# I make the call your AI project, or your Airtable system, has been avoiding. > Alex Cinovoj, Founder & CTO of TechTide AI and a 13-year US enterprise IT operator. Production AI systems, and getting operations off Airtable dependency. Canonical: https://alexcinovoj.com/ Hey👋, I’m Alex I’m Alex Cinovoj, Founder & CTO, TechTide AI, and a 13-year US enterprise IT operator. Two decisions bring people to me: whether an AI workflow stuck between demo and dependable operations should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. I write about both here, and I run both decisions through TechTide AI. ## What needs a decision? Two decisions bring people here. Each one has a fixed engagement at TechTide AI that ends in a written call, not a proposal. Scope and pricing live there. ### The demo works. Operations do not. An AI workflow sits between a convincing demo and something operations can depend on. Nobody can say whether it is safe to trust, and nobody wants to make that call in a meeting. - A pilot that has almost shipped for two quarters - Agents nobody trusts with irreversible actions - No evals, no traces, no way to prove a change was safe - Model spend nobody can attribute to a workflow Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI returns one decision: Ship, fix, redesign, or stop. ### Airtable became the system of record. A base that started as a spreadsheet upgrade now runs business-critical work. The open question is not tooling taste, it is whether to stay, stabilize, go hybrid, or exit. - Core operations living in bases nobody fully understands - Automation and record limits shaping process instead of the reverse - Per-seat cost rising faster than the value per seat - No real access control on data that should be locked down Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint at TechTide AI returns one decision: Stay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit. Not ready for a full decision engagement? Bring one named blocker to a Production Block Call and leave with one recommendation. Build work is Critical System Implementation, the application-only next step after a decision engagement, on fixed scope. It is never the first conversation. ## Choose the decision you need This site is where you check who I am and what I have built. Scope, sequencing, and pricing live at TechTide AI. ### Systems Decision Audit An AI workflow blocked between a working demo and dependable operations. Returns: Ship, fix, redesign, or stop. ### Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint A business-critical Airtable system that now decides what operations can do. Returns: Stay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit. ## About Alex Cinovoj Alex Cinovoj is Founder & CTO, TechTide AI, an AI-automation agency in Columbus, Ohio, and co-host of the Automation Vibes podcast. He is a Lovable Champion, an earned Discord community support volunteer role, a Lovable beta user of more than a year, and a 13-year US enterprise IT operator. Through TechTide AI he runs two decision engagements: whether a stalled AI workflow should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. ## TechTide AI and the two decisions TechTide AI is the AI-automation agency Alex founded for operators with a system they can no longer trust. It takes on two decisions: whether an AI workflow stuck between demo and dependable operations should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. Scope and pricing live there, not here. Work runs through one of two decision engagements: Systems Decision Audit for AI stuck short of dependable operations, and the Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint for operations that outgrew their base. - Billing - Support - Docs - Spreadsheets - Inboxes - Project tools - AI tools No more five tabs, three people. Workflow questions, resolved. Act with your context, not against it. ## My projects Agent governance and control-plane systems, open source where public, described where private. ### ClawKeeper 110-agent finance platform where a deterministic policy engine runs tenant, capability, and approval checks before any LLM call. $0 default autonomous spend, database-enforced immutable audit log. Live demo and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07. Proves the mechanism behind the Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI. ### TechTide Harness Kit Trust contracts as JSON Schema: risk tiers, tool permissions, deny-by-default egress, approval gates, compliance mappings. Prompt-injection threat model with adversarial fixtures, ~28 CI gates. Live docs and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07. ### CipherClaw Multi-agent debugger with zero LLM calls in the analysis path: causal graphs, weighted root-cause scoring, failure prediction. 