I'm Sage Dutra.Here's the longer story.
Fifteen years building systems for organizations that needed them to actually work. Most recently, an autonomous AI pipeline shipping custom production websites at two cents in marginal compute. This page exists for anyone who read my resume and wanted to look closer.
I've spent fifteen years building marketing, software, and operational systems for organizations that needed them to actually work. Salesforce CRMs for thirty to forty user teams. Twenty thousand record migrations. An intake platform deployed to fifteen Oregon healthcare practices under a new regulatory framework. I've trained more than two hundred people on the systems I built.
The thread through all of it is the same. I walk into complex situations, figure out what system needs to exist, build it, and train people to actually use it. Not just to demo well, but to survive contact with the people who have to use it every day.
In early 2026, I rebuilt my entire business around AI. I designed and shipped FORGE, an autonomous multi-agent pipeline that researches a local business, writes a custom HTML website from scratch, generates personalized outreach, processes payment, and runs the monthly retention loop. Built solo. Production today. Marginal cost per custom site: two cents.
Across two companies and a decade of work, every public review is five stars. Salem, Oregon. Five kids. Available immediately.
Two Companies. Ten Years.100% Five-Star.
★★★★★5.0Across Upswing and ClearHaven · Read reviews on Google →Every public review, every year, five stars.
"Sage is the area's premier marketing strategist. We recognized a while back these specific areas were not in our wheelhouse, and Sage has been the perfect fit when it comes to implementing brand work into actionable strategies."
Trusted by 30+ Orgs.Most of Them Local.
FORGE.An Autonomous AI Pipeline.
This is the system that proves the claims on the resume. Built solo. Production today.
- FINDResearch a local business, score it across six dimensions
- OUTFITWrite and build a custom HTML site from scratch
- REACHGenerate personalized outreach, checked against do-not-contact
- GROWProcess payment, run the monthly retention loop
- EMBARKOnboard the customer, expand into new verticals
FORGE runs end to end. It researches a local business, writes a custom HTML website from scratch, generates personalized outreach, processes payment, and retains the customer. Five stages. One human in the loop for quality approval. Durable workflows that resume from the last activity if a worker dies mid-run.
The stack is deliberately small. Temporal for orchestration. Claude Max for creative work. Gemini Flash for analytics. Postgres for state. Vercel for deployment. Per-prospect workspaces persist indefinitely so every build is reproducible, auditable, and compounds learnings.
The pipeline runs whether I'm at the desk or not. Marginal cost per custom site: two cents. A custom researched website now costs less to ship than a stock photo costs to license.
Three More, Built Solo.
FORGE is the centerpiece. These are the three other AI systems I've designed and built. Each demonstrates a different capability.
Founders Circle
An autonomous AI strategy council of seven personas that meets on a schedule and writes its own follow-up work.
Seven named agents with distinct strategic framework lenses (Porter, Christensen, Drucker, Godin, Collins, Meadows, and a first-person prospect simulation). The council debates one topic per day across seven rounds and fourteen hours, votes, and extracts tasks. Other agents claim, peer-review, and ship those tasks. Institutional memory compounds in a tagged Obsidian vault.
Autonomous multi-agent deliberation. Not a prompt with personas. A coordination layer with voting, dependency tracking, source-credibility gates, and a hard refusal to ship unsourced material.
Idea Inbox
A four-stage pipeline that turns Instagram reels into a typed, queryable knowledge corpus.
Share a reel to Discord. The pipeline downloads the video, transcribes the audio, extracts visuals, and decomposes the content into typed knowledge atoms across a twelve-kind taxonomy. A human promotes the good atoms into the curated brain. Three architectural generations to get here.
Pattern recognition and abstraction. Capture is separated from judgment by design. Relevance is a downstream query, not an extraction-time decision. The corpus compounds instead of going stale.
code-factory
A sandboxed multi-agent software engineering framework, run as audit and forensics tooling against my own codebase.
An external multi-agent dev framework (GSD), installed under an isolated runtime so its sixty-plus skills don't pollute the parent project. Used once for a full codebase audit. The strategic value sits in the UI subsystem, which scores visual design against a six-pillar adversarial rubric with file:line evidence.
Multi-agent coordination patterns. Producer/checker separation, bounded revision loops, model-tier routing, mandatory human gates, and adversarial verification that refuses to grade itself softly.
Four AI systems, designed and built solo. Each linked above is a full deep-dive.
Three Stages.Every Engagement.
DISCOVER
I map the workflow end-to-end before I touch a tool. Most implementations fail because discovery is rushed. I sit in on calls, watch the work, and find the bottleneck before designing the fix.
BUILD
I architect for adoption, not just functionality. Fault-tolerant. Cross-functional. Humans in the loop for high-stakes decisions. The system has to survive contact with real users, not just pass a demo.
