Two client slots open right now

Ship real AI, not another pilot that dies in a deck.

Everyone bought the AI demo. Almost nobody shipped the thing. I close that gap. Real features your customers use, your team trained to run them, in two weeks. No six-month roadmap. No black box. Working software you own.

Founder of Pelagora & Reffo · 25 years shipping product, from the design file to the deploy

Founder & hands-on across

Pelagora
Pelagora
Reffo
Reffo
Influence.inc
Influence.inc
Spell Royale
Spell Royale
Critically
Critically
Private client roster
Private client roster
What I do

Three ways in. Every one ends with something running.

No open-ended discovery. No hourly meter. Fixed scope, fixed price, and you keep everything I build.

most popular

AI Onboarding Sprint

$8k–$12k · two weeks

I find where AI buys back real hours, build 2–3 pieces that do it, and train your people to run them. You get software, not slides.

  • Workflow audit + AI opportunity map
  • 2–3 live automations or agents, in your stack
  • Team training so adoption sticks
  • Playbook your team keeps and reuses
Start a sprint →

AI-Native Design Retainer

$6k–$10k / month

Product and UX with AI built into the surface, not bolted on after. For teams whose AI features have to feel designed, not duct-taped.

  • Product & UX design for AI features
  • Prototype → production, design-led
  • Gamified adoption & onboarding flows
  • A senior partner, not a ticket queue
Talk retainer →

Small Business AI Starter

from $1.5k · flat

For the restaurant, the cleaner, the handyman, the lawn crew. The boring stuff that eats your week. Set up once, running, simple enough to forget it's there.

  • Answer & booking automation for calls, texts, DMs
  • Reviews, follow-ups & reminders on autopilot
  • A site or profile that actually brings leads
  • Plain-English setup, no tech team needed
Get started →
How it works

First call to shipped in under three weeks.

01

Fit call, 20 minutes

Twenty minutes to find out if there's a real problem here. No pitch theater. If I'm not the right call, I'll say so and point you at who is.

02

Scoped proposal, 2 business days

One page. The outcome, the price, the date. You know exactly what you're buying before a dollar leaves your account.

03

The build

I build in the open. You see it move every few days. No black box that finally opens on delivery day and hopes for the best.

04

Handoff, you own it

Working software, a playbook, a team that knows how to run it. Keep me on retainer or take the keys and drive. Your call.

Who I am

I've sat in every seat at the table.

Most people selling you AI have only ever sold. I've drawn the design file, written the code, and answered for the P&L. So I talk to your designers, your engineers, and your leadership in the language each one actually uses.

I founded Pelagora, an open-source P2P commerce protocol, and built Reffo on top of it. I've worked hands-on across Influence.inc, Spell Royale, and a private roster I don't name in public. Twenty-five years across film, games, and product taught me one thing that matters here: people don't use what they don't understand. So I build things people use.

Meet me in person anywhere in the US, or hand it to your remote team wherever they are.

~ Doug Kinnison

25+ yrs
Designer, engineer, exec. Every seat.
2 weeks
Kickoff to working software in your stack
Founder
I shipped my own products, not just decks
Let's talk

Got a workflow that should already be running itself?

Book twenty minutes. If there's something worth building, you'll have a one-page proposal in two business days. If there isn't, I'll tell you that too.

Two slots open · in person across the US, or remote