ThoughtPartner
An always-available chief of staff that remembers, drafts, and thinks with you. Acts only when you say so.
An approach to AI that creates lasting change and value
Lintel is a one-person firm that does two things: builds practical AI tools, and helps businesses put AI to work the right way. ThoughtPartner is the first tool; the advisory work runs alongside it.
What we do
We build AI tools that earn their place in your day. Useful, private, and under your control.
We advise businesses on putting AI to work: the leadership calls, the organizational shifts, and the technical craft underneath.
Why Lintel
I built Lintel as part of a learning journey.
After years building software, an unplanned break gave me time to learn, by building things, talking to people across the industry, and experimenting to see what actually works. Like a lot of people, I'd started to feel behind; the pace is dizzying.
Lintel is where I put what I've learned to use. Maybe it can help you. Maybe I can help you.
Advisory
Help with the harder half: the people, the org, the craft.
We work with leaders and teams putting AI to real use, from the leadership calls and the way work flows to the technical craft of building with agents. Grounded in years of shipping software; honest about what's still being figured out.
Workflow & good-practice review
A close read of how your teams actually build software today, and where the real leverage from AI sits: which parts of the value chain move, which don't, and what to change first.
Executive hands-on AI adoption
Practical, one-on-one work with executives who want to use AI tools themselves, not just talk about them. You come out fluent enough to lead the conversation, not deferring to it.
Agentic AI good practices
The engineering craft of building with agents: how to design the work, keep quality up, and stop the speed from turning into technical debt. For software teams already in it.
Agentic AI transformation
The bigger shift: turning a technology organization into one that gets real value from agents. Where the bottlenecks move to, what the org has to look like on the other side, and how to get there without stalling delivery.
AI technology strategy
The board-level view: where AI actually pays back for your business, where it doesn't, and what a two-year technology strategy should commit to now versus keep open.
Interim executive leadership
Stepping in as CTO or head of engineering for a defined period, to steady a team through a transition, run a search alongside the work, or lead a specific shift while a permanent hire is found.
What we're building
The products, and the research they draw on.
AI Impact on Organizations & Leadership
An ongoing research project into how AI is reshaping the way organizations work, and how leaders lead.
From the research
AI tooling is becoming a commodity. The harder question is how an organization adapts to new ways of working, and how that change takes hold.
My ongoing research looks at how AI is changing the way technology organizations work and how leaders lead. The short version: the bottleneck is shifting from doing to deciding, and the value only shows up when the whole system around the work is redesigned. It doesn't show up when individuals simply move faster.
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Individual speed doesn't add up. Faster output stalls in unchanged review, testing, and release pipelines; the gains evaporate without redesigning the system around them.
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Platform quality decides the outcome. AI amplifies what's already there: advantage compounds in strong organizations; dysfunction gets magnified in weak ones.
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The real choice goes unspoken. Freed-up capacity can fund new growth or quietly fund cost-cutting; when no one names the choice, the cost frame wins by default.
Get in touch
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