Practice 02

AI adoption. Automation.
Capacity & performance engineering.

Your team is paying people to do work a machine could do tonight. We find that work, automate it against the systems you already run, and hand you the hours back — measured, not promised.

What it looks like when it works

Anonymized case study — a top-5 US bank, capacity planning organization.

"They were struggling with prompt writing and drowning in manual reporting. In 45 days the automation systems were live — the team said they were lost before."

AI automations plugged into SSRS, Jira and Splunk generate capacity documents with deterministic recommendations. The flagship app saves an estimated 3,000 hours a year — about 1.5 person-years — plus standardization gains and avoided audit findings.

3,000 hrs/yrmanual reporting eliminated
1.5 FTEof capacity returned
45 daysto systems live in production

Client work is confidential. Engagements are clean-room builds on your systems and data — never reused code, never your data leaving your walls.

Three rungs. Climb as far as you like.

Most clients start at the top and work down. Every rung pays for the next.

1

AI adoption workshops

Hands-on training in prompt craft and automation patterns, using your real work — not toy examples. This is also where we find your 3,000-hour problem.

2

Done-for-you automation sprints

A fixed-scope, fixed-price sprint — typically 2–4 weeks — replacing one painful manual workflow with an automation on your systems. Priced on the hours it returns, not the days it takes.

3

Fractional AI-automation advisor

A monthly retainer for new automations and tooling guidance from someone who's seen your systems from the inside. Cancel anytime — the automations are yours either way.

The background behind the claims

Twenty-plus years across the exact stack this work touches.

Telemetry & capacity9 years deep

Infrastructure capacity planning and telemetry at enterprise scale: BMC TrueSight/TSCO across 6,000+ endpoints, Prophet and scikit-learn forecasting models predicting bottlenecks months out, PySpark pipelines, AWS serverless data platforms.

Performance engineeringThe full arc

Started in C/C++ and Java development, moved through performance testing into APM tools administration — CA Wily/APM rollouts of 4,000–6,000 agents, then Dynatrace AppMon and Synthetics. Knows what "slow" costs.

AI, dailyLives in it

Builds GenAI agents and production automations daily — routinely the only person on the team to run out of AI dev tokens. This isn't a sideline.