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AI Consulting & Mentoring

Let's turn AI hype into working systems

I help CXOs and engineering leaders decide what to build, build it with disciplined engineering, and measure whether it actually pays off. No vendor hype, no shortcuts — just systems that work.

Ways to Work

Engagement Formats

Pick the level of support that fits where you are with AI.

1:1 Mentoring for AI Leaders

Engineering leaders, VPs, and AI implementation leads

Monthly sessions where we pressure-test your AI roadmap, unblock your teams, and keep engineering quality high while you move fast. You get a practitioner's perspective — not slideware.

  • Roadmap and agent-program reviews between sessions
  • Practical guidance on tools, patterns, and guardrails
  • Direct feedback on what your teams are building

Executive AI Advisory

CXOs, boards, and founders

Independent advice on AI strategy, vendor and build-vs-buy decisions, cost governance, and agentic programs — grounded in shipping real AI products and contributing to the tools behind GitHub Copilot itself.

  • Unbiased second opinion on AI spend and vendors
  • Frameworks for measuring ROI, not just activity
  • Alignment between AI initiatives and business outcomes

AI Implementation Workshops

Product and engineering teams

Hands-on, team-level training in disciplined, test-first AI-assisted development — the same approach used to train 500+ engineers and documented in Test-first Copilot.

  • Live coding with your real codebase
  • Test-first patterns for AI-generated code
  • Guardrails that protect code quality at speed
Who This Is For

Are you one of these?

Engineering leaders running AI copilot and agent programs
CXOs who want an independent view on AI strategy and spend
Teams shipping AI features who refuse to trade away quality
Anyone who wants AI as a collaborator, not a shortcut
How I Work

A Process, Not Experiments

AI implementation fails when it's a series of one-off bets. This is how I keep it repeatable and accountable.

01

Discovery

A free fitment discovery call where we map your AI goals, current stack, team maturity, and the risks you're most worried about.

02

Pilot

We pick one high-value, low-risk bet and define what "working" means — with metrics and test coverage from day one.

03

Scale

We roll out what works: training, guardrails, patterns, and the engineering discipline that keeps quality from eroding.

04

Measure & Adjust

We review the numbers, fix what drifts, and turn AI into a repeatable capability instead of a series of experiments.

Track Record

What I Bring

Credentials you can verify, not adjectives.

500+ engineers trained in disciplined, test-first AI-assisted development

70+ conference talks on AI, software engineering, and technical agility since 2013

Author of Test-first Copilot — test-first discipline applied to AI-assisted development

Contributor to GitHub Copilot SDK and VS Code Copilot Chat — the tools your teams will actually use

Founder of Ampyard, a SaaS studio shipping AI-assisted products end to end

AI keynote at Siemens EDGE 2025 and speaking across Google, Xebia, and international conferences

Ready to make AI work for your business?

Book the free Fitment Discovery Call on Topmate. We'll spend 15 minutes mapping where AI can actually help — and whether I'm the right fit to help you get there.