AI Systems & Automation
I design and deploy production AI agents with real memory, real workflows, and real governance. Not demos — systems that run daily, file proposals, and surface intelligence you can act on.
Building systems that run your business
AI development, operations consulting, and full-stack tooling for companies that need things to actually work.
What I Build
Operations & Technical Consulting
Full-stack CRM platforms, internal ops tooling, email marketing pipelines, and custom business applications built and deployed from scratch.
Brand & Digital
Web development, brand strategy, and design for businesses that need a stronger presence. Built the way a developer would build it — clean, fast, maintainable.
Selected Work
Operations · Product · Business Development
Showcase Photographers
Rebuilt the operations, brand, and platform for a real estate media company serving 23,000 agent customers.
Operations · Full-Stack Build · Business Development
Music City Building Supply
Building the technology infrastructure and business systems for a surplus building materials operation — from the ground up.
AI Systems
AI Governance System
Designed and deployed a production AI operating system with an oversight architecture built around the principle that constraints live in infrastructure, not in prompts.
E-Commerce · Full-Stack Build
Adams International Products / Big John Nuts
Converted an existing Shopify store to a custom Next.js storefront and built a multi-tenant backend capable of launching multiple child brands.
Web · GEO/AEO Content Engineering · Brand & Digital
Amerikey Realty + John Adams Realty
Built two real estate websites engineered to earn AI citation — competing on local content depth rather than listings, using structured data and an autonomous content pipeline.
Brand & Web
Brass Lantern & Gracie's Café
Co-founded and operated a 20,000 SF boutique mall with 50+ vendors and an in-house restaurant.
Proof of Work
Case Study
End-to-End LBM Operations Platform
- Problem
- Building materials business running on manual processes — whiteboard pipeline tracking, no unified customer data, no marketing infrastructure, no business intelligence.
- Built
- Proprietary end-to-end operations platform handling the full dealer workflow — CRM, quoting, order tracking, call management, outbound email marketing, payment processing, file storage, and an integrated AI agent for business intelligence and supplier discovery. Comparable in scope to enterprise LBM platforms like Paladin and Epicor.
- Outcome
- Business moved from manual whiteboard operations to a production software platform. Outbound email campaigns now running to 20,000+ prospect contacts.
Case Study
23,000-Customer Operations Platform
- Problem
- Fast-growing real estate media company with no unified operations, no customer-facing portal, no marketing infrastructure, and a brand that hadn't kept pace with the business.
- Built
- Full company rebrand — visual identity, positioning, tagline, service packaging, and a new website. Dual-interface platform: internal CRM, invoicing, payroll, and scheduling for the operations team; an agent-facing portal giving all 23,000 customers access to their listing media and shoot history, auto-enrolled at launch. Weekly email campaigns to the full database, authored end-to-end. Geographic expansion into three new states through direct brokerage business development.
- Outcome
- Revenue grew ~25% during engagement. Email open rates ran 24–35% on a 23,000-contact list. Platform served as both internal ops infrastructure and a customer-facing marketing suite.
Case Study
AI Governance System
- Problem
- AI agent producing intelligence with no structured path to decision or action — and no safeguard preventing it from acting autonomously on production systems.
- Built
- Three-pillar AI operating architecture: Research Lab (intelligence gathering), Factory Floor (production workflows), and a governance dashboard where the agent files proposals and the operator reviews and approves. Governance enforced at the infrastructure level — not as prompt instructions, but as hard constraints the system cannot override.
- Outcome
- Running daily in production. The agent publishes a daily blog post, surfaces contractor leads, drafts email campaigns, and sends nightly Telegram session summaries — all unattended, all gated by the governance architecture. The first approved governance proposal changed the agent's own web search infrastructure.
Case Study
Multi-Brand Commerce Platform
- Problem
- A food products company selling on a rented storefront — platform fees, template limits, customer data locked in someone else's system, and no way to launch a second brand without standing up a second store.
- Built
- Custom storefront and a multi-tenant backend built to run several brands from one system: shared catalog, orders, wholesale accounts and tiered pricing, with a single back office on its own subdomain and each brand getting its own public storefront. Later migrated the whole platform onto MongoDB and S3, including replacing the authentication layer — consolidating it onto the same stack as the company's other systems.
- Outcome
- The company owns the platform instead of renting one. The first brand is live, and additional brands launch as storefronts on the existing backend rather than as separate rebuilds.
Live Work
Sites I built. Businesses I work with. Click through.
About
I'm Austin Adams.
I build the software that runs businesses — then I help run the businesses.
Most consultants can tell you what to build. I build it. Most developers can ship a feature. I can also run your marketing department, manage your vendor relationships, and figure out why your pipeline isn't converting.
My background is genuinely unusual: I've co-owned a restaurant, operated a real estate brokerage, run a 20,000 SF retail market, served as fractional COO for a real estate media company serving 23,000 agents — owning the rebrand, the platform, and three-state market expansion — and spent the last two years building a production AI agent and an enterprise-grade operations platform for a building supply business — from scratch, alone, while the business was open.
I started Kickfire Creative because I kept finding myself doing work that didn't fit any one job title. AI development, full-stack engineering, operations strategy, brand design — they're all the same work at the level where things actually get done.
If you need a system built and someone who understands the business it's supposed to serve, that's the work I do.
Nashville, TN · Remote-friendly · austin@kickfirecreative.com
Now
What's actively in progress.
- Trecor Building Supply rebrand (October 2026)
- AIP multi-brand e-commerce onboarding
- AI agent upgrade + John Adams Realty content scaling
Work With Austin
I'm Austin Adams — founder of Kickfire Creative. I build production software, deploy AI agent infrastructure, and solve the operational problems that sit between strategy and execution. I work with businesses that have real problems and need real systems, not slide decks.
I work on retainer, fixed-scope project, or embedded basis depending on what the engagement calls for. If you have something real to build, reach out.
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