▌ Builder · Operator · AI consultant

I build AI systems for a living, and I run what I build.

I'm Joseph Stevenson, and my day job is pro sports: I lead NBA tracking-system deployments at Sony Sports, and before Sony acquired us I led a 15-person engineering team at KinaTrax delivering the data and computer-vision tools behind games across MLB, the NBA, and NCAA.

Now I point that at small businesses through Kitchen Table AI: I watch your market, I build the tools that save you time, and I run them so they keep working.

Here from one of my emails? The Read, for small-business owners, or KangRoo, for property managers.

Joseph Stevenson · Cambridge, MA · Sony Sports · Hawk-Eye · Kitchen Table AI · taking inquiries
Sony Sports · Hawk-Eye
Lead NBA tracking deployments
KinaTrax (acquired by Sony)
Led a 15-engineer team
Brown University
Sc.M. Biomedical Engineering
Kitchen Table AI
KangRoo in production
Joseph Stevenson
NowSony Sports · Hawk-Eye, NBA tracking
BeforeLed 15-eng team, KinaTrax (acq. Sony)
EducationSc.M. Biomedical Engineering, Brown
Based inCambridge, MA
About

Builder. Operator. AI consultant.

By day I lead basketball-tracking deployments at Sony Sports (Hawk-Eye), rolling out the motion-capture systems that record every game in the NBA. Before that I led a 15-person engineering team at KinaTrax, since acquired by Sony, shipping the data pipelines behind that same biomechanical-tracking tech across MLB, the NBA, and NCAA. The thread through all of it: I do not just build systems, I run them in production.

Now I am turning that same in-person, sit-at-your-table approach into Kitchen Table AI, a consulting practice for owners who want AI built into how they actually work. Not another tool to figure out and run yourself. The front door is The Read, a two-page weekly brief on your market; the first one is free.

The instinct is older than the AI work: I have run a sustainable golf-ball resale business, a seasonal furniture-refurb operation, a rapid-turnaround merch shop outside TD Garden during the 2024 NBA Finals, and an early diffusion-model art venture before the technology hit the mainstream. Different products, same move: spot the gap, ship fast, learn what scales.

▌ Three ways to work with me
THE READ · Weekly market intelligence · The front door

The Read.

A two-page weekly brief on your market, built for one business at a time. The first one is free, hand-delivered over a twenty-minute coffee.

Two pages Every week Public data, checked by hand Founding ten

The chains have analyst teams. You have whatever you can catch between shifts. The Read is that analyst, sized for one business: what moved in your category this week, what your competitors are charging and what their reviews say next to yours, which events and opportunities are headed for your block before they arrive, and three moves ranked by cost and closing window.

Every issue starts from public data, checked by hand, with every claim dated. And it compounds: the longer it runs, the more it gets tuned to your business, until it becomes a brief nobody else could write. The first one is free. That's how I show my work. If you want it every week, the subscription is a simple monthly rate locked for life for my first ten businesses.

The Read is a complete offer on its own. And when a Read turns up work worth automating, that is a separate, distinct offer: The Build, where I build the fix and stay on to run it.

Free
FIRST ISSUE, IN PERSON
10
FOUNDING RATE SLOTS
▌ What lands in your hands
The Read

THIS WEEK'S HEADLINE
The thing that changes your week, found before it lands. What moved in your category, who's moving in nearby, and the window that closes first.
Your category, read weekly
Local watch · Reputation pulse
Three moves, ranked
1 The move with the nearest closing window
2 The cheapest test worth running this week
3 The thing to watch before spending a dollar
Built from public sources · The first one is on the house.
THE BUILD · KITCHEN TABLE AI · Cambridge / Somerville / Boston

The Build.

A custom AI system, built and run for you. I build the tool that takes a recurring job off your plate, wire it into the software you already use, and stay on to keep it working. Fixed price. You own it.

Fixed-fee Built + run by me Wired into what you use You own it

Owners do not have a free month to figure out which AI tool fits, wire it into the software they already use, and train the team on it. So I do it. I find the highest-ROI automation, build it end to end, and wire it into what you already run: quote requests, order intake, ticket triage, the follow-ups that fall through. You own the result. Not another dashboard to babysit; if a retainer keeps it running, that is me keeping it running.

