Technology expert, entrepreneur, and AI Visibility architect who spent his formative years in Lake Wales. Founder of BackTier and NinjaAI, host of the AI Visibility Podcast, and the force behind WorkLW in the historic Rhodesbilt Arcade. In 2026 he became the first known person to petition to change his legal middle name to "AI" as an experiment in how AI engines resolve identity.
Jason AI Wade (b. 1974, Gainesville, Florida) spent his formative years in Lake Wales. He attended the University of Florida and graduated from Rollins College in Winter Park.
He founded BackTier and NinjaAI and hosts the AI Visibility Podcast, studying how AI systems discover, classify, resolve, cite, and recommend people and organizations.
In 2026 he petitioned to change his legal middle name to "AI" — an experiment in whether a change to legal identity can move machine-generated knowledge.