Applied-Systems Studio

We build serious systems.
And ship them to production.

LFX AI is a technology studio. We take hard technical problems — AI platforms, data products, and the high-performance and cryptographic systems underneath — from architecture to production. Real deployments, not decks. And we build our own IP with the same depth. The public tools below are live and verifiable.

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Deployed, not theoretical Client systems in production and public tools you can click today.
Full-stack depth From Cloudflare products down to kernel, cryptography, and applied math.
Confidential by design Private client work described at a high level, sensitive details omitted.
In production
Client systems running live
3 public
Tools you can click today
End to end
Architecture through deployment

Selected Work

Real systems, built end to end — some running in production, some built and demonstrated for clients. Client work is shown sanitized; the private data, prompts, and repos stay confidential.

Built for a client · demonstrated

Enterprise AI Sales Platform

A sales team was buried in manual prospect research and inconsistent outreach. This platform scores prospects, drafts outreach, runs an AI assistant workflow, and produces a daily pipeline briefing — so reps spend time selling, not assembling spreadsheets. Built and demonstrated end to end with the team's real data.

React TypeScript Cloudflare Workers D1 Claude

Client-specific data, prompts, and private repo details are not public.

Running client platform

Competitive Intelligence Pipeline

Turning raw market signals into client-ready intelligence was slow, manual analyst work. This pipeline generates dossiers, tactical battle cards, and visualizations into a tiered client portal — productized and delivered on a schedule.

Workers D1 R2 Stripe LLM Router

Methodology, scoring formulas, prompts, and client strategy are confidential.

Production SaaS

POS Merchant Analytics

Clover merchants couldn't see item-level performance without exporting and crunching it by hand. This app reads revenue, item, and hourly breakdowns straight from the POS — same-day answers, no spreadsheets. Built for a client; generalizable to any Clover merchant.

React TypeScript Clover OAuth D1

Autonomous systems

Daily Intelligence + Social Engine

Staying current across the dev and AI landscape — and posting consistently — is a daily grind. This pipeline pulls public signals, synthesizes briefings, generates captions and images, and posts to social channels on its own, every day.

Cron Workers R2 Claude Haiku LinkedIn API

And three you can open right now — public intelligence tools that pull from open sources, synthesize with an LLM, and publish a fresh briefing every morning, on their own:

06:00 UTC

Trending Intel

GitHub trending repo analysis with categorization and significance scoring.

GitHub Trending
trending.lfxai.dev
07:00 UTC

AI Pulse

AI industry briefing from Hacker News, arXiv, and major AI framework releases.

HNarXivReleases
ai.lfxai.dev
08:00 UTC

Dev Digest

Developer news curated into must-reads, worth-knowing items, and RSS output.

HNRedditGitHub
digest.lfxai.dev

Services — One Lane

One thing, done well: complex technical work taken from scope through deployment. AI platforms and agentic systems, data products that turn scattered inputs into deliverables, and the high-performance or cryptographic infrastructure underneath. Builder-led and accountable end to end: architecture, implementation, review, risk checks, and deployment.

Start with a paid consultation

A focused technical session

A focused entry point before any build commitment. You leave with a written summary: feasibility, direction, key risks, and the honest next step.

What the call clarifies

  • Whether it's technically feasible — and worth doing.
  • What data, systems, and integrations actually matter.
  • What to build, what to buy, what to avoid.
  • What risks must be resolved before pricing a build.
  • Whether discovery, advisory, or a full SOW is the right next step.

How It Runs

01

Qualify

Confirm the buyer, business problem, budget signal, timeline, and technical fit.

02

Consult

Run a paid technical session and produce a written summary of feasibility and direction.

03

Discover

Turn the idea into requirements, architecture, milestones, and SOW-ready scope.

04

Build

Execute through work packages, contractors where useful, PRs, tests, and reviews.

05

Deploy

Ship through review gates, audit checks, deployment approval, and maintenance handoff.

What We're Building

LFX AI isn't only a services shop. The studio develops its own technology and products — the same depth, pointed at durable IP. A selection of what's in progress:

R&D

Automated Analysis Pipelines

Reusable technology for turning scattered, unstructured data into finished, source-graded output — ingestion, multi-step LLM analysis with quality gates, and clean document generation. Engineering we build and adapt per project, not a product we resell.

R&D

Deterministic Systems

Research into low-latency, deterministic networking and scheduling — routing and timing work built and measured on real hardware.

R&D

Verifiable AI

Cryptographic and zero-knowledge methods for making AI and compute activity more verifiable.

Partners & Referrals

LFX AI works with sales partners and referral sources who can identify real business problems, build lead dossiers, qualify prospects, and schedule paid consultations.

  • Sales partners qualify and schedule; Alex scopes and prices.
  • Referral terms are set in a separate written agreement.
  • Eligibility, attribution, and compensation are agreed before an introduction.
  • Private work is described at a high level, sensitive details omitted.

Best-fit introductions

  • Operators with manual workflows.
  • Service firms productizing methodology.
  • Businesses with data-heavy reports or deliverables.
  • Founders who need a technical build path.

About

I'm Alex Merricks, founder of LFX AI LLC. I build and orchestrate production systems across AI platforms, automation, cryptographic infrastructure, and high-performance software.

The operating model is builder-led: scope carefully, architect the system, decompose the work, review the code, audit the risks, and deploy only when the implementation is ready.

Focus
AI systems, automation, data products, technical infrastructure
Stack
Rust, TypeScript, Python, C, CUDA, React, Cloudflare
Location
United States, remote-first

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Technical Consultation

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LinkedIn

/in/alexmerricks

Best first message: what you want to build or improve, what process is broken today, who owns the decision, and whether you are ready for a paid technical consultation.