[ AI-Enhanced Development ] · [ Done in a Day ]
Ship more in one day than most teams do in a month.
Book my full, undivided attention for a single day. I use AI-enhanced development to build, refactor, automate, and ship real product work — fast.
Day Rate
$2,500+ tokens
you provide the API key — usage stays transparent
You're hiring an Agenticist™ →
Jordan Dalton
No agency. No assistant. No funnel. You email me, I email you back, we book the day.
~20 yrs shipping · coined the word "Agenticist" · DoD · big data · pharma · proptech · founder-side
● Booking now
CST · early bird
v.2026
§01 — The Pitch
This is
simple.
You have something that needs to exist. A feature. A tool. A prototype. A messy system that needs to be fixed. An idea that's been sitting in your backlog for months.
Instead of dragging it through weeks of meetings, handoffs, and half-finished attempts — you give me one day. And I build.
§02 — What you can ask for
Build. Enhance.
Unblock. Ship.
01/04
apps · dashboards · agentsBuild
Web, mobile, desktop, internal tools, dashboards, automations, integrations, agents, full prototypes — concept to working software in one focused day.
02/04
AI · copilots · workflowsEnhance
Add AI to your product where it actually compounds: chat, semantic search, extraction, classification, copilots, multi-step workflows.
03/04
refactor · APIs · stuck codeUnblock
Fix broken systems, refactor messy code, connect APIs, or turn rough ideas into working software the team can build on.
04/04
iOS · Android · web · desktop · extensionsShip across platforms
Cross-platform reach without cross-platform overhead. Native apps, web, desktop, browser extensions — idea to something usable on a real device, in a single day.
Bonus track
Run your business
with AI.
with AI.
I build the AI systems — autonomous or human-in-the-loop — that let you run your business with less drag. Sales follow-ups, lead enrichment, content, support triage, ops automations, internal copilots. I genuinely believe that with AI, a single operator can now run an entire business. A build day is one of the fastest ways to find out what that actually looks like for yours.
Also on the menu
Graphics. Video. Audio.
Need a logo concept, a product render, a launch video, a voiceover, a sound effect, a social cut? I produce them too — AI-assisted across the stack. Useful when your build day needs the marketing layer to ship alongside the code, not weeks later.
§03 — Range
Pattern recognition,
across everything.
Specialty manufacturing
Sales systems
Promotion & apparel
DoD
Asset detection & recovery
Big data
Pharmaceuticals
Accounting systems
PropTech
Engineering leadership
Mentorship
Content & teaching
Nearly 20 years professionally — closer to 30 if you count when I started building at 14. The speed isn't theoretical. It's compounded experience plus AI as a force multiplier.
§04 — Standards
AI-enhanced.
Not vibe-coded.
"Fast" and "sloppy" are not the same word. Four years of working with AI every day has produced a personal system for shipping work any senior engineer would be proud to put their name on.
01/04
TDD · real coverageTests, not theater
Test-driven where it matters. Real assertions on real behavior. AI is excellent at writing tests when you actually demand them — I do.
02/04
review · QA · lintingEvery line gets QA'd
Nothing ships without me reading it. Linting, type checks, manual testing, and a critical eye for the things AI loves to fudge — error handling, edge cases, security boundaries.
03/04
conventions · readabilityCode your team can own
I match your stack's conventions. No exotic patterns, no clever-for-clever's-sake. The next person to read it — including future-you — should not need a séance.
04/04
4 yrs · in productionA real system, not a vibe
I've spent four years figuring out what AI is great at, what it's bad at, and exactly when to trust it. That system is what makes one day's output durable instead of disposable.
Bonus — token efficiency
My brain happens to speak AI fluently.
I'm neurodivergent, and my natural communication style maps unusually well onto how these models actually think. I have an instinct for exactly how much context to feed in — never too little, never bloated — so I get the most useful output per token. Where less-experienced operators burn budget going in circles, I stay on course. Your token spend goes further with me at the wheel.
Git, from minute one.
Every keystroke lives in version control. Atomic commits, real messages, branchable history. You walk away with a repo, not a folder of files — push it anywhere, hand it to anyone, roll back without panic.
$ git log --oneline
a3f1c2 feat: ship
9b8e4d test: coverage
4c7a91 init
§05 — A Day
We make a day
of it. Together.
This isn't a spec-and-walk-away kind of thing. We hop on Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams — your call — and stay there. You see me work in real time. Nuances, miscommunications, and course corrections get sorted in seconds because we're in the same room.
