I'm Jared Davies. I design, build and ship AI systems and software — from the first honest look at your operation through to deployed, tested, maintained code. One principal. Production standards. No handoff to a junior team.
Most AI advice stops at the demo — a workshop, a slide with three use cases, a proof of concept that impresses in the room and is never opened again.
Applied means the other thing. I carry it the whole distance: through the awkward data, the edge cases, the deployment and the test suite, until it is running in production and your staff would notice if it stopped.
I work from Middletown, New Jersey. No office, no overhead, and no account manager standing between you and the person writing the code. Remote by default — on site when it actually helps.
"We know AI should be doing something for us. Nobody can tell us what, and nobody can build it."
What you get A ranked, costed list of where AI actually returns hours or money in your operation — and then the thing itself, built.
"Our programs run on spreadsheets, a group text, and one person's memory. Reporting season is a week of pain."
What you get One system your staff, volunteers and board all work in — and board numbers that hold up when someone asks where they came from.
"Tee sheet, memberships, lessons, events, rosters, dues — five systems that don't talk to each other."
What you get Connected operations and reporting a GM can read in ninety seconds. I know how a club and a season actually run.
Two weeks inside your operation, fixed scope and fixed fee. I map how work really moves, then rank every AI and automation opportunity by effort against return — including the ones you should refuse.
For: anyone who has been quoted for AI work and can't tell whether it's the right work.
Software that handles the work nobody should be doing by hand: intake and triage, documents and forms, drafting, summarizing, the monthly report. Built against your real data, with guardrails and a human in the loop where the stakes require one.
For: teams losing whole days to routine back-office work.
Schema, API, interface, authentication, deployment. Multi-tenant platforms, internal tools, client and member portals. Not a prototype that needs a real team afterwards — the actual system, in production, with tests.
For: organizations whose operation has outgrown off-the-shelf software.
Scattered records turned into reporting a board, a funder or an owner can act on — with the definition of every figure written down, so nobody relitigates it at the meeting.
For: anyone whose reporting currently starts by reconciling three files.
The unglamorous layer that decides whether software is an asset or a liability. Containerized deploys, a pipeline that refuses a broken build, migrations that don't take the site down, and backups somebody has actually restored.
For: teams with software running that nobody is confident touching.
Hands-on sessions on your real work — not a generic webinar. Your people leave using the tools well, and you leave with a written policy on what may go into a model and what may never.
For: organizations whose staff are already using AI, unsupervised.
Impactly is the software local nonprofits use to run their assistance programs — intake, fulfillment, deliveries, volunteers, inventory, grants and board reporting, each organization under its own branding. Live at impactlyhq.com. First organization onboarded: Pinwheel Place.
A Postgres-backed test suite is a hard merge gate. A pre-push hook refuses a red
push, CI refuses it again on the pull request, and main
deploys straight to production. Green before merge is what protects the families using it.
The fundraising integration promises to be read-only. That promise is enforced by a test that fails if a write verb ever appears anywhere in the module — not by a note in a wiki that a future developer won't read.
Seven roles, multi-tenant data, real people's addresses and circumstances. A role check on its own is never sufficient; every org-scoped route verifies membership too. That is the difference between software that demos and software you can put families on.
Impactly is early. One organization is live and more are onboarding. What it demonstrates is scope and standard — the full range of a production platform, built and operated to the bar a bank would expect — not scale. If you want scale references, I don't have them yet, and I'd rather you heard that from me.
Forty-five minutes, free. What you're trying to change and what's in the way. You leave with a straight answer on whether this is worth building at all — sometimes it isn't.
A fixed fee, named deliverables and a date. Never an open hourly meter. If the scope changes, we re-scope in writing before anything is built.
You see working software every week, not a status deck. Early and often, so a wrong assumption costs days rather than the whole budget.
Trained team and written documentation, and you own everything. Or I keep running it on retainer. Your call, and it isn't priced to punish the first option.
Fixed fee · 2 weeks
The cheapest way to find out whether there's anything here. Most engagements start here, and some correctly end here.
You leave with A ranked opportunity register and a 90-day sequence, yours to use with or without me.
Project fee · scoped up front
The agent, the automation, the platform, the dashboard. Designed, built, tested and deployed.
You leave with Software running in production, a test suite, documentation, and full ownership of the code.
Monthly · rolling
For organizations that now depend on something and want the person who built it still on the end of the phone.
You leave with Continued development, reliability cover, and a standing seat for whatever comes up.
Principal Engineer
I'm a full-stack and DevOps engineer. Before this I held senior engineering roles at major financial institutions, where “it works on my machine” was never an acceptable end state — and where I learned what it costs when software that handles other people's business fails quietly.
I work AI-native. Agent-assisted development is how the work here genuinely gets done, which is why one person can ship at the scale a small team used to need. That isn't a positioning line — Impactly is the evidence, and you can go and use it.
The practical effect for you: the person you talk to in the first call is the person writing the code, and there is nobody between your problem and the person who can fix it. Nothing gets lost in a handover to a delivery team, because there is no handover.
What I don't do: discovery theatre, slide decks that recommend hiring three more people, or an hourly meter that rewards taking longer.
Not what software you think you need — the outcome. I'll tell you honestly whether it's worth building, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
If the answer is that you don't need me, I'll say that on the first call rather than in month three.