01 how i work

services, rates, and how this actually runs.

no discovery-call theater. here's what i do, what it costs, and how fast i respond — so you can decide before we ever talk.

AI agent developmentAutomation & agents

Browser and desktop agents that do real work inside guardrails you control — not a demo that falls over the first time it hits something unexpected.

  • Tool-scoped agents with least-privilege access by default
  • Persistent memory so agents stop repeating solved mistakes
  • Clamped spend and outbound network access, fail-closed
Self-hosted AI infrastructureLocal-first, cost-controlled

Local LLM inference stacks sized to real hardware budgets — off the per-token treadmill, with the same reliability expectations as a production service.

  • Model and quantization selection matched to your hardware, not marketing specs
  • llama.cpp / Vulkan / IPEX-LLM stacks, tuned and benchmarked, not just installed
  • Real cost math before you buy hardware, not after
Security review20+ years security operations

Security review for AI systems and the infrastructure around them — from someone who's carried an incident to resolution, not just read about one.

  • Agent tool-access and permission audits
  • Prompt-injection and hostile-input review
  • General infrastructure and MSP-style security hardening

rates & engagement

hourly
$140/hr

For scoped work, audits, or ongoing engagements billed as time is spent. Standard for most AI agent and infra work.

project / fixed-bid
quoted

For well-defined deliverables — an agent build, an infra migration, a security review with a report. Quoted after a short scoping conversation.

retainer
by arrangement

For teams that want ongoing access — a set number of hours a month, priority response, and continuity across engagements.

how an engagement actually starts

you describe the problem

Send it through the contact form, email, or Upwork — whatever's easiest. No form-filling ritual required, just the actual problem.

scoping, not a sales call

I respond within one business day. If it's a quick question, you get an answer. If it needs real scoping, that's a short written back-and-forth, not a 45-minute call to sell you something.

a plain-language quote or hourly start

Fixed-bid work gets a quote before anything starts. Hourly work starts when you say go, and you always know what's been billed.

work happens, visibly

Progress updates as the work happens, not a surprise at the end. If something in scope turns out to be bigger than expected, you hear about it before it's billed, not after.

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