Most AI projects die in demo mode.
Yours doesn't have to.
I'm a fractional AI engineering leader. I embed with your team, find where AI creates real leverage, and help you actually ship it.
Your team knows AI matters. They just can't get it to production.
Here's what I keep seeing: smart engineering teams stuck in exploration mode. They've played with the tools, maybe even built a proof-of-concept. But nothing's shipped. Nothing's creating real value yet.
The bottleneck isn't your engineers — it's that nobody on the team has shipped agentic AI in production before. That's a specific skill.
I've spent the last 12+ years building and leading engineering teams — Senior Director of Sportsbook Engineering at FanDuel, VP of Engineering at Bowery Farming. I've shipped systems that serve millions and built platforms from zero.
Now I'm deep in the agentic AI space, building with Claude Code, Conductor, Codex, and custom tooling every day. Not experimenting with them — running real systems on them. I work with a small number of companies to help them do the same.
Three ways we can work together. Which one depends on where you're at.
Fractional AI Engineering Leader
The engineering leader in the room you can’t justify hiring full-time. I join your standups, sit in on product conversations, scope AI features, train your team on the tools, and give you honest answers about what’s worth building and what isn’t.
AI Kickstart
I join your team for a week. Audit your workflows, find the highest-leverage AI opportunities, and build the first one. You walk away with something working and a clear roadmap for what’s next.
Build Sprint
You’ve got a specific problem — a new feature, an internal tool, a workflow that needs to be rebuilt. I scope it tight, build it fast, and ship it in weeks. Not months.
Engineering Leadership
Led engineering teams from under 10 to over 100+ at FanDuel and Bowery Farming. Know how to scope work, run sprints, unblock teams, and ship. Not just an IC — can lead your team.
AI Integration
Not theory. I run my own systems on AI daily — engineering workflows, automation, internal tooling. I know what actually works and what’s hype.
Speed
Most delays aren’t technical — they’re indecision. I make the calls other people committee to death.
This isn't consulting.
I don't do decks. I don't do frameworks. There's no 90-day discovery phase where we “align on strategy.”
I plug into your team, help figure out where AI actually creates leverage, and help build it. If after a week I'm not adding obvious value, we shake hands and move on.
Every engagement is month-to-month. No long-term contracts, no awkward breakup conversations.
Your team built a proof-of-concept three months ago.
It’s still a proof-of-concept.
Every sprint planning has an AI ticket.
It keeps getting deprioritized.
You’ve evaluated six tools.
You’ve committed to zero.
Your board is asking about AI.
Your team is asking for direction.
If any of that landed, we should talk.
Let's talk.
30 minutes. No pitch. Just a conversation about what you're working on and whether I can help.