web02.fireside.fm Fri, 01 May 2026 09:35:14 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Vanishing Gradients - Episodes Tagged with “Consulting” https://vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/tags/consulting Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +1100 A podcast about all things data, brought to you by data scientist Hugo Bowne-Anderson. It's time for more critical conversations about the challenges in our industry in order to build better compasses for the solution space! To this end, this podcast will consist of long-format conversations between Hugo and other people who work broadly in the data science, machine learning, and AI spaces. We'll dive deep into all the moving parts of the data world, so if you're new to the space, you'll have an opportunity to learn from the experts. And if you've been around for a while, you'll find out what's happening in many other parts of the data world. en-us episodic a data podcast with hugo bowne-anderson Hugo Bowne-Anderson A podcast about all things data, brought to you by data scientist Hugo Bowne-Anderson. It's time for more critical conversations about the challenges in our industry in order to build better compasses for the solution space! To this end, this podcast will consist of long-format conversations between Hugo and other people who work broadly in the data science, machine learning, and AI spaces. We'll dive deep into all the moving parts of the data world, so if you're new to the space, you'll have an opportunity to learn from the experts. And if you've been around for a while, you'll find out what's happening in many other parts of the data world. no data science, machine learning, AI Hugo Bowne-Anderson hugobowne@hey.com Episode 38: The Art of Freelance AI Consulting and Products: Data, Dollars, and Deliverables https://vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/38 c1a5c8d1-777a-41b7-a123-6b06861dbc35 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +1100 Hugo Bowne-Anderson full 1 Hugo Bowne-Anderson Hugo speaks with Jason Liu, an independent AI consultant with experience at Meta and Stitch Fix. At Stitch Fix, Jason developed impactful AI systems, like a $50 million product similarity search and the widely adopted Flight recommendation framework. Now, he helps startups and enterprises design and deploy production-level AI applications, with a focus on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and scalable solutions. 1:23:47 no Hugo speaks with Jason Liu, an independent AI consultant with experience at Meta and Stitch Fix. At Stitch Fix, Jason developed impactful AI systems, like a $50 million product similarity search and the widely adopted Flight recommendation framework. Now, he helps startups and enterprises design and deploy production-level AI applications, with a focus on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and scalable solutions. This episode is a bit of an experiment. Instead of our usual technical deep dives, we’re focusing on the world of AI consulting and freelancing. We explore Jason’s consulting playbook, covering how he structures contracts to maximize value, strategies for moving from hourly billing to securing larger deals, and the mindset shift needed to align incentives with clients. We’ll also discuss the challenges of moving from deterministic software to probabilistic AI systems and even do a live role-playing session where Jason coaches me on client engagement and pricing pitfalls. LINKS The livestream on YouTube (https://youtube.com/live/9CFs06UDbGI?feature=share) Jason's Upcoming course: AI Consultant Accelerator: From Expert to High-Demand Business (https://maven.com/indie-consulting/ai-consultant-accelerator?utm_campaign=9532cc&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=instructor) Hugo's upcoming course: Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers (https://maven.com/s/course/d56067f338) Jason's website (https://jxnl.co/) Jason's indie consulting newsletter (https://indieconsulting.podia.com/) Your AI Product Needs Evals by Hamel Husain (https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/) What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs (https://applied-llms.org/) Dear Future AI Consultant by Jason (https://jxnl.co/writing/#dear-future-ai-consultant) Alex Hormozi's books (https://www.acquisition.com/books) The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han (https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/burnout-society) Jason on Twitter (https://x.com/jxnlco) Vanishing Gradients on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vanishingdata) Hugo on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hugobowne) Vanishing Gradients' lu.ma calendar (https://lu.ma/calendar/cal-8ImWFDQ3IEIxNWk) Vanishing Gradients on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@vanishinggradients) AI, LLMs, machine learning, data science, GenAI, consulting Hugo speaks with Jason Liu, an independent AI consultant with experience at Meta and Stitch Fix. At Stitch Fix, Jason developed impactful AI systems, like a $50 million product similarity search and the widely adopted Flight recommendation framework. Now, he helps startups and enterprises design and deploy production-level AI applications, with a focus on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and scalable solutions.

This episode is a bit of an experiment. Instead of our usual technical deep dives, we’re focusing on the world of AI consulting and freelancing. We explore Jason’s consulting playbook, covering how he structures contracts to maximize value, strategies for moving from hourly billing to securing larger deals, and the mindset shift needed to align incentives with clients. We’ll also discuss the challenges of moving from deterministic software to probabilistic AI systems and even do a live role-playing session where Jason coaches me on client engagement and pricing pitfalls.

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This episode is a bit of an experiment. Instead of our usual technical deep dives, we’re focusing on the world of AI consulting and freelancing. We explore Jason’s consulting playbook, covering how he structures contracts to maximize value, strategies for moving from hourly billing to securing larger deals, and the mindset shift needed to align incentives with clients. We’ll also discuss the challenges of moving from deterministic software to probabilistic AI systems and even do a live role-playing session where Jason coaches me on client engagement and pricing pitfalls.

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