Heads up
This is hardcore. Bring your coffee, your energy drinks, your snacks, your passion, and your dreams. It's a real working day — not a meeting. Show up serious, leave with something real.
Before we start — bring your own keys
You'll need API keys for all three frontier providers.
01
Anthropic
Claude
02
OpenAI
ChatGPT / GPT
03
Google
Gemini
I use all three throughout the day — different models excel at different tasks, and switching is a real edge. The keys stay yours, the spend lives on your accounts (transparent, auditable), and you keep them after we're done. I'll send setup instructions in the prep doc; takes ~10 minutes.
Start time
Your call — anywhere from 4am to noon CST. I prefer 4–5am (sharpest hours). All times are my timezone; pick what works around that.
Where the work happens
I don't travel to client sites. Ever.
My home office is dialed in: monitors, keyboards, lighting, chair, audio — all set up exactly how I think best. Plus 1 Gbps fiber, so the AI moves as fast as I do. Comfort isn't a luxury here, it's a multiplier — it's how you get the best version of me for 12 hours straight. If you want to be in the same room, you're welcome to come to me 😉 My wife will make sure we're stocked with food, snacks, water, and coffee — she's the best.
01
T + 0:00
We start together — define the target
A working session, not a handoff. We talk through the problem, lock the scope, and agree on what "shipped" looks like by end of day.
02
T + 2:00
Building begins, side by side
Live channel open all day. AI agents on side quests, me on the critical path, you in the loop on every real decision. Pop in whenever — questions, course corrections, feedback are the point.
03
T + 6:00
First working artifact, in your hands
You poke at it. We jump on a call. We adjust together — cut what isn't pulling weight, sharpen what is.
04
T + 10:00
You get something real (and a new pal, probably)
Working software. Deployed or handed off. No deck. No "phase 2 quote." Just the thing — and a shared war story from a good day's work.
§06 — Why this is worth it
$2,500
vs.
$25,000+
The usual way: weeks of back-and-forth, slow iteration, multiple people, unclear ownership, $25k+ before anything ships.
One day.
One builder.
One outcome.
One builder.
One outcome.
That $2,500 isn't for "a day of coding." It's for compressing weeks into one execution window.
For returning clients
$1,000 / 4-hour block
Once we've done a build day together, you can book me in 4-hour blocks for smaller missions. 4 hours is the minimum — AI-assisted development genuinely shines in multi-hour runs, and "an hour here, an hour there" wastes everyone's time. Stack your asks into one focused session.
Book a block → FREE
Brag-about-me bonus
Post about our build day on your socials → I'll gift you a 4-hour block.
Use it yourself, or hand it to someone you want to impress. We're all here to win. Requires an established following — this is about real reach, not a fresh account.
§07 — Who this is for
Founders who need it built now
Not "in Q3."
Teams with stalled work
Things that have been "almost done" for too long.
Operators who value speed
Process is overhead. Output is the point.
Anyone who prefers results
Over discussion, status meetings, or roadmap theater.
§08 — The day itself
This is the day
you'll remember
forever.
You've heard the stories about what AI can do. You've watched the demos. You've maybe even tried it yourself. But you've almost certainly never seen it, in person, in the hands of someone who's been doing this every day for four years.
You will tell your friends about this day. You will tell your colleagues. You will probably text someone the moment we wrap. That's not hype. That's just what happens.
§09 — Common questions
Everything else.
Things people usually ask before booking. If yours isn't here, just put it in the form.
Fair concern, and the honest answer is: it depends entirely on the operator. I've spent four years building a personal system around AI — TDD where it matters, every line reviewed, conventions matched to your codebase, no clever-for-clever's-sake patterns. The output is work any senior engineer would be proud to ship. AI is the leverage; the standards are mine.
Up to 12 hours, max. That's the ceiling, not the target. We often hit the mission earlier — and that's usually where the fun starts. Clients realize "wait, if we knocked that out by 2pm, can we also do X, Y, and Z?" Yes. The remaining time is yours, in the same session, on whatever the next-most-valuable thing is.
The day rate is prepaid — Stripe or direct bank transfer, your choice. Once the day is booked and paid, that slot is yours and the day is non-refundable. The reason is simple: I'm holding a full day of capacity for you and turning down other work. In exchange, I show up like the money's still on the line.
