The Founder
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Founder
Porter Ward
Finance, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia.
Builds and runs Signalward from Athens, Georgia, and works with operators nationwide.
hello@signalward.co →The short version
Porter Ward builds production AI systems end to end: architecture through deployment through maintenance. Signalward is built on a simple standard: every engagement gets the founder's full attention, from the first scoping call to the last refinement, and every system that ships is one he'd run in his own business. Several of them, he does.
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Stack
TypeScript / Next.js, Python, Postgres, LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI): chosen per project, no fixed platform.
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