I build the AI systems most agencies can only describe.
I've been building software for years — .NET, React, custom APIs, the unglamorous infrastructure stuff that actually runs businesses. I got into AI not because it was the trend, but because my clients started asking for it and I realized most of the agencies selling it couldn't actually build what they were pitching.
There's a specific gap in the market: technical operators who need custom AI systems — not chatbots — and who don't want to hire a team of five to get there. That gap is where The Meador Group works.
I run this as a one-person consultancy from Los Angeles, working with 3–5 clients at a time. That's a deliberate constraint. The reason most AI builds disappoint is that they get handed off to a team of junior implementers after the senior person sold the work. Here, the person on the discovery call is the same person writing the code. When the system errors at 2am, I'm the one who fixes it because I'm the one who built it.
The verticals I focus on — real estate and e-commerce — are where I have actual operator experience. I've run my own real estate lead generation, my own e-commerce operations, my own inventory systems. I know what the dashboards need to show because I've been the operator squinting at the wrong dashboard at 11pm.
What I won't do: overpromise on AI accuracy, sell you a chatbot when you need a pipeline, or wrap GPT-4 in a thin React app and charge you for "AI". The systems I build do real work — extracting, classifying, routing, alerting — with confidence thresholds, error handling, and human-review fallbacks. AI is a component in the system, not the marketing pitch.
If you're an operator in real estate or e-commerce and you've been frustrated by the quality of AI work you've seen so far — that's the conversation I want to have.