Accepting Fractional & Contract Engagements
William Jesse Boone
AI that earns its keep.
Self-taught engineer, founder, and producer. I design and operate production AI agents, mobile and web products, and AI-enhanced media, end to end and largely solo. Founder of Big Starfish, creator of withjess.ai, and author of The Third Mind, a full-length book on human-AI partnership co-authored with Claude.
My through-line is range with depth: I move quickly across very different domains, but I ship work that runs in production and serves the people who use it.
jesse@entreartists.com · (406) 926-9950 · Missoula, Montana · Remote-first
Why Boards and Founders Bring Me In
A production AI-agent platform, built and operated solo
Boss, the multi-agent platform behind Big Starfish, runs autonomous operations for real businesses: orchestration, persistent memory, tool integration, voice, SMS, and email. Production token consumption cut roughly 90 percent through event-triggered calls and task-specific model routing.
Creator of withjess.ai
An AI companion application conceived, designed, and shipped solo on a Next.js and Supabase stack, from prototype through deployment and App Store review, with behavior and guardrails shaped around a human-centered design philosophy.
Author of The Third Mind
A full-length book on human-AI partnership, co-authored with Claude and written in three voices, documenting the design and build of a real AI product from the inside.
Results in a real business, not a demonstration
A voice AI agent deployed in my own studio lifted campaign conversion threefold and returned more than twenty hours of manual work per week, integrated with booking and payments. A decade of profit-and-loss ownership preceded it.
The Shape of an Engagement
- —Fractional Chief AI Officer or AI implementation lead, embedded with your team
- —AI agent design and orchestration: tool calling, retrieval, persistent memory, multi-agent coordination
- —Production deployment and token-cost optimization, the discipline most AI projects lack
- —Workflow automation across phones, email, SMS, payments, and CRM
- —AI strategy that ships: pilot to production in weeks, with honest go or no-go counsel
Working stack: Claude and the Anthropic API, Next.js, Supabase, Python, ElevenLabs and Retell voice, Twilio and Telnyx, Stripe. Leadership before software: a decade running a creative studio with staff and profit-and-loss responsibility, five seasons as a varsity head coach, eight years teaching adult professionals at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.
AI leadership, without the full-time hire.
Bring me the problem in a sentence or two. On a short first call I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person, and what the first thirty days would look like.
Write to MeOr call (406) 926-9950. My agents answer when I cannot.