01
DISCOVER
I map the workflow end to end before I touch a tool. I sit in on calls, watch the actual work, and find the bottleneck most teams have stopped seeing. Most implementations fail here, not in the build.
Sage Dutra. AI Systems Architect & Implementation Lead
Most AI projects never get adopted. I'm here to solve that.
I build systems that get adopted because they're designed around the people who use them.
Where adoption breaks down.* And what I do about it.
Pilots that stall before production.
I run discovery and a data-readiness check in week zero, then design for the workflow, not the demo.
Tools nobody adopts.
I build for the people who have to use them, with hands-on training and support until it sticks. More than two hundred trained.
AI spend with no provable return.
I attach one owned metric to one workflow before a line of code is written.
Agent hype that gets cancelled.
I scope agents conservatively and keep a human on the high-stakes call. I can also tell a real agent from a rebranded chatbot.
* Sourced from MIT Project NANDA, State of AI in Business 2025, McKinsey State of AI 2025, Menlo Ventures 2025, and Gartner 2025.
Trusted by 30+ Orgs.
“Super responsive, knowledgeable, and able to problem solve. So glad we found him. It made all the difference for us.”
“He is a great communicator, organized, a great listener and so easy to get along with. He meets his deadlines and exceeds expectations.”
Systems People Actually Use.
I've spent fifteen years building marketing, software, and operational systems for organizations that needed them to actually work.
- 200+ people trained on the systems I built
- 9 Salesforce CRM implementations for teams up to 40 active users
- A HIPAA-compliant intake platform that cut intake from 1 to 2 weeks down to a single day
“Adept at not only the technical aspects of the work, but clear in communicating with those who were new to the platform or level of technology.”
The market stopped needing people who train models. It needs people who get bought tools adopted inside real work. I've been doing that for 15 years.
76% of enterprise AI use cases are now bought rather than built. Menlo Ventures, 2025.
“He helped us build a bridge from direct face-to-face marketing to e-marketing and showed us a lot of great ideas on ways to refine and coordinate our outreach.”
Two Successful Companies. An Impeccable Track Record.
How I Run an Engagement.
The same method whether I am on staff full time or brought in for a project. I work alongside the team that is already there, lean on the skills and strengths in the room, and keep the organization, its mission, and its bottom line at the center of every call. Find the real bottleneck, design for the people who live with it, and stay until it sticks.
02
DESIGN
I translate what I found into a system on paper first: process maps, requirements, and the trade-offs stated plainly, weighed against the mission and the bottom line. The people who will use it shape it with me before anything gets built.
03
BUILD
I architect for adoption, not just function, and I build with the team, not around it, handing off the pieces that play to their strengths. Fault-tolerant, humans in the loop for high-stakes calls, and built to survive contact with real users instead of passing a demo.
04
ADOPT
I do not ship and disappear. Hands-on training, documentation, and post-launch support. More than two hundred people trained on systems I built, across thirty-plus organizations.
“Listened to what we needed, helped us set realistic expectations... He did his preparation excellently, followed through on what he promised.”
In a full-time seat this runs on a loop. On a shorter contract, the first two stages stand alone as a deliverable.
Portfolio and Case Studies
Three AI Systems. Built Solo.
Each one proves something different. Reliability engineering, orchestration breadth, and multi-agent deliberation. The full deep-dive on each is one click away.
AI System / Flagship
FORGE
An enterprise agentic orchestration engine, autonomous and human-gated, that researches a local business, writes a custom site from scratch, runs outreach, and onboards the customer. Built solo, five iterations in five months.
Built for the failure mode that kills AI systems, the output that looks right and is wrong.
54staged sites
5architectural iterations
Temporaldurable orchestration
What this proves
Production-grade reliability engineering, not a demo.
Production-grade, operated end to end on real data, pre-revenue by design.
