LLM Engine — our own Android app
A local-LLM chat app with voice, personas, and streaming, built end-to-end in-house. Coming to the Play Store.
We build our own AI products first.
Everything we sell, we've shipped to ourselves first. It's how we know what actually works — and what's hype.
Built in-house, shipped to clients
The aussieretrogames pipeline
A live client system: Telegram photo intake, AI vision grading and pricing, and a human-in-the-loop marketing agent. It processes real inventory every day.
Local LLM infrastructure
Our own multi-GPU inference server — tuned, quantized, and benchmarked in-house. It's what taught us what local AI can and can't do.
This website
Built with our own agent tooling. The ROI calculator, the copy, the pipeline behind it — same approach we bring to client work.
Who you're working with
Phil B — AI Automation Architect & independent consultant. LinkedIn. Remote, working with clients in Europe and Australia.
Northline is run by a practitioner, not a reseller. Fifteen years designing, securing and running enterprise infrastructure, then the last few years on the part of AI that actually pays for itself: automation that removes work rather than adding tools.
Career, in sectors
- 2007–2011 · Field & project engineering. Network infrastructure, servers and structured cabling across hospitals, hotels and public-sector sites.
- 2011–2013 · Technical project management, healthcare. Led national health-network integration projects across multiple hospitals.
- 2013–2016 · Infrastructure management, Dublin hospitals. Managing infrastructure teams from 2013: Windows Server and vSphere estates, vendor selection and negotiation, SLA ownership, major projects.
- 2016–2019 · Operations management, private cloud. Rebuilt an underperforming private cloud platform — 60% performance improvement — leading the operations team, customer communications and change control.
- 2019–now · Technical management, remote. Data-centre infrastructure design and build, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, firewall auditing and security committee, procurement and capacity planning.
- Now · Northline. Owner and builder: AI and automation systems for small businesses — pipelines, agent workflows, local LLM infrastructure, and the monitoring that keeps them honest.
Management since 2013 — teams, budgets, procurement, SLAs and change control, alongside the hands-on engineering.
I build and run these systems myself — the same servers, pipelines and agents I'd build for you, monitored with the same enterprise-grade tooling. No account managers, no hand-offs: when you call, you talk to the person who built it. And I'd rather tell you a task doesn't need automating than sell you something that won't earn its keep.