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Independent practice
A consulting practice, not a platform. You work directly with the engineer doing the work.
About
A working game engineer, not a general AI consultant.
This practice is run by Miguel Vieira, an Unreal Engine engineer who still ships games. Portugal-based, serving EU and international clients. The reason to trust the AI advice is the gamedev experience behind it.
- Five years across studios building gameplay, multiplayer, tools, animation, and AI systems on PC, console, and VR.
- Hands-on Unreal Engine 5 and C++ gameplay engineering, currently for AAA partner studios.
- Direct experience with Perforce workflows and the realities of shipping at scale.
- Focused exclusively on the game industry, not adapting generic frameworks to a market we do not know.
Why this focus
Generic AI consulting fails specialized industries.
Game engineering has its own realities: Unreal, C++, Perforce, console SDKs, licensed IP, and the pressure of a ship date. Most AI consultants have never touched any of it. They bring a framework built for web startups and hope it maps.
It does not map. AI properly integrated is genuinely transformative for gamedev, but only when the person integrating it understands the engine, the workflow, and what a senior engineer actually protects. That is the gap this practice exists to close.
How this works commercially
The incentives are aligned with yours.
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Not VC-funded
No investors, no pressure to grow at all costs. That means honest advice, including "not yet" or "not us".
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Vendor-neutral
We work with the AI stack your studio prefers, Claude, GPT, Gemini, or open weights. We advise on the trade-offs; we do not resell any vendor.
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Transparent about limits
Clear about what we do not do and when to refer you elsewhere. Credibility over closed deals.
Operating principles
What we optimize for.
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Honest assessment over closed deals
If AI will not pay back for your studio yet, we say so. A wrong-fit engagement helps no one.
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Deep work over surface delivery
We build infrastructure that holds up under a real codebase, not demos that impress and then rot.
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Measurable outcomes over vibes
Everything is baselined and re-measured. If we cannot prove it moved, we do not claim it.
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Long-term over transactions
The value compounds over years. We optimize for studios that stay, not one-off sales.
Work directly with the engineer.
No account managers, no handoffs. A Discovery Call is a conversation with the person who would do the work. 30 minutes, free.