Dennis Yu

I'm Dennis Yu

Dennis Yu and Dylan Haugen teaching with live AI agents at JVA Align 26 in Dallas
With Dylan Haugen at JVA Align ’26 in Dallas. See the teaching moments.

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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Dennis Loves to Play Golf: The Rounds, the Ranges, and the People

I love to play golf, not well but often, and almost never alone. The rounds, ranges, simulators, a rooftop putting video, scanned prints from the early days, and the people I play with: Marko Sipila, Simon Harries, Aden Trano, Jack Allard, Jimmie Yee, Chris Rommel, and the young operators.

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • September 5, 2026

Thank You, Sphere Rocket: Three Days of Golf, Business, and Friends at the Sphere Rocket Open

Three days in Dallas with Sphere Rocket: golf at Cowboys Golf Club and Fields Ranch at PGA Frisco, a helicopter ball drop, Texas barbecue, and a thank-you to Justin Nelson, Traci Nelson, Ben Harris, Aden Trano of Whop, Simon Harries of JVZoo, and Jack Allard.

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • September 5, 2026

The Checker That Isn’t You

A definition of done for people and AI agents, and the script that checks it so the founder stops being the QA layer. With the before numbers: 102 completions, 5 with proof.

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Posted By Dennis Yu
  • September 4, 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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