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AI Native Software Development

I build and operate AI platforms designed from day-1 around sound token economics, efficient LLM tool calling and margin maximisation. My philosophy is simple - AI adds the magic but never sets state or calls an API if deterministic code can do the job better.

AI consulting & development

AI-native products designed and built, AI features added to existing ones, and the economics fixed when the tokens cost more than the customer pays. I can help advise on models, context, caching, tool calls, evals based on years of experience developing profit maximising AI products

AI SEO

Search is being replaced by answers. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity who to hire, your business is absent, named, recommended or cited. I audit what the engines say about you and implement the fixes that move the answer. I built MentionMachine.ai, a product whose whole job is measuring exactly that, so none of this is guesswork.

AI in production, not in a deck
mentionmachine.ai
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Live

Mention Machine

Your customers now ask AI who to hire. See what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews say about you, and get the fixes that move the answer.

github.com/dcblack87/Atlas
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Open source

Atlas

Ops for a one-man fleet. Grafana, PagerDuty and Claude, rebuilt for one developer and one Hetzner bill. Open source.

How I use Claude

I occasionally take on development and technical consulting projects where I can genuinely add value. You get someone who understands both the code and the business behind it, with 20 years of experience as a consultant, entrepreneur and operator of real apps running in production. Full-stack development, AI-native product development, platform development and technical consulting.

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