Chris Boyd: AI Engineer
AI Systems, Agentic Workflows, and Mobile Apps
Chris Boyd is a software engineer and artificial intelligence specialist with twenty years of experience shipping production systems. As founder of Apptitude, he builds AI tools and agentic workflows for companies where failure isn't an option — litigation engineering platforms, mobile apps, and enterprise automation that runs unsupervised at scale.
His recent work with the OpenClaw AI agent framework was featured in Bloomberg after a safety incident exposed real security and risk gaps in autonomous systems. The experience reinforced what Chris Boyd has learned building production AI: the gap between a working demo and a reliable system is where most projects fail.
Chris Boyd writes about bridging that gap — agentic workflows that handle incomplete information, agent safety guardrails, and the engineering discipline required to ship AI that earns trust. He is based in Charlotte, NC. For a concise bio and profile links, visit About Chris Boyd.
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