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Purgatory River Consulting · AI consulting on the I‑25 corridor

World‑class AI experience, working on Main Street.

I spent fifteen years building AI and data systems for the World Bank, Fannie Mae, Accenture, and NVIDIA — the company whose chips most modern AI runs on. I live in Trinidad now, and I work with the businesses and offices that keep these communities running. My job isn’t to sell you software. It’s to help you get your time back.

What I actually do

Most small businesses don’t need an AI strategy. They need fewer hours spent on the parts of the work that aren’t the work.

I’m not here to sell you a subscription or wire you into a platform. I sit down with you, learn how you actually run things, and put the parts of this technology that earn their keep to work in your business. The software is a means to an end. The end looks like this:

i An afternoon back in your week The quoting, scheduling, and paperwork that quietly eats Tuesdays.
ii Fewer mistakes in the boring parts Intake forms, invoicing, recordkeeping — the places small errors get expensive.
iii Faster turnaround for customers Quotes out the same day. Calls returned. Documents drafted while you’re still in the meeting.
iv A team that actually uses the tools Training that sticks, in plain language, with someone to call after.

Who I work with

Small businesses

Shops, clinics, ranches, restaurants, contractors.

You don’t need a chatbot. You need fewer hours on the parts of the work that aren’t the work — quoting, scheduling, customer notes, the paperwork the state keeps adding.

  • Modern AI tools, set up properly, with sensible guardrails
  • Trained on your forms, your protocols, your customers
  • Plain-language training for you and your staff — and a number to call after
Professional offices

Law, accounting, real estate, medical.

You have process, billable time, and exposure. The risk is using AI badly more than not using it at all. I help you adopt the parts that earn their keep and skip the rest.

  • Document review, intake, summarization, drafting
  • Custom assistants built around your matters and your style
  • Sensible policies on what gets sent to which vendor

How we’d work together

First

A conversation

About an hour, at your place of business or over coffee. I learn how you actually run things. No pitch, no obligation, no charge. If I can’t help, I’ll tell you.

Then

A small first project

Something concrete and finishable — one workflow, a few weeks, a price we agree on up front that fits your business. I’d rather work with you where you are than not work with you at all.

After

Whatever makes sense

Maybe another project. Maybe a monthly arrangement so I’m on call when something new comes up. Maybe you’ve got what you need and we shake hands. All three are fine.

About

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I spent about fifteen years as a senior data scientist before moving back to Colorado. Most recently I was at NVIDIA, the company whose chips most modern AI runs on. I worked on the team that builds the software other AI companies and large enterprises use to make their own machine learning faster — including helping a major national retailer adapt one of their core data workflows to it.

Before that I worked at Accenture doing data science for an NFL team, international restaurant chains, retailers, and pharmaceutical companies. I was awarded three U.S. patents in machine learning for that work. Earlier I was at Fannie Mae modeling mortgage default risk in the Office of the Chief Economist, and at the World Bank, where I designed a low-cost monitoring tool for the Government of Sudan and worked on tuberculosis lab projects in East Africa.

The point of the résumé isn’t the names. The point is that I’ve built useful things for organizations with enormous budgets and for ministries that had almost none. I know how these systems work, where they break, and what they’re actually good for.

I live in Trinidad because I want to. I work with small businesses and professional offices on the I‑25 corridor because the people running them deserve the same quality of help that Fortune 500 companies pay a lot of money for — and because I think there’s a real story to be told about what this technology can do for places that the big consultancies are never going to visit.

That’s what I do.

Quick receipts
  • NVIDIA Senior data scientist, 5 years. Worked on the GPU machine-learning software stack used across the industry; presented at GTC, the company’s flagship developer conference.
  • Accenture Data Science Research Associate Principal. NFL team, global restaurant chains, retail, pharma. Three U.S. patents in machine learning.
  • Fannie Mae Market analyst, Office of the Chief Economist. Default risk modeling for federal mortgage modification programs.
  • World Bank East Africa tuberculosis lab project; low-cost monitoring & evaluation tool for the Government of Sudan; represented the Bank at the Global Forum for Health Research in Havana.
  • Earnest Credit default modeling with non-traditional methods; NLP and process automation. Acquired by Navient.
  • Education M.A., Economics.

Where I work

Service area

I cover the I‑25 corridor from the Spanish Peaks down to Santa Fe. I’ll drive to you for the first conversation; later work can be in person or remote, whichever suits.

I’m based in Trinidad — a town that’s been carefully rebuilding itself, and a good place from which to do honest work for the businesses keeping these communities running.

Trinidad · Walsenburg · Raton · Cimarrón · Las Vegas · Santa Fe

Get in touch

The first conversation is free, and I mean it — if I can’t help, I’ll tell you that. Call, email, or stop by. I’ll usually get back to you the same day.