The method stayed the same.
The leverage changed.

Every engagement had the same structure: a gap between what the strategy said, what people actually did, and what the technology allowed. I embedded, found the gap, and built the fix with the people who do the work.

What changed over time was scale. A lean consultancy. A startup under pressure. A solo practice with AI infrastructure. Same results, fewer people, faster.

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Military childcare fee assistance

Legacy system serving 200k+ military families. The organization had promised modernization for years — not a single line of code existed. 76% resubmission rate. Coordinators called a complete application a "unicorn." Embedded with operations, mapped the gap between contract requirements, operational practice, and system behavior. Pilot hit 87% first-attempt completion.

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