Services
Three ways I help. Same person throughout.
Most AI programs die somewhere between the deck and the shipped system. I work the whole distance: picking the problems worth solving, building the thing, and staying until people use it.
Forward-Deployed Engineering
Embedded with your team, from POC to production
The distance between a promising demo and a system your business depends on is where most AI value disappears. Forward-deployed engineering closes it by putting a builder inside the business, next to the people who will use the result.
I sit with your operators and learn the workflow before writing anything. Then we build the first version fast and harden it together: data plumbing, integrations, permissions, monitoring, and the change management that gets people to actually use it.
You end up with a working system and a team that can run it without me.
- Rapid proof of concept. A working prototype against your real data and workflow in weeks, not quarters.
- Productionization. Integration, reliability, security review, and rollout planning so the POC becomes a dependable system.
- Adoption and hand-over. Training, documentation, and a hand-off plan so your team owns the outcome.
AI Strategy
A plan grounded in what you can actually ship
Strategy is only useful if it survives contact with delivery. I have run PMOs, owned the budgets, and written the code, so the plan we produce is specific, costed, and buildable.
We start with your business, not with models. In a few focused weeks we map where AI removes real friction, where the data supports it, and where the risk is acceptable.
You get a prioritized roadmap, governance that fits your organization, and a small set of metrics that will tell you whether it is working.
- Opportunity mapping. Workshops with your leaders and operators to find the use cases worth the effort, ranked by value, feasibility, and risk.
- Governance and measurement. Decision rights, guardrails, and a small set of metrics so AI work is managed like any other investment.
- A funded, sequenced roadmap. Quarter-by-quarter plan with clear owners, budgets, and the proof points each phase must hit.
Software Engineering
Move your engineering team to AI-based workflows
I have been writing software since the early 1990s and led engineering teams through several platform shifts. This one is bigger, and it changes how teams work day to day.
I work alongside your engineers to introduce coding agents, retrieval and evaluation pipelines, and the review, testing, and observability practices that hold quality up when output goes up.
The goal is a team that ships more, with more confidence, and understands why.
- Agentic development workflows. Repository conventions, agent configuration, and review gates so AI-generated code meets your bar.
- Production-grade AI features. LLM integrations, retrieval, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails built into your existing stack.
- Security and quality by default. Testing, CI/CD, secrets handling, and monitoring set up so speed does not cost you reliability.
Questions
Questions people usually ask
Strategy work usually runs three to six weeks. Forward-deployed engagements are typically three to six months, long enough to take a proof of concept into production and hand it over. Engineering workflow work is scoped to your team and often runs alongside a delivery engagement.
I am based in Toronto and work with organizations across the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions. I favour being on site when I am embedded with a team, and I work remotely where that makes more sense.
Mid-sized organizations and business units inside larger ones, usually led by an executive who has a clear problem and wants a senior partner rather than a large consulting team.
It means the engineer works inside the business, next to the people who will use the system, and owns the outcome from the first prototype to production. It is how the best AI teams ship, and it is how I work.
Strategy engagements are fixed-price. Embedded work is a monthly retainer with a defined scope and exit criteria. Either way you will know the cost before we start.
Book a conversation. We will spend thirty minutes on your situation, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what the first step would look like.
Begin with a conversation
Tell me what you're trying to do. The next step can start simply.
Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether there is a fit. No deck, no pitch, just a frank conversation about your situation.