AI Engineering Consulting for Small Teams That Ship
AI engineering consulting for founders and small engineering teams. Set up AI coding assistants across your repositories, add the guard rails that keep them safe in production, and connect AI agents to the systems your business runs on.
I run a hardware and software company with AI doing a large share of the engineering: firmware, backend, web, mobile and the internal tools around them. It works because of how the assistant is set up, not because of which assistant it is.
I have also seen what happens when it is set up badly: a push to the wrong repository, a deploy broken at one in the morning, a cost-saving change that quietly made the work worse. AI engineering consulting with me means getting the benefit of those mistakes without making them yourself.
What teams come to me with
The assistant is fast inside one repo and lost between them
A feature that touches the backend, the web app and the mobile app turns into three separate conversations. I help set up one workspace where the assistant sees how the pieces connect.
It commits, pushes or deploys when it should not
Written instructions are not enough for anything that reaches production. I help put hard gates in place, so approval is required by the tooling and does not depend on memory.
The bill grows faster than the output
Most of the cost is rarely where people assume. I measure where it goes and separate the savings that are free from the ones that make the work worse.
Instructions and memory that have gone stale
A long instruction file that nobody maintains misleads the assistant on every task. I help decide what belongs in it, what belongs next to the code, and what should be deleted.
Wanting an agent that does real work
An agent that reads your CRM, answers on a phone line or acts on your systems is mostly a wiring problem. I have built these and know which parts are hard.
Not knowing what to trust it with
Some work can be handed over completely and some should never be. I help draw that line for your product and your team.
Who gets the most from this
- Founders building alone or with a few engineers who want to cover more ground.
- Engineering leads introducing AI assistants to a team and wanting rules that hold.
- Companies with several repositories where AI help stops at each repository's edge.
How we can work together
- A working session
- One focused call on one problem. I read your material beforehand so the time goes to the problem.
- A written review
- I go through your design, code or plan and send back findings in order of priority, with what I would change and why.
- Ongoing advisory
- Regular calls while you build, with questions answered in between. Suited to a team working through a hard stretch.
See how I work
Raspberry Pi Voice Calls with a SIM7600: Build an AI Phone Assistant
Step-by-step guide to making real phone calls from a Raspberry Pi with a SIM7600 4G USB modem and Python. It covers the AT commands, call audio over USB, and a complete script that connects the call to speech-to-text, Claude and text-to-speech.
Claude Code Multi-Repo Setup: Build an Umbrella Workspace
Step-by-step guide to running Claude Code across several repositories in one session. Set up a parent workspace with a shared instruction file, per-repo rules, a commit guard hook and safe git habits. Template files included.
The Umbrella Method: One Claude Code Workspace for Every Repo
Why I stopped running one AI coding session per repository and put all my repos under a single workspace. What that fixed, the four things that went wrong along the way, and the rules that came out of each.
Questions people ask first
Which tools do you work with?
I work with Claude Code every day across more than ten repositories, and with the Claude API for agents. The principles carry over to other assistants.
Do you write our code for us?
I set up how your team works with the assistant and review the results. The code stays yours, written in your repositories by your people.
Can we see how you work before talking?
Yes. The guides and articles on this site show the setup I use, with the files to download.
Talk to me about AI engineering consulting
Tell me what you are building and where it is stuck. I read every message myself.