I've sat in the seat I now advise from.

Twenty years of turning new technology into working systems

Twenty years of enterprise tech and SaaS: engineering leadership at WebMD, Clickability through its acquisition, Optimizely through hypergrowth, then co-founding Last Rev to build enterprise platforms for companies that needed their content and systems to work together. The through-line has never changed: turning new technology into systems a business can run. The constraints were always real: budgets, deadlines, and people who didn't ask for a new tool.

Then AI became the full-time job

Three years ago that became AI full-time. As CEO of AnswerAI, I've shipped knowledge assistants, retrieval systems, and workflow automation into production for paying customers. I've watched AI projects succeed and fail up close. The failures almost never come from the model. They come from nobody owning the operating model around it.

The seat itself: Chief AI Officer through an acquisition

At Haystacks.AI I was Chief AI Officer through the company's 2025 acquisition by Coframe. The job was the one this site describes: own the architecture, the data decisions, and the build-versus-buy calls, and keep the reasoning in writing. When diligence came, the AI work had to hold up under an acquirer's scrutiny. It did — the deal closed, and the founder now runs go-to-market at the company that bought it.

Why this offer exists

Most companies don't need another AI demo. They need someone accountable for the decisions: what data is allowed where, which workflows come first, private or commercial architecture, and how to measure whether any of it works. That's an executive job. I do it as a fractional one.

Where Last Rev and AnswerAI fit

Last Rev is the platform engineering firm I co-founded and still co-lead: my implementation partner when clients want work built. AnswerAI is the AI product company I run, and it's why the advice stays current: my recommendations run in production there before they reach an advisory client. On this site, I'm the product: the advisory work is mine, and both companies make it stronger.