AVAILABLE · Q3 2026

Production generative AI, built end-to-end and shipped.

I’m an independent builder for founders, startups, and companies shipping generative AI products into production. The work I do best is 0 to 1: turning an idea or a vibe-coded prototype into a real, production-quality full-stack app with deep generative AI inside it, in a matter of weeks.

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01WHAT I DO

The right generative AI for the job, shipped reliably in production.

The right answer might be a retrieval layer with rigorous evaluations (evals), a multi-step workflow that orchestrates several model calls, or a tool-using agent built on a production-grade harness like the Claude Agent SDK. The harder work is knowing which one actually fits.

01 — GREENFIELD BUILDS

Idea to production app

A discovery sprint to map architecture, evals, and milestones, followed by a fixed-fee build over 6 to 12 weeks. The AI lives inside a real application: frontend, APIs, data, auth, deployment.

Duration · 6–12 wksFrom · $100k

02 — PROTOTYPE TO PRODUCTION

Vibe-coded to production

A discovery sprint to map the existing code, decide what to keep, rebuild, or replace, and produce the architecture and eval plan, followed by a fixed-fee build over 6 to 12 weeks.

Duration · 6–12 wksFrom · $100k

02HOW I WORK

Scope is named and bounded. Every engagement.

I work AI-assisted throughout, which is how a solo engagement ships at the pace of a small team. Slack within working hours, async-first; on-site visits as the engagement requires.

+ IN SCOPE

+Architecture, eval and observability design
+Hands-on building
+Code and PR review, weekly check-ins
+Knowledge transfer at handoff

− OUT OF SCOPE

Strategy decks
Hands-off advisory
Stand-in CTO for fundraising
Embedded engineer in your day-to-day process

DELIVERABLES AT HANDOFF

01The working AI feature or full application running in production
02An eval suite covering the primary success and failure modes
03Observability instrumented for run-time behavior
04Runbook documentation, plus a working session with your team

03RATE

Both tracks use the same pricing.

Build pricing scales with scope. The lower end is a focused build, typically a single integrated AI feature or a small full-stack app; the upper end involves multiple components, compliance overhead, or scope across several user surfaces.

ENGAGEMENT
DURATION
PRICE
Discovery sprint
1–2 weeks
$15,000 — $25,000
Production build
6–12 weeks
$100,000 — $200,000
Post-launch retainer
monthly · optional
$15,000 / month

The discovery sprint produces a fixed-fee quote anchored to your specific scope, plus the architecture and eval plan needed to ship it. Builds are paid per milestone. Net 30 across all engagements.

04FIT

Who I work with — and who I don’t.

+ GOOD FIT IF YOU ARE…

  • A founder or startup with a rough or vibe-coded prototype that's interesting but not ready for real users
  • A team building a tool-using agent on Claude Agent SDK or similar, who needs a senior engineer to ship it with proper evals and observability
  • A non-technical founder who wants the v1 built and delivered
  • A funded startup (seed to Series B) adding generative AI to your product for real, not as a demo or a press release
  • A team strong on its stack but new to production generative AI
  • A venture studio or VC funding the first production AI build for a portfolio company

− NOT A GOOD FIT IF YOU ARE…

  • Pre-funding and looking for a co-founder for equity
  • Looking for someone to write strategy decks
  • Convinced you need an autonomous agent before you've defined the problem
  • Looking for an embedded engineer who works inside your team's process day to day

05BACKGROUND

Two decades of engineering and product leadership.

Inventor on US12380340B1, Systems and Methods for AI Agent Control Layer Through Performance Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Agents.

Co-founder & CTO
Wayfound
Built and shipped an independent AI agent supervision platform with real-time evaluation, compliance monitoring, multi-agent workflow supervision, and MCP support. Salesforce Agentforce monitoring partner; SOC 2 Type II.
2024 — 2026
Sr. Director of Platform
Pendo.io
Grew integrations revenue from $4M to $17M over 3 years. Owned APIs, SDKs, integrations, real-time event systems, warehouse sync.
2021 — 2024
Director, Principal Architect
Box
Seven years across Platform product management and customer-facing enterprise technical roles. Co-inventor on US9998446.
2014 — 2021
VP Engineering, Founder
Zenph · EvoApp · Siemens Healthcare
VP Engineering at Zenph and EvoApp; Principal Engineer at Siemens Healthcare; founder and architect roles since 2003.
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06GET IN TOUCH

Tell me what you’re building.

The first reply is from me, usually within a working day. Or skip ahead and book a 30-minute call directly.