Systems optimization
Connect the data, tools, and procedures your team already relies on.
Build the systems that get manual work out of the way.
Brain in a Vat maps how your team works, then builds the data infrastructure, automations, software, and grounded AI behind it. The result lets your team spend less time moving information around and more time making the decisions that matter.
What I build
Custom software
Build the internal tools and client-facing software the operation is missing.
AI deployment
Give agents dependable business knowledge, explicit procedures, and human review gates.
How I work
Good systems work starts with a model of the operation, not a tool list. I make the states, ownership, evidence, and judgment calls explicit before deciding what software should do.
Audit
Trace the real workflow across tools and people. Name the source of truth, states, owners, handoffs, failure points, and decisions that still need judgment. The result is a prioritized, costed build plan.
Deploy
Build inside the tools the team already knows when they can support the job. Automations are safe to rerun, consequential actions stop for review, and every output can be traced to its source.
Compound
Monitor exceptions and measure the work the system removes. Keep procedures and business rules documented so people and agents use the same playbook, then extend what proves useful.
Selected work
Deal tracker
A brokerage team’s deal lifecycle mapped end to end, with a real-time dashboard built inside the Google tools they already use.
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Tour advancing
One show record drives role-specific forms, missing-information checks, a day sheet, calendar events, and reviewable email drafts.
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Agency operation
Kickoff, targeting, reporting, and AI-readable procedures built into one operating system for a growing agency.
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Bradley Berkman
Bradley built Brain in a Vat Music Promotions and the systems that run it. The consulting practice applies that operating experience to teams whose important work is still held together by memory and manual handoffs.
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