Services

Three ways I can help, and how each one runs.

Most engagements start because something has outgrown its tooling. Below is what each line of work actually delivers, the signals that it is the right one, and roughly how long it takes.

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Software & ERP Systems

Business systems that stay correct when they are under pressure.

Services, APIs and ERP work for problems where being approximately right is not good enough — money, stock, ledgers, anything with an audit trail. That includes Laravel ERP builds covering projects, HR, assets and inventory, where the hard part is rarely any single module — it is keeping one shared model of the business that every module can agree on.

Typically 3 — 10 months
What you get

Domain and data model design, documented well enough to argue with

ERP build or extension, with an integration layer that keeps the vendor’s format out of your business model

REST API integration with the systems you already run, built to fail safely when the other end is down

Continuous reconciliation that proves the two systems agree, and says so when they do not

Runbooks and handover, so the team owns it without me

This is for you if

Someone re-keys the same document into two systems every day.

A batch job decides whether your numbers are right, and it runs overnight.

Your ERP and your finance system disagree and nobody knows which is wrong.

You have a system nobody wants to change because nobody is sure what it does.

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Platform & DevOps

Infrastructure your engineers use without filing a ticket.

Internal platforms, deployment pipelines and cloud architecture built so that the common path is self-service. The goal is never the technology — it is removing the queue between a developer having an idea and being able to test it.

Typically 4 — 12 months
What you get

Internal platform or developer portal with a real API underneath it

GitOps deployment and ephemeral environments per pull request

Build and CI overhaul — caching, sharding, reproducibility

Cost visibility, attributed to the teams and changes that cause it

This is for you if

Getting an environment takes days and involves asking a person.

Your pipeline is slow enough that people start another task while they wait.

The infrastructure team has become a ticket queue and stopped building.

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AI Automation

AI systems that are trustworthy enough to keep in production.

Agents and pipelines that do real operational work — triaging incidents, reading documents, handling the repetitive middle of a process. Built with strict schemas, confidence thresholds, human checkpoints and an evaluation suite, because the hard part was never getting a demo to work.

Typically 2 — 7 months
What you get

Automation design with the human checkpoints deliberately placed

Structured extraction or agent loops with validation at every boundary

An evaluation harness built from your real cases, run before every change

Confidence-based routing so people spend time only where the machine is unsure

This is for you if

People retype information between two systems every day.

You have an AI prototype that impressed everyone and nobody trusts in production.

Your on-call rotation spends its first twenty minutes reconstructing a timeline.

How an engagement runs

No surprises
01

A conversation

Thirty minutes on what is actually breaking. If I am not the right person I will say so and try to point you at who is.

02

A written proposal

Scope, the approach, what I would deliberately not build, and what it costs. Short enough to read in one sitting.

03

Build in the open

Working software early and often, with your team involved throughout. No reveal at the end — you see it as it forms.

04

Handover that holds

Documentation, runbooks and enough pairing that the system belongs to your team, not to me. That is the actual finish line.

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