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01 / Founder & CTO, TechTide AI

Hey, I鈥檓 Alex

I make the call your AI project,or your Airtable system, has been avoiding.

I鈥檓 Alex Cinovoj, Founder & CTO, TechTide AI, and a 13-year US enterprise IT operator. Two decisions bring people to me: whether an AI workflow stuck between demo and dependable operations should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. I write about both here, and I run both decisions through TechTide AI.

What needs a decision?
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What needs a decision?

Two decisions bring people here. Each one has a fixed engagement at TechTide AI that ends in a written call, not a proposal. Scope and pricing live there.

Decision 01

The demo works. Operations do not.

An AI workflow sits between a convincing demo and something operations can depend on. Nobody can say whether it is safe to trust, and nobody wants to make that call in a meeting.

  • A pilot that has almost shipped for two quarters
  • Agents nobody trusts with irreversible actions
  • No evals, no traces, no way to prove a change was safe
  • Model spend nobody can attribute to a workflow

Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI returns one decision: Ship, fix, redesign, or stop.

Systems Decision Audit
Decision 02

Airtable became the system of record.

A base that started as a spreadsheet upgrade now runs business-critical work. The open question is not tooling taste, it is whether to stay, stabilize, go hybrid, or exit.

  • Core operations living in bases nobody fully understands
  • Automation and record limits shaping process instead of the reverse
  • Per-seat cost rising faster than the value per seat
  • No real access control on data that should be locked down

Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint at TechTide AI returns one decision: Stay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit.

Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint

Not ready for a full decision engagement? Bring one named blocker to a Production Block Call and leave with one recommendation.

Build work is Critical System Implementation, the application-only next step after a decision engagement, on fixed scope. It is never the first conversation.

Decisions run through TechTide AI

Choose the decision you need

This site is where you check who I am and what I have built. Scope, sequencing, and pricing live at TechTide AI.

Systems Decision Audit

An AI workflow blocked between a working demo and dependable operations.

Returns: Ship, fix, redesign, or stop.

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Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint

A business-critical Airtable system that now decides what operations can do.

Returns: Stay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit.

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SecondaryProduction Block CallOne named blocker, one call, one recommendation.Application onlyCritical System ImplementationApplication only, after a decision engagement, fixed scope.

About

About Alex Cinovoj

Alex Cinovoj is Founder & CTO, TechTide AI, an AI-automation agency in Columbus, Ohio, and co-host of the Automation Vibes podcast. He is a Lovable Champion, an earned Discord community support volunteer role, a Lovable beta user of more than a year, and a 13-year US enterprise IT operator. Through TechTide AI he runs two decision engagements: whether a stalled AI workflow should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go.

Founder & CTO, TechTide AIAutomation Vibes co-host13 yrs US enterprise ITLovable Champion (Discord community volunteer)Lovable beta user, 1+ year9 Anthropic Academy completions

02 / TechTide AI

TechTide AI and the two decisions

TechTide AI is the AI-automation agency Alex founded for operators with a system they can no longer trust. It takes on two decisions: whether an AI workflow stuck between demo and dependable operations should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go. Scope and pricing live there, not here.

Work runs through one of two decision engagements: Systems Decision Audit for AI stuck short of dependable operations, and the Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint for operations that outgrew their base.

Visit TechTide AI
Operating layer

Connected systems

  • CRM
  • Billing
  • Support
  • Docs
  • Spreadsheets
  • Inboxes
  • Project tools
  • AI tools

1

Surface

No more five tabs, three people.

2

Answers

Workflow questions, resolved.

3

Agents

Act with your context, not against it.

My projects

Agent governance and control-plane systems, open source where public, described where private.

Open source 路 MIT

ClawKeeper

110-agent finance platform where a deterministic policy engine runs tenant, capability, and approval checks before any LLM call. $0 default autonomous spend, database-enforced immutable audit log.

View siteRepo

Live demo and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07.

Proves the mechanism behind the Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI.

Open source 路 Apache 2.0

TechTide Harness Kit

Trust contracts as JSON Schema: risk tiers, tool permissions, deny-by-default egress, approval gates, compliance mappings. Prompt-injection threat model with adversarial fixtures, ~28 CI gates.

View siteRepo

Live docs and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07.

Proves the mechanism behind the Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI.

Open source 路 Apache 2.0

CipherClaw

Multi-agent debugger with zero LLM calls in the analysis path: causal graphs, weighted root-cause scoring, failure prediction. 206 zero-mock tests, zero runtime deps, no network egress.

View siteRepo

Live site and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07.

Open source 路 Apache 2.0

Swarm 357

357-agent orchestrator governed by per-agent budget caps, a pattern-matched bash security gate, auto-downgrade daily budgets, a hard per-run spend ceiling, and correlation-ID telemetry.

View siteRepo

Live site and public repo. Last verified 2026-08-07.

View all projects

03 / Product builds

Product Builds

Products Alex builds and ships himself, alongside his production AI work. Proof of product building, not an offer.

Y2KSelfie.ai preview with a pink flip phone and early-2000s mirror selfie styling

Y2KSelfie.ai

An AI photo experience that transforms modern selfies into nostalgic Y2K-era portraits.

