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Development & IT Consultation with Guy P.

5.0 · 89 reviews

Development & IT Consultation with Guy P.

5.0 · 89 reviews

I am an expert AI practitioner whose background in AI ranges from selling a consumer computer vision company to employing over 100+ machine learning and software developers — building machine learning and deep learning applications in a variety of industries. I can guide you on how to leverage AI to optimize specific parts of your business, identify various market applications, and explore untapped opportunities. My knowledge extends beyond technicalities, allowing me to help you improve your company’s efficiency, service quality, and product offerings.

Upwork has invited me multiple times to speak at their AI conferences, where I have had the privilege of addressing Private Equity firms, VPs, and Executives, in addition to being featured in their shareholder report regarding my work with machine learning.

And finally… I have a 100+ person technical team of software developers and machine learning engineers. For certain AI projects, we often engage our expert advisor network — coming from companies such as Google, Goldman Sachs, and DARPA. The combination of expert AI practitioners and developers on my team is the complete package you get when working with me.
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AI Consultant | Custom AI Solutions, Automation & Software Development
99% Job Success
5.0  (89 reviews)
Marlborough, United States - 5:02 pm local time
AI Development & Digital Transformation | LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI, Full-Stack | Expert-Vetted Top 1%

I genuinely love helping businesses build kick-ass AI and custom software products and that obsession has earned Valere an Expert-Vetted Top 1% badge on Upwork, ranking us among the top 1% of software development talent on the platform.

I'm Guy, CEO and founder of Valere. After 15+ years building, consulting, and launching consumer software products (including two acquisitions, one being a 15-million user app) I started Valere to help companies become AI-first through end-to-end engineering and transformation. We walk our clients through the whole process from AI planning and assessment, discovery, product design, technical solutioning, development, deployment, team adoption, AI upskilling/ AI coaching, and ongoing improvement.

My ultimate goal is to help companies become AI-first by handling the full lifecycle and providing with tangible outcomes that we can all be proud of. There’s a lot of heart that goes into building impactful products.

On paper, that looks like…300+ production deployments. $900M+ in measured client impact. 94% partner satisfaction. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, Johns Hopkins University, United Rentals, Mars, iHeartMedia, and CarShield. Client platforms we've built have helped raise $70M+ in venture and institutional funding.

What my team builds:
✔ AI: Agentic systems, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, NLP, computer vision, ML, predictive analytics, generative AI, deep learning
✔ Web: React, Angular, Vue, Next.js
✔ Mobile: React Native, Flutter, Swift, Kotlin
✔ Back-end: Python, Node.js, .NET, PHP
✔ Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
✔ Data: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, dbt
✔ Design: UX/UI, design systems, accessibility
Who I work with: Venture-backed startups, PE-backed companies, mid-market businesses, and Fortune 500 enterprises across healthcare, finance, sports, fitness, education, and operations.

Why clients choose us:
⭐️ AWS Advanced Tier & recognized AI/ML Partner
⭐️ Ranked #2 AI Services Provider on G2 a verified enterprise reviews
⭐️ Clutch Global Awards 2026 Top ML & AI Provider | Top 15 AI/ML worldwide
⭐️ Expert-Vetted Top 1% Agency on Upwork and featured in Upwork's 2023 Q2 Shareholder Report
⭐️ Selected for Upwork's Customer Advocacy Program, invited speaker at Upwork AI events
⭐️ The Manifest: Most Reviewed Developer 2024
⭐️ Recognized Top 5 Trusted AI Agency by Tom Popomaronis

Our AI transformation model: We transform companies into AI-first organizations through three tracks:
Build (end-to-end AI and custom software development),
Educate (AI workforce readiness via Valere Learning and General Upskilling through Evolve, our social platform),
and Scale (proprietary products including Conducto, our agentic AI orchestration framework, and Dactic, our research automation platform).

225+ global professionals: AI Strategists, Data Scientists, Generative AI Developers, Agentic AI Engineers, UX Designers, Product Managers. U.S.-based oversight, 24/7 global coverage.
Each client I work with gets decades of direct experience, through our engineers and through processes iterated on for YEARS across hiring, engineering, design, and QA.

I'm OBSESSIVE about excellence. Anything less is unacceptable, which is why I only take on work we can execute at the highest level.

If you have read this far, please note I appreciate you taking the time.

I would love to learn about what you're building.

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