Business direction
Client strategy, engagement scoping, and the final call on every project Sawfwair takes on.
The team
One person. Every department.
Sawfwair is a single-person studio. AI-assisted tooling, zero overhead, and deep expertise mean you get principal-level work without funding someone else's org chart.
Org chart
Every seat filled. Same person.
A typical agency staffs these roles across ten to twenty people. Sawfwair covers them with one expert and AI tooling that actually works.
Technical strategy
Architecture decisions, stack choices, and system design rooted in what teams can actually sustain.
Delivery
Every line of production code, every code review, every deploy. No handoff chain.
Product direction
Roadmaps, prioritization, and the discipline to cut scope that does not earn its complexity.
Interface systems
UI, component libraries, and visual design for products people actually want to use.
Infrastructure
CI/CD, edge deployment, containers, observability, and cost control from day one.
Data engineering
Pipelines, schemas, analytics, and data models that stay clean under growth.
AI systems
Agentic workflows, LLM integration, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted product delivery.
Nearly 25 years
Research. Production. Shipping.
The roles on this page are not aspirational. They describe work already done — across DoD research labs, Hollywood studios, game teams, enterprise software, and applied AI.
Chief Technology Officer
Enginable- Production agentic systems using LLMs across enterprise automation
- Intelligent spatial chatbot for trip intelligence at LaGuardia and Newark airports
- Co-led Gerent AI & Data practice through successful acquisition by Telus Digital
Director of Modeling & Simulation / Supervising Computer Scientist
USC Institute for Creative Technologies- Directed multi-million dollar DoD research portfolio across AI agents and synthetic environments
- 16 peer-reviewed papers; 312+ citations, h-index 8, two Best Paper Awards
- Established Gaussian Splatting and Transformer-based research funding in 2022
- Autonomous drone research; deep familiarity with DoD acquisition and programs of record
Vice President, Gaming
SpectreVision- Creative Director and Writer for Transference, shipped on all platforms with Ubisoft
- Mobile games with 300K+ downloads; JoinDispatch received Apple's Game of the Day (June 2018)
Director of Software Development
Tangerine Global- Large-scale applications for MGM Resorts International, Rosewood, and others
- Custom Linux systems enabling full-scale IPTV deployment across major hospitality sites
Earlier
- Co-created and sold "7p/10e" to CBS as a pilot (2014 & 2015)
- Producer/Writer for nightly hour-long show on ION Network, reaching 90M homes (2007)
- BFA, Film & Television Production — New York University
The math
Your budget goes to the work. Not the org.
Most of what you pay an agency covers the agency itself. Sawfwair runs from a farm on Prince Edward Island with no commercial lease, no management layers, and no bench to keep warm.
Typical agency overhead
- Commercial office lease
- HR department
- Project managers
- Account managers
- Junior developer bench
- Management layers
- Sales team
- Recruitment pipeline
Sawfwair overhead
- A farm on Prince Edward Island
- A laptop
- AI-assisted tooling
- One expert with full context
Force multiplier
AI doesn't replace the expert. It removes the bottleneck.
Code generation, testing scaffolds, documentation drafts, research synthesis, design iteration — AI handles the volume work so the expert stays on the decisions that matter. One person with full context beats a team playing telephone.
Same thesis, different formats
Seminars Teach others to build with AI-assisted tooling
Library Templates, prompts, and workflows for AI-first builders
Client work Ship production systems at the pace AI enables
Architecture, AI systems, data engineering, product — one principal-level computer scientist, personally responsible for every system we ship.
CTO, Enginable USC Institute for Creative Technologies 312+ citations Two Best Paper Awards 187K+ units shipped NYU BFA
Work with Sawfwair
Skip the layers. Talk to the person who builds.
Whether you need architecture for a new product, sharper internal tools, or a senior technical perspective — the conversation starts with the same person who writes the code.
Next steps
- See what Sawfwair builds and how we work
- Join a seminar to build something with AI-assisted tooling
- Browse the library for templates, prompts, and workflows