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Founder · Applied AI Leader

I redesign service firms around how AI actually changes the work, then ship the systems.

Director-altitude org design paired with production AI build and workforce training, from one operator. Director-level Technical Program Manager at eBay before AI was production-ready. Founder of Baxie. Fractional Head of AI Transformation. Applied AI Leader. Not an advisor. Not an automation shop.

Edwin Guzman, founder of Guzman Applied Technologies, Fractional Head of AI Transformation
Edwin Guzman · Founder, GAT

ex-eBay TPM · Mechanical Engineering · Founder of Baxie

The profile

Most AI help is one altitude or the other. This profile is both at once.

You want the board to see results, not slides. A peer running AI strategy, not a vendor you babysit. Your team and your agents working from one source so decisions land in days, not weeks. That's Director-altitude work. Shipping the systems is engineering work. Most fractional AI help in 2026 picks one. This profile compounds Director-altitude program execution at eBay, named frameworks with origins cited, and patterns shipped in production today.

TPM discipline

TPM discipline, applied to AI portfolios

Director and VP-level engineering programs at eBay before AI was production-ready. I map AI dependencies the way I mapped engineering programs: owners, integration points, risk, downstream impact. The layer most AI consultants skip.

Named frameworks

Named frameworks, sourced and applied

Three-Horizon AI portfolio (McKinsey, 1999). Leadership-Lab-Crowd adoption (Ethan Mollick, Wharton, May 2025). Agentic pattern catalog: ReAct, tool-using, multi-step, sub-agents, self-correction. Origins cited so your CFO can quote the source and your board can audit the logic.

Production patterns

Patterns I ship in production today

Multi-agent orchestration with stall detection, retries, lease-based processing. Multi-model routing tuned for cost and latency. Closed-loop learning that sharpens every job. Vision pipelines turning PDFs and site images into typed scope data. Eval suites in Braintrust per environment. Running in Baxie production.

The wedge · One sentence

Director-altitude program execution, named frameworks with origins cited, and patterns shipped in production today.

Org redesign and the build crew, from one operator. Not a deck. Not a referral.

The path

The path: eBay program execution, Mechanical Engineering, ships AI today.

Director-level Technical Program Manager on eBay's Product Strategy and Operations team. Mechanical Engineering foundation from SFSU. Builder hands that now run a production AI stack.

eBay TPM

Director and VP-level program execution at eBay

Technical Program Manager on Product Strategy and Operations. Mapped engineering program dependencies across owners, integration points, risk, downstream impact. The discipline that translates directly to AI portfolio rollouts that land.

Mech Eng foundation

Mechanical Engineering from SFSU

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering. Systems thinking, tolerance analysis, root-cause discipline. Same posture I bring to AI systems that have to behave in production.

Ships AI today

Production AI stack, running now

Baxie in paid beta. Three engineers' worth of work shipped by one founder on a shared knowledge base and a production AI stack. The proof is current, not historical.

How we work

What I'll bet on: engagement shapes I take.

Fractional Head of AI Transformation work. Org redesign, production AI build, workforce training, from one operator. The service ladder runs from AI Portfolio Allocation Reviews through shared-knowledge-base buildouts, scoped production builds, training, and AI System Continuity as the maintenance retainer.

AI Portfolio Allocation Review

What to fund, what to kill, what to show the board

Three-Horizon AI portfolio allocation across H1 efficiency, H2 capability, H3 transformation. What to fund this quarter, what to kill, what your board needs to see.

Shared knowledge base buildout

The layer your team and your AI both work from

AI-ready knowledge bases modeled on edwin-os. Versioned. Searchable. Both your team and your AI read from it. Sold as a scoped build, not a deck.

Scoped production build

Scoped AI builds

Multi-agent orchestration, multi-model routing, closed-loop learning, vision pipelines, eval suites. Patterns I run in Baxie production, applied to your problem.

The portfolio

Two businesses, one shared knowledge base.

Same architecture I sell to clients. The shared knowledge base is the substrate. The work compounds because the context is one layer.

Baxie

Baxie

AI-native Margin OS for residential general contractors. Paid beta. Three engineers' worth of work, shipped by one founder running off a shared knowledge base and a production AI stack.

Guzman Applied Technologies

Guzman Applied Technologies

Fractional Head of AI Transformation engagements for operators and founders. Org redesign, production AI build, workforce training, from one operator.

The rules

Four rules I won't break.

Engagements that violate these don't work. So I don't take them.

Diagnostic before retainer

I won't take a retainer from a company that hasn't tried one AI use case.

If you haven't shipped a pilot, the right work is the AI-Native Org Audit, not a 6-month retainer. The retainer pays off when there is real production behavior to redesign around. Otherwise we are designing in a vacuum.

Eat my own cooking

I won't ship a build I wouldn't run in my own production.

Every pattern I sell is one I run in Baxie today. Multi-agent orchestration, multi-model routing, vision pipelines, closed-loop learning, the shared knowledge base. If it hasn't earned its place in my stack, it doesn't earn a place in yours.

No vendor kickbacks

I won't lock you into vendors I get paid by.

Model-agnostic and tool-agnostic. I make money from your engagement. No referral fees, no reseller margins, no vendor partnerships. The stack we pick fits your work.

Team owns the work at handoff

The team owns the eval suite at handoff, or I won't ship.

Every engagement ends with your team running the eval suite, playbook, and on-call. Not a permanent dependency. If your team can't take it after handoff, the engagement isn't done.

Let's talk

If the profile fits, let's talk.

Book the call. 30 minutes. I'll tell you in the first conversation whether I'm the right operator for what you're trying to ship.