A Maine-based AI services firm
Early Start customers receive 50% off their first skill, workflow or plugin, and its AI audit. Offer ends January 1, 2027.

We officially plan to be open on December 1st, 2026. We're having FREE CALLS and ESTIMATES. Call now and you'll be one of the first people in line when we officially launch. We'll send emails as it gets closer to the date with more updates. Thank you, and I look forward to working with you. -Tommy

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About Samson AI Co.

Samson AI Co. is a Maine family business, started by a marine engineer who spent a decade in engine rooms and came home to Saco.

Tommy Samson in an engine room

Tommy Samson

Forward Deployed Engineer

I'm a Maine Maritime Academy graduate. I spent ten years at sea as a marine engineer and worked my way up to Chief Engineer, keeping generators, boilers, pumps and all the paperwork behind them running, a long way from help.

At sea, when something breaks at two in the morning, the answer is buried somewhere in thousands of pages of manuals, and somebody has to find it fast. That's how I got into AI. I built tools that find the right page in seconds and show where the answer came from, so it can be checked before anyone touches a valve.

Now I'm home in Saco, raising my family and setting up Claude for the people who keep things running ashore: the builder, the marina, the town office, the dental practice down the road.

So what's a forward deployed engineer? It means I work directly with your team. I learn how your business runs, build the AI setup around it, and test it on your real work, all over video calls.

  • Maine Maritime AcademyMarine engineering graduate
  • Chief EngineerMerchant mariner credential, ten years at sea
  • Saco, MaineHome base. We work by video, wherever you are

How we work

  • Plain English

    We explain every step in everyday words.

  • You own it

    Everything we set up lives in your own accounts and files, and we leave a written record of all of it.

  • Your price, in writing

    An estimate before we start and a quote after the audit. Nothing outside it without your OK.

  • 30-day guarantee

    If something we set up isn't working in the first 30 days, we fix it at no charge.