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Cost is moving faster than usage
You cannot explain cost per successful request, or predict what scale does to margin.
AI architecture for funded startups
Your AI works.Now make sure it survives production.
A one-week architecture review for AI teams facing inference cost, latency, provider, or capacity decisions in the next 90 days.
Senior AI Solution Architect supporting Microsoft for Startups globally via Accenture. Independent practice; no employer endorsement implied.
Fit
This review is useful when…
02
Latency has no accountable budget
Retrieval, guardrails, model calls, and post-processing all consume time, but no owner can show where it goes.
03
One provider decision can stop the product
Quota, model availability, deprecation, or regional failure has no evaluated escape path.
One week · fixed scope
Inference Readiness Review
One week to turn an exposed inference path into explicit decisions your team can own.
What you receive
- Quota and provider risk map with named single points of failure
- Model-substitution matrix and required evaluation evidence
- Latency budget decomposed by hop
- Cold-start and fallback strategy
- Provider portfolio recommendation
- 90-day sequence with owners and decision gates
Boundary. Not a code audit, security review, implementation retainer, or vendor pitch.
See all ways to work togetherProof of the operating method
Decisions made with an incomplete map.
These engagements demonstrate the architecture method; the first dedicated Inference Readiness Review will become the direct case study for this offer.
Anonymized startup engagement
An urgent founder objective, turned into a target architecture the team could execute safely.
- full migration
- 7 days
- visible downtime
- 0 min
- team handoff
- Full
Chose one decisive cutover over a long dual-run: higher preparation cost, far lower carrying cost and ambiguity. Deferred optimization work that would have widened scope without reducing risk.
Named client · Amplification Of Potential
A live-event AI system designed around the conversations it must never create.
- p95 latency target
- < 2.5s
- inference budget / event
- < $1
- PII in model payload
- Zero
Accepted a narrower generative range in exchange for bounded failure. Chose approved examples over open generation, and a deterministic fallback over a retry that could miss the moment.
The week
What happens in one week.
Access requirements are scoped during discovery. Nothing here assumes production credentials by default.
- 01
Map the live path
Workloads, models, providers, dependencies, traffic, and SLOs.
- 02
Measure the failure surface
Cost, TTFT and latency, cold starts, quota, concentration, and fallback gaps.
- 03
Make the decisions explicit
Viable substitutions, evidence needed, trade-offs, and ownership.
- 04
Leave the team a sequence
A 90-day plan with decision gates, not a backlog-shaped wishlist.
One decision, before a full Review
Not ready for a one-week engagement?
Use a paid 90-minute inference working session to resolve one bounded decision and identify the next test.
Ask about a working sessionOne clearly framed inference decision
Options and explicit trade-offs
The next measurement or experiment
A short written decision note after the call
Why me
Production AI judgment, independently held.
- Building production AI systems since 2022
- More than 60 founding teams advised
- Senior AI Solution Architect supporting Microsoft for Startups via Accenture
- Based in Costa Rica, working globally in English
- One active sprint at a time
My independent work uses only public information and information a client explicitly provides for its engagement. No confidential Microsoft, Accenture, or other client information is used or disclosed.
Current independent work is limited to non-conflicting engagements and does not imply endorsement by Microsoft, Accenture, or any current or former employer.
More about how I work30-minute technical conversation
Bring the inference decision your team cannot leave implicit.
In 30 minutes, we will clarify the constraint, whether the Review fits, and the next responsible step — even when that step is not hiring me.