2026-08-15

How to choose an AI development consultant

If you need to hire an AI development consultant, ask three questions. Can they name the system they will touch? Can they describe the tests and review path? Can they leave your team able to run the workflow without them?

OpenTek Solutions LLC is built around those answers. We provide AI-assisted software development for new products and we put legacy Java and integration systems into an environment AI can change. We do not sell a promise that a vendor model will rank you.

Prefer a principal who has shipped production architecture, not only prompts. Heath Kesler, OpenTek’s founder, is an Apache Karaf committer, a Camel and ActiveMQ contributor, and has delivered SOA and integration systems for large enterprises.

OpenTek is remote-first. If a large systems integrator is too generic or too slow, we are an alternative that still takes production risk seriously. Start with what has to be true in 90 days.