AI Systems Architect

EricTetzlaff

Agentic Workflow Designer · Document Intelligence Engineer · Forensic AI Systems

I build production-grade AI systems that solve problems that actually matter — under real operational and legal pressure, for real clients.

What I've built.

Not proofs of concept. Not demos. Production systems running under real operational and legal pressure.

01 MVP Launch — May 2026
BoardPath
Governance Document Intelligence Platform

Converts fragmented HOA and condominium governing documents into citation-grounded, meeting-ready answers. Three-stage OCR pipeline, hierarchical document weighting, and a proprietary confidence scoring algorithm that shows exactly how every answer was derived — so a board member who doesn't trust AI can see the work.

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LlamaParse MistralAI Google Vision Hierarchy Weighting TC™ 3-Stage OCR Pipeline Confidence Engine
02 In Production
Auris Intelligence
Forensic Legal Document Intelligence Platform

SHA-256 chain-of-custody ingestion across a 110,000+ document corpus spanning PDFs, spreadsheets, Outlook email, and SMS corpora. Context-window-aware subagent scaffolding. AI-orchestrated case analysis mapped to specific legal complaint counts. In active production use by a law firm in civil litigation defense.

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PDF/DOCX XLSX/CSV MSG Email SMS/iOS SHA-256 Manifest Subagent Scaffold Claude Opus Coordinator 110K+ doc corpus Attorney-ready output
03 Deployed 2022–2025
P2P Automation Stack
AI-Powered Operations Workflow System

A compounding stack of workflow automations — format-agnostic invoice ingestion with direct API integration, license plate recognition for parking enforcement, governing document Q&A with hallucination guardrails, and a voice-matched correspondence assistant trained on 40,000+ personal documents — that collectively reduced operating overhead by 41%.

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Invoice OCR Plate Vision Doc Q&A Voice Companion 41% Overhead ↓ Compounding workflow automation stack

How I build.

I build systems that solve real problems under real pressure. Not prototypes. Not demos for the sake of demos. The things I've built have been used by law firms in active litigation and are weeks away from public product launch. Real pressure produces real design decisions.

My approach starts with the problem, not the technology. I spend more time understanding what's actually broken — and why — than I do selecting tools. The architecture follows from the problem definition. When you start with the tool, you end up bending the problem to fit it. That's how you get AI systems that look impressive in demos and fail in production.

I design for reliability, transparency, and human oversight. AI systems that don't tell you when they're uncertain, don't cite their sources, and don't keep humans in the loop where it matters aren't useful — they're liability. Every system I build reflects that conviction.

We're at an inflection point for this technology that is comparable in scope to the Industrial Revolution. The builders who matter in this moment aren't the ones who can predict exactly where it goes. They're the ones who understand the underlying mechanics deeply, build things that actually work, and keep building. That's the work.

  • Transparency first
    Every output should show its work. Confidence without citation is just a confident guess. I build scoring and attribution layers into answer systems so users can evaluate, not just accept.
  • Context economy
    Token costs and context window limits are real architectural constraints, not implementation details. I design subagent scaffolds specifically to keep expensive work out of coordinator context.
  • Humans stay in the loop
    Automation without human oversight at the right decision points isn't efficiency — it's risk transfer. I design human-in-the-loop checkpoints deliberately, not as an afterthought.
  • Domain knowledge is a design input
    The systems I've built encode real domain expertise — forensic accounting disambiguation, legal document hierarchy, governing authority rank. That knowledge shapes architecture decisions, not just prompts.

Design decisions, written down.

Short-form posts on specific architectural choices from real builds. How I think, not just what I shipped.

Let's talk about
what you're building.

Open to full-time, contract, and fractional engagements across AI systems architecture, agentic workflow design, and document intelligence. Remote-first. Available for hybrid with reasonable travel.

Cleveland, OH  ·  Remote-first  ·  Available now