Workflows around your system of record
An AI layer that prepares, reconciles and reviews around the software you already trust. Deterministic checks first, AI for judgment, and a person signs off before anything goes out.
Etinger Initiatives
Systems & development
AI put to work on the tasks that eat a small firm's week.
Independent AI implementation for fund tax practices, family-office ventures, real estate acquisitions and e-commerce operators. One person designs and builds the system, and your firm owns it.
See the work
- 4Pines Advisors
- AIA Co-Invest
- Diamond ProTech
- Pioneer Acquisitions
- Outdoor School Shop
What gets built
Four kinds of work, one rule across all of them: the client keeps every account and every deliverable.
Data and file migrations
Company files, shared drives and archives moved into systems the company owns, audited file by file, with a copy delivered on a disk the owner holds.
Marketplace and store operations
Amazon listing files, Shopify storefronts, product media, email flows and the weekly reporting behind them, corrected and kept inside the client's own accounts.
Prototypes and internal tools
Working prototypes, deal maps and dashboards built with Claude Code and deployed on servers the client controls, with team accounts from day one.
How the work runs
1
Observe
Weeks inside the actual work before any design. The system gets built around tasks as they are performed, not from an org chart.
2
Design
Deterministic checks run before any AI judgment. Nothing reaches a filed return, a live listing or a client's records without a human sign-off.
3
Build
On infrastructure the firm owns. Accounts stay in the client's name; I am invited by role and never hold a password.
4
Prove
The first phase runs against work already completed, so every answer is known before the system produces it. Reliance is earned by measurement.
About
Etinger Initiatives is the practice of Federico Etinger, an independent AI consultant based in Rye, New York. Since June 2026 he has been the sole developer and architect on each engagement: a fund tax and valuation practice in Greenwich, a pre-launch co-investment marketplace, a ceramic-coatings brand selling on Amazon and Shopify, a commercial real estate acquisitions firm and a children's outdoor gear store.
Before this he worked in macro analysis at Morgan Stanley, at a fintech startup in Madrid and in market operations at the National Bank of Romania. He studies economics at Trinity College and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
How I work
- Your accounts stay yours. Invited by role, never owner or payer, never holding a password.
- One engagement letter, one hours log and one invoice series per engagement. Hours never move between clients.
- Hardware and subscriptions at cost with the receipt attached, never folded into hours.
- Facts before formatting. Every figure in a document traces to a source or is marked as an estimate.
5engagements since June 2026
1 TBof company files recovered and delivered on disk
4,500+Amazon listing cells corrected across three rounds
26product videos brought in-house on Shopify
Contact
For a project, a question or a referral, one email is enough. Replies come from Federico directly.