EquiTek Consulting

Engineering leadership
for the AI era

We help organizations build real AI capability — not slide decks about it. Founded by a 30-year engineering veteran who builds and runs AI systems in production every day.

Experience
30+ years
Focus
AI & Engineering
Clients
Executive teams
Approach
Hands-on

Featured Program

AI for Organizations — Executive Intensive

A one-week virtual intensive that gives leaders a working mental model of how modern AI actually behaves — and a 90-day plan to put it to work. Built around the emerging discipline of context engineering: the art of managing the finite attention of AI systems.

Format

Live virtual sessions

Four 60-minute live lectures with Q&A, recorded for later reference. All sessions are cohort-local.
Practice

Hands-on assignments

Build real intuition by working directly with AI tools. Feel the context window, author a skill, configure an agent.
Deliverable

90-day adoption plan

Leave with a tiered governance framework and a concrete roadmap your organization can execute immediately.
Discipline

Context engineering

Learn the core mechanics: context windows, attention curves, skills vs. agents, and why every AI interaction is a context problem.
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Services

What we do.

EquiTek provides hands-on technical leadership at the intersection of AI, engineering, and organizational strategy.

01

AI Consulting & Training

Executive workshops, adoption strategy, and hands-on implementation guidance. From mental models to production systems.
02

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership on a part-time basis. Architecture decisions, team building, and engineering strategy without the full-time commitment.
03

Software Engineering Leadership

Process design, team scaling, interview systems, and engineering culture. Built and led teams from 2 to 20+ engineers.
04

Software Engineer Hiring

Interview process design, candidate evaluation, and hiring strategy. Hundreds of interviews conducted across multiple organizations.
05

Custom Software Development

End-to-end design and implementation of bespoke software systems. From architecture through deployment, tailored to your specific business needs.
06

AI Agent Engineering

Agent orchestration, harness design, structured output architectures, and always-on AI systems running in production.

The Founder

Who's behind EquiTek.

Doug Beardsley is a 30-year engineering veteran who has led teams from 2 to 20+ people, launched a Layer-1 blockchain to mainnet, and managed systems generating nine figures of annual revenue. He co-founded the New York Haskell Users Group, created the Monad Challenges, and won Best AI at the International Obfuscated C Code Contest in 2001 — a reminder that he's been thinking about machines that act intelligently for a quarter century.

Today he runs EquiTek Consulting, building automated trading systems in Rust and operating always-on AI agent organizations in production. His AI work spans agent orchestration, context engineering, structured output architectures, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems at scale. He's not reporting on AI from the sidelines — he's running it in production every day.

2023 – Present
EquiTek Consulting
Founder — AI agent engineering, automated trading, context engineering
2018 – 2023
Kadena
Director of Engineering — L1 blockchain launch, 20+ engineers
2017 – 2018
Takt / Formation
Engineering Manager — Starbucks platform, 9-figure revenue lift
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Let's talk about your AI strategy.