Kingdom first
This work is a calling before it is a business. I build for the Kingdom first, which shows up as integrity in the build, honesty in the room, and technology put in service of the people it touches.
Fractional CTO · AI Solution Architecture
Solutions that last.Solutions that matter.
Covenant Systems AI is the fractional CTO practice of J. DeVere Cooley. I help multi-location operators turn scattered data and manual work into AI systems that earn their place: built deliberately, owned by you, measured by what they actually move.
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Trust. Walk. Build.
The Practice
What I build, and what I help you decide not to.
AI solution architecture
Decide what to build, what to leave alone, and how it fits the systems you already run. The right diagnosis before the first line of code.
Unified data foundations
Pull scattered systems into one source of truth that your team and your AI can both read. Everything else is built on this.
Decision dashboards
See the whole operation at a glance, down to the location, the day, and the dollar, with the signal pulled to the top.
Agentic operations
Hand the repetitive work to reliable agents so your people spend their hours on the work that needs a human.
Revenue & acquisition intelligence
Price smarter and screen opportunities faster with models tuned to how your business actually makes decisions.
The Proof
McGreat.
James operates 29 Great Clips locations. His data lived in a dozen places, and his team spent hours a day stitching reports by hand. We unified it into one source of truth, built a live operator dashboard down to the stylist and the shift, and put an AI operator in place to prep managers and run the daily busywork.
People got their time back for the work that actually grows the business. The dashboard is what they see. The intelligence underneath is what compounds.
29
Locations Unified
1
Source of Truth
Hours / Day
Returned to the Team
A word from James is on the way.
James Cummings, McGreat (tagline & review forthcoming)
The Principles
How the work gets done.
BB4C · Breath before code
Pause to understand the problem before writing the solution. The best system is the one built on the right diagnosis, not the fastest demo.
TWB · Trust. Walk. Build.
In that order. Trust before the plan, walk before the sprint, build only what the first two have earned. It is how covenants work, and how good systems get made.
You own your data
Your data is yours, fully portable, and never held hostage. I build on systems you control, so you are never locked into a tool you cannot walk away from.
Intentions matter
A tool is only as good as the intentions behind it. I build for operators who want to do right by their customers and their people.
Built to last
No throwaway scripts dressed up as strategy. Solutions designed to hold up as you grow, and to compound as they run.
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