Nycolai — AI For Good
Fractional AI Architect · Embedded · Sprint-Based

Your fractional AI architect.
Embedded by the sprint.

Cloud architecture, AI integration, and the Obelisk + Sage build — delivered in fixed-hour sprints, not vague retainers.

Senior cloud and AI leadership embedded in your business by the hour, not by the headcount. First I encode your past, present, and future into a living intelligence foundation — the Obelisk. Then I deploy the autonomous AI that runs on it — your Digital Sage — and hand it all to you. One person. Three sprint tiers. Fixed hours, fixed price.

🗿 Data Obelisk — What I build first 🔮 Digital Sage — What I awaken on top of it
Book a Discovery Call Or start with the $1,800 intro sprint →

Accepting 2 new clients · Mid-Atlantic & Remote

Prefer a written deliverable? See the $1,500 AI Workflow Audit →

10+
Years Cloud Arch
3
Cloud Platforms
5
AWS Certifications
10+
Client Engagements
Expertise built at
Foundation — Phase One

The Data Obelisk.

FUTURE PRESENT PAST

A living, growing dataset that encodes the complete context of your business — its history, its current operating reality, and the trajectory you're building toward. Not a document. Not a dashboard. A structured, queryable intelligence foundation that your Digital Sage runs on. Built once. Maintained continuously. Owned entirely by you.

Past — Institutional Memory
Decisions, Outcomes & Hard-Won Knowledge
Prior architecture decisions, incident post-mortems, vendor contract outcomes, compliance findings, technical debt. Everything your business ever learned — indexed, vectorized, permanently accessible.
Present — Live Operating Context
Goals, Workflows, Systems & Active Constraints
Current OKRs, cloud cost baselines, CI/CD state, vendor relationships, team structure, active compliance posture. The Sage knows what's happening right now — not last quarter.
Future — Strategic Trajectory
Roadmaps, Expansion Plans & Market Positioning
Hiring plans, product roadmaps, competitive positioning, AI adoption milestones. The Obelisk encodes where you're going so the Sage can reason forward — not just backward.
Living Knowledge
Updated continuously as your business evolves
Mission-Aligned
Structured around your actual business objectives
Temporally Complete
Past, present, future — all three layers indexed
Secure & Sovereign
Hosted in your cloud. Zero data leaves your perimeter.
Intelligence Layer — Phase Two

The Digital Sage.

The Sage is awakened by the Obelisk. It's not a chatbot — it's a composable, multi-model intelligence that can answer, reason, act, and orchestrate on behalf of your business. Queryable by your team. Autonomous by design. Governed by the rules you set.

🧠
Conversational RAG
Retrieval-augmented pipeline running over your full Obelisk. Ask any question about your business, history, or strategy — answers grounded in your data, not hallucinated from training weights.
🔗
MCP Tool Integration
Secure Model Context Protocol connections to Slack, Jira, Salesforce, AWS, GitHub. The Sage doesn't just answer. It acts: creates tickets, pulls metrics, flags anomalies, drafts communications.
⚡
AI Skills Library
Specialized reasoning modules — cost analysis, compliance checking, architecture review, vendor scoring, incident triage. Each skill configured to your business context, not a generic prompt.
🤖
Cowork Agents
Autonomous agents running multi-step workflows — weekly cost digests, drift detection, compliance reminders, onboarding sequences. Background workers, always aligned to your Obelisk.
digital-sage — live query
sage> What's our biggest cloud cost risk this quarter?
# Querying Obelisk: cost baseline · current spend · OKRs · past decisions...
✓ EC2 over-provisioning detected — $4,200/mo excess vs. Q3 Obelisk baseline
✓ Cross-linked: reserved instance commitment expires in 47 days
✓ Recommendation: right-size 12 instances + renew 3yr RI (saves $1,800/mo)
sage> Draft a Slack summary for the engineering lead.
# MCP → Slack connected · drafting from Obelisk context...
✓ Draft ready. Sending to #platform-eng with cost report attached.
sage> █
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Nycolai — Digital Sage

"The Obelisk remembers everything your business has ever learned. The Sage makes that knowledge work — continuously, autonomously, and always in service of where you're going next."

Jason Campbell · Principal, Nycolai LLC

Want the technical anatomy of how the Obelisk and Sage are built? See the Obelisk + Sage concept deep-dive →

The Engagement Model

Three Tiers. One Architect.

Every fractional engagement operates on three layers — all delivered by one person across sprint cadences. Senior expertise upfront, a purpose-built Sage as the deliverable, and ongoing monthly stewardship that keeps delivering value sprint after sprint.

