I learn how your work actually runs, then build the solution that makes it better.
I'm Josh Nielsen, an industrial and systems engineer with a PhD from the University of Louisville. I have built working solutions for architects, manufacturers, public health teams, clinical researchers, and a small manufacturer's marketing. Every project starts with listening.
A Louisville architecture firm now numbers an entire floor in seconds.
The firm's architects spent hours tagging and renumbering doors and rooms in Revit every time a client changed a multi-unit layout. I came to the project new to architecture, so I started by learning exactly how the firm numbers a building and how Revit works underneath. The result is AutoTagger, a solution that follows the firm's own conventions and runs inside the software its architects already use.
"This is awesome! It saves us countless hours of busy work spent renumbering door and room tags."Cash Moter, Joseph and Joseph ArchitectureRead the AutoTagger story
The same approach carries from one field to the next.
I think in systems and processes. That habit lets me learn a new kind of work quickly and choose methods that are proven to produce the outcome.
Learn your work first
I listen until I understand how the work really moves, including the exceptions your team handles without thinking about them.
Think in systems
I map the steps, the hand-offs, and the numbers, then apply methods from industrial engineering and operations research that fit the problem.
Fit what you use
Solutions run inside the tools and routines you already have, so your team adopts them without changing how it works.
Leave you independent
You can change and improve what I build, and I teach your team how. I will try to do this job so well that you won't need me again.
Recent projects
Each project lists its real status, so you can see what is in daily use and what is still a prototype.
Functionable
A private, installable daily companion that helps people with ADHD and anxiety start important work, practice coping skills in the moment, and plan tomorrow the night before.
Read moreFrom three marketing pitches to an owner who runs his own AI
The owner of a small sensor manufacturer was weighing marketing retainers of about $1,800 a month. After a couple of hours of teaching, he now improves his own website with AI and has taught two family members to do the same.
Read moreSystem Studio
A prototype that turns what a team knows about its process into a shared model with sourced numbers, then matches that model to 41 well-studied problems from operations research.
Read moreLiving kidney donation research
Seven years of studying one hard problem deeply, which produced methods in data mining, language models, and optimization that generalize well beyond it.
Read moreA systems view travels well from one field to the next.
A door numbering scheme, a material delivery route, a public health review queue, and a marketing plan look nothing alike. Underneath, each one is a process with inputs, rules, hand-offs, and a few points where time or quality is lost. Industrial engineering gave me a way to see that structure, and AI tools now let me build for it quickly.
- Architecture
- Automotive manufacturing
- Public health
- Clinical research
- Facilities management
- Marketing
Tell me about the part of your work that makes you say “There's got to be a better way to do this!”
The first conversation is free and takes thirty minutes. You describe the work, and I tell you honestly whether I can help and what a first step would look like.