Raife Dowley
Raife Dowley is an AI automation expert at Make, focused on the practical side of building with AI: agentic workflows, new tools as they launch, and small experiments with local AI models.
He spent years in marketing operations before moving into content, working hands-on with automation platforms.
That background shapes what he writes about: the tools and techniques he's using, on Make and elsewhere, week to week.
Professional expertise
Raife builds automations and AI agents on Make, working hands-on with new agentic AI tools as they're released to understand what they can actually do in practice.
He also runs local AI models to test their capabilities against cloud-based alternatives. He writes about what he learns from this work, documenting real builds and experiments rather than general commentary.
Outside of that, he takes on his own vibe-coding projects, staying close to the practical mechanics of building with AI.