AI engineer in Jacksonville, Florida
AI engineer who builds agents and working systems with business teams
I design, build, and run AI agents and web systems for small and mid-sized businesses. I start from the business problem, build something that works, and keep a person in the approval loop for anything that leaves the building.
Before founding FirstCoast.ai in December 2024, I spent more than twenty years building production software at Verizon, Citibank, AdTheorent, and a federal contractor.
Tools and platforms from my shipped work
- Claude
- OpenAI
n8n
Supabase- PostgreSQL
Telegram
Next.js
TypeScript
Payload CMS- Docker
WordPress- DigitalOcean
Coolify- AWS
- Azure AI Search
- QuickBooks Online
- HubSpot
- ADP Workforce Now
What I build
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Agents with a person in the loop
Agents that triage, parse, and draft, with nothing sent or changed until a person approves it.
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Evals and calibration
Deterministic checks, fixtures with known answers, and results that say exactly what was measured.
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Grounded answers
Answers drawn from one curated source of truth, with gaps stated instead of guessed.
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Multi-tenant platforms
One codebase serving several businesses, with each tenant's data kept separate.
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Business system integrations
Agents connected to the systems a business already runs: invoicing, CRM, email, and chat approvals.
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Cost control and operations
Spend limits on unattended runs, tests on every push, and a daily check that the whole path still works.
Selected work
Four short write-ups. Clients and partners are described, not named.
Approval-first agents
Agents that draft, with a person in the loop
An operating system for a small professional-services company, built around one rule: nothing leaves the building without a person's approval.
Scored audit engine
A scored audit engine with an honest "could not run"
Deterministic checks that score how ready a website is for search and AI answer engines, built so a failed check never looks like a failed site.
Multi-tenant platform
One codebase, several tenants
A self-hosted web platform that serves several businesses from a single codebase, with each tenant's data kept separate.
Grounded archive assistant
A chat assistant that answers only from the archive
An archive of a creative body of work, with a chat assistant that answers only from the record, cites what it used, and declines what the record cannot support.