Doug Borg

Services

Start with the problem you have today

Most people start with the review. Everything has a fixed scope and price, agreed after the first call.

  • Production readiness review

    About 1 weekFixed feeMost requested

    A review of your code, hosting, data access and AI features by someone who has run production systems for a long time.

    • Findings ranked High, Medium or Low, with the evidence for each
    • Filed as issues in your tracker, ready to work
    • A short roadmap: fix before launch, or fix later
    • A call to walk through it together

  • Stabilize and ship

    1 to 3 weeksFixed scope

    The groundwork that lets you release without holding your breath.

    • Separate test and live environments, with safe sample data
    • Secrets out of the code and encrypted
    • Automatic checks and preview builds on every change
    • One-step release and rollback for web, backend and mobile
    • Tests for what costs you: logins, permissions, payments

  • AI feature cost and reliability

    1 to 2 weeks

    For apps that call ChatGPT, Claude or other models for their users.

    • Spending limits per user and per day
    • Checks on model output before it's saved or shown
    • No duplicate jobs, and bounded retries
    • Backup models and a way to measure output quality

  • Keep building with AI, safely

    About 1 weekAny AI coding tool

    Set up your repository so AI assistants follow your rules instead of guessing.

    • Instructions and guardrails the assistant reads on every task
    • Automatic checks for the mistakes assistants tend to make
    • A review step before every change merges
    • Built on harness-kit, my open-source toolkit

  • AI for your operations

    Discovery call, then scoped projects

    For businesses that aren't software companies: find the repetitive work AI can take over, and build it so it's checked and safe.

    • Map where the hours go: orders, purchasing, reconciliation, data entry
    • Connect AI assistants to the tools you already use: ERP, Shopify, QuickBooks, spreadsheets
    • Preview every change, with a person approving the ones that matter
    • Plain advice on where AI helps your business and where it doesn't

  • Fractional platform engineer

    Monthly

    Ongoing help without a full-time hire.

    • Review of risky changes before they go live
    • Help with releases and incidents
    • A monthly check on costs, security and dependencies
    • Coaching for you or your team on working with AI tools

what I won't do

I won't tell you to throw the app away and start over. You have something that works and people who use it. I keep your stack unless there's clear evidence it has to change, and I keep your history so nothing you built is lost.

I also won't hand you a 90-page report. Every finding is something you can act on, sorted by how much it could hurt you.