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Thomas Howard

Founder · Technologist · Applied AI · Agentic Solutions Architecture

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I design and build LLM applications, conversational agents, and multi-agent workflows. I'm CTO & Head of Applied AI at Snap eHealth, turning complex healthcare needs into working AI solutions.

Founder of BusyNow, helping people see what’s busy nearby before heading out.

It helps reduce the guesswork of choosing a place, while clearly showing when crowd information is recent, historical, or unavailable.

featured_work

Predictive modeling, conversational AI, agent workflows, and the evaluation behind them.

// predictive machine learning

Fourth Down: NFL Predictive ML

An end-to-end, production-inspired NFL predictive ML application. Real current-season data, explainable frozen-model forecasts, historical evaluation, and an auditable forecast-to-outcome record.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Data engineering

Applied AI engineering · Frozen-model inference · Controlled improvement

// conversational AI

Sally

A healthcare voice agent designed around three workloads: a responsive conversation loop, background analysis, and an evidence-checked visit brief.

  • Conversational AI
  • Tool use
  • Evaluation
Read the Sally essay 7 min
// agent orchestration

Symphony

Engineering workflows that connect a bounded task to an agent-produced change, reproducible checks, and human review.

  • Agentic systems
  • Codex
  • Architecture
Read the Symphony essay 7 min

latest_writing

Notes on applied AI, agentic architecture, and evaluation.

  • Applied AI
  • Predictive ML
  • Architecture

Machine Learning or a Calculator?

A banquet for 180 guests and a sub shop’s weekly turkey order reveal when to calculate, when to forecast, and how to combine the two.

  • Applied AI
  • Startups
  • Engineering

Scaling AI from Seed to Series A

How to evolve your models, evaluations, data, and engineering team while preserving the speed and customer focus of an early startup.