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Founder & CEO, The Coast Global · Founder, Colony
David builds companies at the point where human intention meets AI execution. Through The Coast Global he helps businesses build their brand and digital presence. With Colony, he is building an AI project manager that takes a goal in plain language and turns it into finished work.
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David Coast is the Founder and CEO of The Coast Global, a digital agency, and the founder of Colony, an AI project management platform that turns a plain-language goal into a plan, then does the follow-through until the work is done.
David Coast is the Founder and CEO of The Coast Global, a digital agency helping businesses build their brand and digital presence, and the founder of Colony, an AI-powered project management platform. Colony is built around ANT, an autonomous agent that plans projects from a simple brain dump, runs standups, flags risks early, and carries out work across the tools a team already uses. Colony was accepted into the ALPHA startup programme at Web Summit Qatar 2027. David is based in Dallas, Texas.
David Coast is the Founder and CEO of The Coast Global (coastglobal.org), a digital agency that helps businesses build their brand and digital presence, and the founder of Colony (colonyapp.ai), an AI project management platform built on a simple premise: start with an idea, finish with a project.
Most project tools are trackers. Someone still has to make the plan, chase the updates, and spot the problems. Colony works the other way. You describe a goal in plain language, and ANT, Colony’s Autonomous Nexus Technology, builds the plan, asks for approval, then sends its own agents to do the work: researching, drafting, checking in, and flagging risks before they become fires. It connects to the tools teams already run on, including Slack, GitHub, Notion, and email.
David founded Colony in February 2026 and has bootstrapped it since, launching the working product in August 2026 with a five-person technical team. Colony leaves beta on October 31, 2026, and was accepted into the ALPHA startup programme at Web Summit Qatar 2027 in Doha. David is currently raising a pre-seed round. He lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
When I lost my job, I lost more than a paycheck. For a stretch, home was the back seat of my car. I could have treated that as the end of the story. I treated it as the starting point.
I lost my corporate job in America, and instead of looking for another one, I bet on myself. Everything I owned came down to one suitcase, a laptop, and a guitar. I drove one way to Miami with no plan B.
For months, my car was home. I worked out of Starbucks by day, showered at Planet Fitness, and built late into every night, shaping the studio that would become The Coast.
I built The Coast Global from nothing. No investors, no safety net, just client work done well enough to earn the next client. The agency is still running today, and it taught me what founders actually need, because I was living it.
I knew what it felt like to be overlooked, so I built a studio for the overlooked: founders, artists, and dreamers with everything to prove and no budget to prove it. That is still who The Coast is for.
Then I bet on myself again. Colony is the result: an AI project manager built for people carrying big goals with small teams. In January 2027, it heads to Web Summit Qatar as an ALPHA startup. The distance between that car seat and that stage is the whole point.
“Rock bottom was not a detour. It was fuel.”
Where ideas come alive · colonyapp.ai
The AI project manager. Tell Colony what you want to get done and ANT turns it into a step-by-step plan, then keeps the work moving until it ships. The wedge is simple: every other tool gives you a place to write the plan down. Colony makes the plan and does the follow-up.
The established business · coastglobal.org
The agency. The Coast Global is David’s digital agency, helping businesses build their brand and digital presence. It is the revenue engine behind the Colony build, and the source of the client-work experience that shaped what Colony became.
Why the next step past chatbots is agents that plan and finish work, and what changes when the tool does the follow-through instead of just tracking it.
Building Colony since February 2026 with no outside capital: agency revenue funding product development, and the discipline that takes.
The hybrid model behind Colony: people supply the goal and the judgment, ANT handles the orchestration. Where the human stays in charge, and why.
Taking a Texas startup to Web Summit Qatar 2027 and the Startup Qatar programme: what global stages offer early-stage founders, and what it costs to get there.
How AI is changing client work right now, what clients actually ask for, and how a small agency competes with much bigger shops.
Async standups, risk flags, and the case that most meetings exist because nobody built the follow-up system. What replaced them at Colony.
Voyage Dallas Magazine
“Daily Inspiration: Meet David Coast”
Full interview feature · Voyage Dallas
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