J. HUNTER JOHNSON LLC · INDEPENDENT CONSULTING

Practical help with software, AI, and data.

I’m J. Hunter Johnson. I help organizations build useful software, put AI to work, and make their data easier to trust.

THE WAY I WORK

Start with the problem.

Understand the goal and the people who need the result.

Make it concrete.

Turn the next useful step into something you can review.

Build for what comes next.

Keep maintenance, handoff, and everyday use in view.

SERVICES

A clear problem. The right kind of help.

Software & integrations

Build the missing piece. Improve what you have.

Custom programming, web development, and integrations for organizations with a practical problem to solve. Start with the people, the existing system, and what needs to work better.

AI adoption & training

Make AI useful in real work.

Find a suitable use case, prototype a workflow, and give people the training to use it thoughtfully. Define how outputs will be evaluated and where human judgment belongs.

Data architecture & modernization

Give your data a clearer foundation.

Make sense of fragmented data, plan better models and integrations, and approach legacy modernization with a clear picture of ownership, quality, and downstream needs.

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SELECTED WORK

Practical problems. Thoughtful solutions.

Three examples across software, AI, and data—from community work and a product of my own.

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THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRACTICE

Senior experience. Personal involvement.

My background spans enterprise data architecture, consulting, software development, and AI adoption. Through J. Hunter Johnson LLC, I bring that experience to clearly scoped contract work.

You work directly with me. I’m based in the Dayton, Ohio area, with a long-standing interest in language, games, and how things fit together.

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A GOOD PLACE TO START

What are you working on?

Tell me what you want to accomplish, what is getting in the way, and any timing or constraints. We can discuss whether I can help.

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From the archive

A curious life, in writing.

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Technology, books, games, and notes along the way. The original writing stays part of the conversation.

The Jobs Your Scoring Model Never Gets to See

A blank job-title field doesn’t necessarily mean an unrestricted search. In a job-search application I’ve been developing, a search with no manually entered titles could use suggestions drawn from the user’s resume. Those suggestions narrowed the search before the AI model scored the postings, so a missing job could be a filter decision the user […]

Setup Is Allowed to Change the Board. Reload Isn’t.

A saved game should let you continue making questionable decisions from where you left off. It shouldn’t give you a fresh board and pretend those decisions never happened. In my Goblin Slayer work in Tabletop Simulator, setting up the cave and loading a game in progress have different jobs. Setup can arrange the cave tiles; […]

One AI Course, Several Starting Points

If one person in an AI workshop needs help finding the prompt box and another is building an application around it, “follow along” leaves a few things unspecified. You can give them different amounts of help while still expecting both to check whether an answer is supported. For a fictional exercise, suppose a community group’s […]