The Foundation

Simo D is a Canadian-born writer and AI systems developer based in Belize. Before moving abroad, he spent nearly 20 years in residential construction and renovation, including 15 years running his own business. His work landed him a spot on season 4 of HGTV's Marriage Under Construction. Decades on job sites taught him how to run projects, deal with clients, and deliver on a promise; lessons that still shape how he works today.

In 2022, Simo left the trade and moved his life to Belize. Abroad, he reinvented himself. A degree in International History gave him a storytelling instinct, which he turned into a second career as a content writer, just before large language models became commercially available. Leveraging this new technology, he worked heavily with LLMs to hone his writing, then moved from prompt engineering to assisted software development, and now runs BottBott Business Systems, where he builds AI-powered workflow and automation systems for founders and owner-operated businesses.

He writes about his passions, life abroad and AI, in two Substack publications, Unfiltered Abroad and BottBott. Simo also writes for trade industry magazines, with bylines in Mechanical Perspective, Piling Canada, and SnowOps.

Simo's perspective comes from having rebuilt a career and a life from scratch in a new country, and from the practical side of what it takes to make that leap work.