I'm Phil.
AI Engineer.
I help organizations use AI to move the business forward.
What I do
Sometimes prototyping a solution to a specific problem. Sometimes automating a workflow that's eating your team's hours. Sometimes training the team to use AI well. Sometimes coaching leaders through what's actually possible. Mostly some combination.
I'm not the kind of AI engineer who trains the models — I'm the kind who builds with them. Engineering experience and a real toolbox.
Where I'm useful
I work with operators and owners running businesses where manual work is eating the team's hours.
How I work
Someone introduces us. We get on a call and look at one thing you actually want done — concrete, not hypothetical. About an hour together on your real task. There's usually something tangible in your hands at the end — a working prototype, a cleaned dataset, a sketch of the engagement shape.
If it makes sense to continue, we scope the engagement and carry on. Engagements are priced as a unit, not by the hour.
Who you'd be talking to
I'm Philip LeNir. Fifteen years engineering speech recognition and speaker-verification systems at SpeechWorks and Nuance Communications — I hold a patent on the verification side. Eighteen years running CoachingOurselves with Henry Mintzberg. Senior engineering and senior management experience combined. Montreal-based, bilingual, fluent with Law 25.
I started using Claude full time in late 2025 and found I could do things in hours that used to take weeks. I rebuilt my practice around that.
This site
I scoped it. My AI built everything else — the design, the copy, the code, the deploy, the QA, every word in two languages.
- Montreal, Quebec — based here, work here, bilingual English and Quebec French
- Law 25 aware — more on the dedicated page
- Two businesses worth of proof — Systèmes Calibre and CoachingOurselves, both running on the AI infrastructure I've built for myself
- Contact: tell me what you're trying to do →