Bart Bryant did an M.L.S. (Library Science) at Rutgers in 1979 and an M.B.A. at the University of Michigan in 1989. After serving as a medical librarian at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1982, he went on to found Advanced Information Consultants, which served corporate libraries, and sold the company in 2000. Bart also founded ASK Services, a real estate title search company, which he sold in 2021. In 2015, with his son-in-law, Jim Mong, he planted Redeemer Ann Arbor, a church near the campus of the University of Michigan.