BrandonVogts
I rebuild the processes people have accepted as unchangeable.
Solutions engineering, business analysis, and AI-assisted development. I find out what is really slowing a team down, design the fix around the tools and budget they have, build it, and make sure people actually use it.
Monthly revenue during an operations overhaul I started on my own initiative.
Processing turnaround in that same overhaul.
Employees covered by the nationwide rollout approved for a knowledge base I designed.
Manual work removed from every scholarship application cycle, by the client's count.
Three ways I can help
Solutions engineering
Turn what a client says into what they need.
- Discovery calls with people who can't yet name the problem
- Platform evaluation and total-cost comparisons
- Solution design, demos, and proofs of concept
- SaaS configuration: pricing rules, workflows, permissions
- Training, video tutorials, and handoff
Good fit: a product or platform that needs someone who can talk to buyers and build the thing.
Business analysis
Find the real bottleneck, then design the fix.
- Stakeholder interviews and current-state mapping
- Root-cause analysis across people, process, and systems
- Future-state workflows, including policy changes
- Data cleanup, validation, reporting, and benchmarking
- SOPs, change management, and adoption
Good fit: a team that knows something is broken but not exactly what.
AI-assisted development
Clear specs, fast builds, systems that stay running.
- Requirements written so AI coding tools can execute them
- Google Workspace and Apps Script automation
- Database apps on Airtable and Zite
- Python services, public APIs, and hardware on Linux
- Testing, deployment, backups, and maintenance
How I work: I own the requirements, direct the build with Claude, then integrate, deploy, and support it.
How an engagement runs
Discover
Talk to everyone who touches the process. Most people can't name what they need yet, so I keep asking until the real problem shows up.
Map
Document how work actually flows, find the root causes, and design the future state. Sometimes the best fix is a policy change, not software.
Build
Pick the platform that fits the budget and the team, configure before custom-building, and prototype fast with AI-assisted development.
Adopt
Train each role, record tutorials, document the process, and hand it off so the system never depends on one person, including me.
| Pattern | In-house | Client & independent |
|---|---|---|
| Replace one-at-a-time work | Batch export, clean, and submit instead of entering records one by one | One substitute request broadcast to everyone; first to accept gets the spot |
| Put the logic in the tool | Conditional document templates that removed manual edits | Scoring that totals itself and combines three reviewers' rankings |
| Give everyone the same live picture | Cross-department training and shared information | Real-time application status for staff; a single visitor tracker |
| Treat cost as part of the design | Renegotiated bulk pricing on forms, unprompted | Recommended per-account over per-seat licensing for a 12+ person board |
Client work and things I've built
Each one starts the same way: someone doing a lot of work by hand because that's how it has always been done.
Scholarship management platform
Paper applications arriving from three directions, hundreds of scanned pages, and three reviewers ranking students three different ways. I replaced it with one online system that tracks every application, combines the reviewers' rankings, and shows where they disagree.
Self-service ordering and pricing engine
A SaaS ordering system configured so real estate agents can build and price their own orders, with property-size pricing, service-area travel fees, and dependency rules applied automatically.
Chapter operations automation
Visitor tracking, substitute requests, and membership vetting moved from copy-and-paste and one-at-a-time texts to automated workflows on the tools the chapter already pays for.
Meal-prep labeler and kitchen tracker
A Raspberry Pi kiosk with a barcode scanner and thermal printer that labels every container with its macros and tracks it until it's eaten.
Self-hosted home lab
Containerized services on a Synology NAS, reached through Cloudflare Tunnel with no open router ports, and the backbone of a 3-2-1 backup plan.
Your process here
Have a workflow that runs on spreadsheets, email, and memory? Book a discovery call and tell me about it.
Book a discovery callIn-house wins
Results from inside organizations. None of these were assigned to me: I saw the problem while doing the work, earned the access to fix it, and built the fix so it would outlast me.
Turned around a struggling operation
The friction between departments came from fragile legacy systems and one-at-a-time manual work. I batch-automated employment lookups from legacy exports, rebuilt document templates with conditional logic, cross-trained the departments, and wrote the first SOP manual.
Rebuilt an enterprise knowledge base
The existing guide was a duct-taped set of Microsoft Word–generated HTML pages, each carrying its own copy of the navigation, so every change had to be made thirteen times and links broke constantly. I rebuilt it as modular HTML, CSS, and jQuery that worked within Oracle InQuira's rendering limits, and trained a colleague to maintain it. The design was then adopted across five companies, with a rollout approved for more than 20,000 employees.
Built an empowering branding and marketing workflow
I designed a branding assessment for new agents and found, by interviewing the print vendor, that custom templates could be scoped to a single agent's account. Agents could then order brand-compliant materials themselves at any hour. I also proposed a visual template catalog that was adopted company-wide.
Brandon took a process I had accepted as unchangeable and transformed it into something far more efficient and effective.
“Brandon is professional and reliable, with a gift for understanding what people need and delivering it.”
Scholarship fund coordinator · client
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Get in touch
Hiring for a solutions engineer or business analyst, or need someone to untangle a process? Book a discovery call to talk it through, or send me a message below and I'll get back to you.