Practical AI workflow automation for Anchorage businesses. Honest pricing. Real work shipped. No enterprise theatre. No surveillance defaults.
Tell me what your business does. I'll spend 15 focused minutes identifying three workflows AI could automate, what each would save you per week, and which one to do first. You get a one-page brief delivered by email. No sales pitch, no commitment.
If the brief is useful, we can talk about building it. If it isn't, you've lost nothing — and you know more about your operation than you did this morning.
Builder-rate pricing. Real work. If something will take longer than I quoted, I tell you up front. If a project is outside my range, I tell you that too.
Live builds, active research, and long-range experiments — all sovereign, most open source.
If a project will take longer than quoted, I tell you. If it's outside my range, I refer you out. No scope creep, no surprises.
Local-first by default. No data sales. No third-party trackers on what we build. Operator sovereignty is not a feature — it's the architecture.
I don't ship clever code that breaks in a month. Slow, deliberate, lasting work. Wu wei at the systems layer.
Every project ends with documentation you can use without me. No silent lock-in. No dependency traps.
I'm a self-taught AI systems architect from Anchorage, Alaska. I run ZPAK (Zen Peace AK) — a one-person studio building AI workflow automation, prompt engineering tools, and intelligence infrastructure for people who want to use AI on their own terms.
I don't have a CS degree. I don't have certifications. What I have is years of iterative, hands-on building — and an obsession with making AI work for people instead of extracting from them.
That honesty is the offer. If you want a polished agency with a slide deck and offshore engineers, I'm not your person. If you want practical work shipped quickly at builder-rate pricing — by someone who will tell you when something is outside his depth — that's exactly what this is.
Anchorage, Alaska — remote-friendly
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AI workflow builds, prompt engineering, technical writing, strategy sessions. Builder-rate only.
7 active projects spanning AI infrastructure, autonomous agents, and creative tooling — all building in public.
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Whether you want the free audit, a quote, or just to ask whether AI fits your operation — fill this in and I'll respond within 48 hours from Anchorage.