AI operations & custom systems
ArkNovah is a one-operator consultancy. I embed in your business, automate the work that slows your team down, and build the systems nobody sells off the shelf — with AI where it delivers real value, not where it makes a demo.
Based in Durango, Colorado. Working with teams anywhere in the US.
Most businesses run on scattered pieces.
I connect them.
Then I make them run, in order, without me.
Where I have permission, I name the client. The rest stay confidential; the work is real either way.
Product company, pilot project
I trained the detection and landmark models behind a tool that measures a customer's fit from a single phone photo and recommends a size. Every model version is scored against a hand-measured test set before it can ship.
Mountain Capital Partners
On the engineering team behind a ski-resort group's operations platform, I built the AI review system that checks every change before it ships, with several models cross-checking each other.
Mountain Capital Partners and my own systems
I connect assistants like Claude to a business's live data and tools, with each person's permissions enforced and nothing new to log into. Staff ask questions and take actions where the work already lives.
Mapped where AI pays for itself across the business, from customer service to accounting data, scoped each workflow, and started building with the one aimed at product returns.
Vendor order confirmations, PDFs included, are read by AI and logged as clean, de-duplicated rows, with lead times and monthly spend tracked alongside. No copy-paste.
One tap texts every customer their order link. Orders, payments, meal counts and the shopping list fill themselves in, and the menu starts as an AI draft.
Turns the videos a company already has into captioned vertical shorts in its own brand voice, with a person approving every clip before it goes anywhere.
Bid sheets, job sheets, change orders and drill logs rebuilt as linked workbooks, so pricing flows from the bid through to billing without re-keying.
Set up actual cost per job code and budget-against-actual reporting for a contractor's books, delivered as a working guide the team can follow.
Where I try things before a client pays for them.
My own time, mileage, expenses and invoicing live in a system an AI assistant can read and update, with a review queue for anything it proposes and an iPhone app behind Face ID.
The same multi-model review, running entirely against a model server on my own hardware, so nothing leaves the machine.
Claude and Codex each manage a small real-money portfolio against a plain rule-based control, every trade logged and each agent walled off at the database. A standing test of whether the AI beats the simple rule.
Pre-registered, out-of-sample tests of popular open-source AI trading agents, including a planted-signal check. Most added nothing, which is exactly what testing is for.
Two simulators, one over years of minute data and one replaying the full order book, run under a written research protocol with every finding logged.
Pulls live small multifamily listings every morning and scores each one on cap rate, cash-on-cash return and financing.
A memory-drawing game in SwiftUI with daily, endless and head-to-head modes.
Mountain terrain, particle formations and an ark modelled in Blender, all rendering live in your browser and pausing when they're off screen.
Open the thing up.
Build the part nobody sells.
Close it, document it, hand it over.
The plan and the build stay connected because the same person does both.
Figure out where AI actually pays for itself in your business, then sequence the work so it ships.
Connect the tools you already use, remove the manual handoffs, and give the hours back.
Web apps, dashboards, portals, and internal tools built around how your business actually runs.
A senior technical operator on call — architecture, vendor decisions, and hands-on implementation.
The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it. I start with the business problem, pick tools that fit, and stay until the system runs without me.
No AI theater. No platform agenda. No handoff gap between the plan and the working software.
I work inside your tools, your meetings, and your existing operations.
The repetitive work consuming your team's time gets systemized first.
Custom tools where nothing off the shelf fits the job.
Documentation and training, so the system runs without me.
Tell me what's slowing you down — a workflow, a report, a system that should exist. I read and answer everything directly.
noahpritchard@arknovah.com