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James Farrelly

I build data and AI solutions - from the requirements through to production.

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James Farrelly

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01 · About

I find the slow, manual jobs.

I sit with the people who have the problem.

Then I build the fix myself - using AI and data to get there fast.

Built properly, with data protection in from the start.

Day in the life

A day with me.

Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) filmed a day with me for Episode 4 of their Day in the Life series. The full film is on RLB’s LinkedIn.

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02 · Selected work

Projects.

  1. 01

    Natural-language interface over Power BI

    Plain-English chat over reporting data. Microsoft’s Power BI MCP server reads the semantic model, an Azure OpenAI model writes the DAX, and the answer comes back formatted - so non-technical people self-serve instead of queuing for an analyst. No Copilot licence, and it all stays inside your own Microsoft tenancy.

    • Azure OpenAI
    • Power BI MCP
    • DAX
    • React
    • Cosmos DB
    Watch the demo
    Watch the demo
  2. 02

    Information Management Toolkit

    A toolkit I built for an information management team in construction. Five tools in one app, each replacing a slow manual job.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • React
    • IfcOpenShell
    • Azure

    • COBieQC

      Checks a COBie asset-register spreadsheet against the rules for the project’s stage, and produces a colour-coded report of every pass and fail. A check that took about three hours by hand now runs in minutes.

    • Verification Reports

      Reads a project’s live data hub, cross-checks it for completeness and consistency, and produces a sign-off-ready report.

    • Project Setup

      Finds every placeholder across a project’s template documents, fills what it safely can, shows the rest for a quick check, then applies it all in one pass with a full undo.

    • Contact Search

      Takes a list of companies with no contact details, visits each website, extracts the details with an LLM, and flags anything it couldn’t verify for a person to check.

    • IDS Check

      Checks a 3D building model against published IDS rulebooks and gives a pass/fail per rule. Still in progress.

    5 tools, 1 app
  3. 03

    Unstructured spreadsheet → Power BI

    A messy resource-and-cost workbook gets dropped in SharePoint; a flow hands it to a Python Azure Function that flattens the weekly grid into a clean, normalised table and lands it where Power BI reads it. Upload and walk away - no manual reformatting.

    • Azure Functions
    • Python
    • Power Automate
    • SharePoint
    • Power BI
    Upload → report
  4. 04

    Waffler

    A passion project I started in early 2026 as my own replacement for the likes of SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow. Hold a key, talk, let go: it transcribes what you said, strips the ums and mid-sentence corrections, and pastes clean text wherever you’re typing. Free and open source for Mac and Windows, on your own Groq key, so it costs pennies instead of a monthly subscription - and I use it every day.

    The real overlay, from wafflerai.com: hold the key, talk, let go.
    • Python
    • Whisper
    • Groq
    • macOS
    • Windows
    See it

    wafflerai.com

    Visit ↗

    Free and open source for Mac and Windows, on your own Groq key.

    The Waffler website: Hold a key, talk, let go. A live demo of the overlay tidying a dictated email.

    The app

    103k words dictated

    The desktop app: hold the hotkey anywhere, talk, and the cleaned-up text lands in whatever you’re typing into. Everything you dictate is kept in a searchable journal, with a custom vocabulary and per-provider cost tracking. That all-time counter is my own usage.

    The Waffler desktop app header, showing the journal, vocabulary and settings tabs, the push-to-talk hotkey, and an all-time count of 103,000 words dictated
    Free & open source

03 · Capabilities

Where I’m useful.

AI & agents
  • LLM orchestration
  • Model fallback
  • Prompt engineering
  • Agent workflow design
  • MCP integrations
Microsoft & Azure
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure Functions
  • Copilot Studio
  • Microsoft Graph API
Consulting & delivery
  • Requirements gathering
  • Solution design
  • End-to-end build
  • Live demos
Governance
  • Responsible AI
  • Secure by design
  • Risk & governance awareness
  • Production-grade delivery
Tooling
  • Git
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • N8N
  • The Azure stack

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04 · How I work

  1. 01

    Scope the challenge

    Gather the requirements, understand the process.

  2. 02

    Design the solution

    Get the data in order, design the architecture - and decide whether AI even belongs in it.

  3. 03

    Build it

    Build it myself, using AI to move fast.

  4. 04

    Ship it

    Straight to production, no shortcuts.

05 · Recognition & education

  • Winner, Morta AI Hackathon Beat much larger firms
  • Distinction, Multiverse Data Fellowship Applied data
  • BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying - University of Reading 2:1 · 2021
  • Assistant Digital Consultant, RLB Digital 2024 - present

06 · Contact

Let’s connect.

I work full time at RLB Digital and I’m not taking on outside work - but I’m always happy to connect.

Email jamesbernardfarrelly@gmail.com LinkedIn james-farrelly

Solihull, UK