I have been working in web technology since the early web, and since 2022 I have been studying AI every day through practical use. My work combines web development, research systems, historical analysis, AI evaluation, and content architecture. I help people organize complex information, repair broken workflows, build useful web systems, and understand how AI can help regular people accomplish more without becoming dependent on it.
I am now bringing this work out of the lab and returning to consulting.
I am an experienced web developer and web operations person (since 1994). I have worked in technology since the early web. I understand production, content systems, databases, workflows, hosting, debugging, publishing, automation, and the human side of technical work.
But I am not a neat little job-title creature.
I am a person you bring in when the system is confusing, the story is tangled, the data is messy, the website is old, the workflow is broken, the project needs structure, and nobody knows quite what to do next.
That is where I am useful.
What I Can Help With
I am available for consulting in areas such as:
- WordPress and custom PHP systems;
- website repair, cleanup, and modernization;
- database-backed content systems;
- AI-assisted research workflows;
- AI prompt and process design;
- historical or cultural research systems;
- content architecture;
- slideshow and presentation systems;
- technical writing;
- debugging strange web problems;
- turning messy ideas into structured documents;
- helping non-technical people use AI without losing the plot;
- helping technical people explain what they are actually building.
I am especially interested in working with people who are building real things, maintaining useful systems, preserving knowledge, documenting complex work, or trying to understand how AI can actually help them.
The Short Version
I have spent the last few years studying AI by using it seriously every day.
I have been testing how it reasons through original historical material, how it helps, how it flatters, how it fails, and how it can make regular people more capable.
At the same time, I have been building a large original research system around history, culture, inventors, artists, timing, and public memory.
Now I am making that work visible.
And I am available again.
Not as a generic “AI expert.”
Not as a social media personality.
Not as a crypto person.
Not as a corporate thought leader.
As myself:
A veteran web developer, systems thinker, researcher, and technical problem solver who has spent the last several years quietly testing the strangest and most powerful tool ordinary people have ever been handed.
I can be reached via gmail at mlrichard.
