Cut your AI bill in half.

Real-time platforms. Production RAG. Agents that hold under live traffic. Fixed scope or monthly retainer. Senior IC only. No junior hand-offs.

Currently accepting 2 fixed-scope engagements + 1 fractional seat for Q3. EU AI Act high-risk enforcement starts Dec 2027. Sprint seats are limited.

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No pitch deck. If I can't move the needle on your ROI in 30 minutes, I'll tell you for free what would.

Five ways to work together

Four fixed-price engagements. One monthly retainer. Senior IC, every engagement. No hourly billing.

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RAG Pipeline Engineering

Cut LLM token spend 52% without losing accuracy.

Production-grade retrieval-augmented generation built around your proprietary data: domain-tuned chunking, hybrid search (BM25 + dense), cross-encoder reranking, and an eval harness your team can run in CI. You ship a system that holds up under real traffic, not just a demo on a clean dataset.

Deliverables

  • Domain-tuned chunking & embedding strategy
  • Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense) + cross-encoder reranking
  • Evaluation harness with golden-set regression tests in CI
  • Langfuse / Phoenix tracing wired into your stack
  • Handoff runbook + recorded architecture walkthrough
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$25,0004–8 weeks
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Agentic Workflow Orchestration

Agents that ship, not demos.

Multi-agent systems designed for production reliability: tool routing with strict schema validation, deterministic handoffs, cost ceilings enforced at runtime, human-in-the-loop escalation paths, and full observability. Your team operates them Monday morning without paging me.

Deliverables

  • Agent topology design + failure-mode analysis
  • Tool-use contracts with strict schema validation
  • Per-step cost & latency budgets enforced at runtime
  • Human-in-the-loop escalation paths
  • Observability dashboard (traces, tokens, retries, alerts)
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$50,0006–10 weeks
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AI Architecture Audit

Find the failure modes: production, security, or EU AI Act readiness.

A fixed-scope, two-week senior review of your existing AI stack: inference path, retrieval quality, cost structure, security posture, team velocity, and (when applicable) regulatory readiness under EU AI Act / NIST AI RMF / SOC2. You get a 40–60 page written report with severity-graded findings, a one-page executive summary, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and a 60-minute readout you can act on this quarter.

Deliverables

  • Written audit (40–60 pages) with severity-graded findings
  • Executive summary (1 page) for leadership
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap (P0 / P1 / P2)
  • 60-minute live readout with Q&A
  • 30 days of async follow-up in a shared channel
  • Risk-framework mapping (EU AI Act · NIST AI RMF · SOC2) when in scope
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$15,0002 weeks
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Deliverable preview · AI Compliance Readiness Sprint

Executive Summary · 1 page

Anonymized. Format shown reflects the structure of every delivered engagement.

1 · Risk classification

System: career-coach-assistant-v3 · EU AI Act

  • High-risk (Annex III §4) · employment / career-coaching decisions affecting access to work
  • NIST AI RMF · Govern + Map partially complete, Measure + Manage in flight
  • SOC 2 Type II · 3 controls fail (CC6.1, CC7.2, CC8.1: logging, monitoring, change mgmt)

2 · Top 3 findings (P0)

  1. F1 No human-review checkpoint on adverse decisions. Required by Art. 14.
  2. F2 Training-data lineage untraceable. GDPR Art. 22 + EU AI Act Art. 10 conflict.
  3. F3 No bias / disparate-impact testing on demographic-protected classes.

3 · Remediation roadmap

P0 Human-in-the-loop checkpoint (1 sprint)
P1 Data lineage tool + audit log wiring (3 sprints)
P2 Bias eval harness in CI (2 sprints)

Bottom line

3 P0 fixes before your auditor finds them.

Estimated 6-8 sprints of work. Q3 enforcement starts Dec 2027. You have runway.

Numbers, vendors, and system names are illustrative. The structure (risk classification + 3 P0 findings + 3-tier roadmap + bottom line) is the actual deliverable shape.

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AI Compliance Readiness Sprint

EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, or SOC2. Audit-ready in 3 weeks.

A focused 3-week sprint that maps your AI system to the regulatory framework that matters for your business. We classify your system under EU AI Act risk tiers, generate the technical documentation pack regulators expect, identify the gaps your auditor will catch, and hand you a remediation roadmap you can act on before your next compliance deadline. Built for teams whose AI is going to production and who need a credible compliance story by Q3/Q4 2026.

Deliverables

  • Risk classification (EU AI Act tier, NIST AI RMF function, SOC2 control set)
  • Technical documentation pack: model card, data lineage, evaluation methodology
  • Gap analysis: what your auditor will catch and how to fix it before they do
  • Bias / fairness / robustness evaluation harness wired to your CI
  • 30-60 page readiness report with severity-graded findings + P0/P1/P2 roadmap
  • 1-page executive summary for legal / GRC / leadership
  • 60-minute readout with named compliance counsel (optional)
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$25,0003 weeks
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Fractional AI Architect

A senior AI architect, in your corner. 10 hours a week.

