The 'security consultant' who presented my diagram as their own. Twice
A "security consultant" once took the security diagram I created (because they never made one after being asked repeatedly) and recreated it component-for-component in another format. Then presented it to my leadership as their own. Twice. With the same diagram.
The quotes around "security consultant" are very intentional, my team and I did their entire job for them, particularly after they greenlit extraordinarily insecure plans.
Experiences like that make me less worried about reentering the consulting market, no matter how “saturated” it looks. The flood’s full of incompetence and con artists. There’s always room for people who actually know what they’re doing, and care enough to do it right.
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Jessie Grenfell
Jessie has spent 20+ years architecting and delivering software for organizations where complexity is the norm: financial services, insurance, nonprofits, and regulated industries where getting it wrong isn’t an option. She specializes in the hard problems: unique operational workflows, cross-system integrations, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, CCPA, SOC 2) built into the design from the first conversation.
Her AI work comes out of that background. She has shipped AI to production, not just piloted it: a multi-agent research pipeline that cut a client’s investigation time from over an hour to minutes, and natural-language analytics that let executives ask plain-English questions of their operational data and get validated charts back. Years building business critical systems taught her where AI belongs in a business process and where it doesn’t.
At Codality, she leads engagements from discovery through delivery, because she’s seen what happens when that thread gets cut.