AI, software & useful internet things · New Orleans

MULTIPLE ENGINES. ONE STUDIO.

Building online since 2020

We use AI, software, and a healthy amount of tinkering to build economic engines that actually run. TikTok shop in progress, chaos welcome.

01 How we got here

It started with local businesses. Then the engine room got crowded.

’20The first engine

Giving Tree Media started as a local service business consultancy with one big belief: the best thing a marketing company can do for a service business is help it show up in the Google Map Pack.

So Matthew got to work managing Google Business Profiles, improving local visibility, designing websites, doing SEO, and answering the questions real customers were already asking. That content-lab curiosity never left. Now the work also includes helping businesses become the answer when people ask AI who to call.

Matthew buys software the way some people buy snacks: frequently, curiously, and rarely one at a time. He tests what works, turns the keepers into useful workflows, and uses AI and software to build cool stuff—and, eventually, multiple economic engines online. One of them is Wayside Travels, his YouTube channel full of educational shorts.

Matthew Ainsworth · Founder, builder & chief software tester
02 What we do

Five ways we turn search, software, and good ideas into working engines.

01

Google Business Profile Management

We help service businesses get found where buying decisions happen fast: the Google Map Pack.

02

AI Search Optimization

Search is learning to talk back. We help make sure AI knows your business—and recommends it when it counts.

03

Web Design & SEO

Our content-lab roots: useful websites, smart SEO, and clear answers to the questions customers actually ask.

04

Software Testing & Workflows

We buy the tools, press all the buttons, keep what works, and turn the winners into workflows that build cool stuff.

05

Digital Products & Content

Educational Wayside Travels shorts, activity books, and digital assets—small ideas built to keep working after launch.

03 Engines in the wild

Made to teach, delight, earn, and keep moving.

Wayside Travels turns curiosity into educational YouTube shorts. Our maze books turn it into screen-free adventures. Different formats, same plan: build useful things with legs.

Real book · Zero batteries

Dino Maze
Adventures

Big dinos, twisty paths, happy little brainsBOOK 01 ↗
Real book · Zero batteries

Barnyard Maze
Adventures

Farmyard fun without the muddy shoesBOOK 02 ↗
04 The heart of it

Every book helps write Ava’s next chapter.

100% of proceeds from our books go directly to Ava’s education fund. Each book is a creative project we’re proud of—and a deeply personal way to turn the work we do today into more possibilities for her tomorrow.

05 Say hey

Got an idea? Let’s make it.