# Fred Bliss

> AI strategy consultant and fractional CTO helping enterprises bridge the gap between AI possibilities and organizational realities. Founder of Intersect Next. Chicago-based.

## About

- [Website](https://fredbliss.com): Full background, services, and philosophy
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/fbliss): Professional history and updates
- [GitHub](https://github.com/fblissjr): Open source projects and experiments

## Services

- Fractional CTO/Technical Leadership
- AI Strategy & Advisory
- Implementation Partnership

## Background

Deep AI technical expertise with an uncommon understanding of the disconnect between what's technically possible in AI and what actually gets adopted in the messy reality of enterprise organizations.

Co-founded and built Aptitive (2013-2021), a data and analytics consultancy, from inception to 50+ employees and successful exit via acquisition. Partnered with Snowflake in 2015 when cloud data was emerging. Started working with LLMs in early 2022, prior to ChatGPT.

20+ years in data and analytics, now focused on the convergence of AI modalities and hybrid architectures.

## Expertise

- Building personalized apps, interfaces, and command centers with AI
- Compound AI systems and multi-model architectures
- Hybrid approaches: local models for privacy, cloud for scale
- Making retrieval and RAG work effectively
- LLM security and prompt injection mitigation
- Turning unstructured data (docs, video, conversations) into queryable knowledge
- AI implementation strategy for enterprises

## Philosophy

Enterprise AI success requires top-down executive permission combined with bottom-up domain expert execution. Meeting organizations where they are, not where vendors think they should be.

The power of modern AI isn't another chatbot. It's enabling people across all levels of an organization to leverage untapped data and build personalized tools that understand context, automate the mundane, and amplify human capability.

## Contact

- Email: fred@fredbliss.com
- Location: Chicago, IL

## Optional

- [X/Twitter](https://x.com/fblissjr): Thoughts and commentary on AI
- [Intersect Next](https://intersectnext.ai): Company website