Dragoman's Journey Josef Stephens · Santa Rosa, California

Choose your route

Two routes, one guide

A kids' cooking class and a bank's core systems need the same thing from AI: a guide who knows the ground and won't let anything reach your customers until a person has checked the proof. Pick your route. I'll take it from here.

ROUTE 01 · THE LOCAL ROUTE AI that works the first day For small businesses and nonprofits in Sonoma County. Bring the phone videos, the binder of lessons or the chore that eats your Tuesdays. I'll turn it into reels, apps and workflows that run, with the logs to prove it. BEGINS WITH The Blueprint · $1,500 · two weeks · credited in full Take the Local Route → ROUTE 02 · THE MAINFRAME ROUTE Proof the new system behaves like the old one. For banks, insurers and agencies moving COBOL with AI. A harness that runs the old and new systems over your own files and compares what they write, plus a dossier your auditors can rerun before anything touches production. BEGINS WITH The Survey · one program family · fixed fee · credited in full Take the Mainframe Route →

Same guide, different terrain

THE PIECE LOCAL ROUTE MAINFRAME ROUTE
Who it’s forSmall businesses and nonprofitsBanks, credit unions, insurers, agencies
First stepThe Blueprint · two weeks · $1,500The Survey · three weeks · fixed fee
What gets builtReels, program apps, workflowsAn equivalence harness, then the migration
The proofReceipts from real runsExhibits, down to the bytes
The gateA person approves before customers see itA named person signs before production
Every monthA one-page Proof PageThe Equivalence Dossier, updated

The rules I travel by

  1. i.A person stands at every gate.Nothing reaches a customer or a production system on a machine's say-so.
  2. ii.The proof reruns without me.The tests and the harness stay with you, so you can check my work when I'm not in the room.
  3. iii.The first step is small, fixed and fully credited.If the honest answer is that you don't need me, that's the answer you get.
  4. iv.What's yours stays yours.Your data stays in your own accounts, and the contract says so.