I don't recommend what I haven't broken.

Advising on AI transformation means making promises on other people's budgets. So before a pattern goes in front of a client, it goes through my lab first: production systems, real users, real cost ceilings, real failure modes. Everything below ran past the demo stage. Some of it fails on a schedule, gets caught, and fixes itself. That's the point.

Four systems, running past the demo.

One door for every model.

A single LiteLLM gateway fronting three production AI systems: model groups named by the job (draft, classify, judge), automatic failover chains, and a self-running 'Gateway Doctor' that probes, quality-scores, promotes and demotes models daily. I never quote a client a model cost I haven't paid myself.

  • Running daily
  • LiteLLM
  • Model failover chains
  • Autonomous quality scoring

Why a lab at all.

Proof over promises.

Every architecture I recommend has a running instance somewhere in these pages. A system with logs, not a slide.

Break it before the client does.

The lab's job is to find the failure modes cheaply, in my systems, with my name on them. Client programs meet them second, prepared.

Patterns, not toys.

A lab project graduates when its pattern is transferable: governance that would survive an audit, math that would survive a CFO, privacy that would survive a regulator.

Every system in this lab was architected and built by AI agents under my direction. That's the same operating model I now set up for client teams. It's not a footnote, it's the proof.

Notes and experiments.