About
Chris Carney
I am a project manager and business analyst who now also builds. I spent ten years running delivery for other people before deciding the two halves of the job should not be split between different people.
Career
I spent the first part of my career inside large delivery teams, on platforms I cannot name but can describe: national logistics, a world leading air quality monitoring system, and an industry leading parcel tracking platform. In every case the job was the same, understand how the business actually works, translate that into something buildable, and see it through to launch. Running alongside all of it since 2015: POSFlow, a point of sale integration business I have kept building the whole way through.
I went independent in 2026 because the gap between planning and building had stopped making sense to maintain. I could specify a project precisely and still watch it drift in the hands of a team that had not sat through the discovery conversations. Working with AI, I can now hold both halves myself, and the work is better for it. This year alone that has meant Buqq, RielSync and Dog Park Explorer, alongside the ongoing POSFlow work.
How I work, in more detail than the homepage
I ask to see how work actually moves through your business, not the org chart version. That usually means a call with whoever does the work, not just whoever manages it. Output is a written summary you can correct before anything else happens.
You get a scope and a fixed price before I write anything. If the scope turns out to be wrong once work starts, that is a conversation and a change, not a surprise invoice.
Retained clients get a standing weekly slot. You see working software in increments, not a reveal at the end. I would rather tell you something is harder than expected in week two than in week eight.
Timely answers to specific questions, one nominated decision maker, and honesty about what is actually broken. Projects slow down when those three things are missing, not when the work is hard.
Where AI fits, and where it does not
AI is not a replacement for the job, it is a productivity tool for it. Planning, understanding what the business actually needs, seeing the edge cases, and delivering a solution that works are still entirely human skills. What AI changes is how much of the execution one person can carry once those judgement calls are made.
The honest answer to "why not just use AI yourself" is to try it: build the same thing in parallel, both sides using AI, but one side bringing the experience to plan the work and catch what a plan is missing before it becomes a rebuild. That is usually the fastest way to see what the judgement is actually worth.
Where it is used
Writing and iterating the application code, once the specification is agreed. Drafting first passes of documentation and content, which I then edit.
Where it is not
Deciding what the business actually needs. Reviewing what gets shipped. Any conversation with you about tradeoffs. That is still entirely mine.
Where I am based
Based in South East Asia, working remotely with clients across time zones.
If this sounds like how you want a project run
Start with a systems review. It costs $500 fixed and you keep the document either way.