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Take your team AI-first

I take software teams from "we tried Copilot" to an agentic workflow that runs on their own stack, with their own people and their legacy code. I've done it at a 52-person software company and at a 12-developer backend startup.

What changes

What I set up

  • Agentic development pipelines. Agents write the code, and your leads own the process around them.
  • Custom skills for your codebase. I build and test them for each stack, so agents follow your conventions.
  • Team training. Hands-on help for developers, plus workshops for leads and the CTO.
  • Legacy code included. The workflow has to run on the code you already have.
How an engagement runs

Discovery → pilot → ongoing

01 · Discovery

See where you stand

Two weeks with a fixed scope, spent on your codebase, your team and your bottlenecks.

  • Codebase and workflow review
  • Talks with developers and leads
  • A staged plan you keep either way
02 · Pilot

Prove it on real work

A few sprints on a real slice of your product, measured by outcomes rather than hours.

  • One agentic workflow, end to end
  • Custom skills for your stack
  • Hands-on help in the field
03 · Ongoing

Make it stick

Roll it out across teams and keep it working after I step back.

  • Rollout to more teams
  • Tooling kept current
  • Leads coached to run it themselves
Recent work (anonymized)

What this looks like in practice

Intl. software company · 52 people

Teams that no longer write code by hand

I picked agentic workflows for the gamedev and full-stack teams, built and tested custom skills for each stack, and trained the leads to run them.

Agents write the code, and the leads own the process.
Backend startup · 12 developers

One AI-first workflow, end to end

Agents now write the code and manage the tickets. Everyone uses one workflow with quality controls, and the team had workshops to learn it.

The team went from experiments to a repeatable pipeline.

To see how I build agent tooling, look at claude-plugins, my open-source Claude Code plugins. More client work is on the work page.

Questions teams ask

FAQ

What does AI-first transformation mean?

Your team stops using AI as a smarter autocomplete and starts running an agentic workflow: agents write the code, and your leads own the process around them. I set up the workflow, the custom skills and the quality controls, and I train the people who will run it.

Does it work on a legacy codebase?

Yes. I do this work on real legacy codebases as well as greenfield projects. I build and test the custom skills against your stack and conventions, so the agents work with the code you actually have.

How does an engagement start?

With a two-week discovery, fixed in scope. I look at your codebase, your team and your bottlenecks, and you get a staged plan out of it, whether or not we continue.

What does my team keep when you step back?

Documented workflows your team owns, custom skills for your stack, and leads who know how to run an AI-first team without me.

Where has this worked?

At a 52-person international software company, across gamedev and full-stack teams, and at a 12-developer backend startup where agents now write the code and manage the tickets.

Get in touch

Tell me what you're working on and what "better" would look like. I'll reply with whether I can help and how we'd start. The price depends on the scope, so we agree on it once we know what the work is.

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