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Get in touchPart-time technical leadership for early-stage teams: architecture, roadmap, hiring, and AI systems (agents included) built to survive production
From demo to operations: CE marking, EU AI Act readiness, safety cases, and the operational discipline regulated products need
Pre-investment technical assessment for investors, and for founders who would rather find the gaps before someone else does
Strategic technical leadership without a full-time hire. Prototype to production, AI agents included.
Readiness roadmap for AI and robotics products in regulated markets.
After metrics kept missing degenerate gaits and LLM-iterated rewards hit the survival cliff, we tried a vision-language model as the fitness scorer. The VLM was harsher than metrics and produced actionable failure descriptions — and it scored a collapsing robot 62/100. The case study in honest fitness, plus the four-layer evaluation stack we landed on.
We ran NVIDIA's Eureka methodology — an LLM iteratively proposing reward functions for an RL agent — on cold-start humanoid bipedal walking. 24 candidates across two rounds, all fell by step 70. The LLM was thoughtful; the survival cliff was state-space coverage, not reward design.
Pure RL, physics priors, single-image poses, adversarial structural rewards, LLM-iterated rewards — five attempts to train a humanoid walker without mocap, five distinct ways the policy cheated. With the v16 'flamingo hopping' retraction the user caught.
Full-stack development, agentic AI architecture, LLM integrations, scalable backend systems
Compliance lead at Bearcover, hardware-software integration, industrial protocols, embedded systems
Technical due diligence, pitch deck reviews, MVP design, fractional engineering lead for early-stage ventures
Initial consultation to understand your technology, risks, timeline, and goals
Deep technical analysis and actionable recommendations
De-risk decisions through feasibility studies or due diligence
Clear documentation, roadmaps, and confidence to raise funding or scale
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