// Starlight // Bucks County, PA
Hello. I'm David.
Resilience++. Profitability and security still means local expertise, in our hands-on staff education; so you have more control for your enterprise and better guidance for your employees. We are a problem solving company, and one of the best research firms out there.
Poke around. Learn about us. Hand us off to a direct report.
I spent two decades inside the AI industry — Google, postdoctoral research, two Silicon Valley startups. The boring credentials are below. Then one day, a special set of investors asked what Starlight might become some day. We're building it, while we set up shop here in Bucks County to help educate on what's worth paying attention to, what's hype, and where the real futures in Bucks County will be. Promise. No nonsense.
Just answers that you need: advisory, audits, implementation, council, and relationships. We love to build.
Underneath the surface of an AI is massive data centers, unbounded by time and technical cost. Expertise is the product. We deliver C-suite ready answers for companies ready to know what they need.
Deep Insight & Research
There is a way to get knowledge done, with AI.
Tell me you have leaky pipes, and I will tell you to find a plumber. Tell me you have untapped data resources and cost constrained? We will set up your future - auditable, compliance-driven, and centered on your decision makers until automation arrives.
AI Implementation & Audits
Your business is operational.
You've got smart people, a complex operation, and decisions that hinge on technology you didn't grow up with. I fill that gap - part-time, on your terms, for the people of your company. So you can lead, or retire. Full stop. Futurism.
Fractional Chief Scientist
The best pitching coach in all of AI.
It's about education.
Disruption doesn't knock at the door and ask permission. It quietly unscrews the hinges.
The risk isn't that someone using AI will replace you or that AI will replace your people.
The real risk is that a company using AI will replace your company. - Paul Cheek, MIT Sloan
$ THIS WEEK I'M THINKING ABOUT
> [patreon] ⧉ "What scares U.K. bureaucrats about 'AI agentic flooding'?" ......and are citizens empowered, or a nuisance?
> [patreon] ⧉ "Books for the Chief Executive Officer 2021" ...Revisiting our pre-pandemic financing classics....
> [_linkdn] ⧉ Starlight created our advisory firm onto Linkedin ...Focusing on Small Business America starts in....
> [patreon] ⧉ "The fate of LLCs in America." ...Special article for Patreon WorkshopsTheFuture members....
> [_gitlab] ⧉ feat: starmail update messaging system via SOC2-similar SSH install.
(...and sometimes we write at inbound development request)
StarMail
Private messaging with total searchable forensics
FastAPI · IMAP/SMTP/NFTY · Meilisearch · SOC2
CloudNode
Your code becomes private, searchable APIs
FastAPI · Pydantic · SSH/Engager · Internet
Agentic
Transparent, auditable AI agents for business
FastMCP · PydanticAI · SQLite · LLMs
Polonium
AI robotics and 3D-printing toy studio
LEGO · BambuLabs · RaspberryPi · Microcontrollers
PSF
Real-time AI news and video studio
LiveKit · FFMPEG · HTML · RAG
Kerouac
AI research synthesis with expert correction
OpenCode · CodeGen · RAG · PydanticAI
// hover to reveal project details
$ cat credentials.txt | grep "boring"
> [aidarpa] "Shaping the Future of AI" # We outperformed Palo Alto enough to get a call from the Pentagon.
> [startup] WorkFusion # We raised AI founders from Manhattan to Palo Alto.
> [strlght] Founded Starlight LLC # One cold call to the best minds at MIT, Skoltech, USGS, and more.
> [paloalt] Google "Team AI" # Ever wonder whether AI could outperform teachers? In 2013?
> [medical] SUNY # Ever want to maneuver a robot with your thinking? I did.
> [cornell] Physics Ph.D. # Turned down Goldman Sachs to learn astronomical hardware science.
> [wallstr] Goldman Sachs # FICC/FX; on the trading floor during the post-9/11 meltdowns.
> [caltech] Bachelors of Science, Physics # raised in Bucks County, dreamed of being Richard Feynman.
$ cat credentials.txt | grep "real"
> [strlght] Chief Scientist, native AI engineer # 30,000+ hours building AI, C-suite council
> [strlght] Agentic AI, home office infrastructure # Building for the future, now, and in 5-years, always
> [strlght] Investor-engaged mindset, one principal # one principal engineer, trusted partners
> [strlght] Government-mindset, compliance driven # AI is a tool for government, and governable, by rules and law
$ echo "Actually, the real version is the only one that matters."
> [strlght] We want to help with the small projects # think: skunk works, meets future scale
> [strlght] My job is being your translator, not your salesman # our work will stand as our business development
> [strlght] U.S. Person; no clearances yet # would gladly submit, especially in DoE for Q
> [strlght] Born out of mentorship, born to raise up by mentorship # Core NASA kid ideology to our... core.