AI imagingconsumer web app
Try Y2KSelfie.ai
Ship With Bob illustration of spoken notes becoming task cards sorted into now, next, and later trays

Ship With Bob

A voice-first task manager that turns a spoken brain dump into small, prioritized jobs so users can decide what to do now, next, and later.

Voice AIproductivity PWA
Try Ship With Bob
Syncra proposal demo showing a law-firm operations portal with document intake and workflow approval panels

Syncra

An interactive law-firm operations portal demonstrating AI-assisted document intake, classification, routing, approvals, and role-based workflows.

Proposal demo built for a California law firm.

Legal techAI workflow portal
View Syncra demo
Clawli illustration of collaborating assistants preparing and approving written posts at a workspace desk

Clawli

A multi-agent LinkedIn workspace that turns content strategy into researched, reviewed, and approval-gated posts.

Multi-agent AILinkedIn operations
View Clawli
Illustration of technicians routing fiber optic cable and patching a network rack inside a bright commercial building

Buckeye DataCom

A client website for a Central Ohio low-voltage contractor, presenting fiber, structured cabling, and enterprise network services.

Client website designed and built by Alex for TechTide AI.

Client websiteFiber and low-voltageCentral Ohio
View Buckeye DataCom
Illustration of a warm Iowa equestrian arena at sunset with horses, riders, and a phone showing event tickets

Midwest Thunder

A premium equestrian event and ticketing experience created for an Iowa client, combining season discovery, ticket options, venue information, and account access in one polished interface.

Client buildevent platform
View Midwest Thunder
Complete project archive

03 / Talks & workshops

Speaking and Workshops

Alex speaks and runs workshops on production AI, workflow intelligence, operating layers over point tools, and why most AI pilots stall before they reach real business systems. Talks come out of live implementation work at TechTide AI, with no slideware and no vendor spin.

Speaking & workshops
  • Deciding when an AI workflow is dependable enough to trust
  • Why AI pilots fail (and what production actually requires)
  • Operating layers over point tools: the connective tissue thesis
  • From n8n to autonomous agents without losing your team
Book Alex to speakAutomation VibesAlex on LinkedIn

04 / Podcast & media

Automation Vibes

Automation Vibes is the co-hosted, operator-led podcast Alex runs on production AI and automation that actually stick. Each episode is a field report from real implementations, covering tool teardowns, why-it-broke postmortems, and what a serious team would ship next week.

Automation Vibes 路 Podcast

Recurring segments

Tool teardowns 路 Field reports from real implementations 路 Why-it-broke postmortems 路 What we鈥檇 ship next week if we were you.

Read Automation Vibes

05 / Operator background

Operator Background

Alex is a 13-year US enterprise IT operator whose career compounded from the help desk into systems and cloud engineering, then architecture, and finally into full-time AI implementation as Founder & CTO, TechTide AI. Every layer of the operating intelligence thesis was learned inside real businesses, not invented on a slide.

  1. 2013 to 2016

    Help desk & field ops

    Frontline support inside US enterprises. Learned how work actually moves, from tickets and exceptions to the humans who route them.

  2. 2016 to 2020

    Systems & cloud engineering

    Systems administration, cloud migrations, identity, monitoring. The connective plumbing under the org chart.

  3. 2020 to 2023

    Architecture & platform work

    Designing across CRMs, billing, support, and internal tools. Watching where integrations fail, and how much money leaks through the seams.

  4. 2024 to now

    TechTide AI, Founder & CTO

    Two years focused on AI implementation. Production agents, retrieval, and the unglamorous infrastructure underneath them. This is the arc that taught me which systems are worth shipping and which ones should stop.

Memo 路 June 2026

An AI-first human, talking to machines.

I build with AI agents the same way I think. Out loud. Voice in, code out. Wispr Flow is my keyboard now.

Same lineage as Ali K. and the AI-native engineering crowd. The fastest interface to a model is your mouth.

Voice profile

Repo Refiner

Nickname

Orchestrates code reviews, cleans repos, ships dictation-grade commits. Voice is how I move through the codebase.

wisprflow.ai

Flow highlights 路 Live
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Updated June 2026

Become an AI-first human with Wispr Flow (one month free)

One month free. Limited words. Gifted by Alex.

Decision engagements 路 TechTide AI

Work With Alex

Every engagement runs through TechTide AI, where scope, sequencing, and pricing live. Start with the decision that is stuck. Build work follows a decision, never the other way around.

Critical System Implementation is application only, taken on after a decision engagement, on fixed scope.

Systems Decision AuditShip, fix, redesign, or stop.Airtable Rescue Decision SprintStay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit.Production Block CallOne named blocker, one call, one recommendation.alex@techtideai.io

06 / FAQ

Questions about Alex, TechTide AI, and the two decisions

The direct answers people ask about Alex Cinovoj, TechTide AI, speaking, and the Lovable Champion role, written to be quoted verbatim.

Let鈥檚 make the call.

Two decisions run through TechTide AI: whether a stalled AI workflow should ship, and whether a business-critical Airtable system should stay or go.

2026 漏 Alex Cinovoj

Founder & CTO, TechTide AI

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