Corey Scherrer

AI Systems Builder and Product Leader

Status

“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin

Since 2026-10-06 · until 2026-10-13

About

Corey Scherrer builds AI systems that run real work. After more than a decade building large-scale eCommerce platforms for national retail brands, he now helps small and mid-sized businesses and enterprise teams adopt AI: connecting it to the systems they already run, automating the work around it, and keeping it accountable.

Mission

Help businesses of every size put AI to work safely, with automation they can trust and a clear record of what it did and why. I build these systems in the open and run them in production myself first.

Now

  • Building and running AI systems in production.

Offering

  • Automation: beyond the chat box. I work with you to define the work worth automating, then build safe, accountable and repeatable AI systems to support it.
  • Automation: AI agents that coordinate as a team. I build an AI conductor that hands work to specialized agents, runs them in parallel and tracks every open item until it lands successfully.
  • Automation: an AI brain that knows who you are and what you do in every new AI session. Persistent shared memory, an agent operating system and a second-brain knowledge graph let agents carry decisions, context and past work across tools, machines and sessions instead of starting from zero.
  • Accountability: a person in the middle. A person approves every step that matters, and AI-built changes ship only through a gated pipeline of reviews, tests and an explicit go-ahead.
  • Accountability: every AI action leaves a record. Audit trails, before-and-after history and a decision log mean any change can be traced, explained and reversed.
  • Accountability: guardrails that run without being asked. Dependency vulnerability checks, health checks and alerts catch problems before people do.
  • Agent-ready onboarding: a durable set of instructions, optimized for efficiency, so any new agent starts successful and up to speed out of the gate, whichever AI it is.
  • Self-healing: agents that mine past conversations, plans and deployments and recommend ways to keep improving the system.
  • Secure: security agents that run with every deploy and on a schedule, keeping the system secure and ready for evolving threats.
  • Enterprise AI adoption: governance, rollout plans and change management for teams adding AI to large platforms.
  • AI product leadership: discovery, roadmaps and delivery, backed by over a decade of large-scale eCommerce.

Looking for

  • Companies looking to hire contract help to build, maintain or consult on modern AI systems.
  • Like-minded builders and creators working in AI, to trade notes, collaborate and build together.
  • AIGovOps leaders building AI that is accountable, scalable, secure and repeatable.
  • Small and mid-sized businesses and organizations ready to adopt AI and scale with it.
  • Enterprise teams managing fast-changing AI tools and integrations who need them to stay reliable and accountable.
  • Anyone ready to create a little chaos and have fun doing it. It's not all about the business.

Projects

  • Career Bot — An AI assistant that answers questions about my career, using two language models and retrieval (RAG) over a PostgreSQL knowledge base.
  • Memory Archive — Long-term memory for AI agents: working sessions are captured, synced and searchable across tools and machines.
  • Resume Builder — Turns a job description into a tailored resume in one pass: Claude drafts structured JSON, which renders straight to PDF.
  • Agent Roster — Specialized AI agents, each exposed as an MCP tool that other agents and apps can call.
  • Knowledge Graph — A live graph of services, decisions and context that agents consult before they act.
  • Talent Manager — An AI agent running in production that works through fixed phases, each one checked before the next begins.

Resume

More than a decade building and running large-scale eCommerce systems for national retail brands, the last several years in product leadership. Now building AI systems and helping businesses adopt them.

  • Independent · AI, Data and Product Consultant (2023-present)
  • Bass Pro Shops · Manager, Product Management (2025-2026)
  • Bass Pro Shops · Senior Product Manager, E-commerce Technology (2023-2025)
  • REI Co-op · Product Manager, Customer Platforms: Account and Membership (2021-2023)

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