The people behind every engagement.
TrustLight is not a firm of analysts and project managers. It's practitioners who have spent their careers inside real operations and real technical systems — and now apply that depth to AI transformation for South Louisiana businesses.
Camille Gaudet
30 years running businesses in Louisiana gives you something no MBA program teaches: you know what implementation looks like when your team is skeptical, your margins are thin, and you can't afford a six-month rollout. That operational credibility is what TrustLight brings to every engagement.
When we walk into your business, we're not bringing a framework developed in a conference room. We've managed payroll. We've made decisions with real money on the line. We know what it takes to get a team to actually change how they work.
- CEO, TrustLight Advisory
- 30 years service business operations (Louisiana)
- Hands-on AI implementation specialist
- Ground Force Humanitarian Aid (operations)
Rob Gaudet
30 years of software architecture — and Rob is currently designing and shipping production-grade AI systems at the frontier, not reading about them. His recent work includes a fully agentic multi-tenant SaaS platform he designed and built solo: edge-deployed on Cloudflare Workers, Claude API with intelligent model routing (selecting between models by task complexity to control cost at scale), stateful multi-turn AI conversations, Supabase PostgreSQL with row-level security, and a fully data-driven task engine where every workflow is a database record — not code.
That's the difference between someone who knows AI and someone who builds with it at the infrastructure level. TrustLight clients get that depth — applied to their operation, not left in a lab.
- CTO, TrustLight Advisory
- 30 years software systems architecture
- Creator, OpenClaw AI agent framework
- Anthropic Claude API — multi-turn context, model routing, real-time streaming
- Edge-deployed AI on Cloudflare Workers (serverless, globally distributed)
- Agentic SaaS architecture — data-driven task engines, zero hardcoded logic
- Supabase PostgreSQL, Cloudflare D1, Stripe, fal.ai image generation
- Director, Startup Grind New Orleans
- Ground Force Humanitarian Aid (technology)
Shaun Steckler
Shaun brings 23 years of real-world business experience to every engagement — as a real estate investor, a commercial cleaning operator, and a six-figure Amazon FBA seller. He's not studying AI from the outside. Since 2023, he's been implementing it across content, brand development, and business automation in his own operations.
His consulting philosophy is direct: cut through the noise, identify what actually moves the needle in your specific business model, and implement it systematically. No theory. No hype. Just results.
- COO, TrustLight Advisory
- 23 years real estate investment & operations
- Serial entrepreneur — multiple successful business exits
- AI implementation: automation, content, brand, research
Daya Naef
Daya Naef serves as Director of Partnerships, working alongside contractors, subcontractors, and trades businesses throughout South Louisiana to help them navigate growth, operational challenges, and emerging technologies in practical ways.
As a third-generation construction professional with a foundation in law and professional services, she understands both the realities of the field and the complexities of running a business. Her work focuses on helping companies improve communication, streamline operations, reduce inefficiencies, and adopt technology in ways that support, not disrupt, how they already work.
She believes successful businesses are built on trust, strong relationships, and systems that support people, and she is passionate about helping South Louisiana companies build stronger, more resilient operations for the future.
- Director of Partnerships, TrustLight Advisory
- Third-generation construction professional
- Background in law & professional services
- Focused on South Louisiana trades & contractors