01
◆ Tier One

Fractional IT Manager &
AI Integration Engineer

Embedded senior leadership without the salary or the layers. CTO-lite — owning cloud strategy, vendor relationships, security posture, and AI adoption roadmap. Real decisions made, not slide decks delivered.

  • Cloud architecture & cost governance (AWS · Azure · GCP)
  • CI/CD pipeline buildout & DevOps modernisation
  • AI/ML integration into existing business workflows
  • HIPAA · SOC 2 · compliance alignment
  • Team coaching and engineering standards
  • Vendor evaluation and contract negotiation
  • On-site sessions for audits, exec reviews & vendor meetings
02
◆ Tier Two — The Deliverable

Your Digital Sage,
Trained on Your Business

The engagement culminates in a custom agentic AI — your Digital Sage, built on your Obelisk. RAG-powered, MCP-connected, tuned to your ops, your goals, your stack.

  • Data Obelisk — Past, Present, Future layers built & indexed
  • Tuned RAG pipeline over your knowledge base
  • Secure MCP integration with your tools & data sources
  • Agentic workflows that automate decision logic
  • AI Skills Library configured to your business context
  • Monitoring, audit logs, and feedback loops
  • Handoff documentation + self-managed operations
03
◆ Tier Three — Evolve

Continuous Evolution
& Obelisk Stewardship

Your Sage gets smarter. Quarterly strategy reviews, model updates, new tool integrations, and Obelisk refresh keep your intelligence layer aligned with where your business is heading next — not where it was when we shipped.

  • Quarterly AI readiness & opportunity reviews
  • Obelisk refresh as business context evolves
  • Model upgrades and prompt re-tuning
  • New MCP tool integrations & knowledge base expansion
  • Performance monitoring, cost optimization, drift detection
  • Security posture re-assessment & compliance updates
  • Priority async advisory for your engineering team
The Process

From Discovery to Deployed Oracle.

A structured engagement that ends with a working system — not a presentation, not a roadmap. A live Obelisk, a live Sage, in your stack.

01 · DISCOVER
Business & Stack Audit
On-site or remote. Map cloud accounts, CI/CD pipelines, security posture, vendor contracts, and team structure. We identify every workflow, locate technical debt, and define the AI use cases with the highest ROI. You walk away with a written assessment — even if we go no further.
02 · CARVE
Obelisk Construction
Ingest institutional knowledge, live operating data, and strategic context into the Obelisk — Past, Present, and Future layers indexed and queryable. This becomes the permanent intelligence foundation your Sage runs on. Owned by you, hosted in your cloud.
03 · EMBED
Fractional Leadership
I join your team as fractional IT leader — weekly standups, async Slack availability, hands-on delivery. Architecture decisions, pipeline buildouts, cost optimization, and vendor negotiations run in parallel with the build. Your team gets mentorship; your leadership gets a trusted technical voice.
04 · AWAKEN
Sage Architecture & Deployment
Deploy the RAG pipeline over the Obelisk. Wire MCP tool integrations with your existing systems — Jira, Slack, Salesforce, AWS Cost Explorer. Configure AI Skills and Cowork Agents tuned to your business goals. Every component tested against your real workflows.
05 · HARDEN
Alignment & Security Review
Iterative feedback loops with your team on Sage outputs. Red-team the system for hallucinations, data leakage, and edge cases. Security review, audit logging, and compliance alignment (HIPAA, SOC 2) where required. The Sage earns trust before it ships.
06 · HAND OFF
Deploy, Transfer & Evolve
Full production deployment with infrastructure-as-code. Runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and team training so your people own it completely. Optional retainer for Obelisk updates, model upgrades, and new tool integrations as your business evolves. Knowledge transfer is the deliverable — not vendor lock-in.
nycolai-sage — deploy_oracle.py
$ python deploy_oracle.py --client acme-corp --env production
# Initializing Obelisk context — Past · Present · Future layers indexed...
✓ Obelisk online — 4,812 business embeddings · 3 temporal layers active
✓ MCP tools connected: [Slack, Jira, AWS Cost Explorer, Salesforce]
✓ AI Skills Library loaded — 6 business objectives aligned
✓ Audit trail → CloudWatch (HIPAA-compliant logging enabled)
# Obelisk encoded. Digital Sage is live. 24/7 availability. Zero additional headcount.
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Sprint Packages

Pick Your Entry Point.

One person, sprint-based engagements with fixed hours and fixed price. Start with a free discovery call, then choose the sprint cadence that matches the work. Every tier is delivered directly by the principal — no account managers, no handoffs.

