AI Strategy & Advisory
Cut through the hype. A clear-eyed assessment of where AI actually moves the needle in your business — and where it doesn't — from someone who has built the systems, not just read about them.
AI & DATA PLATFORM CONSULTING — BUFFALO, NY
We build the AI systems
that actually run in production.
Over 30 years in IT, 5+ years shipping AI and data platforms on Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Nickel City AI is one engineer, no bench, no fluff — direct, hands-on work from someone who builds these systems personally, not a slide deck about them.
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Point of Contact, Start to Finish
Certified Microsoft Data Scientist & Azure Engineer
WHAT WE DO
Built on the platforms enterprises already trust
Data Platform Engineering
Databricks and Microsoft Fabric implementation, migration, and optimization. Lakehouse architecture, pipeline design, and governance done by a certified practitioner, not a generalist.
Custom AI Solutions
Applied ML and generative AI systems — from proof-of-concept to something that survives contact with production traffic, monitoring, and real users.
MLOps & Production Deployment
Getting a model out of a notebook and into something that survives real traffic, monitoring, and retraining — the unglamorous work most AI projects skip, and where most of them actually fail.
LIVE WORK
Not a portfolio of screenshots. Applied work you can click into.
Every card below links to something actually built and running — the same hands-on, ship-it approach that goes into a client engagement.
ML / Streamlit
Recommendation Engine Demo
A live model-serving app, built and deployed the same way a client's would be — real inference, not a notebook demo.
View live demo → AutomationWorkflow Automation
n8n-powered pipelines showing how AI and data workflows get orchestrated end to end, not just prototyped in a notebook.
View live demo → MLOpsExperiment Tracking
MLflow tracking real model runs — the unglamorous infrastructure that makes AI projects reproducible instead of one-off.
View live demo →ABOUT
Built by an engineer, not an agency.
Nickel City AI is a Buffalo-based consulting practice built on 30+ years in IT and five-plus years focused specifically on AI and data platforms — Databricks and Microsoft Fabric chief among them. A certified Microsoft Data Scientist with current Azure certifications, who builds and ships these systems personally rather than handing them off to a bench of junior consultants.
No junior bench, no hourly padding — just direct, hands-on work from someone who does the work themselves, start to finish.
Certified Microsoft Data Scientist
Azure Certified
Databricks
Microsoft Fabric
GET IN TOUCH
Have a data platform or AI problem worth solving?
Tell me what you're working with and what's not working. I'll tell you straight whether AI is actually the answer.
adamcodes716@gmail.com