Tommy Samson
Forward Deployed EngineerI'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