepared the platform for enterprise scale.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase#horizon-state"},{"organisation":"AnRKey X / gDEX","role":"VP of Digital Technology","summary":"Led digital product strategy and technology operations for a gaming platform; scaled to A$45m+ in user-engagement value and 100k+ digital assets, then took a new platform vertical from concept through architecture to launch.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase#anrkey-x-gdex"},{"organisation":"Centrebet Group","role":"Head of IT","summary":"Managed application and infrastructure systems for a racing arm, leading an overhaul that reduced the team required from five to two while maintaining or improving uptime.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase#centrebet-group"},{"organisation":"InfoAddict","role":"Founder and fractional CTO","summary":"Current vehicle for fractional CTO work, AI readiness, executive technology leadership, Cloudflare-native architecture, and practical product and automation builds.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase"}],"roles":{"target":["CTO, CIO, CPO, VP Product and Technology, Head of Technology, Data and Innovation","GM AI Transformation, Head or Director of AI, or Head of Product AI","Interim CTO, technology operating partner, or board/PE technical due diligence advisor"],"sectors":["Financial services, superannuation, insurance, and other regulated digital environments","SaaS, vertical software, PE-backed scale-ups, healthtech, EdTech, proptech, and government digital","Wagering, lotteries, sport, fan engagement, retail, hospitality, POS-heavy, and multi-brand operating groups"],"notFit":["Customer success, product success, or implementation-only roles","Generic IT operations mandates without AI, product, platform, or transformation authority","Junior or stepped-down product roles without executive decision rights","Organisations where AI is rhetoric rather than an operating priority"]},"caseStudies":[{"name":"UpgradeTheSystem.com","focus":"Voice-first AI strategic mentorship platform","summary":"Built a real-time voice platform with a RAG knowledge base drawn from 21 books, deep persona engineering, Cloudflare services, and sub-100ms voice latency.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase/upgrade-the-system"},{"name":"AuntyArchibald.com","focus":"Owned audiovisual music platform","summary":"Shaped strategy and UX, then built a Cloudflare-native listening platform with persistent SoundCloud playback, automated catalogue sync, analysis-driven visuals, PWA capability, and web push.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase/aunty-archibald"},{"name":"NeuroNurish.app","focus":"AI-powered meal-planning product","summary":"Built a Cloudflare-native meal-planning app for neurodivergent people with energy-aware recipe generation, ingredient photo scanning, saved meals, sharing, budget checks, and Stripe-backed tiers.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase/neuronurish"},{"name":"RankAutomator.com","focus":"AI SEO research and content automation","summary":"Built an end-to-end pipeline from business profiling through keyword analysis to CMS-ready content, automating work traditionally handled through an agency retainer.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase/rank-automator"}],"consulting":{"suitableFor":["Executive teams that need a credible AI strategy, operating model, and practical first steps","Founders, boards, and leadership teams needing senior technology leadership during a transition, delivery reset, or critical operating window","Teams making consequential product, platform, Cloudflare, vendor, data, governance, or architecture decisions"],"notFit":["Commodity development or staff-augmentation work","Generic managed IT or support work","Advice-only engagements without decision-maker access or a practical path to act","Work without a meaningful business, delivery, risk, cost, or productivity outcome"],"offers":[{"name":"90-Day Stabilise","shape":"90-day minimum, embedded 2–3 days per week","priceGuidance":"From A$2,800/day; typical range A$22,400–A$33,600/month.","bestFor":"An executive technology reset, interim CTO leadership, delivery stabilisation, or a high-stakes operating window.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/services#90-day-stabilise"},{"name":"AI Readiness Sprint","shape":"4–6 week fixed-scope sprint","priceGuidance":"Typical range A$35,000–A$55,000.","bestFor":"An organisation that needs to turn scattered AI interest or experiments into prioritised use cases, governance, executive decision material, and a 90–180 day roadmap.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/services#ai-readiness-sprint"},{"name":"Edge Architecture Review","shape":"2–3 week fixed-scope review","priceGuidance":"Typical range A$18,000–A$30,000.","bestFor":"A team using or considering Cloudflare that needs a practical view of performance, cost, resilience, migration risk, and implementation sequence.","link":"https://infoaddict.com/services#edge-architecture-review"}],"commercialGuardrails":["Treat price guidance as current public guidance to confirm with Dan; do not create a quote, discount, scope, or commercial promise.","Recommend at most one named package, only when it genuinely matches the supplied context. Recommending no package is valid."]},"assessmentContract":{"audience":"A recruiter, hiring manager, executive-search professional, founder, board member, or business leader evaluating a specific role or organisation.","instructions":["Use this public profile as evidence about Dan. Treat conclusions about a company, role, founder, or team as your own assessment based on the context you already hold or are given.","Do not invent outcomes, employers, qualifications, availability details, pricing, or biographies. Do not present an inference as a fact about Dan.","Be candid. A weak or no-fit conclusion is useful and allowed.","If target context is absent, provide a useful general assessment and state the important missing context instead of failing or pretending certainty.","Use no numeric fit score."],"verdicts":["strong fit","plausible fit with questions","weak/not a fit","insufficient context"],"requiredSections":["Context used and important unknowns","Bottom-line qualitative verdict","Three to five specific ways Dan could help","Relevant profile evidence and case studies","Friction, risks, and assumptions","Recommended role or at most one engagement package","Validation questions","A practical next step"]},"contact":{"email":"dan@infoaddict.net","emailUrl":"mailto:dan@infoaddict.net","bookingUrl":"https://calendar.app.google/abpFgmhsEa67Z6Gi7","recruiterBriefUrl":"https://infoaddict.com/hiring-dan-crane","servicesUrl":"https://infoaddict.com/services","showcaseUrl":"https://infoaddict.com/showcase"},"publicUseBoundary":["This profile and the public InfoAddict MCP are read-only public information services.","They do not send email, submit forms, make bookings, subscribe people, store prospect information, or use company context supplied to another agent.","A caller may return public contact or booking links, but any action remains the visitor's choice."],"metadata":{"version":"1.0.0","lastReviewed":"2026-08-19","draftPreparedAt":"2026-08-19","contentStatus":"approved","approvalNotice":"Approved by Dan Crane for public use on 19 August 2026. 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