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.
Agents that loop without resolving. Gen AI features that impress in a demo and collapse under real traffic. Evaluation thin enough that failures only surface when a customer finds them. The technology works in the pitch, 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
Agentic AI Strategy Review
A senior review of your agentic AI initiative.
A structured review of the strategy and architecture behind a planned or in-flight agentic system. I look at agent topology, tool and data boundaries, evaluation approach, failure modes, cost envelope, and how the system fits the surrounding organisation. You receive a written diagnostic with prioritised recommendations and a clear read on what it will take to reach production.
Best for: Leadership deciding whether, and how, to commit to an agentic AI bet.
Gen AI Production Architecture
From prototype to production grade gen AI system.
Architecture and hands-on delivery of the components that decide whether a gen AI system survives real users: agent orchestration, grounding and retrieval, evaluation harness, guardrails, observability, and the cost and latency envelope. Designed to operate, not to demo. Measurable before-and-after on the metrics that matter to the business.
Best for: Teams with a promising gen AI prototype that needs to become a dependable product.
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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