The Dealer's Best Friend

Your customers left a trail. Your tech stack lost it.

I'm Michael Donovan. Twenty years on the floor, in the agency, and now in the codebase. I build the AI that turns your scattered customer data into sales your team can actually close.

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JustMichaelD

The Stack

Built and shipped on a production stack

TypeScript
Python
React
Next.js
Tailwind
shadcn/ui
Node.js
NestJS
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Redis
BigQuery
Google Cloud
Vercel
Clerk
Claude
Gemini
GA4
Google Ads
Docker
WHAT I BUILD

Capabilities, not buzzwords

AI and agent engineering

Multi-agent systems, RAG, MCP tooling. Built for production, not demos.

Market intelligence and data

BigQuery, GA4, Google Ads, Search Console, Amplitude.

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Full-stack delivery

Backend, DevOps, frontend.

Growth and GTM

Demand gen, ABM, BDC operations.

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Marketing and AI Consulting. Custom AI Engineering. In-house Analysis.
SELECTED WORK

Proof, not promises

Vandoko
vandoko.ai, live beta
Vandoko MIP

The automotive market intelligence platform at vandoko.ai. Vandoko-AI, On-the-Map, and the Scrapey-Do engine combined into one system that turns scattered market data into signal.

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MDJust Michael D
Private, by request
Tool-Bag

The multi-model distribution and governance layer behind everything I ship. Built for experts who have the context and know what they need, but not how to code or run AI. Private for now.

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Vandoko
Next.js 16, Clerk, in build
Vandoko Platform

A complete Brand and Marketing Operating System. The Registry, Portal, Remotion, and web monorepo, consolidating into one platform. Multi-tenant SaaS on Next.js 16, Clerk Orgs, and the Vercel AI SDK.

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MDJust Michael D
Open source, forthcoming
Meeting Intelligence

Long-term meeting analysis, headed for open source as an AI safety, governance, and accountability tool. TypeScript plus Python, production-grade data flows and reporting.

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The guide and the plan

  1. Diagnose. I walk your stack and your data the way I walked your showroom floor.
  2. Build. Custom AI agents, market-intelligence pipelines, and automation that fit how your store actually works.
  3. Compound. You keep the system, the playbook, and the lift. No lock-in.
$2.4Bin dealer profit influenced
Top 50US automotive sales
20+years in automotive
Shipping production AI on Google Cloud
“Most dealers don't have an AI problem. They have a visibility problem.”
Michael DonovanFounder, Vandoko
Technologies we use

AI that moves revenue, not AI that wins conference slides.

What I build
You own the system outright
Vendor theater
Vendor holds the keys

Systems you ownYou get the code, the pipeline, and the playbook. It runs on your infrastructure and compounds over time.
Tied to sold unitsEvery build is scoped against revenue outcomes, not vanity dashboards. If it doesn't move the needle, we don't build it.
No lock-inNo proprietary platforms that hold your data hostage. The system is yours the day it ships.
ENGAGEMENTS

Ways to work together

Marketing and AI Consulting

I audit the stack and the data, then tell you what to keep, what to kill, and what to build. A roadmap your team can run, scored against revenue, not hype.

Custom AI Engineering

I build agentic systems and pipelines around your actual workflow. Software you own, that compounds, with no lock-in.

In-house Analysis

One market brief your owners, managers, and sales team can act on. Decisions in minutes, not after the month closes.

ABOUT
Michael Donovan
Michael Donovan, the dealer's best friend
I started under the hood of motorcycles. I ended up under the hood of language models. The throughline is the same: figure out how the machine actually works, then make it work for the person paying the bill.Michael Donovan has spent two decades inside the automotive business, from the service drive to the sales floor to the agency to the codebase. He was ranked among the top-50 US automotive salespeople, co-founded a digital agency that drove more than $60M in client sales over a decade, and is credited with helping generate a reported $2.4B in dealer profit across his career. Today he founds and builds at Vandoko, where he engineers agentic AI systems and market-intelligence pipelines for dealers, OEMs, agencies, and the vendors who serve them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have more questions? Reach out at mike@justmichaeld.com
Ready to see what I would build for your store?Book a 30-minute call. I walk your stack and your data, then tell you exactly what I would build, and why.