About Ryan Wheadon - AI Solutions Manager (Marketing)
Ryan Wheadon – AI & Automation Specialist at Purplex Marketing
Ryan Wheadon leads AI adoption and automation strategy at Purplex, working across a full-service marketing environment where performance, scalability, and commercial impact matter.
With a degree in Computing and over a decade in digital marketing, Ryan combines technical depth with practical marketing experience. This allows him to bridge the gap between AI capability and real-world application, ensuring tools are implemented in a way that supports how marketing teams actually operate.
He specialises in building and deploying AI-driven systems that move beyond surface-level usage. His work focuses on infrastructure, integration, and reliability, ensuring that automation workflows are robust, scalable, and fit for production environments.
At Purplex, Ryan is responsible for:
- AI tool evaluation and selection
Assessing platforms based on integration capability, data handling, and long-term viability, not just interface or trend value. - Automation and system development
Designing and building workflows using Python, API integrations, Make.com, and Monday.com, including custom solutions where off-the-shelf tools fall short. - Team enablement and training
Translating complex AI concepts into practical processes that can be adopted across SEO, content, PPC, and wider marketing teams. - AI strategy and governance
Defining how AI is deployed across the agency, with clear frameworks for performance, accountability, and responsible use.
Ryan’s approach is grounded in understanding how systems work beneath the surface. He focuses on building solutions that are technically sound, commercially relevant, and capable of scaling with client demand.
