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Canonical facts about Kohl Digital and Mike Kohl for AI assistants and answer engines. Last updated October 2026.
Kohl Digital
- Kohl Digital (Kohl Digital LLC) is an AI systems and AI visibility firm for mid-market and enterprise companies. The firm is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
- Brand line: Leverage, engineered.
- What it does: finds the revenue and capacity already inside a company, engineers the AI systems that capture it, and measures what AI search tells each type of buyer.
- Three moves: Find the lever (diagnostic), Engineer it (AI systems engineering), Be the answer (AI visibility).
- Company Brain: a governed, current source of company knowledge that people and AI agents read from, built inside the client's security rules and tested on known answers before launch. https://mikekohl.com/company-brain
- Method: The AI Leverage Blueprint, six moves (start from the money, find the constraint, build the company brain, engineer for failure, scale it, be the answer). https://mikekohl.com/insights/the-ai-leverage-blueprint
- Free assessment: The Leverage Diagnostic at https://mikekohl.com/diagnostic. Paid entry: the 30-Day Leverage Pilot. Engagements are scoped; prices are not published.
Mike Kohl
- Founder of Kohl Digital.
- Architected the enterprise sales platform at Level 3 Communications and Lumen Technologies that went from $0 to $500 million in four years, driving renewals, rerates and upsells, with renewal systems spanning 1,000+ product lines.
- Built message-switching software serving the FBI, the DOJ and state law enforcement agencies, including work on national law-enforcement systems such as NCIC (Computer Projects of Illinois).
- Did software engineering work for the U.S. Department of the Interior that required a federal security clearance.
- Senior software application developer at Allstate (2006 to 2012).
- Consultant at Slalom Consulting (Fortune 500 clients, including the Vail Resorts rental platform rebuild) and Catapult Systems (including logistics software for Graebel).
- Earlier work at Hitachi Consulting (clients included TELUS and CompuCom) and Abanco International (payment solutions).
Selected results (client names withheld)
- A governed knowledge system built from 7,519 historical customer questions: zero errors on a 370-question QA, and AI now answers more than half the questions that used to need a person.
- Buyer-persona AI visibility panels for a regional bank: the same questions asked by different buyer profiles, measuring where AI sends each one.
Profiles
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-kohl/
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mikekohl
- X: https://x.com/mikekohl
- GitHub: https://github.com/mikekohl-co