AI Solutions Architecture · Product Strategy · Last-Mile Adoption

The smartest AI in the room is useless if nobody wants to use it.

I help companies close the gap between what their technology can do and what people actually do with it. Twenty years in technology — from program management to AI solutions architecture — taught me one thing: adoption is a design problem, not a technology problem.

Trusted byParamountAT&TCBS+ startups
“You'll know we've reached AGI when software ships as intended, not rushed to make deadlines. No compromises or shortcuts. Software that is joyful to use and just works.”

The next great leap in AI won't come from bigger models — it'll come from understanding why people aren't using the ones we already have. That last mile of adoption is the real frontier. And it starts by asking: how do users want this to work?

What I Do

Your idea deserves better than a backlog.

Most software initiatives stall in the same places. I've spent twenty years learning exactly where — first as a program manager, then as an AI solutions architect. The problems are always human, never just technical.

01

Idea to IP

I take a nugget of an idea and extrapolate it to fruition — the full product vision, the user journey, the monetization model. I see what people will need before they know it’s possible, and I map how to get there.

Product VisionIP StrategyMonetizationMarket Fit
02

Complexity to Clarity

The hardest problems aren’t technical — they’re design problems. I make the complicated simple. I solve for both the business and the user, so what ships isn’t just functional, it’s joyful to use.

UX StrategySimplificationUser-Centered DesignAdoption
03

Strategy to Execution

AI readiness assessments, architecture planning, model selection, and implementation roadmaps. I design the system and stay engaged through delivery — not just until the contract ends.

AI ArchitectureLLM SelectionRAG SystemsRoadmapping
20+
Years in technology
Program management to AI architecture
F500
Client portfolio
AT&T · Paramount · CBS
10+
Years in software delivery
Project management & product strategy
50+
Products & platforms shaped
Strategy through delivery
Featured Thinking

Organic Thinking

AI strategy, product critique, and the ideas I can't stop turning over. Some of these started as tweets. The good ones became frameworks.

AI STRATEGY · FEATURED

Steve Jobs' Greatest Lesson Could Unlock 100M Subscribers for Grok

It's not about the tech. It's about what's missing. I broke down exactly how xAI could apply the Jobs playbook — obsessing over the gap between capability and desire — to turn Grok from a power tool into a daily habit for 100 million people.

APR 2025 · 12 MIN READ
PRODUCT CRITIQUE

The AGI Litmus Test: When the Products We Already Have Stop Being Terrible

If Microsoft owns OpenAI, why is SharePoint still unusable? If Apple has billions in AI R&D, why can’t Siri hold a conversation? AGI isn’t a benchmark — it’s a product experience.

APR 2025 · 6 MIN
OPEN LETTER

To the xAI Team: The Last Mile Is the Real Frontier

The next great leap won’t come from bigger models or smarter machines. It’ll come from understanding why people aren’t using them yet. I wrote directly to xAI about the adoption problem nobody’s solving.

APR 2025 · 8 MIN
TECHNICALarticle

AI Head-to-Head: Building Snake with Gemini, GPT, and Grok

Same prompt, three models, wildly different results. Gemini won by a mile. GPT at $200/month was embarrassing. Here’s exactly why.

APR 2025
AI ARCHITECTUREarticle

Website Vector Embeddings: How AI Will Change the Web

We use keywords and schema markup today. Tomorrow, every page will speak in vectors. I mapped out how embeddings replace metadata — before anyone was talking about it.

OCT 2023
VISIONconcept

ChatAGI: When Superintelligence Is Used for Good and Evil

A TV series concept about a game developer and a whistleblower fighting to keep super-intelligent AI out of the wrong hands. Part thought experiment, part pitch.

JAN 2026
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Track Record

I've been calling these shots for years.

Before the hype cycle, before the think pieces. A sampling from the archive.

2018

AI Threat to Humanity

Mapped the existential risks of AI five years before the open letter, GPT-4, and the alignment debate going mainstream.

What happened: Revisited in 2023 — original framework held up.
2021

CPU Architecture: Beyond CISC & RISC

Predicted Apple’s RISC architecture would compete with desktop-class systems and that Nvidia would enter the CPU market.

What happened: M1 Pro shipped months later. Nvidia Grace followed.
2023

Vector Embeddings Will Replace Keywords

Wrote that every web page would eventually speak in vectors rather than metadata and schema markup.

What happened: RAG-powered search is now the industry standard approach.
2025

Context Refactoring

Proposed an automated mechanism for AI platforms to condense and organize chat history into focused summaries — eliminating drift, reducing token costs, and keeping long conversations on track.

What happened: Anthropic shipped context window summarization in Claude in early 2026 — the same core concept.
How I Work

No agencies. No layers. Just me and the problem.

01

Listen

I start by understanding your users — not your roadmap. What are they trying to do? Where do they get stuck? What makes them leave?

02

Diagnose

Map the gap between what your AI can do and what people actually do with it. The answer is almost never ‘build more features.’

03

Architect

Design the solution — model selection, system architecture, user flows, and an implementation roadmap with real timelines and costs.

04

Deliver

Clear deliverables — strategy documents, architecture blueprints, and implementation roadmaps your team can execute on. No vague recommendations. No lingering dependencies on me.

Building something that needs to work in the real world?

I review every inquiry personally and respond within 24 hours. No sales team, no intake forms, no gatekeepers.