Read the full build
Architecture on GitHub
AI System
Solution Factory
An autonomous solution architect on LangGraph. Hand it a business process; it interviews you with an expert-persona panel, designs a corpus-grounded solution, then turns an adversarial panel loose until zero blockers remain, and emits a build-ready spec.
LangGraphplus LangChain
14-nodegraph, 2 human gates
3 runsverified end to end
What this proves
Orchestration breadth across two frameworks, plus adversarial-loop and cost-engineering judgment.
Local dev tool, verified on real runs, not a deployed product.
Read the full build
View source on GitHub
AI System
Founders Circle
An autonomous strategy council of seven AI personas with structured voting, task extraction, and an Obsidian-backed institutional memory.
7persona council
Votingplus task extraction
Obsidianinstitutional memory
What this proves
Designing multi-agent deliberation and durable institutional memory.
Built solo.
Read the full build
View source on GitHub
Earlier in my Career
Fifteen Years of Systems That Stuck.
The track record the AI work is built on. Salesforce deployments, a regulated intake platform, launches, and a department built from scratch. Each one led by the hardest number it can defend.
$0 - $29M
pipeline architected in 12 months
Powerfield Energy
Director of Communications · 2020 to 2022
Built the entire go-to-market engine for a pre-revenue solar-hardware startup: brand, website, paid acquisition, sales videos, and a custom Salesforce instance. The pipeline I architected grew from $0 to $29M in twelve months, and the CRM scaled from 3 to 6 users as the team grew.
“Sage came recommended to us and so we hired for an off-site project with short timeline. He was exceptional in his creativity, professionalism, and planning. He worked around the clock and through multiple iterations to give us exactly what we needed for our customers and investors.”
- Salesforce
- Go-to-Market
- Brand & Web
- Executive Training
$4.11
cost per signup on paid acquisition
BotlWyz Launch
Go-to-Market Lead · 2020 to 2021
Ran the full public launch of a Portland gig-economy startup: positioning, paid social, two-audience email automation, SMS, website, and a custom Salesforce instance. The email system beat cited industry benchmarks by 3 to 5 times, a 33.6% open and 12.8% click against 17.9% and 2.3% averages, and paid acquisition landed registrations at $4.11 each.
“Sage is a highly intelligent and enthusiastic member of my marketing team. Success often depends on the people you surround yourself with. Sage's presence on the team increases my confidence we will be successful.”
- Email Automation
- Paid Acquisition
- Salesforce
+686% Enrollment
I took the org from 15 students enrolled to 118 in my first year as Department Director
Student Communications Department
Founder & Director · YWAM Salem · 2016 to 2018
Pioneered and led a 15-person department from scratch. Built the recruiting CRM, the admissions-approval workflow, and a content-analytics loop, then personally ran recruiting for the first months to refine the system before hiring. Wrote the manuals and onboarding, trained the team to own their sub-systems, drove cost-per-lead down to roughly $5 to $7, and built the outbound system that generated more than 60% of all applications. In a single year, enrollment grew from 15 to 118 students, a 47% applicant-to-enrolled conversion.
“One of Sage’s strengths is his ability to be incredibly focused and goal oriented while being genuinely interested in his clients. He wants the best solution possible for you and your team.”
- Team Leadership
- Salesforce
- Recruiting Funnel
- Training
10
user accounts live across a multi-country rollout
Loom International CRM
Solutions Architect · 2017 to 2018
End-to-end Salesforce deployment for a global nonprofit. Workflow automation across multiple countries, followed by six months of weekly hands-on training so every team actually adopted it. One of nine from-scratch CRM builds in the portfolio.
“Sage expressed an enthusiastic and encouraging approach to assessing our needs, provided logical customization after listening intently to our wishes and followed it all up with well-designed practical training to help us get up and running.”
