Every life is a map.
Mine runs from a California beach to a prison cell to a classroom of thousands. Here's the route, and how I'll help you chart yours.
The route I traveled
Where it began
Born on a California beach. After my parents' marriage ended on the military base, my mother and I started over in Buffalo, NY — my whole map still blank.
Growing up in Buffalo
A brief, turbulent detour through Detroit, then the road led me back home. It looked comfortable on the surface — but the foundation could give way at any moment.
The day everything changed
On the day of my eighth-grade graduation, my family was robbed at gunpoint in our own home. Nothing was the same after that.
Finding my own way
Trying to provide and find my footing, I got pulled into the streets.
Rock bottom
At twenty, thirteen days before my twenty-first birthday, I went to prison.
A cell became a classroom
Inside, I reached the computer lab and taught myself to code from books, beside other men determined to change. My dream: an app so kids could send photos and letters to a parent behind bars.
Cap and gown, inside
I earned my associate's degree behind the wall — proof that the cell didn't get the last word.
Coming home
I walked out and went to work — landing in tech, founding Photo Patch so kids could reach a parent behind bars, consulting, leveling up job after job.
The leap
A layoff became the push. I sat outside the New York Stock Exchange with a Python book and a laptop, bet on myself, and went all in.
Unlock Academy
I set out to teach 2,020 people of color to code by 2020. I taught over 4,300, and never stopped.
Teaching the rooms
City by city, room by room — adults and youth, mic in hand, building alongside them until they shipped.
And today…
Hackathons. AI Labs. FutureLab. Stages around the country. Thousands taught. Products built — and a map I'm still drawing.
Here the road forks three ways.
Build it with me
Automate Anything. Websites, products, funnels, and AI systems, built with you, end to end.
Start a conversation →Put me on your stage
A substitute teacher once said the Wall Street Journal wasn't for me. Now I'm invited to speak about the future of this stuff.
Book Antoine to speak →Teach the next ones
Now I'm teaching 1,000 young people to build with AI, and making the proof public.
See the mission →So, where are you on the road?
My road brought me here. Yours runs ahead. Tap where you stand, and watch the way forward draw itself.
However far down the road you are, there's a way through.
Most people find me mid-road: stuck, scaling, or starting over. Wherever you stand, the next move exists. These are the ways I help you reach it.
Logo & brand design
A face people trust on first sight.
Website build & revamp
The front door, rebuilt to convert.
Funnel building
A clear path from stranger to customer.
Product building
Turn the idea into something real people use.
Internal applications
Tools that do the work you keep redoing.
AI automation
Put the repetitive work on rails.
Email marketing
Stay in the room after they leave.
Social media marketing
Show up where the attention already is.
Let's draw your map.
Tell me where you are and where you're trying to go. We'll plot the route together.