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Engineer as a Service.
No API key required.

Daniel is an AI engineer available by subscription. PyTorch and JAX in production, opinions at no extra charge. Pick how much of his attention you want to allocate.

Monthly
Annual 2 months free · vesting cliff applies

Async

single attention head
$2,400/mo
batch inference
  • Slack Connect channel, rate-limited
  • Code & architecture review
  • Model / eval / infra advice
  • 24h response SLA (business days)
  • Loss curves interpreted with empathy
Start async

In-Office

full context window
$16,000/mo
edge deployment
  • Everything in Remote
  • On-site 3 days / week
  • Whiteboard privileges included
  • Physically present for incidents
  • Will eat your office snacks
Reserve a desk

Fractional CTO / CAIO

foundation model
Custom
pricing upon due diligence
  • Everything in In-Office
  • Owns AI roadmap & strategy
  • Hiring, vendor & GPU negotiations
  • Board-meeting-grade slides
  • Says "it depends" with authority
Contact sales (it's me)
Free tier daniel.reply(email) → sampled at temperature 1.2 · no SLA · may hallucinate availability

What the training data says

Testimonials, lightly curated. Selection bias: yes.

★★★★★

He jit-compiled our standup. It's four minutes now.

— CTO, stealth startup (Remote tier)
★★★★★

Asked for a quick opinion on our eval suite. Received a working eval suite. Invoice was fair.

— Head of ML, Series B (Async tier)
★★★★☆

Docked one star because he keeps saying 'it depends.' He is always right, which makes it worse.

— CEO, enterprise (CTO/CAIO tier)

Model card

Benchmarks self-reported. Evaluation methodology: vibes.

SpecAsyncRemoteIn-OfficeCTO / CAIO
Attention heads1816all of them
Context retentionBetween threadsBetween sprintsBetween quartersCompany history
Latency SLA24h4hshoulder tapreads your mind*
Fine-tuning on your stack✓ + distills to your team
Human-in-the-loopConsultedIs the loopIs the loop, locallyDesigns the loop
RLHFAccepts feedbackAccepts feedbackAccepts feedback, visiblyGives the feedback
Temperature0.70.70.4 before coffeedeterministic in board rooms
Uptime99.5%99.5%99.5%99.5% (sleep is a hard dependency)

FAQ

Frequently anticipated questions.

Is there an API?

Yes — email. It's REST-ish: you send a request, and Daniel returns a response. Rate limits apply. Webhooks are called "calendar invites."

Can I upgrade mid-cycle?

Instantly. Downgrades take one sprint, for emotional reasons.

What does fine-tuning look like?

~2 weeks of onboarding on your codebase and infra. Catastrophic forgetting of your legacy Perl is a feature, not a bug.

Do you offer a free trial?

A 15-minute chat — grab a slot. Output is watermarked ("as I mentioned on our call…").

PyTorch or JAX?

Fluent PyTorch, increasingly JAX. Will jit anything that holds still long enough. Functional where practical, pragmatic where not.

Is this a joke?

The pricing table is real. The costume is the joke. Attention really is the scarce resource — someone proved that in 2017.