James Schlauch is a senior AI / ML / Data Science practitioner based in Southern California.

Twelve years inside Fortune-500 media and entertainment partners and the U.S. public sector. Production AI deployments — evaluation harnesses, retrieval systems, agent architectures — running in operational environments where the failure modes are visible to a paying customer or a regulator.

Public-sector experience spans federal, state, local, and academic engagements. The longer track record is advanced-analytics work — model audits, data infrastructure, evaluation frameworks — and the more recent layer is legal-agentic AI brought into environments that have been regulated, audited, and operated for decades.

U.S. Army veteran. Engagements are capped at six per year. James personally architects, ships, and signs off on each one.

Why Southern California: the work is technical, but the practice is local. Two on-site visits per month inside ninety minutes of San Diego is a feature, not a backdrop. Enterprise AI is easier when the senior practitioner of record can sit at your conference table on a Tuesday.