Operational AI & Systems Engineering

One front door. Five ways I work.

Every engagement starts with fit. The diagnostic decides: build, prepare, or stop. Build follows when your team can run the result.

Service lines

If the project isn't worth building, I'll tell you before you spend.

Start here

AI Workflow Diagnostic

Pin the one workflow that is costing you the most, and decide with a plan whether AI belongs in it.

  • Current task, decision, and handoff map
  • Authority and source boundary
  • Baseline and measurement plan
  • A clear decision: build, prepare, or stop

Not included

  • Guaranteed savings or outcome metrics
  • A promise that a build will follow

Straight answers

What if we are not ready?
If the project isn't worth building, I'll tell you before you spend. The diagnostic saves you from the wrong project.
After the diagnostic

Working-System Sprint

Take one workflow from map to live practice: measured against a baseline, owned by your team, with human approval where it matters.

  • One workflow, live in production, with a reachable owner
  • Read-only or draft-first rollout
  • Human approval for consequential actions
  • Training, correction, and adoption record
  • Stop and rollback criteria

Not included

  • Company-wide transformation programs
  • Unbounded timelines without stop criteria

Straight answers

What does the team own afterward?
A supervised workflow their people can run, with a baseline, correction path, and rollback criteria.
When off the shelf is not enough Built

Custom Software & Integrations

When nothing off the shelf fits, I build a focused system you own: accounts, data, code path, docs, and a fallback that outlives the engagement.

  • Bespoke internal tools and apps
  • Integrations between the systems you already run
  • Client ownership: accounts, data, code or defined license, credentials, documentation, fallback
  • Remove → redesign → configure → integrate → automate → build
  • Training and a defined stabilization period

Not included

  • An agency bench or fixed feature menus
  • Unlimited maintenance or enterprise scale claims

Straight answers

What happens when it breaks on Saturday night?
You own the accounts, data, code or defined license, documentation, credentials, and fallback procedure. Stabilization is defined before build starts.

Custom software in depth

Public front door Operating

Websites & Inquiry Systems

Make the public site a working front door: clear positioning, structured intake, and follow-up that lands in a working system.

  • Positioning and structured service content
  • Design and build
  • Structured intake and documented inquiry / response flow
  • Analytics and conversion baseline
  • Client-owned domain, hosting, and accounts
  • Prioritized workflow backlog

Not included

  • SEO ranking or traffic promises
  • Lead-volume guarantees

Straight answers

Is this a generic web shop?
No. The site is the public front door to a measurable workflow: positioning, intake, and follow-up that land in a system, not an inbox.
After a system ships

Managed AI Operations

Keep a shipped system observed, corrected, and reviewed so your team stays capable, not dependent.

  • Monitoring and incident triage
  • Source and permission upkeep
  • Evaluation and prompt or version changes
  • Adoption office hours
  • Monthly operating review

Not included

  • Unlimited requests or uncapped usage
  • Theater SLAs that look good on a slide and fail in the field

Straight answers

Does managed ops lock us in?
No. A client that can own the result is a design success. The engagement is temporary; the capability remains.

Map the first workflow before you buy the system.

Bring one task that repeats, gets handed off, or depends on one person. The first conversation tests fit before any build.

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