1 week
Systems audit
One week. I learn how your business actually runs — orders, inventory, marketing — then hand you a written plan: what to fix, what to leave alone, and exactly what it will cost. No open-ended contract.
Consulting
Modernize the systems your business runs on.
Twenty years building software at Microsoft, now based in Seattle and working directly with local small and mid-sized businesses. I help restaurants, shops, and service companies replace spreadsheets and aging tools with modern systems. Everything from using AI to automate backend processes and marketing pipelines. I offer reasonable rates, and I especially enjoy working with companies that support local and align with causes that make the world a better place.
One engagement per quarter. I keep the calendar deliberately small so each project gets my full attention.
What an engagement looks like
4–8 weeks
Build
Four to eight weeks. I replace the single workflow slowing you down most — like order intake, inventory, or customer follow-up — built to fit your budget and the tools your team already uses.
A few days a month
Ongoing
Flexible monthly support. I keep your systems running smoothly, handle adjustments as your business grows, and modernize the next bottleneck on your list. Senior engineering help on tap without full-time overhead.
Have a system that needs modernizing?
Tell me what is slowing you down. If it is a fit, I will send a short plan and a price. If it is not, I will point you somewhere better.
Previous engagements
A sample of recent work. Some clients stay unnamed; the results do not.
Fractional CTO / AI Architect/2024
Confidential (Stealth AI startup)
Defined agent topology, eval framework, and orchestration layer for multi-agent coding assistant. Shipped v1 to pilot users.
- Reduced hallucination rate 40% via eval gates
- Cut inference cost 60% with intelligent routing
Multi-AgentEvalsOrchestration
AI Strategy Advisory/2023
Enterprise SaaS (Series B)
Architecture review and build-vs-buy analysis for RAG pipeline serving 10M+ docs. Designed eval rubrics and regression gates.
- Identified $200k/yr in redundant vendor spend
- Established eval suite now run on every deploy
RAGStrategyEvals
Founder & CTO/2025-Present
Story Stream Editor
Multi-agent manuscript editor: narrative structure, reader response, theme, and craft analysis. Three-layer intent routing cuts cost 87-93% vs full-manuscript approaches.
- Writers on platform
- $0.035/paragraph at scale
Multi-AgentProductOrchestration
AI Architecture Review/2024
FinTech Platform (Series C)
Comprehensive architecture review of document processing pipeline. Identified eval gaps in extraction accuracy and designed regression suite for 12 document types.
- Extraction accuracy improved from 72% to 91%
- Reduced manual review queue by 65%
RAGEvalsDocument AI
Fractional AI Lead/2023
Healthcare AI Startup
Embedded 1 day/week to build clinical note summarization agent. Designed human-in-the-loop escalation for PHI handling and physician review workflow.
- Launched pilot with 3 hospital systems
- Achieved 94% physician acceptance rate
Multi-AgentHealthcareHuman-in-the-loop
Search & Recommendation Advisory/2022
E-commerce Marketplace
Strategic advisory on LLM-enhanced product search. Evaluated build-vs-buy for semantic reranking and designed A/B framework for relevance metrics.
- Selected vendor saving $180k/yr vs custom build
- Established relevance eval now run weekly
SearchStrategyEvals
Custom Agent Build/2024
Developer Tools Company
Built code migration agent for framework upgrades. Multi-step planning with static analysis verification and automated PR generation.
- Migrated 200+ repos with 98% success rate
- Reduced migration effort from weeks to hours
Multi-AgentCode GenOrchestration