Applied AI & Strategy
Working AI software and the strategy behind it, for founders and small teams.
Capabilities
Some problems need software built. Some need thinking done first. Most need a bit of both.
Working software, scoped small enough to ship in weeks.
Purpose-built software for the thing your team does all day.
Marketing sites and landing pages, designed and built as one job.
Ask questions across your contracts, docs, and notes. Answers come back with the source cited.
The repetitive work runs itself: intake, follow-ups, reporting, handoffs.
Numbers from scattered systems, pulled into one place.
One piece of source material becomes every format you publish.
Strategy work from a corporate development background, for when the question is bigger than the build.
Who is winning, why, and where the opening is, written up as a memo.
Quarters, numbers, hires, and the order to do them in.
The research on a deal, a market, or a big bet, done before committing to it.
A map of what to automate, what to buy, and what to leave alone.
Work
Five projects, designed by me and built with AI coding tools.
Productivity app
Board game & game engine
Investing operations
Research tool
Web & content system
About
Teams reach for the technology before the problem is actually understood. Getting the question right is most of the work.
My background is in strategy and corporate development. I spent several years on acquisition strategy and new ventures at a multi-generational healthcare company, then moved into consulting and advisory work with early-stage companies. I got my MBA at Chicago Booth, focused on strategic management and entrepreneurship.
These days I spend most of my time building: the five projects above, plus whatever problem is currently bothering me. That combination, someone who can frame the question and then build the thing, is what I offer.
How I work
I ship the small version first. If it proves out, we build the rest.
You own the code, and every decision is written down where you can read it.
If your problem needs a team or a different specialist, I say so in the first call.
Contact
A few sentences is enough.
Or email directly at reed@dohmen.ai
Typical response within 24 hours