I'm not Silicon Valley. I'm the guy translating it.

Bryan Warren didn't start in tech. He started where most of America starts — doing the work. He earned his CPA in 1995, joined Ernst & Young, and spent the next three decades in the trenches of professional services. Tax strategy. Audit. Advisory. The kind of work that keeps businesses running and operators sleeping at night.

Along the way, he built a career advising the firms that advise everyone else — regional accounting firms, PE-backed professional services groups, and the operators behind them. He's sat across the table from managing partners, portfolio company CEOs, and small business owners who just needed someone to tell them the truth.

Silicon Valley builds for Silicon Valley. Somebody has to translate it for the people who actually run America. That's this show.

In 2024, Bryan founded CAG Companies — an AI transformation consultancy focused on PE-backed accounting firms. The thesis was simple: AI is coming for professional services whether the industry is ready or not. The firms that adopt it intelligently will thrive. The ones that don't will get acquired by the ones that do.

But as Bryan worked with more firms, he noticed something: the AI conversation was happening in a language that most operators couldn't understand. Silicon Valley was talking to itself — in jargon, in hype cycles, in billion-dollar funding rounds that had nothing to do with the accounting firm in Tulsa or the contractor in Fort Worth.

The firms that adopt AI intelligently will thrive. The ones that don't will get acquired by the ones that do.

That's why he created Main Street AI. Every weekday, Bryan records a 60-second video translating the latest AI news into plain English — with a specific focus on what it means for the operators, accountants, contractors, and small business owners who actually run America's economy. No jargon. No hype. Just the news, translated, with one actionable takeaway.

The format is deliberate: 60 seconds, every day, because the people Bryan serves don't have time for 45-minute podcasts or 3,000-word blog posts. They need to know what happened, what it means, and what to do about it — before their first meeting of the day.

The mission.

Main Street AI exists because the most important technology shift in a generation is being explained by people who've never run a business, never signed the front of a paycheck, and never had to explain to a 60-year-old managing partner why the firm needs to invest in something called "agentic AI."

Bryan has. That's the difference. He's not translating from a textbook — he's translating from experience. And he's doing it every single weekday, for the people who need it most.