Three ways to work together.
Flexible engagements. No unnecessary layers. Work directly with Alex from strategy through execution.
Advise
Find the opportunity
You have a valuable business problem and are not sure what the right solution looks like, or whether the data and technology can support it.
Identify high-value opportunities, evaluate data and feasibility, and define a practical roadmap.
- Deliverable
- Opportunity assessment and actionable roadmap.
Discovery, assessment, strategic advisory. Two to six weeks.
Build
Deliver the solution
You know the problem is worth solving and want it built by someone who will own the outcome.
Develop predictive models, AI systems, optimization engines, and custom software that solve real problems.
- Deliverable
- Working prototype or deployed solution with measurable success criteria.
Proof of concept, MVP, or end-to-end delivery. Six weeks to six months.
Partner
Lead the capability
You need senior AI, data, and product leadership embedded in the business before, or instead of, hiring for it.
Embedded technical and product leadership to guide strategy, teams, and delivery.
- Deliverable
- Ongoing senior expertise, execution oversight, and direct accountability.
Fractional executive, technical leadership, ongoing partnership. A quarter or a year.
From question to production
The same four steps every time. No discovery phase that outlives its budget.
- Scope One or two weeks. We agree on the question, the data, the baseline, and what "working" means.
- Prove A prototype on your real data, measured against that baseline. If it does not beat it, you hear that first.
- Ship Production pipeline, model, monitoring, and the surface people use. Documented and tested.
- Hand off or stay Your team runs it, or I keep running it with you. Either way nothing is a black box.
Who this is for
Executives with a problem worth solving, who want one accountable person to figure out what to build and build it.
- Founders and CEOs with a data advantage and no way to use it yet.
- Operators with a forecast, a price, or a plan nobody in the room trusts.
- Investors with a thesis that needs testing against real signal.
- Leaders whose model works in the notebook and fails in production.
Where the work comes from
Twenty years of building quantitative systems and products, first for trading desks, then for enterprises.
- Vantive AI (Red Cell Partners) Head of AI, Product and Engineering 2025 to now
- ETS VP Data Science 2024
- StackCommerce VP Analytics 2022 to 2023
- Harvestry Head of Analytics and Research 2018 to 2022
- Athena Capital Research Head of Trading and Research 2011 to 2017
- MIT B.S. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Management Science
Tell me what you're trying to solve.
Send the problem and what data you think you have. I will reply with whether it is a fit and what the first two weeks would look like.
Let's discuss your challenge