Human Software Architect + Artificial Intelligence
Better. Stronger. Faster.
I bring senior CIO/CTO judgment to growing businesses running NetSuite, Shopify, and the systems around them. My AI-automated delivery pipeline does the production work of a full consulting team at a fraction of the cost.
We ship in hours what consulting teams deliver in a week. I ran my own agency for 8 years, so I know exactly what I'm beating.
The bottleneck has never been the talent - it's always been the budgets and timelines.
Leveraging 30 years of operational and technology experience, I diagnose business problems, while my team of bespoke, hand-trained AI agents craft and validate the solutions. Enterprise-grade performance and quality on the platforms you already own, without the old-school agency overhead.
Everyone is talking about how AI will change business. DreamSight is transforming businesses: a highly functional and cost-effective human / ai delivery hybrid - in production today - not vaporware or a half-working prototype.
TLDR: We crush budgets and timelines.
- 10X
- Tech work completed
- Large delivery team output
- 2X
- Quality tested
- By Human, By AI
- 1X
- Tech work cost
- Seasoned tech architect + AI
- 0.05X
- Time to deliver
- Days - not weeks or months
Organizations I've helped
I'm not here to sell AI. Or myself. I'm here for the opportunity to prove that me + AI are the results-driven, cost-effective answer to your business's technology questions.
Same results at a fraction of the cost.
Solving a business problem with an agency means engaging a team of specialists (PM, BA, solution architect, developers, a senior reviewer, QA, and DevOps) at eye-watering hourly rates who necessarily engage in constant meetings with time-consuming handoffs between them. That coordination is absolutely necessary for that model to work, but comes at a high cost. I bring executive-level experience and judgment to rooting out inefficiency and revenue leakage and put my team of AI agents on building working, tested solutions. That production pipeline is my differentiator, and it isn't tied to any one platform: the same process delivers on whatever systems you already run.
Traditional approach
- ○ Project manager + business analyst
- ○ Solution architect
- ○ Developer(s)
- ○ Senior developer (code review)
- ○ QA engineer
- ○ DevOps / admin
- ○ PM coordination throughout
8 roles · endless meetings · handoff delays · costly overhead
How I deliver
- You + me
We dig into your workflows, the pain points and bottlenecks, and determine what success looks like
- AI-assisted
Business Analysis to help root out all the edge cases and potential pitfalls before anything gets built
- AI-automated
Architecture · Development · Code review · QA and Testing · Documentation
- You + me
I verify every result and deploy; you sign off on the outcome
Senior judgment on both ends. AI efficiently delivers the work in between, and nothing ships until I've reviewed it.
What you get: direct access to a senior architect/analyst on every decision, answers in minutes instead of a chain of command, and a lean pipeline where AI handles the rote execution while 30 years of experience guides the strategy. The solutions are built for the platforms you already run, with no new vendor to manage, so you get high quality results in a fraction of the time and cost. Real example: a purchasing system a traditional team estimated at ~240 hours, designed and shipped in about 35.
Three ways I engage
Where I fit depends on what the business needs.
Fractional CIO / CTO
Senior technology leadership without a full-time hire. For a growing company with no IT leadership, I become it; for a team that has outgrown its tools, I find or build new ones: roadmaps, honest build-versus-buy calls, and steady oversight on the projects that can't fail by a leader who knows how to ensure successful project delivery, from procurement through user acceptance and support.
Learn more →Technology Services
Thirty years of analyzing, designing and building the systems businesses run on: ERP, WMS and CRM implementations, business process automation, and the integrations that make your systems finally talk to each other.
Learn more →AI Solutions
Guidance on where AI can actually help your business, and where it won't, then the build: business intelligence, chatbots, marketing automation, and intelligent automation that earns its keep.
Learn more →Platform expertise
Deep, hands-on work on the platforms most of my clients already run.
NetSuite Consulting
SuiteScript development, workflow automation, and rescues for NetSuite implementations that stalled or never quite fit the business.
Learn more →Virtual NetSuite Admin
Ongoing NetSuite administration for a fraction of a full-time hire: the day-to-day upkeep, fixes, and enhancements your account needs.
Learn more →NetSuite + Shopify Integration
Real-time inventory, order, and catalog sync, so a sale in any channel updates your ERP and your books automatically.
Learn more →Shopify Development
Storefront builds, theme work, and technical SEO on Shopify, tuned to convert and to feed your back office clean data.
