Corey B.
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Build useful software with AI — and the discipline to make it real.

I help founders, teams, and ambitious builders ship AI-assisted software they actually trust. Eighteen years of engineering. TDD by default. Your code, day one.

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18 yrs
Shipping software
2008 → today
Thalos
Founder
personal business platform
GCN '24
Speaker
AI delivery track
What I help with

Five engagement shapes, all aimed at shipping.

AI-assisted builds

Prototypes and small products built with agents — but with tests, types, and a deploy story.

Fractional engineering

Embed with your team on architecture, agent workflow, technical direction, and code review.

Workshops

Hands-on training for founders and teams. I help people build something real together.

Internal tools

Workflow automation, dashboards, and tools that quietly remove a person-week of work.

Workflow audit

I look at how your team uses AI, CI, and tests today, then hand back a concrete plan.

Production hardening

Take a working prototype and harden it with observability, error budgets, and an on-call story.

The method

One project at a time. Idea to launch in the open.

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Idea
02
Scope
03
Build
04
Test
05
Harden
06
Launch
Featured projects

Working software you can poke at.

All case studiesAll projects
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Pail

Workshop tool

The dev-utility suite attendees actively use to build during workshops — and the daily driver for AI-assisted builders generally.

LIVENext.jsDjangoOpenAI
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Delicio

Idea to working software via Thalos and Pail. The public case study for what an AI-assisted build actually looks like.

WIPCase studyAI build
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Thalos

The personal business platform behind the consulting practice — public process, case studies, and the workshop-franchise surface.

LIVEDjangoNext.jsPostgres
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Vibe Coding for Real

Build working software with AI coding agents.

For non-technical founders and engineering teams who want to skip the hype and ship. Half-day intro, full-day intensive, or in-house.

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Consulting offers

Pricing you can plan around.

$3k–$7.5k

Discovery sprint

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Turn an idea into a scoped build plan you can hand to a team. 1–2 weeks, fixed price.

Scope a discovery sprint
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$10k–$35k

Build sprint

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Ship a working prototype or internal tool — TDD, AI-assisted, deployed at the end. 4–8 weeks.

Scope a build sprint
$8k–$18k/mo

Fractional retainer

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Embed weekly in your repo and standups — architecture, agentic workflow, and shipping discipline.

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From the writing

Field notes from building with agents.

All writing
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