Daryl Edwards
Founder & CEO @Agent Impact
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WORK HISTORY
Founder & CEO @Agent Impact
Helping mid-market manufacturers turn AI pilots into production reality through outcome-aligned execution partnership.Founded Agent Impact to solve the \"88% pilot failure problem\"- where manufacturing AI projects stall between proof-of-concept and measurable ROI. Our 5-Lever Framework addresses the execution gaps that vendors and traditional consultants leave behind. What We Do Differently- End-to-end ROI ownership through success-fee alignment- 12-week AI Transformation Navigator for rapid pilot hardening- Focus on 50-500 employee manufacturers with real resource constraints- Embed deliverables directly into live plant dashboardsCurrently working with select design partners to build the case studies that prove AI can work at manufacturing scale - without enterprise overhead or multi-year timelines.
EDUCATION
Erickson Coaching International
Erickson Solution Focussed Coaching Certificate, Art & Science of Coaching
University of Toronto
Bachelor of Applied Science, Engineering Science (Electrical Option)
Gitcoin Kernel
Kernel Fellow – Kernel Block 7
Schulich School of Business - York University
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Non-Profit Management, Finance
SKILLS
ABOUT DARYL EDWARDS
Conditions change faster than your strategy can keep up.It\'s not because your team isn\'t sharp. It\'s because the tools haven\'t caught up to the pace.Tariffs shift weekly. AI capabilities evolve monthly. That consulting report from 3 months ago? Already out of date.I\'ve spent 20+ years inside this problem. Started as an automation engineer, became a plant manager, scaled a factory in Peru from 20 to 130+ employees and 7x revenue. I\'ve walked floors on 5 continents and debugged everything from conveyors to ERP systems to org charts that looked great on paper and fell apart under pressure.After that, I spent 5 years coaching senior leaders through major operational changes. Technology rollouts, restructures, the messy human stuff that determines whether good ideas actually land. Took me a while to see the pattern clearly, but the technology was almost never the real bottleneck. It was execution speed and the distance between what leadership decided and what the floor actually did.That\'s what led me to start Agent Impact.We build AI around your actual organization. Your real context: how your team operates, where things get stuck, what you\'re trying to accomplish. Then we put AI agents to work on that knowledge. One auto-quotes RFQs in minutes instead of days. Another tracks tariff and policy shifts before they hit your P&L. Another handles AR follow-up so no invoice slips through while your team focuses on production. The list goes on. They start small. Their capabilities compound.Think of it as a living system for your operation. Instead of a strategy that expires the moment conditions shift, you get something that adapts with you and gets sharper over time.Built for mid-market manufacturers with 50–500 employees who are done watching the pace of change outrun their playbook.If things are moving faster than your current approach can handle, I\'d be interested to hear what you\'re seeing. That\'s usually where the good conversations start.
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