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    "title": "Technical Consulting",
    "description": "Business-focused AI strategy, architecture, and implementation support.",
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    "details": "Independent AI consulting for strategy, architecture, and implementation support for startups and growing teams.",
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    "benefitsDescription": "Strategy, architecture, and implementation support for production AI.",
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      {
        "title": "Strategy and Roadmap",
        "description": "Define goals, ROI, and a plan your team can execute."
      },
      {
        "title": "Architecture and Design",
        "description": "LLM, RAG, and data pipelines built for reliability and scale."
      },
      {
        "title": "Implementation Guidance",
        "description": "Integration patterns, code reviews, and delivery support."
      },
      {
        "title": "Cost and Performance",
        "description": "Improve latency, reliability, and infrastructure spend."
      },
      {
        "title": "Technical Leadership",
        "description": "Fractional CTO-style support for key decisions."
      },
      {
        "title": "Team Enablement",
        "description": "Knowledge transfer so your team owns the system."
      }
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          "description": "One advisory day for focused decisions, architecture feedback, and unblockers.",
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            "1 advisory day",
            "Architecture review or audit",
            "Decision support & validation",
            "Technical unblocking session",
            "Stack or vendor recommendations",
            "Risk and feasibility assessment",
            "Session summary with next steps"
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        {
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          "description": "One-week engagement for strategy sprints and architecture design.",
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            "4 advisory days used within 1 week",
            "AI feasibility & ROI analysis",
            "System architecture design",
            "Data readiness assessment",
            "Implementation roadmap",
            "Technology stack selection",
            "Risk mitigation plan",
            "Evaluation framework",
            "Strategy summary document"
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        {
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            "16 advisory days within 1 month",
            "Weekly sync calls",
            "Architecture reviews",
            "Code and design feedback",
            "Team mentoring & upskilling",
            "Vendor evaluation support",
            "Async support via Slack",
            "Priority scheduling"
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      "title": "AI Strategy and Consulting Process",
      "description": "A clear path from discovery to delivery for production AI systems.",
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          "phase": 1,
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            "Technical audit report",
            "Problem identification",
            "Root cause analysis",
            "Opportunity assessment"
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          "description": "We design a solution aligned with business goals and technical constraints.",
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            "Solution architecture",
            "Implementation plan",
            "Technology recommendations",
            "Risk assessment"
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            "Working solution",
            "Code reviews",
            "Documentation",
            "Team training"
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          "description": "We measure results, optimize performance, and improve reliability.",
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            "Performance metrics",
            "Optimization recommendations",
            "Best practices guide"
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    "details": "I design and build AI-powered systems, agent platforms, and production software with senior ownership.",
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        "title": "Agent Systems",
        "description": "Multi-agent orchestration, tool-use APIs, and autonomous workflows."
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        "title": "RAG & Retrieval",
        "description": "Vector search, knowledge pipelines, and retrieval-augmented generation."
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      {
        "title": "MCP & Integrations",
        "description": "MCP servers, function-calling, and cross-provider AI tool integrations."
      },
      {
        "title": "LLM Backends",
        "description": "Inference pipelines, model serving, prompt engineering, and evaluation."
      },
      {
        "title": "Observability & Governance",
        "description": "Agent tracing, LLM evaluation, cost tracking, and compliance."
      },
      {
        "title": "Smooth Handover",
        "description": "Documentation and handover so your team owns and extends the system."
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            "Data model, API & tool-use design",
            "LLM & infrastructure stack proposal",
            "Risk & complexity assessment",
            "Implementation roadmap",
            "Budget & timeline estimate"
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            "MCP servers & tool integrations",
            "Frontend, API & cloud infrastructure",
            "Agent evaluation & testing",
            "Deployment & go-live support",
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            "Handover & team onboarding"
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        {
          "title": "Growth",
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            "Feature & agent development",
            "Bug fixes & production support",
            "Dedicated development time",
            "Code reviews & agent evaluation",
            "Monthly strategy calls",
            "Regular progress updates",
            "Security & model governance",
            "Scaling & inference optimization"
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          "phase": 1,
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          "description": "We clarify the problem, map AI use cases, and define agent scope, data sources, and success criteria.",
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            "Data source and retrieval strategy",
            "Initial delivery and release plan"
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        },
        {
          "phase": 2,
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          "description": "I design the agent architecture, define data pipelines and integrations, and select LLMs and infrastructure.",
          "duration": "1 week",
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            "Agent and system architecture overview",
            "RAG pipeline and data model design",
            "LLM and infrastructure stack selection",
            "Milestones and implementation plan"
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        {
          "phase": 3,
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          "title": "Phase 3: Implementation & Iteration",
          "description": "We build the AI system in iterative cycles, delivering working agents and incorporating evaluation feedback.",
          "duration": "4-12 weeks (varies)",
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            "Working agent system increments",
            "Codebase with tests and evaluation suites",
            "Regular demos and status updates",
            "Issue tracking and progress reports"
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        {
          "phase": 4,
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          "title": "Phase 4: Launch & Handover",
          "description": "We deploy to production, monitor usage, and stabilize the system with documentation and handover.",
          "duration": "2-4 weeks",
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            "Production deployment",
            "Operational documentation and runbooks",
            "Team onboarding sessions",
            "Post-launch support window"
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        }
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    "description": "Partnering with innovative startups to provide technical leadership and guidance.",
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    "details": "I serve as your fractional CTO, partnering with founders to build technical strategy, streamline decision-making, and scale your engineering team. From tech stack choices to hiring strategy, I provide the technical leadership you need to grow. Work with me directly or through my agency at https://sista.ai .",
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    "benefitsDescription": "I combine technical depth with strategic thinking, providing the leadership and expertise your startup needs to scale.",
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        "title": "Technical Leadership",
        "description": "Provide CTO-level guidance and decision-making without the full-time cost and commitment."
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      {
        "title": "AI Systems Expertise",
        "description": "Deep knowledge of AI integration, RAG systems, and modern technical architectures."
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      {
        "title": "Startup Experience",
        "description": "Built and led 5 different ventures including Sista AI with firsthand experience in technical decisions."
      },
      {
        "title": "Open Source Creator",
        "description": "Creator of Laradock.io (2M+ downloads) and Apiato framework that companies use in production."
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      {
        "title": "16+ Years Experience",
        "description": "Proven track record with startups and established companies across multiple industries."
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      {
        "title": "Team Building",
        "description": "Experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling engineering teams from 0 to 50+ engineers."
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            "Async access",
            "Architecture oversight for key initiatives",
            "Roadmap + priority guidance",
            "Critical decision support (build vs buy, stack, vendors)",
            "Team structure & role guidance",
            "Hiring plan & interview loop design",
            "Board / investor technical input as needed"
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            "Flexible leadership syncs & calls as needed",
            "Sprint planning & reviews",
            "Direct team mentoring",
            "Code & architecture reviews",
            "Technical debt management",
            "Release & deployment oversight"
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            "Continuity across roadmap, team, and delivery",
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      {
        "title": "Interview Readiness",
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      {
        "title": "AI Transition Plan",
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        "title": "Leadership and Communication",
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        "title": "Personal Brand",
        "description": "Open source, writing, and visibility that open doors."
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            "LinkedIn optimization"
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            "Async support between calls"
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            "Tactical strategies"
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