Work With Me
I work with a small number of companies and leaders each year on the AI decisions that determine whether projects deliver.
The work is for CEOs, founders, boards, and senior teams who need a named technical judgment-holder in the room: someone who has built production AI systems, can separate architecture from hype, and will give you a clear recommendation about what should happen next.
If you are making consequential decisions about AI strategy, architecture, governance, or build direction, there are three ways to work together.
AI Decision Diagnostic
A focused diagnostic for leaders facing a specific AI decision: whether to build or buy, where an AI initiative is stuck, how to evaluate an agent/vendor proposal, or what needs to be true before a system can move into production.
The engagement includes a structured intake, review of relevant artifacts, a 90-minute working session, and a concise written recommendation memo. You leave with a clear read on the decision, the risks, and the next moves.
This is the best entry point when the question is concrete and the organization needs senior judgment quickly.
This is not a workshop or coaching call. It is a focused senior review of a decision where the wrong call would be expensive.
Typical range: $10K–$15K.
Best for: founders, CEOs, product/data/AI leaders, or boards who need clarity on one consequential decision before committing more time or capital.
Executive AI Briefing
A half- or full-day working session with your leadership team, built around the Collaborative AI framework and applied directly to the decisions in front of you.
The session combines a diagnostic of where the organization is stuck, a practical framework for designing AI systems that integrate models, software, data, evaluation, and human judgment, and a facilitated decision session around the three or four calls your team actually needs to make.
You leave with a shared language, a clearer decision map, and a written recommendation memo within a week.
I run a small number of briefings each quarter. Pre-work from your team is required.
Typical range: $25K–$35K for a half day. $40K–$60K for a full day.
Best for: leadership teams making foundational AI decisions, boards orienting to AI strategy, or executive teams stuck between competing internal AI proposals.
Advisory / Fractional AI Leadership
Ongoing work with companies making consequential AI bets. This can be structured as advisory support for CEOs, founders, boards, and executive teams, or as a deeper fractional/principal engagement when the work needs hands-on senior leadership alongside the team.
- Advisory: monthly structured working session plus async access for the decisions in between. $8K–$12K/month, typically 6+ months.
- Fractional/principal: embedded architecture, governance, and build leadership — directly in architecture reviews, governance design, and the operating work required to get AI systems shipped responsibly. Starting at $20K/month, typical engagement 3–6 months.
The common thread is senior judgment applied continuously: what to build, what not to build, where the risks are, how to evaluate progress, and where human judgment belongs in the system.
I take on only a small number of ongoing engagements at a time.
Best for: organizations past the exploration phase that need an experienced AI/data leader helping steer the work before expensive decisions harden.
Why This Work Is Different
- Production operator, not AI commentator: 20+ years across data science, analytics, AI, and executive-facing consulting.
- Applied AI, not model theater: focus on systems that integrate AI, software, data, evaluation, governance, and human judgment.
- Framework plus receipts: Collaborative AI provides the decision structure; my Compound agent operating system and related agent work show the system-building behind it.
- Accountable judgment: the output is not a generic strategy deck. It is a clear recommendation about what should happen next.
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