For business owners & operators
Spend less time chasing the work.
Connect your tools, automate repeated tasks, and see what needs attention — from the first request through billing.
Discuss a workflow Explore business solutions →Michael Migdol · Carson City & Northern Nevada · Available remotely
Business automation and AI consulting
for growing businesses.
I help Carson City and Northern Nevada businesses reduce manual work, connect their tools, and use AI where it makes everyday work easier.
For software founders & teams
Make the next technical move with confidence.
Get hands-on fractional CTO support for architecture, delivery, and engineering leadership as your company grows.
Discuss a technical challenge Explore technical leadership →Former Director of Engineering · Led distributed teams of 20+ · Startup co-founder See the experience behind the work →
Is important work still tracked in emails, Post-its, whiteboards, and your employees’ heads?
When requests, handoffs, status, and follow-up live in scattered places, the business gets harder to see and harder to run.
Common friction
- Repeated data entry
- Disconnected tools
- Unclear work status
- Process knowledge stuck with one person
What I build
- Work order systems
- Client portals
- Reporting dashboards
- CRM and operations integrations
- Internal admin tools
AI where useful
- Document processing
- Structured intake and routing
- Internal copilots
- Process automation
Have a workflow that is harder than it should be?
Discuss your workflowA better way to run the work
Most businesses follow some variation of this workflow. The opportunity is rarely a missing website. It is usually the manual work, disconnected systems, and lack of visibility that occur between these stages.
Technical leadership for software companies
Senior engineering leadership for architecture, delivery, team execution, and technical decisions at moments of growth, change, or complexity.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership and decision-making for companies that need executive-level direction without a full-time hire.
Software Architecture
System design and reliability decisions for teams whose foundation needs to hold up under growth, not just launch day.
Zero to One Development
Concept to working software, with the architecture choices made deliberately instead of accidentally.
Development Leadership
Code reviews, sprint planning, and mentoring that keep teams shipping consistently, not just busy.
Engineering Operations
Deployment, monitoring, and incident response built so the system stays up without you in the room.
Technology Strategy
Clear build, buy, fix, or automate decisions, sequenced so the team isn't guessing what's next.
AI consulting in Carson City and Northern Nevada
Practical AI strategy and implementation for products, workflows, and operations, with senior technical judgment applied from the first use-case decision through production.
AI-based Products
Recommendation engines, smart defaults, personalization layers, in-product assistants, and decision support built into portals, platforms, or internal systems.
Custom AI Tools
Focused tools for documents, knowledge, intake, extraction, analysis, and support work, including agentic workflows for coding and development tasks. Built around a specific task, dataset, or team workflow, with senior engineering judgment guiding the design.
Agentic Processes
Agents that run operations: triage, research, classification, routing, document review, follow-up, and handoffs in repeatable business processes.
Experience as evidence
Work across complex workflows, software architecture, team leadership, operational systems, and business outcomes. Read selected project summaries →
Early-stage platform leadership
Joined as employee #3 at an early-stage speech technology company and helped scale it past 130 employees within a year. Led the platform team responsible for the core telephony, voice recognition, and developer infrastructure, work that was instrumental to a later acquisition valued at $180 million.
- Employee #3
- Platform team leadership
- $180M acquisition
Platform modernization
Spent seven years as Director of Engineering, modernizing a legacy platform and leading a distributed team of 20+ across offshore and onshore engineering.
- 7-year tenure
- 20+ person team
- Distributed leadership
SaaS platform and live operations
Co-founded a mobile engagement startup, then led its engineering and product following an acquisition, deploying the platform into large-scale live venues including professional sports arenas and major resort properties.
- Co-founder
- Acquired
- Enterprise deployments
Growth-stage product engineering
Joined as an early engineer on a product that raised a $47M Series A, building platform and data systems that scaled with the company's growth.
- Early-stage scaling
- Data platform
- Series A growth
Services
Practical services that help you build, improve, and scale.
Business Solutions
Operational systems for businesses where spreadsheets, email, and disconnected tools are starting to strain.
Workflow Automation
Turn manual business processes into repeatable systems.
Systems Integration
Connect disconnected tools and eliminate duplicate work.
Custom Software
Build software around the way your business actually works.
AI Consulting
Practical AI consulting in Carson City and Northern Nevada for products, workflows, and operations.
Technical Leadership
Senior engineering leadership for architecture, delivery, team execution, and technical decisions.
Fractional CTO
Engineering leadership without a full-time executive hire.
Software Architecture
Design systems that are scalable, maintainable, and reliable.
Technology Strategy
Align technology investments with business goals.
Start with one problem worth solving.
Tell me where work gets stuck and what you want to improve. We can use that as the starting point for a focused conversation about fit, priorities, and a practical next step.