Dallas Crilley
now shipping Foreman Dallas, TX CT · 09:56:34
Applied AI Engineer Business Systems Engineer AI Solutions Architect Forward Deployed Engineer

I build applied-AI workflows, internal tools, and business systems that make revenue and operations actually run.

Teams buying AI still hit the same bottleneck: CRM, billing, reporting, delivery, and operator workflow layers that do not line up cleanly. I work inside the stack a business already runs, map how the process actually works, add agents where they create real leverage, and ship the result back as a reliable system with evals, review gates, and clear operator control.

Jun 25 Stricter eval gate on CoHost transcriptsCoHost AI Studio
Jun 21 Retry-queue backoff in ThroughlineThroughline
focus Applied AI · internal tools · business systems
based Dallas, TX · CTJun 2026

The useful seam in this market is AI plus systems ownership.

A lot of teams can find either an AI engineer who has never owned a CRM or billing workflow, or an operations generalist who has never shipped evaluated agent systems into production.

I sit between those lanes. Ten-plus years owning lead-to-cash, CRM, billing, and reporting systems is the base layer; applied AI, internal tools, evals, and human review are the newer layer on top.

That combination is a strong fit for Dallas-Fort Worth hiring right now: companies want practical AI delivery inside existing business systems, not research projects floating above them.

10+yrs
Owning production systems across CRM, billing, data, and ops.
202
Accounts covered by one Meter reconciliation audit, catching billing-row identity drift before the next cycle.
5
AI and agent systems with eval harnesses or human-in-the-loop review.

Selected systems

Shipped systems, not summaries. Each routes to a case study.

CoHost AI Studio

In progress
Flagship · AI automation

Nothing publishes until it clears the gate.

An automated post-production pipeline with AI-assisted gating before anything publishes.

PythonTypeScripteval harnesshuman-in-the-loop
20+pipeline steps
11quality metrics
AIgated publish
Read the case study

Throughline

Shipped
Anchor · Revenue systems backbone

One connector interface, every system in sync.

A multi-connector ETL platform syncing QuickBooks, Copper, Basecamp, and PandaDoc to PostgreSQL and Airtable behind a shared connector interface.

PythonPostgreSQLOAuth 2.0retry queues
Open case study

Manifest

Shipped
Anchor · CRM data pipeline

Every record accounted for on the way into one identity layer.

A PostgreSQL-staged pipeline that ingests Airtable records and resolves them into a deduplicated master-contact identity layer with reconciliation reporting.

PythonPostgreSQLAirtableSQL views
Open case study

Meter

Billing automation

Intermedia usage, billed straight into ConnectWise.

Full-stack billing automation syncing Intermedia usage data into ConnectWise agreements.

Read the case study
PythonConnectWiseIntermedia
Shipped

EnrichCRM

Applied AI enrichment

CSV in, enriched contacts out, at a fraction of the cost.

A contact-enrichment pipeline: a Brave + Gemini CLI and an OpenAI + Firecrawl web UI, with per-contact cost tracking.

Read the case study
TypeScriptNext.jsGeminiOpenAI
Shipped

Synapse

Client intelligence system

Where scattered business data becomes client intelligence.

A Postgres-backed client-intelligence system that syncs Airtable records, normalizes identity fields, and surfaces a unified client view with source lineage.

Read the case study
TypeScriptPostgreSQLCLI
In progress

Foreman

AI tooling

Keeps your AI coding sessions alive and restarts the ones that hang.

A terminal session supervisor for AI coding assistants.

Read the case study
TypeScriptBuntmuxCLI
Live

Tether

Internal tools

Run your dev ops from your phone.

A macOS daemon and CLI for mobile-first development ops.

Read the case study
SwiftmacOSCLI
In progress

Live demos

All demos

Six interactive proofs you can open and try — each runs on a real server-side backend. Synthetic sample data, honest labels, no login.

Recent work

Updated continuously

Architecture writing

All posts

How I work

What I own

The business-critical layer between AI and operations: CRM, billing, reporting, internal tools, agent retrieval quality, eval gates, observability, and the workflow logic operators actually depend on.

What I optimize for

Small surface, strong contracts, practical automation, and a clean handoff to the operators who run the process after the engineering work ships.

Where I am strongest

When the problem is manual, fragile, or hard to trust; when the data crosses systems that disagree; or when an AI workflow needs a quality bar, review layer, and operational owner.

Where I am not the right fit

Pure ML research, ground-up infrastructure or Kubernetes platform work, or anything that requires me to also own visual design. I will tell you when something is a stretch rather than overstate the fit.

Always glad to compare notes with people building applied-AI workflows, internal tools, and the business systems they run on. Reach out any time.