TLDR
Orbital builds AI systems grounded in how your business actually works — your judgment, your processes, your operational intelligence — not generic models that could belong to anyone in your industry.
The Problem
Most AI runs on publicly available context. It doesn't know what makes your business good at what you do. That's why AI projects disappoint — the output is plausible but flat, missing the expertise and nuance your clients expect.
The Approach: Map → Architect → Build
Map: Surface the decision patterns, judgment calls, and institutional intelligence inside your business that haven't been made systematic. Identify where AI has genuine leverage.
Architect: Design the intelligence architecture — a structured representation of how your business works — and shape the AI systems around it. AI output that reflects your standards, not a generic assistant.
Build: Deliver durable systems your team can maintain and extend. The value grows over time rather than creating a dependency.
The Map phase stands on its own — you walk away with clarity and concrete next steps whether or not we continue.
Proof, Not Just Pitch
The public proof of concept is CTI — Cycling Training Intelligence: an AI coaching platform whose advice is grounded in the athlete's own power data, fitness trajectory, and past coaching conversations — not generic training-blog content. Production system, shipped fast, instrumented with a regression eval loop, exposed as an authenticated MCP server. Documented in depth as a five-part technical series. Same architecture transfers to any domain where institutional expertise needs to scale.
Who This Works For
Good fit: You have deep domain expertise trapped in individuals. Your best people's judgment isn't scaling. You want AI that reflects your business, not a textbook version of your industry.
Sectors: Professional services (accounting, legal, consulting), environmental and engineering, industrial operations, financial services, healthcare, logistics — anywhere institutional expertise is deep and hard-won.
Not a fit: Generic chatbots, off-the-shelf SaaS problems, staff augmentation, hourly work.
Why Me
Solo practitioner, not an agency — you work with me directly. Over a decade building production systems across fraud detection, industrial monitoring, scientific computing, and geospatial intelligence. React, TypeScript, Next.js, modern AI infrastructure. Fixed-fee, outcomes over hours.
Based in: Christchurch, New Zealand (APAC timezone, async-friendly with US/EU).
Contact: info@orbital.co.nz