TRAIN & ADOPT
I don't ship and disappear. Comprehensive documentation, hands-on training, post-launch support. Two hundred-plus people trained on systems I've built. Forty to fifty percent average reduction in admin workload.
This is the methodology behind 15+ enterprise software deployments, four production AI systems, and a 100% five-star rating across two companies and a decade.
Before the AI Builds.
Fifteen years of implementation work. Four projects that illustrate the range.
OHA-Compliant Intake Platform
Built and deployed a regulatory-compliant digital intake platform for 15 Oregon healthcare practices under a newly regulated industry. Concept later adopted by a larger company building the industry's standard software platform.
Loom International CRM
End-to-end Salesforce deployment for a global nonprofit. 20,000 record migration. Workflow automation across multiple countries. Six months of weekly on-site training. Featured in three five-star public reviews.
Communications Department Build
Built a 12 to 15 person department from scratch with 50% international staff. Implemented Salesforce and standardized workflows. 400%+ growth in applicant pipeline over 4 years (50 to 200+ annually). Department still operating on systems I built.
Powerfield Energy Launch
Built the company's entire digital presence from inception. Website, inbound lead gen, sales videos, and brand messaging for an emerging solar installation technology. Implemented Salesforce, trained executive leadership on pipeline management. Company still uses the systems built.
Fifteen-plus enterprise software deployments since 2014. These four illustrate the range.
Fifteen Years ofFive-Star Reviews.
Across two companies, ten years, every public review. See them on Google →
Heads up: you’ll see “Ryan” on older reviews.
I legally changed my name in 2025.
"A creative thinker with the ability to execute."
Five-star rating across every public review. Two companies. Ten years. Zero exceptions.
"The area's premier marketing strategist."
"He did his preparation excellently, followed through on what he promised."
"Incredibly knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"A creative thinker with the ability to execute."
Five-star rating across every public review. Two companies. Ten years. Zero exceptions.
"The area's premier marketing strategist."
"He did his preparation excellently, followed through on what he promised."
"Incredibly knowledgeable and easy to work with."
Years building systems clients still use today.
"Brings fresh ideas and energy to the table."
"He wants the best solution possible for you and your team."
"Well-designed practical training to help us get up and running."
"Intensely creative, with a knack for important details."
Years building systems clients still use today.
"Brings fresh ideas and energy to the table."
"He wants the best solution possible for you and your team."
"Well-designed practical training to help us get up and running."
"Intensely creative, with a knack for important details."
Fifteen Years.Four Lanes.
What I've built with, deeply enough to architect, deploy, and train on.
Likely Questions.
The things people usually ask after reading the resume.
Do you have a four-year degree?+
No. What I have is fifteen years of building systems for thirty-plus organizations with a 100% five-star public review rating across two companies and a decade. Companies that have dropped degree requirements (Google, Apple, IBM, most AI-native startups in 2026) recognize that applied work is the better signal. If a four-year degree is a hard requirement, I'm not the right candidate. If results are, I am.
Have you worked at a tech company before?+
Not as a W-2 employee. I've built and implemented systems for thirty-plus organizations as a founder and consultant, including Salesforce deployments, custom intake platforms, and FORGE, an autonomous AI pipeline that runs end to end in production today. I bring the perspective of having been the customer who had to make the technology actually work. That perspective is hard to develop from inside the industry.
What's the deal with Upswing? Are you still running it?+
Yes, on the side. Upswing is a productized website business serving local trades, with an autonomous pipeline (FORGE) that runs whether I'm at the desk or not. It's intentionally low-touch and does not compete with a senior W-2 role. The work I'm seeking is broader, faster-moving, and operates at a scale I cannot reach alone.
How quickly can you start?+
Immediately. I'm based in Salem, Oregon, fully remote-ready, and not in a notice period.
What's your AI experience, in detail?+
I've designed and built four production AI systems solo. FORGE is the centerpiece: an autonomous multi-agent pipeline using Claude Max (Sonnet and Opus) for creative work and Gemini Flash for analytics, orchestrated with Temporal workflows for durable execution. It researches local businesses, writes custom HTML websites from scratch, generates personalized outreach, processes payment, and runs the retention loop. Postgres for state, Vercel for deployment, per-prospect workspaces for context. In production today, marginal cost two cents per custom site.
Alongside FORGE I built Founders Circle (an autonomous strategy council of seven AI personas with voting, task extraction, and an Obsidian-backed institutional memory) and Idea Inbox (a four-stage pipeline that turns Instagram reels into typed knowledge atoms in a curated brain). I also installed and sandboxed code-factory, a multi-agent dev framework I now use as audit tooling against my own codebase. The deeper breakdowns are linked from the "Other AI Systems" section above.
Are you open to in-office or hybrid?+
Fully remote is the priority. I have five children with a 50/50 custody arrangement, which makes relocation impractical. For the right team and a strong remote culture, occasional travel for offsites and key meetings is fine.
More questions? Email sage.dutra@gmail.com or call 971.304.5342.
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