The person who recommends is the person who builds.
Vireon AI Labs is a one-engineer practice on purpose. Every inbound is read by Justin. Every Audit is run by Justin. Every Build is scoped, written, and shipped by Justin. There is no account manager — and no junior consultant — in between.
Founder & Principal
Justin Thompson
Eight-plus years writing software for small businesses — owner-operators, two-person shops, family companies. Won't recommend a tool I can't run myself.
I started Vireon AI Labs after one too many calls that went the same way. An owner shows me a $400/month AI platform a vendor sold them. We open it together. They've used 6% of it. I tell them to cancel, hand them a 200-line script that does the one thing they actually wanted, and they thank me — for saving them money on something I didn't even sell.
That's the whole job. Look at what you're already paying for, tell you the truth about it, and — if there's a workflow worth automating — build it for a fixed price and walk away.
I'm a practitioner first. I write the code, run the migrations, watch the logs the morning after deploy. Consultants who've never shipped a thing tend to recommend the kinds of tools that look good in a slide deck and fall over in production. I won't put you on something I haven't run myself.
I'm based in Deerfield Beach, FL. I work with one client at a time on the Build tier so the engagement gets full attention. Audits and Plans run in parallel.
Background
- 8+ years writing software for small businesses
- Owner-operator background across multiple service businesses
- Hands-on with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, n8n, Make, Zapier, Supabase
- Founder, Vireon Labs LLC (dba Vireon AI Labs)
What I work on
- Workflow mapping and automation triage
- Practical AI tooling for 1–25 person businesses
- Plain-English implementation plans you can run yourself
- Fixed-price builds with a documented runbook on delivery
The Audit ($40–$120) is credited toward the Build tier if you move forward — so the discovery cost is folded into the work, not stacked on top.
Smallness, on purpose.
Most consultancies hide their senior people behind a layer of BDRs and project managers. The pitch you got was written by someone you’ll never see again, and the build is handed off to whoever has the most hours free. We don’t do that because we can’t do that.
No
Account managers
Your reply comes from the engineer doing the work, not a relationship manager forwarding it on.
No
Junior consultants
Nobody is learning on your dime. The person on the call is the person writing the code.
No
Hand-offs mid-project
The person who scopes the Build is the person who ships it. No re-explaining context to a stranger in week three.
No
Ten clients in parallel
One Build at a time. If the calendar is full, you’ll hear that on the first call — not after the deposit.
The rules I work by — in writing, so you can hold me to them.
- 01
If we say skip a vendor, we mean it
No referral fees, no kickbacks, no preferred-partner program. The recommendation is whatever survives a cost-vs-fit review.
- 02
Audits credit toward Build
If the Audit ($40–$120) leads to a Build engagement, the audit fee comes off the Build invoice. Discovery isn't double-billed.
- 03
You get the runbook, not a black box
Every Build ships with the prompts, the scripts, the credentials map, and a one-page operating doc. Someone else can take it over without me.
- 04
Hard ceilings on token spend
Every workflow has a monthly cost cap. The first time it tries to go over, it stops and emails the owner — not a $4,000 surprise on the OpenAI invoice.
By appointment, one client at a time on the Build tier.
Audits and Plans run in parallel and usually start within the week. Builds are sequential — whichever engagement is live gets full attention until the runbook is signed off. If the calendar is closed, the contact form will say so before you fill it out.