Between the flash and the shockwave
The reality of AI is going to hit soon and most will be caught with their heads in the sand.
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Mundane Consulting
AI strategy and implementation, grounded in practice.
I help companies close the gap between what AI promises and what it delivers. Twenty years of building complex systems, applied to yours.
How I work →the reality
The gap between AI investment and AI results
Systems that underdeliver.
Chatbots that hallucinate. Retrieval pipelines that return the wrong answer. Prompt chains held together by workarounds. The technology works in the demo but not in production.
Initiatives that lose momentum.
A vendor was selected, a budget approved, a prototype built. Six months in, the project has stalled. The distance between proof-of-concept and production turned out to be larger than expected.
Decisions made without operational context.
Architecture choices, vendor selection, build-or-buy trade-offs: consequential decisions, often made without someone in the room who has shipped systems like these before.
This is the work I do.
services
Engagements
AI Triage
A structured assessment of your current AI system.
Three days of access. I review architecture, prompts, retrieval pipeline, cost structure, and operational setup. You receive a written diagnostic with prioritized recommendations, ranked by effort and impact.
Best for: Organizations evaluating whether to continue, pivot, or expand an existing AI investment.
RAG Pipeline Fix
Production-quality retrieval, delivered.
I rebuild the components causing poor answers, high latency, or excessive cost: chunking strategy, embedding model selection, retrieval logic, re-ranking, and prompt chain. Measurable before-and-after results.
Best for: Teams with a working prototype that needs to reach production quality.
Fractional AI Architect
Ongoing senior technical leadership.
I embed with your team on a retained basis. Architecture reviews, vendor evaluation, technical decision-making, and hands-on guidance. Twenty years across gaming, fintech, and enterprise, applied to your problems.
Best for: Companies building AI products that need principal-level judgment without a full-time hire.
process
How an engagement begins
DELPHIC
A contextual digital avatar and dialogue engine to bring humanity to digital humans, at scale.read more +
HABTIC
Building technology that doesn't yet exist sounds like a lot of fun. And it is, in stories, after the dust has settled.read more +
Nuclear Dawn
There is a reason expressions like "live-fire test" are used in real-world video game production.read more +
TEX
Animation orchestration for the gaming industry. Next-generation crowd animation and automation system.read more +
selected work
Prior engagements
A selection of past projects and technical engagements.
Detailed case studies available on request.
about
About
I'm Igor. Twenty years building and shipping complex technical systems: game development (Valve, Sony, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts), scaling organizations to 120+ people, and now consulting on AI implementation and software architecture.
Mundane Consulting exists because I kept encountering the same pattern: capable companies making significant AI investments that underperform, not because the technology is wrong, but because operational experience is missing from the decision-making.
Mundane means "of this world." Grounded work, clear answers, and the kind of judgment that comes from having built things yourself.
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Mundane Consulting exists because I kept encountering the same pattern: capable companies making significant AI investments that underperform, not because the technology is wrong, but because operational experience is missing from the decision-making.
Mundane means "of this world." Grounded work, clear answers, and the kind of judgment that comes from having built things yourself.
Ready to talk.
Let’s start with a conversation.
An honest assessment of where things stand, and whether I can help.
From the field
The mule, the Ferrari, and cool tech
Disrespecting mules risks more severe consequences than just angering Mother Nature.
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