We help businesses figure out where AI actually fits — then we build it. Founder-led, with 20 years of shipping behind it. MBA + technical. An adult in the room instead of AI hype.
Two weeks of discovery. You walk away with a ranked list of concrete AI opportunities for your business, ROI estimates, and a clear place to start. Take the roadmap and run — or we keep going together.
Custom AI agents and integrations shipped fast. Coaching agents, call auditors, internal tools, workflow automations. Real production code, not a POC you throw away.
Ongoing thinking partner for founders and operators figuring out where AI fits in their business. Monthly retainer. I bring the taste, you bring the context.
A multi-session AI agent voice-trained on a proprietary methodology. Walks users through a structured workflow, flags inconsistencies across their answers, and escalates to a human expert when the user gets stuck. Shipped solo in ~6 weeks.
Listens to completed customer service calls, compares to the booking system, and flags "the agent agreed to a Tuesday appointment but never booked anything." Learning loops over revenue that's quietly leaking.
My own opinionated stack for shipping AI-powered apps fast — scaffolding, hooks, memory, cost tracking, production-readiness baked in. What lets me go from prompt to client-facing app in weeks, not quarters.
Crawls target companies' career pages daily, matches new jobs against my resume with an AI fit score, and tailors a customized resume to each opening. Because I'd rather write code once than do the same task three times.
Inlet Consulting is led by Jimmy Rhoades — two decades in the trenches of software, an MBA on top of a technical undergrad, and the specific taste that only comes from having watched a lot of projects succeed and a lot of projects fail.
An AI power user, not an AI hype merchant. We use the new tools (Claude, agents, Claude Code) every day to ship more in a week than most teams ship in a quarter. What we bring that the tools can't: taste. Knowing what good looks like, what to build, what not to build, and when the easy answer is wrong.
The adult in the room. We've seen enough failed projects to spot the soft spots early. We tell you what's realistic instead of saying yes to everything. We'd rather scope a project down and ship it than scope it up and never finish.
Why "Inlet"? An inlet is the way in. That's our job — to be your way into AI. A short discovery. A concrete plan. A build if you want one. Nothing fancy about the name; everything serious about the work.