Amir H. Jalali
AI Strategy Consultant
What I Do
Turning AI ambition into working systems.
With over 18 years in data engineering and AI strategy, my work spans the shift from traditional analytics to generative AI: designing LLM solutions, building data infrastructure, and developing the roadmaps that connect them to real outcomes.
AI Strategy
Pragmatic roadmaps for generative AI adoption, from opportunity assessment through enterprise-wide rollout.
Agentic Systems
RAG pipelines, agent architectures, and the evals and cost discipline that keep them reliable and affordable in production.
Data Engineering & Architecture
Data infrastructure that powers intelligent systems. Data warehousing, real-time pipelines, and analytics platforms at scale.
Product & Technical Leadership
The space between technical capability and business value. Turning AI research into shipped products with measurable impact.
Latest Thoughts
Writing on AI, engineering, and building.
May 29, 2026 · 4 min read
SPEND TOKENS ONCE
The smartest way to use AI is not to burn the most tokens. It is to spend them once building the cheap thing that does the work forever.
May 16, 2026 · 4 min read
THE SKILL LAYER
I deleted an AI feature from my site and replaced it with a markdown skill. The model is migrating from inside products to inside agents.
May 16, 2026 · 7 min read
THE RITUAL IS THE ARCHITECTURE
Between a single prompt and a fully autonomous agent there is a third shape. A daily ritual with ten tasks, a durable file-based archive, a human checkpoint once a day. After one hundred and twenty-two days, the structure that holds the practice together is not the model; it is the discipline.