AI Strategy & Engineering
Services
I help engineering teams architect and ship agentic systems that actually work in production.
System architecture.
Hands-on engineering.
30+ AI systems built and shipped across agencies and independent work.
How I Can Help
AI Audit
Identify where AI drives revenue and expands margin across your platform and operations.
You get a prioritized roadmap with architecture recommendations, not a slide deck.
AI Implementation
Hands-on development that ships production-ready AI systems.
Fully documented and hands-on team training so your team owns it from day one.
AI Enablement
Upskill your engineering team from AI-assisted coding to architecting AI systems.
Hands-on training built for senior engineers, not a beginner prompt engineering workshop.
Testimonials
"Ford rapidly built a robust AI solution that let us go to market with confidence. His strategic insight and deep LLM expertise make him more than an engineer—he's like a CTO invested in delivering high-quality results."
"Had an outstanding experience working with Ford. His expertise and organization transformed our project from start to finish. He skillfully coordinated the team, ensuring everyone stayed aligned and on track, while also managing timelines and deliverables with impressive efficiency."
"Ford delivered exactly what we needed—an encapsulated turmeric knowledge base we can train ourselves. He combined sincere commitment with deep AI expertise to help us meet our goal."
Clients
Independent
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- Fully customizable phone agent stack (ultra-low latency, high customizability) for trucking operations
- Full-stack evaluation suite with tracing and evaluation UIs
- Document processing pipeline for mass email and document extraction with classification UIs and evaluations
- Fully customizable phone agent stack (ultra-low latency, high customizability) for trucking operations
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- AI agent platform for financial advisors
- Product strategy for first MVP and product-market fit
- Sourcing, interviewing, and hiring developers
- Architecture and feasibility design
- Built the MVP of their financial agent
- Upskilled the dev team on AI development
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- Built an automated interview system for mass interviewing with data analysis to accelerate product research report creation
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- Built automations for lead flow handling with automated follow-ups, categorization, and CRM intelligence
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- Automated post generation and meme generation for their social media platform
Agency
Sourced through agencies, but I owned the full delivery — architecture, build, and direct client interaction from kickoff through handoff.
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- Multi-agent systems agency built around the open-source Agency Swarm framework
- Full client lifecycle:
- Sales, client success, scoping, architecture, build, and delivery
- Hiring and managing developers across projects
- Clients:
- INK Innovation — Custom coding agents for flight data platform integrations
- HIP Creative — Automated data analysis, email creation, and task logging
- PGA — MVP for a text-based booking system
- Mobiik — QA agents for code-based and visual-based testing in sandbox environments
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- AI/ML development agency
- Clients:
- Intellibridge — Agent-building platform based on FlowWise (government tech)
- Reverb Reports — Report generation and data sanitization for psychiatric professionals (HIPAA-compliant)
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- Agent-based systems company
- Built the initial MVP for their SaaS product, Agentive
- Clients:
- ReadyRNs — Full-stack agent system for a nurse learning platform
Background
I went all-in on AI the summer ChatGPT launched.
Spent months building obsessively, then joined three agencies back-to-back — Width AI, Morningside AI, and VRSEN AI — specifically to learn how production AI systems actually get built and shipped.
Across those agencies and my independent work, I've built 30+ AI systems: agent platforms, voice stacks, RAG pipelines, document processing systems, multi-agent architectures.
Full client lifecycle — from sales calls through production handoff.
I went independent in 2024 because I wanted to own the work.
Now I run Lascari AI out of Austin, focused on bespoke agentic systems with full observability — the kind where you know exactly what's happening at every step and exactly where to look when something breaks.