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Fred Pope.

Engineering meets economics

Work

The domains have changed. The connecting question is how to make technology useful in the real world.

Business systems

Where the business meets the software

Adteco · Founder / Engineer

I help midsized companies untangle complex ERP systems, integrations, and the business logic underneath them.

The useful question is how a system supports the way a business actually works: its data, its people, and its decisions.

Applied AI

Building tools I can put to work

F.R.E.D. · This site

The chat on this site retrieves context from my published writing and streams an answer with links back to the posts.

It is a working example of retrieval, vector search, and model integration. My writing explores the wider questions of agent memory, reliability, and human judgment.

Earlier work

The economics of moving bits

Satellite communications

My early career was in satellite communications: what I called digital trucking, moving bits instead of boxes.

My talk, “Deploying Technology the Smart Way,” examined total technology cost and cost per byte. That connection between engineering and economics continues through my work today.

How I approach the work

The principles, tools, and writing behind my work, from architecture and business systems to AI and investing.

Explore my approach