I'm an AI consultant in Portland, Oregon, and Portland AI Works is my practice: working AI systems for owner-run businesses of 5 to 50 people, built and installed in person. Before that, thirty years of making enterprise software actually work: SAP delivery for Nokia, Nike, Apple, and Delta, and most recently as an SAP/AI developer at CVS Health through mid-2026. MSc in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology.
Alongside that I have built and run businesses of my own. A 5.8 GHz wireless internet provider that grew to about 500 accounts. AlertJack, an industrial IoT security platform. Crankk, a LoRaWAN network I built and operated. Those taught me what it is like when the payroll is yours and the phone has to get answered.
Recently I built Understudy, a tool that maps how work really moves through a role, and used it on my own job first. Then saybooks.io, a business system where an AI agent and a person keep the same books under the same rules, VoiceLender, a voice assistant that answers in real time from a business's own data and can act on it, and EarnedList, which researches a business's next thirty customers with every claim sourced. Those four are where this practice comes from. Lately I have also been building Afterquiet, still in development, which measures the quiet spell after each sound it plays to find the sound that keeps a person's tinnitus quieter for longest.
I write up what I build and measure, with the numbers and the parts that did not work, under Articles.
Most owners I talk to have tried AI and gotten nothing durable out of it. Not because AI doesn't work, but because nobody with real systems experience sat down with them and wired it into how the business actually runs. That is a job I know how to do, and I would rather do it in person.
I live in the Portland area. Book a call, or invite me to run a workshop.
