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Two kinds of leverage, offered as work.

The blog covers how this is built. These are the same two threads as engagements: the method for teaching yourself a skill, and the harness that makes a coding agent worth handing work to.

  • Training

    Teaching people how to teach themselves.

    Most training hands you a curriculum for a tool that will be replaced within the year. This is the other thing: the method for picking up a language or a skill on your own, and for staying current in a field that reinvents its tooling every few months. The subject matter is the worked example; the method is the deliverable.

    • Learning a skill solo
    • Staying current in a field that keeps moving
    Training details →
  • Automation

    Agentic harnesses for a team, or for one engineer.

    Coding agents are capable and badly behaved by default. What makes them useful is the harness around them: the instructions they load, the skills they compose, the modes that decide how much autonomy they get, and the checks that stop a confident wrong answer reaching a branch. This is that harness work, applied to your workflow.

    • Automating a team's workflow
    • Automating a single engineer's workflow
    Automation details →

Bring a repeated problem, not a request for magic.

Useful starting points

  • You have a workflow that repeats often enough to measure.
  • You want a working first slice, not a slide deck about automation.
  • You are willing to review the result and keep the method in-house.

Probably not the right fit

  • You need staff augmentation or an always-on support desk.
  • You want a generic course with no connection to your actual work.
  • You are not ready to make time for a small experiment.
  1. Start with the problem. We identify the repeated work, the constraint that matters, and what a useful first result looks like.
  2. Build a small working version. The first pass stays narrow enough to use and review, rather than becoming a large automation project before it has evidence.
  3. Leave you with the method. You get the workflow, decisions, and next steps in a form you can keep using after the engagement ends.

Enquiring about an engagement

This runs alongside a full-time job, so I keep a hard cap of two concurrent engagements and review new enquiries in batches rather than as they arrive. The waitlist is how that queue works.

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