Oren Magid

builder, consultant, philosopher, counselor-in-training

AI has put custom software within reach of a small business. I can help you figure out where it would change the economics of yours, and then build something that holds up in daily use.

What I do

If you haven’t tried anything with AI yet, I learn how your business makes money and where the hours go, and come back with specific, costed ideas worth building. If you’ve already built something and it stalled — a tool that breaks on real data, or can’t be handed to staff — I take it from there.

I have a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown. I taught for a few years, then moved into software engineering, and I’m now training as a counselor at Marquette.

In practice

For a plaintiff-side law firm, I turned a set of early experiments with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, into a live platform the firm runs on: client intake and online sign-up, built-in e-signatures, automated email, and secure document storage. The firm manages nearly all of it by working with Claude directly, though I also built them a conventional admin panel for when that makes sense. One idea I brought them is now a project of its own: helping the firm’s clients see every claim they may qualify for, not just the one they came in with.

Most days look like this, more or less.Based on a 2015 portrait by viser1000.

Contact

There's no fixed package. Tell me what you're working on and we'll figure out what makes sense. Write to oren@orenmagid.com.

Oren Magid LLC · Washington, D.C.