Viktor Grant

About

I help companies and teams learn how to tell AI and marketing hype apart from AI and marketing realities. Speaking starts at $3.5K for virtual or $15K + travel for in-person. In 1996, I ranked the same site in all ten positions on the search results page. Since then, I’ve been on a never-ending quest to see if I can validate industry consensus with actual reality. Sometimes it holds up, often, it doesn’t.

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer at BusinessPowerTools → Simplifying Growth, Funding & Sale

   July 2026 - Present · Santa Barbara, California, United States

   Viktor Grant is a systems-driven technologist, AI architect, and operational strategist who has spent more than two decades transforming how people build and scale businesses. As Chief Technology Officer of Business Power Tools, he leads the modernization of the company’s technology stack with a clear focus on reliability, clarity, and intelligent automation.

2. Systems Integrator at Earthgrid.com

   1997 - Present · San Francisco Bay Area

   "I see you on stage at TED Talks explaining your new revolutionized search engine taking over. You own the niche because you can explain it left right and center." - Scott R. What if the fundamental paradigm that the 'search' itself was founded on was flawed? What if the concept of 'web pages' and 'search engine spiders' was in error? What if the direction we were heading when Yahoo!

3. Independent Content Provider at MSN The Microsoft Network

   July 1994 - July 1997

   In 1994, at the dawn of the Internet, Viktor then created 21st Century Network, one of the first ten channels in The Microsoft Network, (MSN) where he produced interviews with best-selling authors including Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and George Gilder in a series of live interactive online events that involved up to 3,000 members communicating simultaneously in ten languages worldwide.

Skills and education

Based in San Francisco Bay Area

Technical SEOSchema MarkupGenerative Engine Optimization

• UC San Diego, Bachelor’s Degree, Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences

Certifications: Super Connecting: The Secret of, Professional Networking, Bing Ads Certification

Languages: Latvian (Full Professional)

How I think

Relational first. Operational close behind.

“Is everyone comfortable?” Care, tone and trust come first.

Read from 8 of my writing samples. A style guide, not a verdict.

How I communicate

• DirectnessDirect. Says the point plainly.
  IndirectDirect
• ExpressionBalanced. Adapts to the moment.
  NeutralExpressive
• StructureBalanced. Adapts to the moment.
  FreeformStructured
• DetailBalanced. Adapts to the moment.
  BroadGranular
• SubtextLiteral. Means what is written.
  LiteralBetween the lines

How to write to me

• Open with care. Name who is affected.

How I take in the world

AQ-50 score 23 of 50. Average range.

The typical range, with some individual traits.

• Social Skills1 of 10. Strong Social Orientation.
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• Attention Switching4 of 10. Moderate Preference for Structure.
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• Attention to Detail8 of 10. Exceptional Systemizing & Sensory Sensitivity.
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• Communication8 of 10. Significant Non-Verbal & Pragmatic Difficulty.
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• Imagination2 of 10. Imaginative Engagement.
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• Use exact dates, times and numbers.
• Say exactly what you mean. I read words literally.

From the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (Baron-Cohen and others, 2001), taken October 2026. A self-report screening questionnaire, not a diagnosis.