  • Discovery, then a fixed price. I map how your business runs and find the automation worth doing first. You leave owning a ranked roadmap and a fixed-price proposal, yours whether you build with me or not. (Founding rate for the first three clients.)
  • Build, in two to three weeks. The price is fixed before any code is written, custom to how you run, not a chatbot bolted on the side.
  • Embed and run. A week onsite until your team can run it without me, a 30-day grace period, and an optional retainer if you would rather I keep it live on my infrastructure. (Month to month, cancel anytime.)
  • Your data stays yours. It runs on infrastructure you already use; where AI calls happen, no training on your data, and fully local if a workflow needs it.
  • You own it from day one. You own the code and the accounts from the start; if we never start a retainer, the tool still works.

Proof it is real: KangRoo is built and operating in production, and ScreenTek, my one delivered client, shipped for a 50-year screen-printing shop. Live and in your team's hands in about six weeks.

▌ Where I fit
FREE TIER
Workshops, generic templates, off-the-shelf tools
Good for learning the basics. Doesn't ship into your operations.
KITCHEN TABLE AI
Custom AI tools wired into the software you already use
What comes after the workshop. Fixed-fee, built for your business, run by me.
ENTERPRISE
Six-figure engagements with national consultancies
Out of reach for most small businesses. Built for someone else.
KANGROO · Built 2026 · Instance #1 of Kitchen Table AI · In production

AI maintenance desk.

For small property management companies in Greater Boston that run maintenance without an engineering team.

Next.js TypeScript Supabase Claude Resend Email-only

Running in production. Email infrastructure live and verified end to end. Taking founding conversations with the first property management companies now. This is what the ladder produces when a problem turns out to be everyone's problem: the build became a product.

Here's what it does on day one: a tenant emails about a leak. KangRoo classifies how urgent it is, picks the right vendor from your own contact list, drafts the dispatch, chases the scheduling until the job is done, and logs every decision the AI made along the way to an auditable trail. The manager watches a three-lane dashboard: Needs You, In Flight, Closed. KangRoo handles everything else.

Email-only, on purpose: nothing for tenants to install, no portal for vendors to learn, and it runs alongside whatever software you already use. Setup is what makes it different. I come to your office, load your existing vendors, write your rules for what counts as an emergency, and set the dollar limits on approvals. From there it's a flat monthly per-unit fee. No procurement cycle, no SaaS demo dance. Setup and monthly pricing are scoped on the intro call.

The bet underneath the product: AI is more useful when it sees the full picture. Triage that knows the unit history, the vendor relationship, the budget, and what the manager considers an emergency. Not a chatbot pretending to be a dispatcher.

  • Urgency classifier. Reads the tenant's email, ranks how serious it is, and shows the manager the reasoning. When the AI gets one wrong, you correct it once and the system learns from your call.
  • Vendor dispatch. Picks the right plumber, electrician, or handyman from your own list, based on the type of work and who's available.
  • Auto-approval threshold you set. Parts under the cap auto-approve. Anything above, one click. No chase-the-thread.
  • Every decision logged. Time-stamped, auditable record of what the AI saw, decided, and did, from first email to resolution. In Massachusetts, the record of how fast you responded is worth as much as the response.
Live
IN PRODUCTION
Cambridge
SOMERVILLE / BOSTON
KangRoo manager dashboard: ticket lanes and AI dispatch status
KangRoo tenant status view: request received, vendor assigned, live updates
KangRoo ticket detail: AI reasoning trail and vendor dispatch log
KangRoo analytics mockup: response time, resolution rate, vendor performance
SCREENTEK · May 2026 · Delivered client

A delivered Build, in the wild.

ScreenTek, a 50-year screen-printing shop in Hamden, CT. The work shipped: a full site redesign plus a self-serve quoter that lets customers price their own job.

WordPress Tailwind Claude Delivered

The outcome: the quoter removed the slowest step in their sales motion, giving warm leads a clear path to price and close themselves instead of waiting on a callback. The same Kitchen Table AI approach as The Build, in a different vertical, and clearly delivered.

ScreenTek redesigned homepage
▌ Proof I ship