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Jonathan Guy. A life built on purpose.

Husband. Father. Operator in the Texas Hill Country. I build companies, raise a family, and try to leave each one better than I found it.

Founder of PointWake. I help Texas service businesses fix follow-up, CRM handoffs, reporting, and AI workflow automation.

Canyon Lake, TX Est. 1983 20+ yrs building
Jonathan Guy, founder of PointWake, photographed in Canyon Lake, Texas

I grew up in Madison, Mississippi. Small town, big family table, the kind of place that taught you early what it looks like when somebody means what they say. That's the part I never let go of, no matter how far the work has taken me.

My first business was a restaurant I started with my grandmother in 2005. Working a kitchen taught me more about leadership in two years than most of the books I've read since. You don't fake your way through a Saturday night dinner rush. The food either goes out or it doesn't, and the people across the counter know the difference.

In 2007 I started a party rental company, grew it for several years, and eventually sold it to a competitor. I stayed on as general manager under a four-year contract afterward and used that runway to learn the unglamorous parts of the work. Payroll, fleet, scheduling, contracts, and the daily math of running a real operation. Most of what I know about leading people I learned in those years. None of it was theoretical.

From there I moved into commercial contracting. We did new-model build-outs and assembly-line maintenance for the Nissan plant. Anytime they changed over their assembly line, my crews bid the work. Painting, integration, install, all kinds of commercial trades inside the plant. Continental Tire was the same kind of relationship. McAlister's and Cinnabon were nationwide digital signage rollouts. The state DMV facilities were where it got interesting, because we ended up automating their ticketing systems. That's the same thread I'm still pulling on today, just with better tools.

Around the same window I built and ran a vending company with more than 1,500 machines deployed across the Southeast, from Texas through Florida. Logistics, route management, restock, repair, and a whole lot of late nights in trucks. It was its own master class in operations.

That's the gap I work in now. Through PointWake, I help business owners document the way they actually work and replace the manual parts with AI-assisted systems. I completed the Post Graduate Program in Generative AI for Business Applications at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (2025 to 2026). I also worked as a contract AI training data specialist on Mercor's Project Balboa, grading frontier-model outputs at a senior level.

But the through line was never the work. It was always the life behind the work. I met my wife, Audriana, and we built our family in the Texas Hill Country. We raise our boy, Rowdy, in Canyon Lake. On the water as often as the calendar lets us. Around the dinner table the rest of the time. Everything I build is in service of that.

I've made just about every mistake a young operator can make. I've also fixed most of them. That's why I do this work. And why every page of this site is honest about who's behind it.

Proof of concept

A few things I've built.

Sample sites and AI workflows from current and recent client work.

01
Premier Chiropractic
Full website rebuild and SEO/GEO/LLMO setup for a chiropractic practice in Pearland, Texas. premierchirotx.com
03
SMP of Austin
Brand and site for a scalp micropigmentation studio in Austin, Texas.
04
Custom AI restock bot
Built for a family liquor store. Watches inventory and notifies the owner the moment a tracked product comes back in stock from suppliers.
05
Generative AI portfolio (UT Austin McCombs)
Three capstone projects from the post-graduate program, including a medical chatbot. View the portfolio
06
Project Balboa (Mercor)
Contract AI training data work, grading and shaping outputs from frontier large-language models for a major AI lab.
Credentials

UT Austin. McCombs School of Business.

The formal credential behind the AI workflow work at PointWake.

Certificate from The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, conferring the Post Graduate Program in Generative AI for Business Applications to Jonathan Guy, May 2026
The University of Texas at Austin

Post Graduate Program in Generative AI for Business Applications

Presented by the McCombs School of Business · May 2026

  • Awarded toJonathan Guy
  • ProgramPost Graduate Program in Generative AI for Business Applications
  • IssuerMcCombs School of Business, UT Austin
  • DateMay 2026
  • CEUs4

"You get out what you put in."

A line my dad lived by
What I believe

Four principles that drive the work.

These aren't slogans. They're how I run companies and how I try to live.

01
Family, faith, work. In that order.
The order is the test. When the order changes, the rest stops working. Everything I build is downstream of that priority.
02
Lead with your voice. Mean what you say.
Both halves matter. Silence isn't humility, and talk without follow through is just noise. The standards you set in conversation become the standards your team sets in their work.
03
Documentation is leverage.
If a process can't be written down, it can't be trained, automated, sold, or exited. Doing the work is half of it. Writing it down is the other half. The half that compounds.
04
You get out what you put in.
No shortcuts that aren't actually paid for somewhere else. The line my dad lived by, and the one I try to leave with my son.
Get in touch

Reach out directly.

LinkedIn is the easiest way to message me, and I read everything that comes through there personally.