Embedded Agent Engineer

I find where AI creates real leverage in your business. Then I build and maintain the systems to capture it.

Vik Makarskyy
Vik Makarskyy

What I do

AI Strategy

Find where AI creates real benefits for your business. I audit your operations and return a prioritized roadmap.

Agent Development

Build custom AI agents inside your stack. Automated workflows that handle real work.

Selfware Development

Build custom AI-powered apps and internal tools designed around your specific business needs.

AI Operations

Monitor, evaluate, and improve your AI systems over time. Reliable as your business scales.

Team Training

Train your team to work with AI. They leave with the skills and workflows to own it.

Technical Advisory

Translate business goals into a technical direction. I advise on decisions, priorities, and build plans.

Testimonials

“I brought Vik on as Interim CTO for an autonomous AI video agent we were building, and he’s the real deal. He took ownership of the technical vision, and built the agent architecture from the ground up. His AI and agentic engineering skills are elite, but what sets him apart is how naturally he connects technical execution to business outcomes. He doesn’t build for the sake of building, he builds things that matter. Beyond his skill, he’s got high integrity, low ego, and genuinely generous with his expertise. I’d work with him again in a heartbeat.”

Josef Robey

Josef Robey

CEO, Storytelling Tech

“Vik became our one-stop shop for all things AI. He set up Claude Projects across the team and built multiple agent systems that plug into our QuickBooks data. One agent anlayizes customer order volume, and flags which accounts are growing and which are slipping, even pulls recent news for added context. We’re catching at-risk accounts before they churn, and upsells increased. He made AI feel practical, not overwhelming. Best investment we’ve made this year.”

Albert Lee

Albert Lee

COO, Mochi Foods

“Viktor is truly one of the brightest, thoughtful, and kind colleagues I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. He’s a wonderful teammate, collaborator, communicator, and visionary with an incredible ability to lead teams and execute roadmaps with accuracy, efficiency, and thoughtfulness.”

Arianna Thayer

Arianna Thayer

Head of Marketing, Ox

FAQ

An embedded agent engineer works inside your company, learns the business, and identifies which workflows can run on agents. They build those systems, deploy them, and maintain them. The difference from a consultant is presence: I'm in your Slack, your sprints, your stack. I audit your operations, build production agent systems that run daily, and improve them as the business changes.

Consultants advise. Agencies hand off a deliverable and move on. I work embedded inside your team on an ongoing basis, building and improving your systems over time.

I work with a small number of companies at a time, embedded inside each team on a monthly retainer. You get senior-level execution without a full-time hire and without agency overhead. The relationship compounds — the longer I'm there, the more I know the business and the more I find.

Growth-stage companies, typically Series A through Series C, where operations are scaling faster than the team can manage manually. CEOs, Heads of Operations, and VPs of Growth who want a technical partner, not a vendor.

That's exactly what the AI Strategy engagement is for. I map your operations, identify the highest-leverage workflows, and prioritize a build sequence before writing a line of code.

Let's work together

I work with a small number of teams at a time. Book a call and we'll find the right place to start.

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