Charles Cozad

Work with me

I am a Forward Deployed Architect at Climb. Client work goes through Climb now, which means you get a team behind the engagement instead of one person with a calendar.

What Climb does

Climb is a Databricks-native consultancy. The work is fixed-scope engagements that take AI from pilot to production, rather than open-ended time and materials. Common shapes:

  • Data platform modernization without a multi-quarter timeline
  • Unifying pipelines and cutting orchestration cost
  • Real-time inference on governed data
  • AI-native analytics in place of traditional BI

What I bring to it

Forward deployed means I work at your site and on your problem, not from a slide deck. The parts I tend to own:

  • Turning unstructured data into something you can actually query
  • Async pipelines for long-running work, which is most real AI work
  • Evaluation harnesses, so you can tell whether a change helped
  • Leaving your team able to run it after I go. This is the part people skip

Start a conversation

The fastest path is a short note on LinkedIn telling me what you are trying to ship and what has been in the way. I will tell you honestly whether this is a fit, including when it is not. If it is, I will bring in the right people at Climb.

You can also go straight to climb.ai.

A question

What new system is your team trying to get to users that has been harder than expected? I would like to hear what is in the way.