You will get a senior AI architecture audit with a written diagnosis and action plan
Project details
I review your AI stack and deliver a written diagnosis with prioritized actions. Built for engineering leaders who have invested heavily in AI but are not yet shipping what they expected.
The review covers the model and provider layer, your data flow and retrieval architecture, agent topology if you have one, observability and evaluation, compliance posture, and your latency, throughput, and cost profile.
You receive a working session to walk the current architecture, a written diagnosis of the top three to five risks, a prioritized action plan with specific recommendations rather than generic best practices, a reference architecture diagram for the recommended future state, and a follow-up call after delivery.
I co-founded and run product at an enterprise AI governance platform shipping to regulated industries. The infrastructure I architected runs in production today. This is a written diagnosis from an architect who runs production AI infrastructure, not a marketing-deck strategy deck.
The review covers the model and provider layer, your data flow and retrieval architecture, agent topology if you have one, observability and evaluation, compliance posture, and your latency, throughput, and cost profile.
You receive a working session to walk the current architecture, a written diagnosis of the top three to five risks, a prioritized action plan with specific recommendations rather than generic best practices, a reference architecture diagram for the recommended future state, and a follow-up call after delivery.
I co-founded and run product at an enterprise AI governance platform shipping to regulated industries. The infrastructure I architected runs in production today. This is a written diagnosis from an architect who runs production AI infrastructure, not a marketing-deck strategy deck.
AI Development Type
Knowledge Representation, Recommendation System, Software MaintenanceAI Development Language
PythonWhat's included $5,000
These options are included with the project scope.
$5,000
- Delivery Time 7 days
- Number of Revisions 1
About Michael
Enterprise AI Architect | Agents, RAG, LLM | Ex-Avanade VP | 2 Exits
Excelsior, United States - 4:23 am local time
The platform runs in production today. It governs how enterprise AI systems interact with business data: a gating layer that enforces policies, audits every decision, and keeps the whole thing compliant. Sub-50ms P95 latency at 10K req/s with 99.9% uptime. The AI developer assistant I built alongside it drove 70% engineering cycle-time reduction across the SynapseDx team.
35 years across enterprise data and AI. Two founder exits. Vice President at Avanade (the Microsoft + Accenture joint venture) running global advanced analytics for Fortune 500 clients including Microsoft, Coca-Cola, 3M, Target, Best Buy, Ecolab, and many others. Founded and sold Conclusn (HIPAA-compliant healthcare analytics, acquired in 2024) and XBA Group (Microsoft BI consultancy).
I work with engineering leaders at regulated enterprises who have spent six months and seven figures on AI that does not ship. Most "AI failures" are not model problems. They are architecture, observability, and governance problems. That is what I fix.
What I deliver
* AI architecture audits: a focused review of your stack, data flow, agent topology, observability, and compliance posture. Deliverable is a written diagnosis with prioritized actions, not a pretty deck.
* AI governance design: the gating layer between LLMs, agents, and your business systems.
* AI-augmented engineering velocity: I shift your dev org to ship 2-3x faster with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other project-aware custom assistants.
* Fractional CTO and advisor: architecture review, hiring sequence, investor-readiness, and build-vs-buy for seed and Series-A AI founders.
How I engage
* Hourly: $275/hour with full Upwork hourly protection.
* Fixed-fee: architecture audits from $25K, governance and integration builds from $75K.
* Retainer: from $9K/week.
I am US-based (Minneapolis, Central Time) and work US plus UK overlap. I run a tight async loop: same-day reply on weekdays, written summaries after every working session, no surprise scope creep, and a clean exit plan in every engagement.
Who I am NOT for
* Marketing-deck "AI strategy" engagements. I build. I do not narrate.
* Single-prompt chatbot builds. I work at the architecture and governance layer, not the wrapper layer.
* Clients who want a senior name on a slide. I work product-deep with engineering teams.
Contact me through Upwork. I review every inbound personally.
Steps for completing your project
After purchasing the project, send requirements so Michael can start the project.
Delivery time starts when Michael receives requirements from you.
Michael works on your project following the steps below.
Revisions may occur after the delivery date.
Architecture working session
We walk your current architecture, pain points, and goals together so the review targets what matters.
Written diagnosis and action plan
I deliver a written diagnosis of the top three to five risks, a prioritized action plan, and a reference architecture diagram for the recommended future state.