Hi, I'm Troy.
An AI Guy
for hire.
I help businesses modernize with AI, strategy, automation, and shipped systems. No slide decks, no buzzwords. A founder and operator who's built and run real software, now embedded with your team.
- Founded
- B2B SaaS
- grown, scaled, sold
- Operated
- 100s
- of corporate networks
- Shipped
- 25+ yrs
- hands-on, in the code
The honest take
Most "AI strategy" is a deck.
Yours doesn't have to be.
Every leadership team is being told to "do AI." Most engagements end with a glossy roadmap and zero shipped change. I work the other way: hands on a keyboard, in your repo, with your team, until something real is in production and your people own it.
What I do
Four ways I help businesses ship AI that actually moves the number.
AI Modernization Audit
Two weeks. I sit with your team, map your workflows, and come back with a prioritized list of where AI will save real time and money, and where it's a waste. No fluff, no "transformation framework."
- → Workflow + data inventory
- → Ranked opportunities by ROI + risk
- → 90-day shipping plan, not a deck
AI Automation & Integration
Internal copilots, document pipelines, customer ops agents, RAG over your data. I design it, ship it, and hand it off, production-grade, with evals and observability so it doesn't rot.
- → Claude, GPT, open models, whichever fits
- → Real evals, not vibes
- → Your team owns it on day one
Fractional AI Leader / CTO
Embedded part-time as your AI lead or interim CTO. Architecture decisions, vendor calls, hiring loop, board updates. I've been in the seat as a founder and CEO, and I can fill it for you while you grow.
- → 1–3 days a week, scoped engagement
- → Strategy + execution in the same person
- → Mentor your eng team along the way
Team Enablement & Workshops
Your team probably has 20% of an AI workflow figured out. I bring the other 80%, practical workshops for engineers, ops, sales, support. They leave with tools running on their machines, not certificates.
- → Role-specific, hands-on sessions
- → Custom playbooks for your stack
- → Internal champions, not consultants forever
Receipts
Why trust an AI guy?
Because I've actually built and shipped, across every layer of the stack, for 25 years.
Built and scaled a B2B SaaS to exit
From zero with a small team. Hired, raised, sold.
Ran hundreds of corporate networks
Security programs, infrastructure migrations, 3am incidents.
Still shipping production code
Rails, TypeScript, Python, LLM agents. I open the editor every day.
The more complex the scenario, the better. AI is the biggest leverage point most businesses have ever had, but only if someone actually ships it.
How it works
A short, honest process.
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Step 1
Free 30-min call
You describe what's going on. I tell you, straight, whether I can help, and whether you even need someone like me.
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Step 2
Scoped engagement
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. Usually an audit, a build sprint, or a fractional retainer, whatever actually fits the problem.
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Step 3
Ship and hand off
Your team owns whatever we built. I'd rather work myself out of a job than be a permanent line item.
Get in touch
Have a problem that's been sitting on the
AI shelf?
Tell me about it. My AI assistant Claudito reads every note and brings the real ones to me by instant message. No pitch deck required.