Independent AI consulting

Helping businesses make good use of AI.

I help organizations determine where AI is worth applying, then build it. Most of the work is integration: connecting models to the data and systems already in place.

What I do

Strategy and assessment

Identifying where AI fits in your operation and where it does not. This typically involves reviewing how work moves through your teams, the data you hold and its current condition, and which project is worth undertaking first.

  • Opportunity assessment
  • Data and systems review
  • Build versus buy analysis
  • Cost and effort estimation

Building and integration

Designing and building the system itself. Most of this is integration work: giving a model reliable, permissioned access to the systems where your information resides, with defined limits on what it can reach and a record of every action it takes.

  • Custom AI tools and assistants
  • Integration with existing systems
  • Databases and internal APIs
  • Document processing and search
  • Permissions and access control
  • Logging and error handling

Training and support

Enabling your team to operate and extend what has been built. Continued involvement is available where it is useful.

  • Team training
  • Ongoing support

Experience

My background is in the integration layer between AI models and production systems. The model is rarely the constraint. Reaching data reliably, within the access controls an organization already operates and in a form that can be audited afterwards, generally is.

Tool servers Model Context Protocol servers giving a model defined, permissioned access to internal systems.
Agent design Multi step agents that carry a task through to completion rather than returning an answer and stopping.
System integration Databases, internal APIs, document stores and existing line of business applications.
Document and data Extraction, classification and retrieval across the documents and records an organization accumulates.
Deployment Containerized services deployed into your own cloud environment and operated under your own credentials.
Access and governance Single sign on, role based access control, approval steps and an audit trail of every action taken.

Contact

Send a short description of what you are working on and I will tell you whether I can help.

nate [at] beyondsemantics.ai