You spent three months trying to make it stable. You're babysitting infrastructure instead of running your business. The AI tools that built your system can't debug their own work — and last month's API bill said the quiet part out loud. A senior engineer, an hour or two of focused review, and a path back to the business you were trying to run.
Pulled almost verbatim from real OpenClaw and AI-builder forums. If any of these is something you've said this week, an hour or two of my time will probably pay for itself by Friday.
A decade in production engineering and 5+ years building AI systems means I can speak to either side of the table — the strategy and the wiring underneath. Here's where I tend to be most useful.
A senior engineer's read on the system you've built — or paid someone (or something) to build. What's load-bearing, what's brittle, what's quietly costing you money. The thing AI assistants can't do because they can't see the whole picture at once.
Cursor, Claude Code, v0, Devin — they ship the first 80% beautifully and then hit a wall. I get unstuck. Real debugging, real root-cause analysis, on systems built mostly by AI. This is where I spend most of my consulting hours.
Where your API spend is actually going, where it's leaking, what to cut. Most clients running anything agentic find the savings cover the consultation many times over.
Get it running, get it stable, get it integrated with the channels and tools you already use. Stop the version-churn cycle of every update breaking something.
I've watched too many founders ship technically impressive systems that earn zero. We'll honestly assess whether what you're building is the system your customers will actually pay for.
Where your customers' data flows, who can see it, and what to lock down before it costs you. I do this work for Fortune 100 clients on the day job — the same security-review eye, applied to your stack at startup scale.
No agency, no account manager, no junior engineer assigned to your ticket. You book the session, you talk to me.
I've spent 10+ years in the tech industry — currently working as a security engineer for Fortune 100 clients, the kind of work where the cost of getting it wrong is measured in millions. The last 5+ years of that have been specifically in the AI space: agents, retrieval pipelines, evals, and the production infrastructure underneath them.
In open source, I've contributed to core infrastructure the internet quietly runs on — code in the Docker and Go ecosystems, security research in the open-source vulnerability community, and developer tooling that ships with environments used around the world. I've also built and shipped multiple MCP servers and a public toolkit for AI-assisted development. Catalog on GitHub.
What that means for you: I've seen exactly what's happening on your screen. I've shipped systems through it. I'll tell you what I'd do if it were my company — in plain English, without trying to upsell you into a year-long contract.
Based in St. Louis, Missouri. Working with clients across the U.S., Canada, EU, UK, and APAC. Open-source work at github.com/justyntemme.
Simple, transparent, designed so you walk away with something useful — not a sales pitch.
One-click checkout. The fee covers my time and filters out tire-kickers so I can give every paying client my full attention.
Typically within one business day. The same email asks for a little context up front — what you're building, what's broken, screenshots, error messages — so we hit the ground running.
Live video call. Screen-share if you want to. I'll diagnose, recommend, and where it's small enough, fix things in real time.
Within 48 hours: a summary of what we covered, the recommendations, and a clear next-step list you (or your team) can act on. Yours to keep.
Pick the right size for your problem. Both are flat-fee, paid up front, no retainers, no minimums.
Yes — that's a big part of what I do. I work with founders every week who don't write code, and I'll match the conversation to your level. If something needs jargon, I'll explain it. If you'd rather I just “handle it,” we can do that too.
This is most of what I do. AI coding tools ship the first 80% beautifully and then hit a wall on the parts that need real architectural judgment. I get those projects unstuck — and tell you which 20% of the system is worth a human rewrite vs. which can stay AI-generated.
The MCP servers I built (and use daily), my curated prompt patterns from real engagements, agent-flow templates, and a few tools I haven't open-sourced. Plus a follow-up channel for 14 days after the call to ask quick questions as you implement.
Bring it anyway. I've worked across infrastructure, security, web systems, and developer tooling. If it's outside what I can genuinely help with, I'll tell you on the intake form before the call — you won't be charged.
Yes. Send yours over after booking and I'll have it signed before our call. For most engagements a mutual NDA is fine; I have a standard one I can send if you'd prefer.
Based in U.S. Central Time (St. Louis), happy to accommodate clients across U.S., Canada, EU, UK, and APAC. After booking you'll receive a follow-up email with available times that work for both of us.
Conduit turns Claude into a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API server: one binary, one command, integrated with any tool that expects an OpenAI endpoint. Purpose-built for “the integration that doesn't quite work,” in production with paying customers.
Let a senior engineer look at it. An hour or two of clarity, in plain English, with a written list of what to do next.
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