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Review cookie policyPatrick Hughes Independent engineer
From document processing to system integrations, I handle the build, deployment, and handoff.
BMD Pat LLC · Veteran-owned · Nashville, Tennessee
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Inspect the workAgent reliability
An agent wrote 130 pages. Of those, 126 repeated the same four sentences while structure checks passed. I wrote up the failure and the repair.
Read the failure and repairFrom my own operations.
Local AI
I built a sizing desk for choosing a model and a run command. Published measurements sit alongside the estimates, with their sources and limits.
Services
I build AI workflows and the infrastructure around them. Bring a specific task, a migration, or a project that needs another engineer. You work directly with me.
Discuss a projectConnect document and email workflows to the systems you already use. Include human review, clear failure handling, and a way to check the result.
Build internal tools and connect the systems your team uses. Replace repeated copying between applications with a workflow you can check.
Move applications and infrastructure into Azure. Map the dependencies, plan the cutover, and leave a rollback path.
Build the networking, deployments, and monitoring your application needs. Find what is blocking an existing system and get the project moving again.
I subcontract with Microsoft consultancies and managed IT providers on Azure and AI projects. You keep the client relationship. I take on an agreed piece of the delivery, document the work, and hand it back to your team.
Example project scope
One inbox. One document type. One destination. A fixed-scope pilot gives us a working result to test before we take on more.
For example, turn emailed documents into records your team can review. Agree the sample documents, required fields, and acceptance checks before the build. Compare the result with the original manual process.
A file reaches the agreed inbox.
Required fields are extracted. Missing values are flagged.
Your team corrects or approves the draft.
Approved data goes to one system, with a record of the change.
At handoff: the workflow, test results, documentation, and agreed support boundaries. Your accounts stay yours.
Software
AgentGuard and showwork are free and open source. Install either one on its own.
Open source
Put a limit on the run.
Set limits on agent spend, calls, and repeated work. Stop the run when it reaches a boundary.
Open AgentGuardOpen source
Check what the agent finished.
Record completion claims, test them, and keep the evidence. A passing check proves only what it tests.
Open showworkWindows beta
A workspace for agent work.
Project context, queues, runs, and budgets in one place. See the current capabilities and planned features before installing.
Explore BMDBMD is in beta. Windows 3.47.2422 is available to download.
Free Windows beta. No card.
PyPI Stats, trailing month as of October 9, 2026.
648 AgentGuard downloads and 909 showwork downloads. Includes repeat and automated downloads; these are not unique users or customers.
I'm Patrick, an infrastructure and software engineer in Nashville. I run BMD Pat LLC, a veteran-owned business. I build the tools above, write about what breaks, and take responsibility for the result.
An AI workflow, a system integration, or delivery help for your team. Start with the kind of help you need. I will reply about fit and the next step.
At handoff, you get the implementation, test results and documentation. We agree any ongoing support separately.
Prefer to write directly? pat@bmdpat.com
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