Embedded principal for teams scaling their AI platform. Senior judgment on architecture, code review, RFC drafting, vendor selection, and unblocking your engineers — without a $500K CAIO hire. Best fit when you're shipping v2 with constraints, need a senior to mentor a junior hire, or want an interim AI lead before a full-time exec is justified. 90-day minimum. Capacity-led, not sales-led.

Deliverables

  • 10 hrs/week of senior AI architecture time
  • Weekly written status + 60-min live sync
  • Architecture decision records (ADRs) + RFC review
  • Vendor / model / infrastructure evaluation
  • Async Slack response within 24 hours
  • Mentorship for your internal AI engineers
  • IP-free: no claim on your codebase
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$12,000/moMonthly · 90-day minimum
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14-Day RAG MVP Sprint

Show me what good RAG looks like. In two weeks.

A focused 2-week sprint that ships a working RAG pipeline on a slice of your data, an evaluation harness with a 30–50 query golden set, and a 1-page diagnostic of where your current system fails. Designed as a self-liquidating offer: by design, the buyer is meant to want the full $25K RAG engagement afterwards. IP-free handoff on the final invoice.

Deliverables

  • Working RAG pipeline on a slice of your data (not the full corpus)
  • Evaluation harness with 30–50 query golden set
  • 1-page diagnostic: where your current system fails + 3 prioritized fixes
  • Langfuse / Phoenix tracing wired into the prototype
  • 14 days of async support post-delivery
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$9,5002 weeks
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How I work

Three predictable phases. No surprise invoices. No scope creep. Every engagement runs the same playbook.

  1. Week 1

    Discover

    Stakeholder interviews, system audit, success metrics, and a written scoping document we both sign before any code ships.

  2. Weeks 2–3

    Design

    Architecture diagrams, evaluation harness, and a working prototype against your real data. Fail fast. Iterate in the open.

  3. Week 4+

    Deliver

    Production deployment, observability dashboards wired up, handoff runbook, and async support during the first 30 days.

Anti-promises

What I refuse.

Six lines that protect the work. If any of these disqualifies you, this site just saved us both an hour.

  1. 01

    I refuse hourly billing.

    Fixed scope or monthly retainer. Time-and-materials invites drift.

  2. 02

    I refuse engagements under $15k — the audit is the floor.

    Below the AI Architecture Audit, I can't deliver the depth principal-tier work requires. Anything cheaper gets a junior somewhere in the chain — and I refuse junior hand-offs.

  3. 03

    I refuse more than 2 engagements per quarter.

    Two clients, deep focus. Quality compounds with attention, not headcount.

  4. 04

    I refuse ndas before a paid call.

    If the scoping call surfaces confidential IP, I'll sign yours. Before that, no.

  5. 05

    I refuse junior hand-offs.

    Senior IC only. If I take your engagement, I deliver it. Every line.

  6. 06

    I refuse rebrand work, consumer apps, crypto, ad-tech.

    Real-time AI, RAG, agents, edge platforms. That's the work. Other categories don't get my best thinking.

If any of this offended you, we're not a fit. If it didn't, book a call.

Common questions

If yours isn't here, ask on the call.

How long does an engagement last?

Most engagements run 4–10 weeks depending on scope. The audit is a fixed 2 weeks. The RAG pipeline is typically 4–8, and orchestration 6–10.

What's the payment structure?

50% upfront on signed scope, 50% on delivery for fixed-scope engagements. The audit is split 50/50 with Net-15 on the second half. Fractional retainers bill monthly, 90-day minimum. I invoice in USD; wire or Stripe accepted.

Who owns the IP?

You do. Every line of code, every prompt, every eval dataset transfers to your repo on the final invoice. I'm happy to sign your NDA before the first call.

What time zones do you overlap?

Based in IST (UTC+5:30). Async-friendly by default; live syncs land comfortably across US, EU, and APAC mornings. Weekly written status + 30-min sync on your schedule.

Can you work with my existing team?

Yes. Most engagements embed with one of your engineers for the duration. I leave behind runbooks, recorded walkthroughs, and 30 days of async support.

AI Architecture Audit vs. AI Compliance Readiness Sprint: which fits?

Pick the AI Architecture Audit if your AI is in production and you need a senior read on inference, retrieval, cost, security, and team velocity. Pick the Compliance Readiness Sprint if your AI is shipping into the EU market, touches regulated data, or your auditor / regulator is on a clock. Many teams do both, six to ten weeks apart.

Not sure which one fits?

Book a 30-minute scoping call. If I can't move the needle on your ROI in 30 minutes, I'll tell you for free what would.

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