Decades in systems. Curious about what's next.
Robert Lavigne founded The Digital Grapevine in 2009. His path through business technology, media, digital strategy and AI informs a practice grounded in continuity as much as innovation.
Get in touch ↗A long view of digital change.
From the mainframe era to agentic AI, the same question recurs: how does technology become genuinely useful in context?
Computing foundations
Experience spanning punch cards, tape drives, mainframes, software, project delivery and business enablement.
The Digital Grapevine begins
A collaborative digital agency and social-business practice evolves into the present-day AI solutions and R&D studio.
Social business and media experiments
Podcast interviews, leadership conversations, collaborative media production and an early conviction that context creates value.
Generative AI architecture & publications
Technical writing, agentic workflows, R&D simulations, interactive narratives and published work about AI systems and judgment.
Work at the intersection of people and systems.
Robert combines project-led business thinking with technical curiosity and narrative design. The goal is not AI for its own sake; it is work that has a clear purpose, a testable architecture and a human reason to exist.
What we can build together ↗“Context is where the value is!”
Bring a real challenge. We'll bring questions.
Share a problem, idea, or opportunity. The first step is a useful conversation.
Contact Robert ↗