Bootstrap Your AI Engineering

Zach Deane-Mayer
FOUNDER
AI executive & Kaggle Grandmaster: 15+ years building with AI and ML.
Competitions
grandmaster15+
Years in Artificial
Intelligence6
Patents
Filed2
Classes
taught10,000+
Models
trained
Our AI Engineering Offerings
FOUNDATION 🏗️
Setup your AI engineering tech stack
- Production-ready AI engineering backend stack
- Enterprise-grade FastAPI architecture
- Multi-provider routing and type safety with Pydantic AI
- GitHub repository with GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Continuous deployment to Vercel with preview branch support
$8,500 flat fee
ACCELERATE ⚡
Accelerate your AI engineers
- Weekly strategy sessions
- Technical advice and code reviews
- Architecture reviews and implementation guidance
- Unlimited, on-demand support
$12,500 per month
SCALE 🚀
Scale your team
- AI role requirements and job descriptions
- Candidate sourcing and screening
- Tech stack-specific interviews and assessments
- Hiring recommendations and onboarding support
Contact for pricing
Current and past clients
- 01
LightTable.ai
Built ML pipeline to auto-detect and remediate technical issues in construction drawings pre-construction, reducing errors and costly rework.
- 02
Durable.co
Interim Head of Engineering. Launched flagship blogging agent, rebuilt core architecture, established ML dev standards with robust logging and automated evaluations, and recruited 3 engineers.
- 03
Brain Chemistry Lab
Developed ML biomarker for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases from blood tests, enabling earlier detection and intervention.
- 04
Airwave
Built vector search system for technical document RAG with table extraction and semantic table retrieval. Developed reflection-based prompting to reduce hallucinations.
- 05
DobbyHome.com
Advised on AI strategy and developed comprehensive AI roadmap.
- 06
Major Linux Distribution
Developed AI transformation strategy, repositioning HPC offering for AI workloads and creating product roadmap for AI-optimized Linux distribution with competitive differentiation in ML/DL market.
- 07
AI for Business Writing Startup
Matured an AI storytelling platform, built a company-wide AI strategy.
- 08
Kubernetes for AI Startup
Drove AI strategy and product development. Developed GPU forecasting algorithm, enhancing cluster efficiency and auto-scaling capabilities.
- 09
AI for Healthcare Startup
Drafted the company-wide AI strategy, synthesizing insights from executive and clinician interviews. Wrote 5-year product roadmap and initiated patent development.
- 10
AI-Driven Private Equity Fund
Drafted the company-wide AI strategy, projecting 5-years of market change and identifying opportunities to use AI to scale a tech and IP acquisition business.
- 11
DataRobot
VP of Engineering. Founded and led the GenAI team: launched Vector DB and LLM Playground products. Built core AutoML algorithms compressing weeks of ML engineering into minutes. Led the Core ML team integrating vector search and embedding models into the AutoML platform. Authored multiple granted patents.