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    Overview

    AI earns its keep when it's grounded in your real data and accountable to a human. We build agents and LLM-assisted analysis that read live business context, run the analysis your team repeats every week, and hand back recommendations in plain language, with the reasoning visible.

    It's the pattern behind Glaukos, the AI analyst inside our Aegis BI platform (now in production), and the Oracle analysis engine in MyBudgetNerd, live on the App Store. Not a demo. Software people use.

    Problems // Solved

    You want AI capability but can't risk a black box making unsupervised calls

    Analysts spend hours writing the same narrative summaries of the same reports

    Expert knowledge is locked up with two people and doesn't scale

    Off-the-shelf chatbots don't know your data, your metrics, or your risks

    Already Built

    A Worked Example

    Glaukos, the analyst inside Aegis BI

    A production AI agent with a person in the loop: it reads the live dashboard context, runs risk-first analysis, and returns a plain-English briefing with its reasoning visible. It advises; the operator decides. Thera applies the same discipline to bid/no-bid scoring, where an unexplained recommendation is worthless.

    Go and look

    Typical Engagement

    Two ways in: a 2–3 week fixed-scope diagnostic on where an agent genuinely helps and where it would just add risk, or 4–6 weeks to an agent running in production with a person in the loop. Most start with the diagnostic.

    What You Get

    Grounded in your numbers

    Agents read live business context, so answers cite your actual figures instead of generic advice.

    A person stays in charge

    The agent recommends, your operator decides. Worst case is a bad suggestion, never a bad action.

    Proven in our own products

    The same architecture runs in Aegis BI, live in production, and MyBudgetNerd, live on the App Store.

    TechnologiesOpenAI & Claude APIsPythonFastAPIReactAWSRetrieval & context engineering
    Proof of Delivery

    Related Work

    Product

    Aegis BI

    AI-assisted financial intelligence that stays current: connect OneDrive or Google Sheets, then read the numbers anywhere through command-center dashboards, forecasting, what-if scenarios, and the Glaukos AI analyst.

    Flagship · App Store

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    Product

    MyBudgetNerd

    A shipped consumer finance product: PDF statement parsing, ML transaction categorization, and the Oracle engine for anomalies, category outlook, and plain-language explanation.

    iOS · App Store

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    Case Study

    Aegis BI: Building an AI Financial Command Center for Small Business

    How we designed and built a BI platform that reads the files a business already keeps, forecasts from them, and travels in a pocket, now live in production.

    4 min read

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    Case Study

    MyBudgetNerd: Shipping Privacy-First ML Personal Finance to the App Store

    From PDF parsing pipeline to 5.0-star iOS app: designing, building, and shipping a consumer ML product with privacy as the architecture, not the disclaimer.

    2 min read

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    Case Study

    Thera: Scoring Federal Opportunities for a Contractor With Money on the Line

    How we built capture intelligence for federal contractors around one hard rule, that a score has to be a gate rather than a ranking, with a design partner who loses work when the tool is wrong.

    6 min read

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    Field Note

    AI Agents with a Human in the Loop: Trustworthy Automation

    The AI agents that survive real operations share one principle: they recommend, humans decide. How we build agents that earn trust rather than demand it.

    2 min read

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