Available — taking engagements Independent AI consultant · Milan / remote

Gavin Moore

I build agentic systems that do real work.

Less AI theatre. More operating leverage. I design and ship AI operating systems for companies — Claude Code workflows, custom agents, memory and review loops — then train your team to run them without me. I’ve bootstrapped real businesses; I build AI the same way: scoped, shipped, reviewed.

hermes — representative session
hermes run "publish field note: copper"[plan]   reading memory-bank … 3 sources[plan]   plan written → 6 tasks[code]   copper-18-year-problem.html written[code]   research map wired · anchors checked[review] claims vs content-source.md … clean[review] contrast · reduced-motion · mobile … pass[deploy] vercel --prod … live✓ shipped — skill captured, the loop got smarter
FocusAgentic systems & AI operating systems
StackClaude Code · custom agents · memory systems
EngagementAdoption audit first, then build
AlsoFounder-operator & private investor
01 / Proof

Why listen to me.

01
This site is the demo.

Planned, written, built, and deployed by Hermes — my agent operating system built on Claude Code. The loop that shipped this page is the loop I install in client teams.

02
Built and systematised a real company.

Co-founded Typo Coffee: bootstrapped to three profitable drive-thru locations, a roastery, 20+ wholesale customers, 25+ staff, approaching €2m annual revenue run-rate — now independently managed day-to-day.

03
Delivered under pressure.

Co-founded Sanity Cares during COVID: €2.5m revenue and 1.625m CE-marked face shields delivered to Ireland’s HSE in roughly six months.

04
Engineer by training.

Trinity College Dublin, Mechanical Engineering — First Class Honours, ranked 1st in class.

02 / Services

Four ways in, smallest first.

Every engagement starts with the real workflow, not the model. No pilots that die in a deck. Who hires me: founder-led companies and SMEs, funds and family offices that want practical adoption, and operators who tried chatbots and got nothing.

01 · Entry point

AI adoption audit

A map of your workflows ranked by where agents actually create leverage — control points and risks named before anything is built, a build-vs-buy view, and a prioritised 90-day plan you can execute with or without me.

Shape

One to two weeks. I interview the people doing the work, watch the real workflow, inventory tools and data, then deliver a written report and a working session.

For

Teams that suspect there’s leverage but can’t see where — or got burned by demo theatre.

The framework behind it is public → the agent adoption framework

02 · Core build

Design & build: agentic systems

Working systems in your stack — Claude Code workflows, custom agents, MCP connections into your tools, memory systems your agents can actually use, and human review gates on by default.

Shape

Scoped builds in your repo and your tools, weekly demos, documentation and reusable skills captured as we go — so the system survives my leaving.

For

Companies with one or two costly repeated workflows — ops admin, reporting, research, content and comms pipelines — ready to be rebuilt around agents.

03 · Embed + train

AI operating system for teams

The pattern I run myself, installed for your team — working rules, a memory bank, plan and review loops, skill capture — plus two or three workflows redesigned end-to-end and hands-on training for the people who own them. You keep a playbook, not a dependency.

Shape

Several weeks embedded alongside your team, finishing with your people running the loop themselves.

For

Teams of roughly 5–50 that want compounding adoption, not one-off automations.

04 · Retainer

Fractional AI lead

Ongoing ownership of your AI roadmap — new workflows each cycle, model and vendor decisions, systems kept current as models change, new staff trained.

Shape

Fixed days per month, a standing review, and a direct line.

For

Companies after a build who want it to keep compounding without hiring full-time.

How an engagement runs

Audit

Find where agents create real leverage — and where they don’t.

Design

Scope the system: workflows, controls, data access, review gates.

Build

Ship working agents in your tools, demoed weekly.

Train

Your team runs the loop; I make myself unnecessary.

Compound

Skills and SOPs captured so the system keeps improving.

How I work
Your tools, not mine.

Everything is built in your stack. No platform, no lock-in, no licence I’m reselling.

Review gates by default.

Agents propose; named humans approve. Control points are designed in, not bolted on.

The economic test.

Every workflow is measured against time, throughput, and error rates — or it gets cut.

I run on this myself.

My own work runs on these exact systems. This site is the demo.

03 / The operating system

Hermes: the system I run my work on — and install in yours.

Hermes is my personal agent operating system, built on Claude Code: written working rules, plan-driven builds, coding and review loops, a private research memory bank with Python ingestion, verification before anything deploys, and skill capture so every cycle leaves the system smarter.

Research input

YouTube transcripts and research exports, ingested by Python scripts.

Memory bank

Obsidian-compatible vault; private → candidate → public lifecycle.

Plan & build

Claude Code: plans, subagents, skills, working rules.

Publish

Site pages and field notes, shipped from the same loop.

Review & deploy

Verification checklist before anything goes live.

Skill capture

Repeatable patterns codified — the loop improves itself.

“Hermes isn’t a product. It’s Claude Code plus disciplined files. That’s the point — you can have one too.”

04 / Operator credibility

I’ve run the businesses I now equip.

AI consulting from someone who has met payroll, suppliers, regulators, and rush hour. Systems I build are designed to survive contact with a real company.

Bootstrapped venture
~€2m

Typo Coffee

Built from zero into three profitable drive-thru locations, a roastery, 20+ wholesale customers, and 25+ staff — now independently managed and my testbed for AI automation in a physical business.

Typo Coffee drive-thru location at sunset
fig.01 — drive-thru no.1, Dublin
Crisis supply chain
1.625m

Sanity Cares

CE-marked face shields delivered to Ireland’s HSE during COVID — €2.5m revenue, compliance, procurement, and subcontract manufacturing coordinated in roughly six months.

Real assets
4

Mount Street redevelopment

Six-storey Dublin city centre asset redeveloped into four apartments — project-managed across architecture, design, contractors, and delivery.

Full evidence map, including research and investing → Proof Index

05 / Second track

Investor and researcher on the side AI theatre ignores: the physical one.

Consulting is the day job; this is the research that feeds it. I invest privately across digital assets, AI, public technology markets, and commodities — early theme recognition across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Palantir, and Robinhood — and publish field notes tracing the AI buildout downstream: agents → data centres → power → uranium and copper.

Have a workflow that should be agentic?

Tell me what repeats, what it costs, and where it hurts. I’ll tell you honestly whether agents help — the audit exists to find that out cheaply.

Milan, Italy · remote across Europe · English native · learning Italian