# Mark Kashef

> Mark Kashef is a Canadian-based AI consultant, educator and founder of Prompt Advisers. After studying finance, teaching himself Python and working in data science, he began selling prompt-writing services on Fiverr shortly after ChatGPT launched. He now leads an AI consulting and education business, teaches through YouTube and O’Reilly, and runs the Early AI-dopters community with business partner Taha El Harti.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO, Prompt Advisers
- **Organizations:** Prompt Advisers, Early AI-dopters, O’Reilly Media, Microsoft Learn, Amazon, RVezy, University of Ottawa, Lighthouse Labs
- **Education:** Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence, Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, Finance degree
- **Known for:** Founded Prompt Advisers in late 2022 and reported more than $1 million in 2025 revenue in an Entrepreneur interview., Grew a YouTube channel focused on applied AI to more than 80,000 subscribers, according to his site., Built the Early AI-dopters learning community with business partner Taha El Harti.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2017** — Studied finance, then began teaching himself Python and AI after reading Luke Dormehl’s Thinking Machines, according to his account.
- **2019** — Met Affectiva co-founder Rana el Kaliouby at a networking event, an encounter he describes as an encouragement to keep pursuing AI.
- **2020-2022** — Worked as a data scientist and lead data scientist at RVezy; taught at the University of Ottawa and Lighthouse Labs; later became a business intelligence engineer at Amazon.
- **2022** — Started Prompt Advisers days after ChatGPT launched, initially offering prompt-writing services on Fiverr.
- **2023** — Grew the Fiverr gig, appeared in a Liam Ottley interview, and met future business partner Taha El Harti through a podcast.
- **2024-2025** — Balanced a full-time data science management role with Prompt Advisers, courses, video publishing and a community.
- **2025** — Left his full-time data science role at year-end and said Prompt Advisers passed $1 million in annual revenue.
- **2026** — Reported a shift toward consulting and education; spoke at an Early AI-dopters event in Berlin and continued teaching public AI courses.

## Achievements

- Founded Prompt Advisers in late 2022 and reported more than $1 million in 2025 revenue in an Entrepreneur interview.
- Grew a YouTube channel focused on applied AI to more than 80,000 subscribers, according to his site.
- Built the Early AI-dopters learning community with business partner Taha El Harti.
- Has taught live AI courses for O’Reilly and appears as a creator on Microsoft Learn.
- Reported delivering more than 200 AI projects on his personal site.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Told Entrepreneur that Prompt Advisers crossed $1 million in 2025 revenue and had shifted toward consulting and education.
- **2026-09** — His website listed a YouTube audience above 80,000, a community above 1,300, and a forthcoming book, Thinking in AI.

## Links

- Website: https://www.markkashef.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkashef
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/MarkKashef
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mark_kashef

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Last updated: 2026-09-29