Calgary, Alberta · Building businesses since 2015

Torin Hofmann

I've built businesses in four industries. Now I build them with AI.

Ten years of building businesses from zero, and now I build AI systems for yours.

Torin Hofmann Calgary, AB
$6.5M+Ecommerce sales
2020 to 2025
78KYouTube
subscribers
4.6MVideo
views
$450K+Ad spend
managed
MultipleRental
properties
The story

How I got here

Every business I've touched taught me one piece of the system. Here's the record.

  1. 2011-2016

    Business school

    Business degree at Mount Royal University, majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship, after a first year at the University of Lethbridge.

    • Jason Lang Scholarship
    • Dean's Honour Roll ×4
  2. 2015

    First brand

    Built Bare Knuckle Body Care, a private-label ecommerce brand shipping across North America. Website, branding, ads, supplier contracts and customer service, all hands-on.

  3. 2016-2017

    Fernie ski hill

    Marketing director for The Rusty Edge for the winter season, the only independent shop on a mountain run by one large operator. Rebuilt the brand and took it past half the available market in a single season.

    • 50%+ market share
  4. 2017-2019

    Burgundy Oak

    Founding partner and CMO of a Mount Royal startup turning used Napa Valley wine and whiskey barrels into furniture. We went from farmers markets to $1M a year in sales within two years, then to 650+ retailers across North America. We pitched on CBC's Dragons' Den (season 13) and landed a licensing deal with Jack Daniel's, the first Canadian company ever to get one.

    • $1M/yr in 2 years
    • 650+ retailers
    • Dragons' Den: 5 of 6 offers
    • Jack Daniel's licence: 1st in Canada, 42nd ever
  5. 2020-2025

    Ecommerce brands

    Built and ran multiple Shopify brands from scratch: sourcing, branding, paid ads on Meta and Google, email and 3PL fulfillment. Combined sales passed $6.5M before I wound them down to go all-in on AI.

    • $6.5M+ combined sales
    • $450K+ ad spend
  6. 2020-2021

    YouTube and community

    Started a YouTube channel documenting crypto and online business. By 2021 it had grown a paid community of around 2,000 members, run with a small team of contractors. It taught me what makes a community work, and what breaks it.

    • ~2,000 paid members
  7. 2021-now

    Real estate

    Moved profits out of online markets and into cash-flowing property in my twenties. Today I own multiple rental properties.

    • Multiple rental properties
  8. 2025-now

    AI systems

    Built my own AI operating system with Claude that runs research, content and reporting every day. Now I build them for businesses, and I'm currently deploying one for a Calgary mortgage brokerage. The channel moved with me: 78K subscribers watching real AI experiments, wins and losses included.

What I do now

Building and testing AI

For business owners

AI systems, built for your business

Done-for-you systems built around how your team already works. Not a chatbot bolted onto your website.

  • Lead capture and qualification
  • Client intake and onboarding
  • Follow-up and nurture
  • AI assistants trained on your business
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Torin in his usual filming look
For everyone else

I test AI so you don't have to

Every week on YouTube I put AI tools and money-making methods through real experiments, with the results shown, good or bad.

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