Ravensbreath Lab · 2026

Ravensbreath Lab is a one-person operation that builds things that help people.

The kind of thing that's still quietly running on a Tuesday six months after it shipped.

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001 — THE WORK

Every project here started with a real operational problem at a real organization. The architecture came second.

GrantOpsThe PipelineThe Sorting RoomPaths of WonderThe Record RoomThe Forge

002 — WHAT I DO

How I work

Find the pain

  • Not a pilot. Not a concept.
  • A team losing hours.
  • The problem that actually exists.
  • The tech comes second, always.

Structure

  • Understand the problem first.
  • Map the documents and data.
  • Design the architecture
  • Build the interface

Fit the team

  • Not built for a hypothetical hire.
  • Built for the one doing five jobs.
  • Limits are not obstacles.
  • Easy to use in minutes

Cost matters

  • Pre-filters before any API call.
  • Haiku classifies. Sonnet drafts.
  • Lightweight backends.
  • The bill matters to you, and to me.
Jeff Novotny, founder of Ravensbreath Lab
Jeff NovotnyFounder — Ravensbreath Lab

003 — ABOUT THE LAB

Built with purpose.

I'm a writer, a maker, and someone who can't walk past a problem without wanting to know what's underneath it. Writing is why I can take a tangled workflow and explain it to the volunteer who has thirty minutes on a Tuesday in a way that makes sense. Making things — software, systems, props — helps me notice when a solution is more complicated than the problem it's solving. My love of problem solving is why I actually enjoy the work that most people avoid. I want to take that broken inbox, that missing process, that thing nobody has touched in three years because it's too complicated and turn it into something exciting.

I've spent my career in IT operations, technical project management, and systems work — mostly at or alongside small organizations that needed someone who could figure things out without a lot of hand-holding. Ravensbreath Lab is where I take on AI workflow design and buildout, technical operations consulting, and the kind of systems cleanup work that never has a clean job title.

I'm currently open to both consulting engagements and full-time remote roles in AI workflow operations, technical project management, or IT operations at mission-aligned organizations. If you're a small org that needs to get your systems in order, I'd be glad to talk.

004 — LET’S BUILD

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