Learn more →shipping throughput, with zero added warehouse staff
same/next-day ship rate, doubled year-over-year
e-commerce revenue invoiced and collected, automatically
in software licensing fees avoided
Figures from a live engagement with a multi-brand wholesale distributor.
Featured case study
How I rebuilt a distributor's entire technology backbone for a fraction of agency cost
A family-owned, multi-brand wholesale distributor came to me with an ERP implementation off the rails, siloed systems, and paper-based warehouse operations. Over roughly ten months as a fractional CIO I replaced the failing vendor, fixed a platform-wide performance bug, built a custom warehouse management system from scratch, rebuilt and launched their ecommerce store, implemented marketing automation, rolled out retail POS, and introduced AI across the organization, all significantly under budget estimates.
The payoff shows up in the daily numbers: a custom warehouse system built for about $28K against a $168K quote, roughly 1,700 finance transactions a month now posting themselves (about 20 hours a month back for the bookkeeping team), order-to-ship time down about two days, and shipping throughput up 42% with no added warehouse staff.
- $28K vs. $168K custom WMS build
- ~20 hrs/mo bookkeeping automated away
- +42% shipping throughput, no added staff
Not sure where to start? Start with a roadmap.
If you know something's holding the business back but can't name the one thing to fix first, that's exactly what a Technology Roadmap is for. I look at the systems you run and talk to the people who use them across sales, procurement, fulfillment, support, and cash flow, then come back with a clear, prioritized plan for where technology will actually pay off.
You walk away with a short, plain-English blueprint
Your bottlenecks, ranked
The constraints costing you the most, and the fastest way to clear each one.
A procure / keep / fix / scrap / integrate plan
Which systems to buy, which to keep as-is, which to modify, what should be integrated, and which to retire, with the reasoning behind each.
A phase one cost estimate
What the first round of work costs to execute, so you can act without guesswork.
How the Technology Roadmap Works
A proven three-step process
Discover
I sit down with the people doing the work (sales, operations, fulfillment, finance) and map how things actually run. This is the why before the what: I won't prescribe a fix until I understand the problem.
Assess
I find where technology and AI will move the needle most, and, just as importantly, where they won't. You get an honest read, not a pitch for whatever I happen to sell (I have no affiliations to technology companies, so I am committed to finding the best solution to your specific problem, whether it be enhance, buy or build).
Recommend
You get a plain-English roadmap: quick wins you can act on now, and a longer-term plan tied to real business outcomes. Clear enough to hand to your team, specific enough to build from.
In their words
A few notes from 250+ engagements across DreamSight and Summit Technologies.
“As a small nonprofit moving off antiquated spreadsheets, I was terrified to try a real CRM again. Mike and his team met my apprehension with confidence and reassurance, and positioned us for opportunities we hadn't imagined.”
“On a limited budget with very specific needs, Mike made a formidable task doable, and even enjoyable. He never said 'no,' troubleshot every hiccup even outside the original scope, and we didn't deviate from timeline or budget.”
“A sharp, solutions-driven thinker. He understood our goal and delivered a simple, practical solution that made an immediate impact: real value, without overcomplicating anything.”
Why DreamSight?
30-Day Satisfaction Guarantee
If you're not satisfied with the results in the first 30 days, I refund your investment. I'm here to deliver measurable improvements, or you don't pay.
Free AI Readiness Assessment
Start with a no-cost AI Readiness Assessment. I'll look at how your business runs today and show you exactly where AI can have an immediate impact, and where it can't. Honest read, no obligation.
Flexible Monthly Engagements
Month-to-month, no long-term contracts. Scale up, scale down, or pivot as your needs change. You keep control and flexibility; I bring the strategy and the build.
Meet your architect
Mike Leibrand
I've spent 30 years and 250+ projects building the systems businesses run on. Before consulting, I founded and ran two manufacturing companies of my own (about 200 people and $25M in combined revenue), designing and building their ERP, CRM, marketing automation, warehouse, and shipping systems. Then I scaled a Salesforce consulting firm to 20 people and $3.5M before selling it. When you work with me, you get a senior business leader's judgment directly, not a junior team learning on your budget.
Let's talk through where technology will pay off fastest.
A 25-minute, zero-pressure call. You'll leave with a clear read on my process and where to start, even if we never work together.