- Salesforce
- Multi-Country
- Workflow Automation
- Training
20,000+
record CRM migration, Highrise to Salesforce
Salesforce Implementation Portfolio
Solutions Architect · 2018 to 2022
Nine Salesforce implementations, seven built from scratch and two overhauls, across nonprofits and startups. The largest single migration moved more than 20,000 records from Highrise into Salesforce Nonprofit over roughly two months, with me as project manager and architect. Each from-scratch build ran discovery to adoption in about three months on an enforced maintenance-and-training retainer.
“Always stays within budget parameters and has trained our staff on Salesforce and other platforms. Highly recommended.”
- Salesforce
- Data Migration
- Process Design
- 9 Builds
1 day
intake turnaround, down from 7 to 14 days
HIPAA-Compliant Intake Platform
Architect & Implementer · 2023 to 2024
Designed and shipped a solo-built, HIPAA-compliant digital intake system for a newly regulated field within a week of the regulations publishing. Consolidated more than 12 required forms into a 3-step process, moved sensitive data off unsecured email, and cut intake turnaround from 7 to 14 days down to a single day. Deployed to roughly 15 practices.
- Custom Build
- HIPAA
- Newly Regulated Field
A Decade of 4.9-Star Reviews.
Across a decade of work and two companies, 64 public reviews at a 4.9 average. Upswing → · ClearHaven →
Heads up: you’ll see “Ryan” on older reviews.
I legally changed my name in 2025.
★★★★★
"A creative thinker with the ability to execute."
B O'Brien
Cherry City Interiors & Design
4.9
Star average across 64 public reviews, a decade of work.
✓ Verified on the public Google Business Profile
★★★★★
"The area's premier marketing strategist."
Logan Martin
Good Notion Media Company
★★★★★
"He did his preparation excellently, followed through on what he promised."
Colleen Milstein
Loom International
★★★★★
"Incredibly knowledgeable and easy to work with."
Kevin Hohnbaum
Willamette Vital Health
15+
Years building systems clients still use today.
★★★★★
"Brings fresh ideas and energy to the table."
Sam Skillern
Salem Leadership Foundation
★★★★★
"He wants the best solution possible for you and your team."
Josua Matthias
YWAM Salem
★★★★★
"Well-designed practical training to help us get up and running."
Steve Kilpatrick
Loom International
★★★★★
"Intensely creative, with a knack for important details."
Douglas Vincent
Salem Leadership Foundation
Fifteen Years. Four Lanes.
What I've built with, deeply enough to architect, deploy, and train on.
AI & Automation
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Agentic workflow design
- Prompt engineering
- Claude (Max + API)
- GPT-4o
- Gemini Flash
- Perplexity Sonar
- Temporal workflows
- Pipeline architecture
- Autonomous process automation
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- Claude Code (headless)
- Human-in-the-loop design
- LLM cost routing
- Adversarial evaluation (critic panels)
- Source-grounded generation (cited claims)
- Durable execution & checkpointing
- LLM evaluation (evals)
- Persistent agent memory
- Vision-based QA (Gemini Vision)
Systems & Infrastructure
- Salesforce CRM (admin + deployment)
- Supabase / Postgres
- Vercel / Vercel Blob
- Node.js
- API integration
- Data migration (20K+ records)
- Workflow automation
- Solution architecture
- TypeScript
- Python
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
- Automated testing (Jest)
- Playwright
- Ports-and-adapters architecture
- Database schema design
- Event-driven orchestration (signals & timers)
Business Operations
- Marketing automation
- GA4 analytics
- Schema markup
- Paid ads management
- CRM strategy
- Lead scoring
- Reporting
- Compliance documentation (HIPAA)
- Technical SEO
- Marketing operations
- Lifecycle & email marketing
- Conversion tracking
- Process documentation (SOPs)
- Customer journey mapping
Leadership & Delivery
- Discovery & requirements analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Team building (12-15 direct reports)
- Training design & delivery
- Executive presentations
- Change management
- Cross-functional project leadership
- Workshop facilitation
- Service design
- Solutions consulting
- Technical documentation
- Onboarding & enablement
- Project management
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