Tim Sebold, Founder & CEO of soolisAI
Answer first
Tim Sebold is the founder and CEO of soolisAI, a Greenville, SC company that builds private, human-in-the-loop AI for businesses. He came up through the fitness industry, has run digital marketing since 2009 through soolis Digital Marketing, a separate company, and has built AI since 2018. He has worked in the airport space for 3+ years. He also chairs the board of RIZE Prevention and co-chairs the Southeastern AI Association.
Operator first
Tim has sold equipment, run marketing for clubs and watched leads slip through a busy front desk. That's why soolisAI starts with the money businesses lose every day: missed calls, no-shows and work that falls through the cracks.
Career
Founder & CEO, soolisAI: Chat, Voice, Engage (Greenville, SC). Tim founded soolisAI in 2018 to build chat and voice AI, after nearly a decade in digital marketing. Today he leads product vision for private “walled garden” AI instances, voice, text and chat automation like the TeleChat Answer Route Filter, predictive dashboards, and the Hospitality and Casino division.
soolis Digital Marketing (2009–present), a separate digital marketing company. Earlier: VP of Sales & Marketing, soolis.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager, Paramount Fitness (2006–2009).
Chairperson of the Board, RIZE Prevention Inc. (Dec 2024–present), a Mauldin, SC nonprofit that helps teens make healthy choices.
Co-Chairman, Southeastern AI Association (May 2026–present), a Greenville-based regional group for collaborative AI education and advocacy.
Experience: AI since 2018, digital marketing since 2009, and 3+ years in the airport space.
Smart Award recipient
How Tim builds
Tim builds custom AI agents and AI avatars. He works across Claude, Google Gemini and Grok, plus AWS, Python and whatever applications the job needs. The tool fits the problem, not the other way around.
In his words
“My philosophy is to start clients with chatbots and rigorously train them on websites and apps. The chat agents get very smart during this time. Later, it will be easy to extend those well-trained agents into voice if and when it becomes the primary medium of interaction.”
“The next decade won't be won by who has the most powerful AI. It will be won by who can make powerful AI sound, behave, and protect like the brand it represents — without ever compromising the data that makes the brand valuable.”
Connect
Tim Sebold on LinkedInFAQ
- Who is Tim Sebold?
- The founder and CEO of soolisAI in Greenville, SC, and chair of the RIZE Prevention board.
- What is Tim's background?
- Fitness-industry sales and operations, digital marketing since 2009, and AI since 2018, including 3+ years in the airport space.
- What technology does Tim work with?
- Claude, Google Gemini, Grok, AWS, Python and whatever applications the job needs. He builds custom AI agents and AI avatars.
- What does Tim write about?
- Private AI, AI receptionists, human-in-the-loop operations and practical AI for small and mid-market businesses.
Book time with Tim · or try to stump Tiffany: 803-999-3464.