$ whoami
I'm Joe. I build the tools your business runs on.
I'm what you get when you skip the agency, skip the discovery sprint, and just hire the person who's going to build your thing. Forward Deployed Engineer — I show up where the work is, figure out what's broken, and leave it running.
This website runs on the same kind of stack I build for clients. It has to keep working; it's my storefront.
Why I do this
I spent years watching small businesses get sold "AI solutions" by people who'd never run a business. Strategy decks. Retainers. "Alignment sessions." Six weeks in, the client has a PowerPoint and no working software.
I started JTS because I wanted to build the thing I wish existed when I needed help running my own operation. No deck. No theater. Just someone who knows what they're doing, building the fix and leaving it running.
The proof
Here's what I run for myself right now:
- One orchestrator running 40+ scheduled automations — daily briefings, a steward agent per project, health watchdogs, weekly executive reviews
- Three active client builds: a rental-turnover agent (live), an artist website with its own site agent (live), and a salon app (TestFlight beta)
- Orchestration, memory and state on my own machine; the models mostly run on Ollama Cloud, chosen deliberately
I don't read about this stuff. I run it in production every day.
Who I am
I'm not a consultant. I'm not an agency. I'm a builder who deploys forward.
My background is in large-scale operations — autonomous vehicles, robotics, fleet operations. I learned to make complex systems work in the real world, not just in a lab. Now I bring that to small businesses that need someone who can actually ship.
I'm also a lifelong skater, a golfer who doesn't take himself seriously, and someone who believes the best tools are the ones you forget about because they just work.