Automation and AI
for small businesses.

I build custom tools that eliminate manual work — the kind that costs you hours every week. 13 years of enterprise engineering, applied at a scale that actually fits your budget.

13+ Years Engineering
95% Manual Data Entry Cut
1 week → 1 min Recent Project
Brandon Smith

What I do

Process Automation

Scripts, pipelines, and integrations that replace manual, repetitive work. If your team copies data between systems by hand, that's the first thing I fix.

  • Data entry and transformation
  • Scheduled batch processing
  • Cross-system API integrations

Custom AI Solutions

Purpose-built AI tools — not off-the-shelf products. Document intelligence, extraction pipelines, and LLM integrations designed around your specific workflow.

  • Document OCR and data extraction
  • AI-assisted classification and validation
  • Custom LLM integrations

Reporting and Dashboards

Interactive dashboards connected to your live data. PowerBI builds, automated reporting pipelines, and migrations off legacy tools like Tableau.

  • PowerBI design and build
  • Automated report generation
  • Legacy report migration

Internal Tools

Custom web portals, scripts, and cloud-deployed utilities built around how your team actually works — documented and maintainable long after the engagement ends.

  • Internal web portals
  • Cloud deployments (AWS, Azure)
  • PowerShell and bash automation

Results

A sample of what this looks like in practice.

1 week → 1 minute

Rebuilt an engineering workflow tool at GeoEngineers. A task that previously took a week was reduced to under a minute.

1 month of manual data entry saved

Built an OCR pipeline using Azure Document Intelligence that automated soil data extraction, cutting manual entry by 95% and saving over a month of effort.

2 minutes → 1 second

Replaced a slow manual testing workflow at IncQuery with a single-click browser automation — a 120x improvement in turnaround time.

1 month of development time (of 4 months allotted), 4 years running

Automated configuration insertion from Excel specs at Fast Enterprises. Each annual release cycle spanned requirements, design, implementation, testing, and deployment — that automation freed up roughly a quarter of my allotted development time, every year, for four releases.

How it works

01

Discovery

A free 30-minute call to understand the problem. No pitch. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so.

02

Scoping

A written proposal with fixed scope, fixed price, and a clear timeline. No surprises mid-project. A focused automation script might run a few hundred dollars; a full AI pipeline or dashboard build is typically in the thousands.

03

Build and hand off

I build it, deploy it, document it, and walk your team through it. You own everything — no recurring dependency on me unless you want it.

I'm a solo operator, which means you work directly with the person building your solution — no hand-offs, no account managers, no surprises.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

2024 – 2026

GeoEngineers · Seattle, WA

Built AI-powered document processing pipelines, migrated reporting from Tableau to PowerBI, developed ERP web portals, and deployed AWS Lambda tools used across engineering teams.

C#.NET CorePythonPowerBIAzure AIAWS Lambda

Survey Director

2021 – 2023

IncQuery · Helsinki, Finland

Survey development for PE clients including Bain, BCG, and McKinsey. Built internal automation tools and reduced a logic testing process from one minute to one second.

JavaScriptPythonCSS

Senior Consultant

2020 – 2021

Nortal · Helsinki, Finland

Production support for Finland's Tax Administration GenTax platform. Resolved complex system issues and maintained support documentation.

Implementation Consultant

2013 – 2019

Fast Enterprises · Alaska and Helsinki

Designed and owned complex subsystems within GenTax deployments for Alaska's Department of Revenue and Finland's Tax Administration — ETL pipelines ingesting payroll data for 2.5M taxpayers, tax return systems spanning 50+ tax types across 100+ forms, and a data transfer process for 7M taxpayer records. In the final year, took on team lead responsibilities for a group of three developers.

VB.NETT-SQLXMLAPIsETL

B.Sc. Computer Engineering

Graduated with Honors

Montana State University · Bozeman, MT

What people say

"Brandon is the go-to person for what others have deemed impossible."
Client, Finnish Tax Administration
"I recommend Brandon wholeheartedly. It was a privilege working with him for two years. He helped innovate several of our processes leveraging AI."
Former Manager, GeoEngineers
"Before Brandon's solution, we were living in the stone age."
Colleague, IncQuery

Get in touch

Send me a message and describe the problem. I'll follow up within one business day.