Thorny Problems
If it were simple,you’d have solved it already.
15 min · no pitch
Thorny Problems
If it were simple,you’d have solved it already.
15 min · no pitch
I can help you.
Thorny problems are the ones that don't fit neatly into a box. They're custom and they require deep, detailed work. I traced a fraud case four years deep, found 58 charges that had gone unnoticed, and produced a police referral and a full accounting of the theft. I helped a family work through a difficult health decision for an aging parent and land on a choice they felt good about. I built a financial reconciliation system for a psychologist drowning in insurance billing, and it surfaced thousands of unpaid dollars that had slipped through the cracks. I built a state exam study guide and a multi-state license tracker for another psychologist, and helped her achieve her new license and maintain all her CE. Just like these problems, yours is complex. And yours is solvable.
So why hasn't it gotten done?
You're capable. You're brave enough to run a business. What stops you isn't nerve. It's wondering whether it will get done right if you hand it off, and wondering whether it's too big to hand off at all. The first one gets answered by the case studies below. The second? Well, I've started from messier than where you're sitting now.
Case studies.
CASE STUDY
Financial Fraud Investigation
Two odd charges. Four years of theft.
Mr. and Ms. B asked me to check two odd credit-card charges by an employee. I uncovered 58 fraudulent charges across four years and built a police referral that led to grand-larceny charges.
CASE STUDY — COMING SOON
Private Practice Optimization
1K lines of billing data. 10K dollars, recovered.
Dr. R was drowning in weekly billing reconciliation across multiple insurance agencies and self-pay. I built her a custom system that surfaced missing payments across more than a thousand lines of data — and gave her back the time to focus on her patients.
CASE STUDY — COMING SOON
Supercharged Licensing Exam Prep and Compliance Tracking
Failed the exam once. Passed the second time — and it felt too easy.
Dr. M was licensed in psychology in two east-coast states and needed to add CA, but she had failed the exam despite paying a well-known prep service and studying hard. I built her an AI study buddy. On her second attempt she said it “felt too easy” until her passing score showed up. Then her multi-state compliance tracking headache began. (I solved that too.)
I'll make it fast and keep your data safe.
When I bring tech and AI into the work, it shaves hours or days off the process. AI runs with training switched off, which is enough security for most things, and for extremely sensitive data we can redact information or even run it in a fully secure or local environment. If you prefer not to use AI, that's OK too — we'll work out something you're comfortable with. Whatever it is, you'll get no jargon and no surprises from me. And when it's done, you'll wish you'd called me in on this months ago.
Ready? Let’s dig in.
15 min · no pitch