Profile
Identity and working thesis
- Name
- Tristin Esfandiari
- Base
- San Diego, California
- Practice
- Independent Consultant, AI and Operations
- Capacity
- A few engagements at a time
Fifteen years building operating systems, the last three inside AI products. I run workflow discovery, choose the use case, build the thing, and stay until the team runs it without me. Most recently a regulated clinical review that went from 6 hours to 20 minutes, with the clinician still making the call.
Good businesses, working better.
How we'd work together
I get called in when a company has more information than it can use. The first decision is the one that matters: what to systematize, what to automate, and what to leave to a person. The build comes after, and it is the easier half.
M&A, healthcare, staffing, and creative services. I teach this at UC San Diego's Rady School, and I keep room for a few engagements at a time. If I'm booked, I'll tell you straight.
An embedded sprint inside your leadership team
- Decide which workflows are worth automating and which are not, deploy the ones that are, and build the habits that keep them running after I leave.
A one-day leadership workshop
- Ends with your use cases ranked and a 90-day plan your team actually owns.
Decide
We map how work actually moves through your company, then rank it. Some of it is worth automating. Some of it is worth leaving alone. You get the reasoning, not just the list.
Deploy
I build the workflows that earned their place and put them in front of the people who will use them. Confidentiality, review gates, and audit trails are designed in, not bolted on.
Hand off
Your team runs it without me. That means training, documentation, and a cadence they keep. Every engagement is built to end.
Selected work
6 selected builds
ContraSight
Three-to-five-hundred-page donor records turned into cited, severity-ranked case reviews a clinician approves. Preserved as a working demo on fictional data.
Halfshade
Redaction that lets associates run deal documents through commercial AI tools without exposing client detail. Confidentiality is the specific reason most advisory firms stall on AI.
Demo Day, 2025
The winning pitch at UC San Diego's Basement Demo Day, posted by UC San Diego Innovation.
Mauralink
An assessment that shows a manager and a direct report how they are likely to work together, before the friction rather than after it. Research to a live platform in six months.
mytxt.dev
Point it at any documentation site and get back a standards-compliant llms.txt. 2,800+ sites scanned.
ClassCheck
QR attendance for classroom teaching workflows. React and Supabase.
The AI Pragmatist
Monthly dispatch and essays
Book a thirty-minute fit check.
Direct routes, no gatekeeping
Tell me where AI is stuck in your company. You leave with a decision either way, whether or not we work together.
- Human site
- https://www.esfandiari.dev