Derek Brambles

About Derek Brambles

I am the Founder and CEO of Brambles.ai, an AI powered commerce platform that helps publishers and businesses monetize through intelligent product discovery. I spend my time building the core technology behind our conversational shopping engine, designing high scale infrastructure, and shaping the future of affiliate driven commerce with AI.My background combines two worlds. I spent more than a decade running high performance digital marketing programs and managing multimillion dollar advertising budgets across Meta, Google, TikTok, Pinterest, and Snapchat. I also built technical systems for brands, solved growth problems, and led creative strategy that connected data and performance with storytelling. That experience gives me a rare advantage as a founder. I understand both the commercial side and the engineering side of what it takes to build a scalable platform.At Brambles.ai, I work hands on with product architecture, API development, AI model integration, and the full engineering stack. The platform uses modern LLMs and retrieval pipelines to generate personalized, context aware product recommendations. I design the flows, write the code, manage deployments, test integrations with affiliate networks, and build the features that turn AI into revenue for our customers.I am passionate about decentralizing the online shopping experience and giving publishers tools that remove friction, reduce dependence on large platforms, and unlock new revenue streams. My mission is to build a clean and powerful layer of AI driven commerce that works everywhere on the internet.I bring a creative background as well. I have produced commercial music for brands like McDonald’s, Samsung, and Untuckit, and I use that creativity in product design, brand development, and video storytelling for Brambles.ai. I enjoy merging technical thinking with artistic intuition to build products that feel simple, fast, and human.My focus now is scaling Brambles.ai, deepening our AI capabilities, and working with publishers and enterprise partners who want to stay ahead of the next wave of AI commerce.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Brambles.Ai

   Jan 2024 — Present · Los Angeles County, CA, US

   Brambles.ai is redefining online commerce with the world’s first end-to-end, AI-powered affiliate shopping assistant for consumers, publishers, and enterprise partners. As Founder & CEO, I architected and built the entire product ecosystem—from the core AI engine to the enterprise embed module and WordPress plugin—creating a new category of frictionless, contextual, and privacy-first affiliate commerce.Brambles.ai turns static content into dynamic, conversational shopping. Unlike traditional affiliate tools, it understands page context, engages visitors with intelligent prompts, and lets users search, compare, and discover products through natural conversation. This enables publishers to generate incremental affiliate revenue on any page while offering a modern, ad-free experience.I oversee strategy, product development, engineering, growth, and partnerships across a multi-channel suite that includes:• Brambles.ai Web App – a consumer-facing AI shopping engine• Enterprise JS Module – an embeddable assistant that drives contextual affiliate revenue• WordPress Plugin – a turnkey solution for instant conversational affiliate commerceAcross all products, the focus is consistent: privacy-first, ad-free, unbiased affiliate shopping powered by conversational AI.Key achievements include building the first conversational affiliate-commerce platform, delivering a fast and lightweight module that works on any site, and creating a fully private experience with no ads, no tracking, and no behavioral profiling. Brambles.ai has also earned recognition on TopTools.ai and There’s An AI For That for its innovation in AI-driven commerce.Our mission is simple: decentralize online shopping. For too long, discovery has been shaped by ad-driven platforms and recommendation engines optimized for profit instead of people. Brambles.ai challenges that by giving consumers and publishers a private, intelligent shopping experience that respects their time and their data.

Education

• UCLA

  Bachelor's degree, English Language and Literature/Letters

  2006 — 2010