INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING / KANSAS CITY + REMOTE

Less busywork.
More business.

Put your repetitive work on a better system.

Custom software, useful AI, and connected tools—built around the way your business actually runs.

Work directly with the engineer who builds it.
A SYSTEM WITH A SPECIFIC JOBILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE

A clear next step for every inquiry.

01Capture the request
02Organize the details
03Prepare a response
04You approve the next stepHUMAN CHECKPOINT
WHAT COMES OUT

A structured lead, a proposed next action, and a response ready for review.

No message goes out without the permission you set.

THE DAS STANDARDClear scope.Visible evidence.You stay in control.
01 / FIND THE FRICTION

Your next advantage
might be a better workflow.

Start with the task that keeps stealing attention. We’ll work backward from the result you need.

01AUTOMATION & INTEGRATIONS

Make your tools work together.

Connect the systems you already depend on. Replace repeated copy-and-paste, scattered handoffs, and manual reporting.

02AI WORKFLOWS & AGENTS

Give AI a clearly defined job.

Build an assistant around an actual workflow, with explicit permissions, review points, and a record of what happened.

03CUSTOM SOFTWARE & REPAIR

Build what your business is missing.

A useful internal tool, a reliable API connection, or a focused repair to the software holding your team back.

02 / A PRACTICAL FIRST ENGAGEMENT

One workflow.
A working pilot.

A useful first project should earn the next one.

We define one problem, agree on what success looks like, and build a bounded solution you can inspect before deciding what comes next.

Tell us what slows you down

Scope, price, and acceptance criteria are agreed before implementation.

YOUR DELIVERY PACK01—05
01

A clear scope

The outcome, boundaries, tools, and decisions that stay with you.

02

A working implementation

A focused solution built for the agreed workflow.

03

Evidence it works

A demonstration and verification against your acceptance criteria.

04

A recovery path

Rollback instructions and what to do if something fails.

05

A proper handoff

Documentation, ownership, and a clear next-step recommendation.

03 / HOW WE GET THERE

From “this takes forever”
to “this is handled.”

Automation is useful when the result is trustworthy—and someone is accountable for it.

01

Understand the work

Walk through the real task, the current tools, and the exceptions. Decide what is worth automating.

02

Build the smallest useful system

Keep the first scope focused. Make permissions, costs, and review points explicit.

03

Prove it. Then hand it over.

Review actual results, recovery steps, and documentation. Expand when the pilot earns it.

04 / MEET YOUR ENGINEER

Built by Cameron.
Accountable to you.

Direct Autonomy Systems is an independent software and AI engineering practice.

I’m Cameron Marriott. I build systems with a simple standard: being busy is not the same as making progress. The work should leave you with a useful result and evidence you can inspect.

Explore my public engineering work
NO BLACK BOX PROMISES.

You receive an agreed deliverable, a way to verify it, and a person responsible for the handoff.

BEFORE WE BEGIN

Good questions.
Straight answers.

Do I need to know exactly what to build?

No. Start with the task, the tools you use, and what keeps going wrong or taking too long. We’ll use that to identify a useful first scope.

Can you work with our existing tools?

That is the starting point. We’ll check available integrations and access before recommending a solution or a replacement.

Will AI make decisions or contact people on its own?

Only within the permissions explicitly agreed for your project. Approval checkpoints are part of the design, not an afterthought.

What happens after the pilot?

You receive the agreed implementation, verification evidence, recovery instructions, and documentation. Further work is a separate decision based on what the pilot demonstrated.

LET’S MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL

What would you
stop doing
manually?

Tell us the task, the tools, and where things get stuck. A short description is enough to begin.

founder@directautonomy.com

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