Open for Q3–Q4 2026 · contract · fractional · full-time
Design engineer who ships AI products to enterprise standards. I make B2B software feel consumer-grade, and I have been integrating OpenAI and Anthropic directly since 2023: under HIPAA, alongside CEOs, at Fortune 100 review quality.
For founders and product teams
RAG platforms, multi-model interfaces, and direct OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini integration, shipped as product rather than demo. Cost observability comes built in (token-level tracking, spend caps, model routing) so the AI line item is never a mystery. HIPAA and GDPR-aware practice, with a working demo in front of you inside the first week.
4 to 12 weeks · demo in week oneThe TackleAI case study →
For marketing, brand, and studio teams
The centerpiece a launch points at: interactive 3D, scroll-driven storytelling, product moments built to be shown off. Motion inside your brand system, performance treated as the medium, and a build that survives enterprise review rounds without surgery. Weeks, not quarters.
2 to 6 weeks · fixed bidThe Awwwards-recognized airline build →
For teams whose product needs a craft layer
A standing slice of a senior engineer who owns the craft layer: design-language stewardship, interaction quality, and the frontend architecture underneath it. PRs land inside your conventions from week one; your team keeps velocity and the product keeps its polish.
2 days / week · monthly retainerFive years of it at Fiction Tribe →
Not sure which fits? Start with a one-week paid audit of your product's craft layer or your AI spend: fixed price, a findings doc you keep either way, and a scoped plan if you want to keep going.
Your repo, your standards, your design language. I have shipped inside a Fortune 100 company's proprietary internal systems on contract, joined TackleAI's incubation alongside its leadership, and spent five years absorbing new client codebases at agency pace. Week one looks like this:
The toolchain is AI-native too: agents run in my daily workflow and in production for clients, and I integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini directly rather than through wrappers.
We brought Connor into the incubation team next to our leadership, and he earned that seat immediately. Clients saw polished, reliable product; internally we saw someone who just ships.
More references on request: leadership at Fiction Tribe and TackleAI, and the teams behind the work on the projects index. The form below lands straight in my Slack.