Consulting

Concerned AI isn't improving delivery?
I help teams convert AI integration into durable value.

AI Engineering Systems Review

AI is a powerful engine capable of accelerating production. But its dividends are uneven, it requires the correct engineering operating system to produce value rather than churn.

The purpose of this review is to help you convert AI power into engineering leverage.

A one-week, fixed-scope review of how AI is affecting your engineering system. I work from your repositories, review process, and delivery signals — and from short conversations with your team — to map where AI is helping and where it is quietly costing you.

The review looks at:

• where AI is genuinely improving throughput
• where it is creating hidden rework
• where review and feedback loops are breaking down
• where tooling and quality standards need to change

You get a written assessment of these findings with a prioritised set of recommended interventions, and a readout call to walk through them with you.

I am developing this offer out of my real experience — building AI-assisted products, like Sextant, and encountering and documenting the failure modes, such as missing Context Observability.

If you’re a founder, CTO, or engineering lead encountering these types of problems, then feel free to get in touch — matt@foobarcat.com.