I’m Cal Mitchell, an AI and data consultant. My team helps digital leaders capture the potential of AI by making their organizations more innovative and efficient, while avoiding wasted spend on IT projects that fail to deliver.
AI Adoption Plan
- Research and publish: My team experiments, conducts interviews, and tests emerging technologies in our own stack. This work builds the background knowledge we use to identify AI and data projects that reliably deliver value.
- Identify business objectives: AI projects fail when they are not tied to measurable business goals. The first step in any engagement is to define specific KPIs and confirm they can be tracked accurately.
- Data systems audit: In most AI projects, about 80% of the effort is data engineering. We start with the current state of your data systems, then work backward to determine which AI projects can realistically begin delivering value within a few months.
- Beyond advice: We also provide "tiger team" implementation services to launch scalable minimum viable products (MVPs) quickly, while you hire or realign your internal team
Experience & Track Record
- Founder of SQLpipe, an open-source data movement tool and a profitable data engineering consultancy
- Technical speaker at events including Stripe's EU HQ in Dublin and the Oxford Data Meetup.
- Designed, trained, and deployed AI workflows for both professional use cases and personal projects, such as predicting basketball games.
- Extensive experience with databases, data lakes, AI compute platforms, cloud hyperscalers, and hybrid enterprise environments
Beyond Work
I love Salsa dancing, surfing, and running!