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We'll tell you what it can't do first.

You've been pitched the magic. You've signed the contract. You've watched the demo fail in production. We're the consultants who lead with limitations — which is exactly why you should trust what we say it can do.

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Paid engagement required — no free audits. You get senior attention, not a sales funnel.

Assess

Audit your existing AI investments and vendor commitments for the gap between what was promised and what's actually possible.

Advise

Get a plain-language breakdown of what AI can and cannot do for your specific business in the next 12 months.

Implement

If it makes sense, we build it. If it doesn't, we tell you — and you keep the budget you would have wasted.

Who we are

Senior, hands-on, and close to the code.

Behind this page is a solutions architect and engineering leader with 30+ years of building software: full-stack, cloud, and enterprise integration, much of it in regulated industries like healthcare, public health, and payments. Today the focus is agentic AI: standing up forward-deployed engineering teams, putting Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to work in real delivery pipelines, and training development teams to get productive with AI fast.

  • 30+ years shipping production software; 15+ years leading engineering, R&D, and practice teams
  • Full-stack development: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, Java, C#, Ruby on Rails
  • Mobile apps: native and cross-platform iOS and Android, from first build to the App Store and Google Play
  • Agentic AI delivery: AI-assisted SDLC with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor; LLM integration, RAG, vector databases; developer enablement
  • Code review and due diligence: investor-grade review reports on vibe-coded and AI-built projects: what's solid, what's risky, what it'll cost to fix
  • App store listing consulting: metadata, screenshots, positioning, and review-readiness for iOS and Android launches
  • Salesforce and enterprise integration: Salesforce, MuleSoft, Boomi, RPA, secure REST API design, microservices at millions of transactions a day
  • AI-native DevOps: fully automated CI/CD, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, containers
  • Certified: Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic), Google Professional Cloud Architect, Certified MuleSoft Developer

For an example of our work, see BearsWithApps (bearswithapps.com), the app studio we also run.

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Paid engagement. We review your AI roadmap, vendor commitments, and internal expectations — and tell you the truth.

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