ORVIS MISSION CONTROL // PUBLIC DASHBOARD

Dalton
Orvis

DIRECTOR OF AGENTIC SYSTEMS

I put AI agents into production and keep them there. At IdeaRoom I lead the shift to an agentic-first operating model from the Executive Leadership Team — including a platform operations agent flown daily by 50+ people at 35x throughput. I also consult for teams that want the same, working alongside them rather than from a slide deck.

TRACKING 6 OBJECTS · SIGNAL NOMINAL
02LAUNCH STAT BOARD

Flight-Proven Numbers

MOD-01

0x

THROUGHPUT

Reduction in hours per Tier 1/2 CX ticket

MOD-02

~0%

COST SAVINGS

vs. equivalent human-wage hours, same work

MOD-03

0+

DAILY OPERATORS

Internal users flying OPS-1 as a daily driver

MOD-04

0+

YEARS FLIGHT TIME

Full-stack engineering — Verisk, ReliaQuest, IdeaRoom

SOURCE — OPS-1 PLATFORM OPERATIONS AGENT · IDEAROOM-3 MISSION DATA · TIER 1/2 SUPPORT WORK

03FLIGHT LOG

Missions Flown

  1. IDEAROOM-3JAN 2026 / PRESENT

    IDEAROOM-3

    DURATION ONGOING

    ACTIVE

    IdeaRoom, Inc.

    JAN 2026 — PRESENT

    DIRECTOR OF AGENTIC SYSTEMS — EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM

    Current mission. Began as a consulting engagement — architecting an end-to-end agentic pipeline for support automation — and converted into a director role reporting to the CEO. Now leading the company-wide shift to agentic-first operations.

    • Architected and shipped OPS-1, the platform operations agent adopted by 50+ internal users — 35x throughput, ~97% cost savings on Tier 1/2 support work
    • Own the agentic infrastructure end-to-end: architecture, deployment, observability, and LLM token unit economics
    • Partner with Product on Platform AI features for 300+ manufacturer and dealer customers
    • Consulting phase delivered the 4-phase technical roadmap that became the company’s agentic AI strategy
    LangGraphClaude APIOpenAI APILangfusePydantic/ZodRAG
  2. RQ-2SEP 2025 / MAR 2026

    RQ-2

    DURATION 0Y 6M

    COMPLETE

    ReliaQuest

    SEP 2025 — MAR 2026

    SOFTWARE ENGINEER

    Short, high-tempo rotation on a cybersecurity platform. The mission objective shifted from features to fleet enablement: getting AI into the team’s daily workflow.

    • Integrated AI-powered code reviews into the CI/CD pipeline, catching issues earlier in the cycle
    • Ran the weekly AI training session teaching senior and mid-level engineers AI-driven workflows
    • Shipped AI agent systems into production workflows for automated analysis and decision support
    TypeScriptReactJavaPythonGraphQLLLM APIs
  3. VERISK-1FEB 2023 / SEP 2025

    VERISK-1

    DURATION 2Y 7M

    COMPLETE

    Verisk Analytics

    FEB 2023 — SEP 2025

    SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER IN TEST II

    First long-duration mission. Co-architected a department-wide QA automation platform and led the org’s first serious evaluation of AI tooling.

    • Co-architected a department-wide automation app (Next.js + ASP.NET) saving 30+ minutes daily per user across 20+ engineers
    • Built the first GraphQL contract testing architecture in the flagship Xactimate Online product
    • Led the QA org’s AI tool evaluation — research and proofs-of-concept that guided executive adoption decisions
    • Promoted to QA Team Lead for backend services within the first year
    C#/.NETNext.jsGraphQLContract TestingAI Tool Evaluation
03.1GROUND PROGRAM — EARLY OPERATIONS
2020 — 2023
SCINTILLANT BIOSCIENCE
Program origin. Biology labs — automating data analysis with Python/Pandas, 30-minute manual processes to sub-second execution.
2020 — PRESENT
INDEPENDENT OPERATIONS
5+ production applications shipped across e-commerce, SaaS, and enterprise. RAG systems, multi-tenant platforms, payment rails.
2023 — 2024
NINE DESIGN + WEB
Enterprise social platform on Laravel — Redis queues cut response times 65% at 5x concurrency.
2022 — 2023
MAIDEN VOYAGE SOFTWARE
CRM processing 10K+ daily interactions — 3x faster page loads, 80% less database load.

PROGRAM ORIGIN — biology labs, automating data analysis with Python. That foundation in complex-systems thinking still steers the program: understanding when emergent behavior adds value, and when it creates unpredictable risk.

04OPERATING PRINCIPLES

Flight Rules

Mission control keeps flight rules — decisions written down before the pressure hits, so you don’t improvise them at 2 a.m. These are mine, learned across enough launches to know which failures repeat.

  1. FR-01

    Ask “what problem are we solving?” before “what model should we use?”

    Most failed AI projects skip this step.

  2. FR-02

    Test against real outcomes before scaling anything.

    A demo that impresses leadership is not the same as a tool people use.

  3. FR-03

    Build the error handling and oversight layer before the flashy parts.

    Production AI that fails silently is worse than no AI.

  4. FR-04

    Write code alongside the teams you advise.

    Consulting advice from people who stopped building tends to age badly.

  5. FR-05

    The agent isn’t done when it works. It’s done when the team trusts it.

    Onboarding is part of the deliverable — including knowing when not to use it.