Jordaaan Hill

Basic Info

Location: Austin, TX
Role/Occupation: Data/AI Consultant & Entrepreneur; Founder of Blue Highlighted Text; Founder of Organized AI
Contact: Via Michael Daigler / AITX community
Met: Introduced by Michael Daigler; first call 2025-12-20
Relationship Status: New professional collaborator and faith-aligned community partner

Founder of Blue Highlighted Text, a data analytics and marketing intelligence consultancy based in Austin
Works on data strategy, ad tracking/attribution, and AI-driven marketing for businesses
10 years experience as a consultant, comfortable juggling multiple contracts
Started in technical marketing for past 8 years before pivoting to AI
Got first AI engineer contract job in April 2025 using Claude desktop and MCP configurations
Speaker at Internet Marketing Party and similar Austin marketing/entrepreneur events
Met Michael Daigler at Meta Hackathon last year (2024)

Organized AI: Educational platform focused on teaching vibe coding to non-technical people
Organized AI Marketplace: Coming online; tools made available from Organized AI codebase
Marketing Agency Licensing Deal: Recently entered licensing agreement with marketing agency to build marketing-related AI tools
Organized AI Job Board: Helping Austin business owners hire pre-vetted talent from hackathons; addressing ghost job problem
Virtual Hackathon: Planning first virtual hackathon for late January 2025, will be live-streamed with "commercial" slots for promoting events
Walking Coding Events: Experimenting with walking events showing people how to use Claude Code on mobile devices

First call to explore collaboration opportunities for 2026
Jordaaan shared his journey: year in AI community, started at Meta Hackathon, landed first AI engineering contract in April 2025
Discussed his focus on teaching vibe coding to less technical "AI native" people who can skip traditional coding
Strong faith alignment discovered: Jordaaan is a long-time Christian reconnecting with the "obedient side" of faith
Gary shared Applied AI Society vision, open-source faith documentation, Vatican AI conference experience, and recent baptism
Both aligned on "applied AI and applied Christianity" - minimal preaching, maximal walking the walk
Discussed potential collaboration on January 29 Applied AI Society event at Antler
Jordaaan offered commercial slots during his virtual hackathon to promote Gary's events
Gary offered Jordaaan a slot to present his job board at the January event

Vibe Coding Education: Expertise in teaching non-technical people to code with AI tools
Job Board Network: Pre-vetted talent pool from hackathons for potential hiring/partnerships
Event Cross-Promotion: Can promote Applied AI events during virtual hackathon streams
AI Consulting Experience: 10 years consulting experience, understands contract-based work
Technical Marketing Background: Data strategy and attribution expertise valuable for business applications
Faith Alignment: Strong Christian values; appreciates authentic, lived-out faith

Very authentic communicator; values "proof in actual life" over talk
Collaborative mindset: immediately offered commercial slots and interested in event collaboration
Self-aware about learning curve: wants to teach while he still has common ground with beginners
Values obedience in faith over just knowledge: "What is it like to actually live this?"
Lifestyle consultant: flexible schedule, enjoys freedom of juggling contracts
Currently experimenting with mobile coding events (walking while monitoring Claude Code builds)

January 29 Applied AI Event: Present job board; co-promote
Virtual Hackathon Cross-Promotion: Commercial slot for Applied AI Society
Vibe Coding Workshops: Could contribute teaching content for non-technical audience
Faith-Tech Community: Aligned values for Christian builders in tech

"If I can do this, I know I can kind of teach people the way that I was able to do this without having a deep coding knowledge base"
"My whole thing is, I can just live it and then hope that people can see the proof in my actual life"
"I'm starting to really feel and believe that God's kind of showing me that currently" (on not shunning sinners)
"More importantly, it's how do you actually live it versus just talking till you're blue in the face"
On AI building: "Are you actually building, or are you just recycling talking points from Twitter or YouTube?"

transcript-id	date	one-line-summary
2025-12-20-jordaaan-hill-intro-call	2025-12-20	Introductory call exploring collaboration on applied AI education and faith alignment