AI consulting & custom software · Northwest Arkansas · Nationwide
Put AI to work in your business, without the hype.
I'm Tanner Kirkendall, a software engineer with a decade of experience building production software. I work with organizations large and small to turn AI into bottom-line value. My work spans legal, healthcare, wealth management, staffing, and government.
What I build
AI Consulting & Tooling
From “where would AI actually help us?” to a working tool: document processing, assistants that know your data, AI features in your product. A small pilot proves the value before you commit to a build.
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Custom Web Applications
Internal tools, customer portals, and dashboards built around how your business runs, not how off-the-shelf software thinks it should.
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Automation & Integrations
Connect the systems you already use and eliminate the manual work between them: data entry, re-keying, copy-paste reports, and spreadsheet shuffling.
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Selected work
Contract work stays behind NDAs, but building products is also my hobby. These are mine: shipped end to end and still running today.
How working together goes
Discovery call
A free conversation about what you're trying to build or fix. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you, and point you somewhere better.
Clear proposal
A written scope with real numbers: what gets built, what it costs, and when it ships. No open-ended hourly mystery.
Build in the open
You see working software every week, not a big reveal at the end. Feedback gets folded in as we go.
Launch & support
I handle deployment and handoff, and I'm available for ongoing support, so your software doesn't get orphaned.
Software development, rooted in Northwest Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas is full of growing businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and generic software but aren't ready to hire a full engineering team: suppliers, logistics teams, retailers, trades, and startups from Bentonville to Fayetteville. That's the gap I fill: senior-level software work, scoped to what your business needs.
Being local means we can meet in person, and I understand the vendor and supplier ecosystem this region runs on. And because everything I build ships with modern remote-friendly tooling, I work just as well with clients anywhere in the country.
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you're trying to build or fix. I'll reply within one business day with a clear next step, in plain language.
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