I build custom eLearning, AI-enabled content pipelines, and the courses your team hasn't had room to get to. Fixed bid. Concept to SCORM. Built by someone who ships AI products, not just talks about them.
Currently booking: 2 project slots for Q4 2026
Most in-house teams I work with are one to four people carrying a twenty-project backlog. They don't lack skill — they lack hours. So the new-platform rollout limps along with a PDF, the compliance refresh slips another quarter, and the AI question from the executive team sits unanswered.
I'm not a replacement for your team. I'm the surge capacity that ships the thing that's been stuck in the queue — and the technical depth for the builds outside a typical designer's toolkit.
Presented the way my clients' world reads best — as line items. Every engagement is scoped in writing, priced up front, and owned by you when it ships.
Complete eLearning, concept to SCORM/xAPI package. Scenario-based design, real assessment, built around retention science instead of slide-reading.
The force multiplier. I build the automation that makes your next ten courses cheaper: AI-assisted drafting with human craft on top, template pipelines, media tooling.
A working session or short engagement that separates what's real from what's hype — from someone who fine-tunes models and ships AI products, not someone repeating vendor decks.
"The Capability Engine" is a complete interactive course I designed, wrote, and engineered from scratch — no authoring tool, one file. It's both a real lesson on why L&D is business infrastructure and a working sample of what I build for clients.
Most instructional designers talk about AI. Most engineers can't teach. The overlap is the whole value — you get one person instead of a translation layer.
Interactive eLearning for LIHTC, NMTC, RETC, and HTC programs at a national tax advisory firm — courses, software simulations, and reference guides serving 2,000+ professionals. Plus enterprise software rollout training, recorded and live.
Software simulations, video production, and multimedia training pipelines for a regional healthcare group — where getting it wrong isn't an option and completion actually matters.
Four products built end-to-end as a solo founder — an iOS AI assistant with voice and phone calling, a local-first macOS AI platform, a health-tracking app on the App Store, and an automation platform. This is the engineering depth behind every client build.
A working session with you and your SMEs. We find the handful of tasks driving the pain — errors, ramp time, audit risk — and scope against those, not against "cover everything."
You get a written scope, a price, and a date. Then a working prototype of one core interaction within days — so we agree on the feel before the full build.
Full development with structured review cycles. Your SMEs mark up content; I handle everything technical. No surprises at delivery because you've seen it grow.
LMS-ready files, source included — you own everything. Where it fits, xAPI instrumentation so you can show leadership behavior change, not just completions.
I've spent 4+ years as an instructional designer inside regulated industries — first healthcare, now tax and accounting — turning dense, high-stakes subject matter into training people actually complete. Day to day, that means Articulate 360, video production, software simulations, and a lot of respectful arguing with subject matter experts.
The unusual part: through my company, Ravenwood Tech, I also build and ship AI products — real ones, in the App Store, with paying infrastructure behind them. Fine-tuned models, voice interfaces, privacy-first local inference. So when a client asks whether AI can help their training function, I answer as a builder, not a brochure.
I take a handful of engagements at a time, work fixed-bid, and measure success the boring way: did the thing ship, and did the numbers move. Based in Portland, Oregon. Film degree, distance runner, believer that clarity is a kindness.
You should have one — and if they have slack capacity and the skills for your project, use them. I'm brought in for two situations: the backlog project nobody has room for, and the AI-heavy build outside a typical designer's toolkit. In practice your team usually ends up being my biggest ally, because I make the thing they've been fighting for finally exist.
Fixed bid for defined projects — you get a written scope, a price, and a date before any work starts. Typical course builds run five figures depending on length, interactivity, and media. Advisory work is a day rate or hourly. No retainers required, no surprise invoices.
A focused micro-course or simulation set: 2–4 weeks. A full custom course: 4–8 weeks depending on review cycles. You'll see a working prototype within the first days of the build, so nothing is a surprise at the end.
Whatever serves the project: Articulate Storyline 360 and Rise for standard delivery, or fully custom HTML/JS course players when you need something a template can't do — the live demo on this site is one file of hand-built code. Everything ships LMS-ready as SCORM or xAPI.
You do. Source files, media, everything — delivered at project close. I keep nothing hostage and I'm happy to work white-label under your brand or an agency's.
This is exactly why my AI background matters. For sensitive or regulated content I architect around privacy — including fully local, on-prem inference where nothing leaves your control. And AI drafts never ship without human craft and SME review on top; in compliance training, accuracy isn't negotiable.
Tell me about the project. You'll get a straight answer about whether I'm the right fit — and a fixed price if I am.
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