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This is a complete, public evidence brief for anyone exploring Dan Crane’s work, thinking, and practical experience.

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Local context

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This canonical profile

Dan’s public capability, evidence, boundaries, experiments, and connection routes.

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Evidence-led reading

Useful evidence, unknowns, questions, and links, without assumptions about availability.

Two ways to read the evidence.

The profile stays the same. The reader’s context changes what is most useful to explore.

Career context

For readers considering the leadership, product, AI, platform, and operating experience behind the work.

  • Executive technology, product, and innovation leadership
  • Applied AI, platform, operating-model, and digital-product work
  • Practical leadership across strategy, delivery, governance, and commercial decisions

Public work and experiments

For readers exploring proof of skill, practical experiments, and independent technology thinking.

  • Understanding the kinds of technology, product, AI, and operating problems represented in Dan’s public work
  • Exploring a professional connection grounded in a specific idea, project, or piece of evidence
  • Using the site as a public testbed for polished, transparent experiments with tools and technologies

Experience and approach.

Enough to make a useful first assessment from this page alone. Links support deeper checking, never gate the answer.

What Dan brings

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.

InfoAddict is a public record of that work: a place to share practical experiments, tested ideas, and evidence of how technology decisions become useful products and operating systems.

Executive AI, product, and technology leadership

Technology strategy, operating models, board and executive communication, roadmap and delivery leadership, architecture and vendor decisions, and pragmatic transformation programmes.

Applied AI and automation

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.

Product, platform, and commercial execution

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.

Architecture, data, security, and operations

Enterprise architecture, APIs and integrations, data governance, cybersecurity governance, privacy, identity, compliance, incident response, and DevOps. Current Cloudflare-native delivery sits alongside prior AWS, Microsoft Dynamics, enterprise SaaS, identity, integration, and high-availability operating experience.

Teams and enablement

Team design and scaling, hiring, remote and distributed leadership, operating cadence, professional development, AI adoption programmes, and practical capability transfer rather than dependency.

Career and delivery evidence.

Tatts Group

Strategy Manager, CEO of Tatts Online, Chief Online Officer, and Head of Innovation

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.

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Presper Labs

Chief Technology Officer

Led technology strategy, product delivery, AI deployment, and IT operations across five concurrent brands in Asia and the Middle East. A distributed team of six delivered approximately 4× output and a 60% operating-cost reduction through AI-enabled workflows.

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Horizon State

Head of Research & Innovation (Aug 2017–Sep 2019); COO (Oct 2019–Jun 2022)

Led research and innovation at the original Horizon State, then returned as COO after voluntary administration and an asset sale when the new owners asked him to operationalise the business, own the product roadmap, and support the next stage of delivery.

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AnRKey X / gDEX

VP of Digital Technology, concurrent advisory work (2021–2022)

Alongside the Horizon State COO role, led digital product strategy and technology operations for a gaming platform and took a new platform vertical from concept through architecture to launch.

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Centrebet Group

Head of IT

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.

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InfoAddict

Founder

A public platform for professional reputation, practical experiments, Cloudflare-native architecture, product thinking, and evidence-led technology work.

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Projects and practical work.

Public work that shows the same hands-on product, AI, Cloudflare, and operating depth in a current delivery context.

These are bounded public examples, not a claim that every client engagement is public or comparable.
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Voice-first AI strategic mentorship platform

UpgradeTheSystem.com

Built a live conversational voice platform with interim transcription and interruption handling, deep persona engineering, Cloudflare services, and carefully organised context from 21 published books.
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Owned audiovisual music platform

AuntyArchibald.com

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.
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AI-powered meal-planning product

NeuroNurish.app

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.
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AI SEO research and content automation

RankAutomator.com

Built an end-to-end pipeline from business profiling through keyword analysis to CMS-ready content, automating work traditionally handled through an agency retainer.

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  • Do not turn public proof of work into a claim of current availability
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Public work is not a commercial offer.

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