206 zero-mock tests, zero runtime deps, no network egress. Live site and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07. ### Swarm 357 357-agent orchestrator governed by per-agent budget caps, a pattern-matched bash security gate, auto-downgrade daily budgets, a hard per-run spend ceiling, and correlation-ID telemetry. ## Product Builds Products Alex builds and ships himself, alongside his production AI work. Proof of product building, not an offer. ### Y2KSelfie.ai An AI photo experience that transforms modern selfies into nostalgic Y2K-era portraits. ### Ship With Bob A voice-first task manager that turns a spoken brain dump into small, prioritized jobs so users can decide what to do now, next, and later. ### Syncra An interactive law-firm operations portal demonstrating AI-assisted document intake, classification, routing, approvals, and role-based workflows. Proposal demo built for a California law firm. ## Speaking and Workshops Alex speaks and runs workshops on production AI, workflow intelligence, operating layers over point tools, and why most AI pilots stall before they reach real business systems. Talks come out of live implementation work at TechTide AI, with no slideware and no vendor spin. - Deciding when an AI workflow is dependable enough to trust - Why AI pilots fail (and what production actually requires) - Operating layers over point tools: the connective tissue thesis - From n8n to autonomous agents without losing your team ## Automation Vibes Automation Vibes is the co-hosted, operator-led podcast Alex runs on production AI and automation that actually stick. Each episode is a field report from real implementations, covering tool teardowns, why-it-broke postmortems, and what a serious team would ship next week. Tool teardowns · Field reports from real implementations · Why-it-broke postmortems · What we’d ship next week if we were you. ## Operator Background Alex is a 13-year US enterprise IT operator whose career compounded from the help desk into systems and cloud engineering, then architecture, and finally into full-time AI implementation as Founder & CTO, TechTide AI. Every layer of the operating intelligence thesis was learned inside real businesses, not invented on a slide. - 2013 TO 2016 Help desk & field ops Frontline support inside US enterprises. Learned how work actually moves, from tickets and exceptions to the humans who route them. ### Help desk & field ops Frontline support inside US enterprises. Learned how work actually moves, from tickets and exceptions to the humans who route them. - 2016 TO 2020 Systems & cloud engineering Systems administration, cloud migrations, identity, monitoring. The connective plumbing under the org chart. ### Systems & cloud engineering Systems administration, cloud migrations, identity, monitoring. The connective plumbing under the org chart. - 2020 TO 2023 Architecture & platform work Designing across CRMs, billing, support, and internal tools. Watching where integrations fail, and how much money leaks through the seams. ### Architecture & platform work Designing across CRMs, billing, support, and internal tools. Watching where integrations fail, and how much money leaks through the seams. - 2024 TO NOW TechTide AI, Founder & CTO Two years focused on AI implementation. Production agents, retrieval, and the unglamorous infrastructure underneath them. This is the arc that taught me which systems are worth shipping and which ones should stop. ### TechTide AI, Founder & CTO Two years focused on AI implementation. Production agents, retrieval, and the unglamorous infrastructure underneath them. This is the arc that taught me which systems are worth shipping and which ones should stop. MEMO · JUNE 2026 ## An AI-first human , talking to machines. I build with AI agents the same way I think. Out loud. Voice in, code out. Wispr Flow is my keyboard now. Same lineage as Ali K. and the AI-native engineering crowd. The fastest interface to a model is your mouth. ### Repo Refiner Orchestrates code reviews, cleans repos, ships dictation-grade commits. Voice is how I move through the codebase. WISPRFLOW.AI ONE MONTH FREE. LIMITED WORDS. GIFTED BY ALEX. ## Work With Alex Every engagement runs through TechTide AI, where scope, sequencing, and pricing live. Start with the decision that is stuck. Build work follows a decision, never the other way around. Critical System Implementation is application only, taken on after a decision engagement, on fixed scope. ## Questions about Alex, TechTide AI, and the two decisions The direct answers people ask about Alex Cinovoj, TechTide AI, speaking, and the Lovable Champion role, written to be quoted verbatim. ### Who is Alex Cinovoj? ### What is TechTide AI? ### What does Alex speak about? ### How do you engage Alex? ### Is Lovable Champion a certification? ## Let’s make the call. Two decisions run through TechTide AI: whether a stalled AI workflow should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. 2026 © Alex Cinovoj Founder & CTO, TechTide AI ### Send a message I usually reply within 24 hours.