Available for freelance

Ship the thing you don't have time to build.

I'm Jake — I design and build AI-backed tools, full-stack web apps, data pipelines, and civic/GovTech systems, end to end and shipped to production. Everything below is drawn live from things I've actually built and written.

Productized engagement

Agentic Workflow Design

I install a production agentic workflow in your stack — a multi-step LLM agent loop with a human gate, cost instrumentation, and a runbook. The same machine that runs this site, scoped to one workflow that earns its keep.

What I work in

AI

AI & LLM Engineering

Expert

Agentic pipelines, RAG, prompt design, and LLM-backed tooling shipped in production.

Engineering

Data Migration & Integrations

Proficient

REST / SFTP integrations, ETL, and data mapping & validation across enterprise systems (EAM, GIS, CRM) — production-reliable cutovers.

Applied Math & Modeling

Expert

Game theory, optimization, and quantitative modeling turned into working systems.

Full-Stack Web Apps

Proficient

Next.js / React apps end to end — App Router, server components, auth, deploys.

Python & Automation

Proficient

Scripting, data tooling, and automation pipelines in Python.

Data & Backends

Working knowledge

Supabase / Postgres schema design, row-level security, and service-role data layers.

Design

Interactive & Game Design

Expert

Educational and interactive games — Canvas2D / WebGL, mobile-first.

Communication

Research & Technical Writing

Expert

Long-form research, technical essays, and clear documentation.

Training & Enablement

Expert

120+ sessions to 650+ users at 4.8/5 satisfaction; role-based tracks and playbooks adopted across 87% of projects.

Delivery

Enterprise SaaS Implementation

Expert

End-to-end delivery for enterprise & public-sector clients — scoping, configuration, data migration, UAT, and go-live. 100+ engagements at 92% on-time / 95% on-budget.

Solutions & Sales Engineering

Proficient

Translating business requirements into architecture: technical discovery, deep-dives, and enablement for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Customer Success

Technical Customer Success

Expert

Strategic technical advisor — governance frameworks, platform-health monitoring, executive escalation management, and voice-of-customer back to product.

Selected work

Enterprise SaaS implementation track record

5+ years leading end-to-end implementations for enterprise & public-sector clients — discovery through go-live, with a documentation-first, playbook-driven methodology.

100+ engagements · 92% on-time, 95% on-budget · 13 of 14 executive escalations resolved without concessions · playbooks adopted across 87% of projects (rework −28%).

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Strata: ten excavations of the work a finished thing hides

An eight-team agent organization that reads this repository as a dig site — the rework, false starts, decisions, and the arcs it keeps circling that a finished website is built to hide. Ten interactive essays and six browsable surfaces, every number excavated from the real commit history.

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AI-native product engineering

Designs and ships LLM-powered web apps end to end — Next.js / React / Supabase + Claude, from data model to UI. Example: an AI job-search engine that tailors resumes & cover letters, scores fit, vision-parses PDFs, imports postings, and tracks a hiring funnel.

Full-stack delivery — structured-output LLM pipelines, vision PDF ingest, guarded fetch/import, and a stats dashboard — built and deployed on jakelawrence.xyz.

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The Shape of Original

An interactive essay on AI vs human narrative construction, originality as statistical rarity, and the classification infrastructure being poured under authorship.

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Seeing Like an AI Company

Six dead scholars read OpenAI's industrial policy proposal and find six connected problems it refuses to name.

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Accountability Tracker

25 universities. 11 dimensions. 1.3 million students in scope. The empirical companion to the essays.

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The Long Hold

Sixty years of US space nuclear capability, held across six political eras without ever being exercised, until the April 2026 NSTM-3 memo arrived to cash it in.

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The Warehouse

The American federal state as a portfolio of 49 unexercised options, evaluated through an acquisition optimizer's lens. What gets cut, kept, monetized, and why.

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Stance Design

Every AI system you interact with has been told how to treat you. That decision was made by a product team, encoded in training, and deployed without your knowledge. The essay coins the replacement term.

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Fixed-scope, fixed-price

Known scope, known price, paid up front — no proposal dance. Bigger or fuzzier than these? Use the form below instead.

30-minute working session

$150one call

A screen-share half hour on your actual problem: architecture read, AI-feature feasibility, debugging a decision — whatever moves you fastest. Booked within a business day; you leave with concrete next steps.

Hosted screenshot uploader

$19one-time

A personal upload token for the jakelawrence.xyz ShareX endpoint: EXIF-stripped hosting on a real CDN with branded short links, plus a ready-to-import .sxcu config. Delivered to your email within a minute of payment.

Supabase schema & RLS review

$500fixed scope

I read your schema, policies, and access paths end to end and deliver a written report: concrete RLS gaps, indexing and shape problems, and the migration order to fix them. Turnaround inside a week.

Next.js / AI app audit

$750fixed scope

A production-readiness audit of your Next.js or LLM-backed app: architecture, server/client boundaries, prompt and tool-call design, cost hot spots — delivered as a prioritized findings doc plus a call to walk it.

How I work

Ships to production

Not prototypes. Everything on this site is live, server-rendered, and running — the same bar I hold for client work.

Honest scoping

If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so up front. You get a straight read on feasibility, effort, and risk before any commitment.

AI where it earns its place

I build with LLMs daily, but only where they beat a simpler approach. No AI theater — just tools that work.

Have something in mind?

Tell me the problem in a sentence or two. I'll give you an honest read on whether I'm the right person for it — usually within a day.

Prefer email? jakealanlawrence@gmail.com