Pilot to production · Remote, for clients anywhere
Lantera Solutions takes AI systems from pilot to production for mid-size companies. Every engagement is led and built by Salim Jordan, who has spent more than twenty years taking enterprise systems into production for organizations like Telstra, Foxtel and REA Group.
The approach
A pilot that looks good in a demo hasn't yet been measured against your real cases. Every engagement starts there: light on what the system actually does, before anyone commits to scaling it.
Where most engagements begin
Fixed length
Built from your own data, so it tests the cases your system will actually meet.
Including an option that uses no model at all. If something simpler ties, you should know.
Where the system works, where it falls short, and why. Something your team can read and argue with.
And for a go, a production plan to take it the rest of the way.
Production build
Architecture, implementation and tests, led and written by the same person, through to a handover your team can run.
Embedded delivery
Longer engagements working inside your team. Salim would also consider a permanent role.
The record
This is Salim Jordan's own record, delivered at Affinity Internet, REA Group, Oracle/RightNow and MarkLogic, and independently. Banks, telcos, government and media, from requirements through to production.
Affinity Internet
The first and only developer in a new web department, growing into its team lead and co-manager. Built the ordering, control panel, domain registration and customer authentication behind hosting accounts for 300,000 customers.
REA Group
Led development of REA Group's back-office platform for agents: lead management, advertising and marketing, directory services, and the port of its core CRM. At the time, REA's sites reached over 11 million unique browsers a month.
RightNow / Oracle
Selected to lead RightNow Consulting's technical capability across Asia Pacific through Oracle's acquisition, coordinating partners in Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore.
MarkLogic
Search over large document collections, long before AI made it fashionable.
MarkLogic · Managing Principal Consultant
Dashboards, case analysis, report search, incident timelines and geospatial tools, in the early COVID-19 response.
Led up to 15 people across Australia, Singapore and the Philippines, with two to three client engagements at once.
Independent
Ran technology for a family event-planning platform, in a small team made up of a founder, a subject-matter expert and Salim: its CTO in all but title. Inherited the platform and rebuilt it twice. For the third version, directed an outsourced global team as technical director and project manager, and was the link between the founder and that team, through to its acquisition by TogetherWork in July 2025.
Readwider
Sole engineer on three Next.js apps, a 48-table Postgres schema, Stripe billing and 2,190+ automated tests. Its first LLM feature shipped switched off, because the evaluation said a simpler baseline matched it.
In the field
Published findings
Each one started with an assumption most teams would ship on. Written up in full on salimjordan.dev.
The principal
Lantera Solutions is Salim Jordan. The person who scopes your diagnostic is the person who writes the evaluation, builds the system and hands it to your team. Nothing is passed down the line, because there is no line.
Testimonials
From clients and colleagues Salim delivered alongside, before he founded Lantera Solutions.
I can't speak highly enough of Salim. … Not only do I know that he or his team will come up with a solution to meet our business requirements, but it will be achieved through an experience that pleasantly emphasises the human side of the interaction.
I am not a technical person and it would be so easy to take advantage of my naiveté but to the contrary, I know that Salim has looked out for me… When I have brought on other programmers for tasks, Salim has helped vet them and their work, and was always looking out for my best interest. I trust him completely.
“He is one of the few software developers that could work directly with the clients, breaking the barriers between business users and developers by articulating complex technical issues in the simplest possible way.”
“Salim always seemed to handle the tough jobs, diving in and taking over projects that were floundering… the final product was always better for his input.”
“Salim has been our 'go to' person on implementations. His technical know-how and dedication to work consistently impress customers and his co-workers.”
Let's talk
Tell Salim where it's stuck. You'll hear back from him directly, not from a sales team.