Free
30-Min Discovery Call
$0
No pitch deck · No commitment
◆ Where every engagement starts
  • 30-minute call directly with Jason
  • You describe the friction or the goal
  • I describe what an engagement would look like
  • We decide if it's a fit — honest answer either way
  • If yes: scope arrives within 24 hours
  • Hours of work delivered
  • Written audit deliverable
  • Build or deployment
Book the Free Call
01 · Intro
1-Week Sprint
$1,800
8 hours · 1-week sprint
🗿 Obelisk Scoping
  • Architecture review of one workflow or system
  • AI readiness assessment for a chosen use case
  • Written findings + recommendation memo
  • 30-min readout call
  • No retainer commitment after
  • Pipeline build
  • Obelisk construction
  • Sage deployment
Book Intro Sprint
02 · Pilot
2–3 Week Sprint
$4,800
24 hours · 2–3 week sprint
🗿🔮 Obelisk Slice + First Sage Skill
  • Everything in Intro
  • One workflow built and deployed end-to-end
  • RAG pipeline scoped over a single knowledge slice
  • One Sage skill or Cowork Agent shipped
  • Governance + audit log set up
  • Staff handoff documentation
  • Multi-source Obelisk
  • Ongoing maintenance
Scope a Pilot Sprint
03 · Fractional
Monthly Sprints
$9,400/mo
48 hours/month · 3-month minimum
🗿🔮⚙️ Full Obelisk + Sage + Ongoing
  • Everything in Pilot
  • Full Obelisk: all three temporal layers built
  • Sage with RAG + MCP integrations + Skills Library
  • Cowork Agents shipped each month
  • Weekly syncs + async Slack access
  • Monthly executive readout + governance audit
  • HIPAA / SOC 2 alignment as required
  • On-site sessions for Mid-Atlantic clients
Book a Discovery Call ◆ Design Your Agent

Prefer a fixed-scope written deliverable instead? See the $1,500 AI Workflow Audit →

How We Work Together

Automated by Default.
Present When It Matters.

The AI handles the routine. The engineer shows up for the moments that need a human in the room. Remote scale and local presence — no competitor in this space offers both.

⚡
Always-On Automation

The day-to-day runs without you having to schedule it. Async Slack access, automated monitoring, weekly written status, and the Digital Sage working in the background against your business goals — continuously. Most issues are caught and resolved before you know they happened.

  • Async Slack / Teams access during engagement
  • Weekly written status + decision log
  • Digital Sage running 24/7 against your Obelisk
  • Automated cloud cost + security monitoring
  • Incident alerting via CloudWatch → SNS → your inbox
  • Monthly architecture review delivered async
◆   Remote · Nationwide
🤝
In-Person, When It Changes Outcomes

Some decisions don't get made over Slack. Vendor negotiations, compliance walkthroughs, executive alignment sessions, and engineering all-hands are more effective — and more trusted — with a physical presence in the room. Available for on-site engagements across the mid-Atlantic region.

  • On-site discovery audit (weeks 1–2 of engagement)
  • Vendor contract negotiation meetings
  • HIPAA / SOC 2 compliance walkthroughs
  • Quarterly executive stakeholder sessions
  • Engineering team all-hands & culture sessions
  • Sage demo & handoff training
◆   Richmond, VA · DC · MD · NC · Remote
Representative Outcomes
34%
Cloud Cost Reduction
Regional healthcare network · AWS rightsizing, Reserved Instance strategy, lifecycle policies
18wk
HIPAA Agent Deployed
Document intelligence agent · RAG over clinical policies · Fully compliant audit trail
60%
Faster Env Provisioning
Enterprise retail · Landing zone + IaC automation · Days to hours
* Outcomes are composites based on prior engagements at Corpay, VCU Health, and AdvanceAuto. Client details anonymised.
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AI For Good

Every system built here is designed to serve the people who use it — not just the business that deploys it. "AI For Good" means HIPAA-aligned by default, ethically governed, and built with the assumption that real humans will depend on what we ship. Automation should reduce burden, not transfer it. The goal is always a system your team trusts and your clients never notice — because it just works.

Jason Campbell — Nycolai
Who's Behind This

Jason Campbell.
One Hire. Full Stack.

10+ years architecting cloud infrastructure for healthcare, fintech, and enterprise retail. Led platform engineering teams at VCU Health, Corpay, and AdvanceAuto. Available directly — no agency markup, no account manager, no hand-off to a junior. You get the engineer who built the system, in the room when it counts.

Based in Richmond, VA. On-site available across Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Remote engagements nationwide — with structured in-person touchpoints built into every package.

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Let's scope the first sprint.

Free 30-minute call directly with me — no sales rep, no pitch deck. We figure out whether the Intro, Pilot, or Fractional sprint is the right entry point. If none of them fit, I'll say so on the call.

Currently accepting 2 new clients · Mid-Atlantic & Remote