PXM CONSULTING / RICHMOND, VAAccepting Q2 engagements

Clarity. Structure.
Systems that ship.

AI-powered tools and operational infrastructure for teams and founders who need enterprise-grade software built fast, without the agency overhead.

Shipped
Real clients, live production, not demos
Scoped
Problem defined in writing before a line of code
Direct
No account manager between you and the work
Flat rate
Priced to the scope, no retainer traps
SERVICES / 01

Two things done exceptionally well.

Most consultants generalize. Every PXM engagement falls into one of two tracks, and both are executed at a level most teams cannot match.

TRACK AAI Tools · Review Systems
AI-Powered Document Review Systems

Custom software that reads your documents, applies an AI analysis layer against the criteria that matter, and delivers structured findings your experts can finalize in a fraction of the time.

Tailored to the specific frameworks and review criteria your firm already uses. The software enforces your process, so output is consistent across reviewers and across clients.

Upload scanned PDFs, image-based filings, or clean digital documents. Content is extracted cleanly and prepared for analysis. No manual retyping, no copy-paste, no lost context.

Every finding lands in one place, organized by criteria, with source citations attached. Reviewers see exactly what was flagged, why, and where in the document, ready to confirm or override.

The AI surfaces, structures, and flags. Your expert signs. That separation is built into the architecture. Your professional judgment is never replaced, and the deliverable is always yours.

Your client documents, your findings, your account. Row-level access controls, private infrastructure, and clear data boundaries, built so your trust boundary holds end to end.

TRACK BStrategy · Systems Design
Fractional Strategy & Operational Infrastructure

For founders and small teams with traction but no roadmap. Precision applied to how you see your business, then systems built so execution becomes repeatable without depending on any single person.

Before anything is built, the real problem is defined in writing, with success criteria, boundaries, and what we are deliberately not doing. You get a document you can use long after the engagement ends.

Map what your team does today, identify where time and accuracy leak, and redesign the workflow so execution no longer depends on one person remembering how it works.

If you have an idea but no plan, the outcome is a concrete roadmap: sequenced, estimated, and grounded in what is actually buildable. Clarity before code.

Custom dashboards, client portals, internal tools, and operational software, built specifically for how your business works, not how a generic SaaS tool forces you to work.

You pay for the work, not the organizational structure around it. No account managers, no coordinator layer, no architecture built to impress other engineers instead of serve your business.

SELECTED WORK / 02

Builds that shipped.

Real products. Real constraints. No mockups.

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Document Review Automation

Professional services firm
AI Document ReviewProduction Deployed

A full-stack AI document review system that ingests large document sets, runs structured analysis against the review criteria that matter, and produces reviewer-ready output for a human expert to finalize and deliver. Scoped in writing before build. Shipped into live client use with the reviewer in control from day one.

Deployed
And operational
Scoped
Written before build
Direct
No account manager
The problem
Expert reviewers spend the majority of their review hours manually reading and cross-referencing documents against defined criteria. The work is repetitive, document-heavy, and difficult to scale across a growing client book without adding headcount.
What was built
A structured ingestion pipeline accepts uploaded PDFs, extracts content via OCR, runs it through an AI analysis layer tuned to the review criteria that matter, and surfaces findings in a reviewer dashboard. The reviewer applies judgment, confirms findings, and produces the final deliverable. The AI handles the read-and-flag layer. The human stays in control.
Stack
Next.jsSupabaseAnthropic APIGoogle Cloud VisionVercel
ABOUT PXM / 03

Built different. On purpose.

Mission
Make enterprise-grade software accessible to teams and founders who need it built correctly, at a pace and cost the traditional agency model cannot match.
Vision
A world where the quality of your software is not determined by the size of your budget. Where a well-architected AI tool built by one sharp person outperforms a six-month agency engagement, because it was built with precision, not process.
Model
Every engagement is diagnosed, scoped in writing, and executed directly. No account manager layer, no agency markup. Jordan Knox is your point of contact from problem framing through production.
JK
Jordan Knox
Founder & Lead Technical Architect
PXM Consulting

Jordan Knox has spent the better part of two decades doing the same thing in different rooms: finding the real problem underneath the stated one and building the system that solves it. Before that became a consulting practice, it was just how he operated.

He is a systems thinker first and a builder second. The code is the implementation medium. The actual work is identifying what is broken, what is missing, and what a sustainable solution actually looks like, then executing it without ceremony.

Every engagement ends in production. Not a recommendation deck, not a prototype, not a slide. Running software in the environment it was built for, used by the people it was designed for, held up to the scrutiny that actually matters.

The method is what makes it repeatable. Diagnose before scoping. Scope in writing before building. Build without detours. Ship, then stay accountable to what’s running in production long after the engagement ends.

“Slow is fast and fast is slow. I am on no one else’s time. The goal is not to move quickly; it is to move correctly.”

Jordan Knox, Founder
i.
The problem before the solution
Every engagement starts with precision diagnosis. No proposal is written, no code is committed, and no scope is signed before the actual problem is defined in writing. Symptoms are not problems.
ii.
The reviewer stays in control
Every AI tool built at PXM keeps the human expert in the decision seat. The AI surfaces, structures, and flags. The human signs. That separation is explicit in the architecture, not a caveat in the documentation.
iii.
Ship something testable, not perfect
A production tool with real users outperforms a polished prototype that never quite ships. Demonstrated results are how trust gets built. Every shipped tool becomes a data point in your credibility.
iv.
No overhead passed to clients
There is no account manager between you and the person building your product. No project coordinator adding latency. No agency markup on tooling. The rate reflects the work, not the organizational structure around it.
PROCESS / 04

How an engagement works.

No retainers before a problem is defined. No proposals before a conversation.

Step 01
Discovery call
90 minutes. Map current state, identify real friction, and determine if PXM is the right fit. No pitch.
Step 02
Scoping document
A precise written definition of what gets built, what does not, and what success looks like. Paid engagement.
Step 03
Build
Flat-rate delivery or retainer depending on scope. Weekly updates. No disappearing acts.
Step 04
Handoff or retain
Full documentation. You own it completely or we stay engaged for maintenance and iteration. Your choice.
Let’s talk

Let’s figure out if we are a fit.

The discovery call is 90 minutes. We map your current state, identify the friction, and determine whether PXM is the right builder for the job.