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Fractional CTO, CIO & CXO services by Daniel Brody, MBA. 30+ years building & exiting tech platforms.
07/29/2026
Three departments. One question. Three different answers.
"What's our actual margin on this order?" Finance says one thing. Operations says another. Sales already quoted a third number to the customer.
That's not sloppiness. That's what happens when a business runs on a dozen disconnected systems that were never built to agree.
So we built AXERP to fix it. ποΈ
One platform, every business function β accounting, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, HR, CRM, projects, support, POS, analytics. 12+ modules on one shared foundation instead of a patchwork held together by spreadsheets and hope.
What makes it different:
π§ The intelligence is the engine, not an add-on. Most "AI-powered" ERPs are a chatbot bolted onto old software. AXERP runs a deterministic optimization engine across every module at once β so the answers are provable and repeatable, not a confident guess.
π Built-in accountability. Every transaction is cryptographically locked to a distributed ledger. An audit trail nobody can quietly edit. When someone says "prove it," you prove it.
π 50+ countries, multi-currency, multi-company. No per-user pricing. No lock-in.
After 30+ years of implementing, rescuing, and sometimes mercy-killing enterprise systems, I'll say the quiet part out loud: the industry decided that three-year rollouts and seven-figure license fees were normal. They aren't.
Take a look π https://axinagroup.com/solutions/axerpplatform/core-erp-overview.html
How many systems does it take to answer one question about YOUR business? π
β Daniel Brody, MBA | Fractional CTO/CIO
07/24/2026
For 200 years, we've made cement the same way β and it costs the planet a full ton of COβ for every ton we pour.
Check out this side-by-side. π
Top row (the old way): mine 3,500 lbs of rock, fire a kiln, burn 6 MILLION BTUs β just to make one ton of Portland cement. Concrete is responsible for about 8% of ALL global emissions. It's the hidden carbon in every building around you.
Bottom row (the Durteq way): What if you didn't mine the raw material at all β but harvested it from the Sargassum seaweed that's already choking Caribbean beaches by the millions of tons?
That's Sargacreteβ’:
π Renewable seaweed bio-mass, not mined rock
π₯ NO kiln β low-temperature formation
β‘ ~90% less energy (under 1M BTUs)
π± An estimated 70%+ cut in COβ
Same result β real ready-mix concrete for real construction β with a fraction of the footprint. Turning an environmental crisis into a building material.
The energy transition isn't just about cleaner power. It's about cleaner materials β decarbonizing the very things we build with.
What other "that's just how it's done" industrial processes do you think are ripe to be reinvented?
07/23/2026
Introducing the AXINA AI Backoffice Suite β your AI-powered back office, with a personal Chief of Staff.
One integrated suite β AXERP, Nextcloud, OpenProject and an optional secure mail server β hosted and secured for you on AWS, and run by a personal AI Chief of Staff that:
βοΈ Briefs you every morning
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Tracks every task and follow-up
ποΈ Files your documents automatically
π£ Even automates your marketing
Stop being your own back office. Let AI run it β while you run the business.
π Learn more: axinagroup.com
What's the one back-office task you'd hand off first?
07/22/2026
Running a small business means you ARE the back office β email, scheduling, follow-ups, filing, and the endless "did I forget something?" loop.
So I built my own AI assistant to handle it. Think of it as a personal Chief of Staff / project manager that:
βοΈ Delivers a briefing every morning β what's urgent, what's due, what moved
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Turns emails & messages into tracked tasks so nothing slips
ποΈ Files documents and keeps the admin tidy in the background
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Blocks focus time and logs where the hours actually went
It's not a chatbot you poke at β it runs FOR you, on a schedule, and reports back. I open-sourced the configuration so other founders can build their own.
π github.com/dzbrody/claude-assistant-config
What's the one back-office task you'd hand off first?
As organizations scale, executive cognitive load increases non-linearly. Fractional CTOs, project managers, and venture operators frequently lose hours to manual data routingβmanually extracting tasks from WhatsApp, auditing boards, and logging calendars.
To solve this operational bottleneck, I built The Autonomic PMOβand we just open-sourced the entire repository.
By leveraging the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP), this system functions as a state-aware, sovereign AI coworker. Operating locally in a macOS workstation, it securely orchestrates workflows across cloud infrastructure, bridging communication (WhatsApp), project management (OpenProject), cloud storage (AWS S3), and office suites (Google Workspace).
π οΈ What it does from the terminal:
/pmo-dedup: Scans open work packages, merges description changes, and closes duplicate tasks.
/pmo-track-time: Fuzzy-matches calendar events with active tickets, calculating and logging spent hours automatically.
/transcribe: Accepts direct Google Meet links or S3 buckets and headlessly processes them using memory-efficient $INT8$ quantized CPU Whisper transcription on EC2 (keeping MacBook bandwidth clean).
/ingest-meeting-notes: Refines unformatted [email protected] summaries into structured tasks, routed to correct projects, and assigned to owners.
π The Business Impact:
95.8% Latency Reduction: Unstructured conversation to formal tracking board update takes under 5 minutes.
Absolute Sovereignty: Zero public cloud leakage. Highly sensitive government metrics, legal contracts, and strategic M&A files stay entirely within our private AWS boundaries.
Highly Cost-Effective: Replaces expensive metered SaaS subscriptions with flat-rate Hetzner or AWS EC2 infrastructure costs (~$5/month).
If your organization is looking to replace manual, fragmented administrative overhead with high-performance, sovereign AI infrastructure, letβs schedule a consultation to build this out for your team.
π Read the Technical Case Study & Blueprint: https://ctorescues.com/autonomic-pmo/
π Clone and Deploy the Repository: https://github.com/dzbrody/claude-assistant-config
06/01/2026
TGI Subsidiary Axina Group Announces Strategic Teaming Agreement with MetaWorldX to Deploy Real-Time Spatial Digital Twins Across the Global Intelligence Corridor
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