Dennis Yu

I'm Dennis Yu

CEO, Local Service Spotlight

My mission is to train up AI Builders — directly and through DSDT College, where veterans earn college credit using GI Bill® benefits — and put them to work running the AI agents we’ve built to make the phone ring for contractors and other local service businesses.

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What Dr. Adrienne Lara Taught Me About Celebrating the People You Serve

A high school counselor told her to go into nursing instead. She entered medical school at thirty, trained at Harvard, and has spent nearly three decades telling women they are worth celebrating. What I took from working with Dr. Adrienne Lara.

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • August 23, 2026

How My Agents Divide the Work — And Where They Talk

Claude builds. Codex checks. Grok works the same rails from outside the live room. Four surfaces carry the work: GitHub remembers, Basecamp has the client, Buzz is the handoff, scheduled tasks run the clock. Copy the recipe.

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • August 23, 2026

Use AI Without Being an Engineer (Drive the Car — Don’t Rebuild the Engine)

You do not have to become an AI engineer to grow your business with AI. That is the sentence I […]

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • August 22, 2026
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“Founders and Entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of money to spend, yet they also want a great site that looks good, shows up in search engines, makes the phone ring, and in general–provides a measurable return on their hard-earned dollar. They want something that is simple to understand. And they don’t have time to learn all the technical details, but want a partner that can handle it, because they have a dozen other things to worry about.”

- Dennis Yu

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About Me

CEO of Local Service Spotlight. I architected a two-sided network: young adults and veterans train up as AI Builders, and the agents they run make the phone ring for local service businesses. From Yahoo! search engineer to a billion dollars in ad spend, it’s always been the same job — optimizing to sales from the data and the algorithms. Read the full story →

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