01
Verification audit
For a founder with an AI-built product, or a team that added an AI feature, who needs to know what they've actually got before customers, investors or a regulator ask.
Two weeks with your repository and your running system. I read the code, run it, break it where it bends, and trace what depends on a model behaving the way it did last Tuesday. You get the readout in three parts: what's pinned to something checkable, what a human on your team still holds in their head, and what neither covers. Then a fix list in the order I'd do it.
- Deliverable
- Written report, 10–20 pages · fix list, prioritised · a 90-minute walkthrough · a go / no-go on whatever decision prompted the call
- Terms
- Fixed scope, fixed price, two weeks from repo access · NDA on request · price set before I read a line
$5,000
02
Evaluation harness
For a team shipping AI features without a way to tell a good release from a lucky one.
I build the thing that gates your releases. State isolated per call so one run can't contaminate the next. Scoring rules frozen under a tag before any real data, pinned by tests, so nobody can tune the threshold after the fact. Every report prints the commit it was scored under. I've built this for a published trading agent; the method moves to any system where a model makes a decision.
- Deliverable
- Containerised harness in your repo · frozen scoring rules with test suite · CI gate · one-page runbook your team can operate without me
- Terms
- Three weeks · your stack where it's sensible, Python and Docker where it isn't · I don't take the keys to production
$10,000
03
Fractional technical lead
For a company that needs the technical decisions made and owned, ten to fifteen hours a week, by someone who has shipped inside banks, insurers, exchanges and a few startups, and who will build rather than only advise.
Architecture. Which model, which vendor, API or self-hosted, and what it will cost you a month from now. Security and the questions an enterprise buyer or an investor's diligence partner will ask. The first engineering hires and how to tell whether the agency you're using is any good. I take decision authority inside an agreed scope, deliver in writing, and don't carry a pager.
- Deliverable
- Weekly written decisions log · architecture and roadmap documents · hands-on build time inside the retainer · investor and diligence support
- Terms
- From 10 hours a week · three-month minimum · scope and authority set in the statement of work · no on-call
From $6,000 / month