Say what you have.
Three sentences: what you have, what you want it to answer, and what happens today when somebody needs that answer. That's enough to tell whether this is a fit.
A real person reads it and a real reply comes back, usually within a day or two. If the problem isn't a fit you get told that plainly, with a reason, which is more useful than a proposal nobody wanted.
Worth knowing up front: I'm not looking for employment. What's open is research collaboration and the occasional consulting engagement. The work I'm best at sits where industrial reality meets Applied Intelligence, which is a narrow room and a good one.
Before you write, it might save us both time to look at what has already shipped. Fourteen projects, live URLs, source where there is source, and the evidence for every number.
Questions that come up
- What kind of work do you take on?
- Research collaboration, and consulting on industrial systems, Applied Intelligence architecture and critical infrastructure. Concretely: making a large record answerable with its sources attached, reading telemetry that is already being logged, and building internal agent systems that run on hardware you control.
- What should I put in the first email?
- What you have, what you want it to answer, and what happens today when someone needs that answer. Three sentences is enough. If it isn't a fit, you get told that plainly instead of a proposal.
- Are you looking for a job?
- No. This is an independent practice. The right collaboration and the occasional consulting engagement are what's open.
- Do you work outside El Paso?
- Yes. Remote by default, across the United States. On-site work happens in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez, Las Cruces and the wider Paso del Norte region, and anywhere else worth the flight.