Whatever your team uses — Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. We stay on the call most of the day with screen-share so you can see me work in real time. Any communication wrinkles or nuance gets sorted in seconds because we're in the same room. Bring coffee, snacks, energy drinks, and your sharp brain. This is a real working day, not a meeting.
You'd be surprised how much fits in one focused day with the right scoping. If at the end we both think more time would compound, you can book another day at the same rate. Most clients only need one.
You do. Full IP transfer on completion. NDAs welcome — send yours, or use mine. Repo access, deploy targets, and credentials all stay in your environment.
On average, expect somewhere between $400 and $750 in token spend for a build day. Not a guarantee — it comes down to how much we're running in parallel and how heavy the model usage gets. Lighter days land near the bottom of that range; days where I'm running many agents at once push toward the top. You'll see every dollar in your own provider dashboard as it happens.
Three reasons. Speed — your API key has no rate-limit ceiling the way metered subscriptions do, so I can run frontend, backend, and tests in parallel instead of waiting in line. I've run as many as twelve agents in parallel on a single project — that's a big part of how a day's worth of output fits in a day. Transparency — you see exactly what was spent on tokens, no markup. Ownership — when we're done, the integration is already wired into your account, your billing, your guardrails. No handoff drama.
We define the target together at the start of the day, sized to fit. If we hit something genuinely blocked, you get a working slice plus a clear handoff doc — what was built, what wasn't, and exactly what's next. No theatrical "done."
Yes — and most do. I'll spend the first chunk reading and orienting, then ship inside your conventions. I work in basically any modern stack: TypeScript, Python, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Rust, plus the usual web frameworks.
Yes, but with two conditions. First, we need to have done at least one full build day together — the day is where I get the deep context for your stack and goals. After that, you can book me in 4-hour blocks at $1,000. Second, four hours is the minimum: AI-assisted development genuinely shines in multi-hour runs, and "an hour here, an hour there" wastes everyone's time and your token budget. If you've got a few smaller asks, stack them into one block. As for retainers — I don't do open-ended ones; they kill the urgency that makes this work.
No. I work exclusively from my home office, and that's intentional — not a quirk. My setup (monitors, peripherals, lighting, chair, audio, 1 Gbps fiber) is tuned for deep work, and being in it is what lets me show up as the best version of me for 12 hours straight. Comfort and environment are massive multipliers on focused output. We'll do the day over Zoom / Meet / Teams, and you'll see me in real time the entire day. If you really want us in the same room, you're welcome to come to me — my wife (who is awesome) will make sure we're stocked with all the food, snacks, water, and coffee a long build day requires. You just bring the problem.
Your call — but in my timezone. I'm based in CST and I work CST hours; you pick a start anywhere from 4am to noon CST. I personally prefer 4–5am (sharpest hours, quiet world), but it's your day. Whatever start we pick, we go ~12 hours from there. If you're on the other side of the world, that's a planning consideration on your end, not mine — my brain doesn't ship its best work at 3am.
Yes — API keys for Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (ChatGPT), and Google (Gemini). I use all three during a build day; different models are better at different things, and switching is part of the edge. The keys stay yours, the model spend lives on your accounts (fully transparent), and you keep everything when we're done. I'll send signup links and setup steps in the prep doc — takes about ten minutes total.
Yes. Logos, product renders, marketing graphics, launch videos, voiceovers, sound design — I produce them AI-assisted alongside the code. Especially useful when your build day needs to ship with the marketing layer attached, not bolted on three weeks later. Mention it in the booking form and we'll scope it into the day.
Always. Git from minute one. Atomic commits, real messages, branchable history. You walk away with a real repo — push it to GitHub, hand it to your team, roll back without panic. No "here's a zip of the final state" handoffs. The history of the day is itself useful — you can see exactly when each decision happened and why.
After you book, I'll send a one-page prep doc. Short version: have the problem written down, decide who can answer questions during the day, and pick a single concrete success criterion. That's usually enough.
Usually within 1–2 weeks. I run 1–2 build days per week to keep each one at full intensity. I'll quote a real date when I reply to your form.
§10 — Book it
Tell me
what to build.
Three lines is enough. I'll reply within 24 hours — and we'll figure out the target together. The day itself is a collaboration, not a drop-off.
You're emailing Jordan, directly.
No assistant. No funnel. No "team will reach out."
→ $2,500 / day + tokens · prepaid (Stripe or bank transfer)
→ 1–2 build days available per week
→ NDAs welcome · IP transfer on completion
→ No refunds — but I'll work like there were