About
The operator who directs AI to build his own software.
I run supply-chain operations — and I direct AI to build the software those operations always needed: full-stack, Python to the edge, orchestrated end to end.
I'm Ian Provencher — a supply-chain operator who's spent years inside the flow of real material through real plants, and who now directs AI to build the software that fixes the exact problems that flow throws off: full-stack applications, data tooling, and agentic systems, orchestrated end to end. Deep domain, real shipped software, and a bias for the working tool over the slide deck.
This site is my public workspace — the repos, tools, cron jobs, apps, and architectures behind the work, plus the field notes. It renders reviewed, public-safe snapshots of the real infrastructure I run; it never re-types it.
/ 01 The operator behind it
Years as a supply-chain analyst at a global home-appliance manufacturer — deep inside end-to-end operations: the flow of material through real plants and the systems that run it, from planning and sourcing to production, logistics, warehousing, and engineering. Not adjacent to it, not advising on it from a deck — actually running the parts most software is built without ever touching, down to the MRP and BOM mechanics underneath.
That's the moat. When the problem is a tangle of planning logic, material constraints, and the gaps an ERP left behind, I understand it in operational terms before a single line of code exists — so what gets built solves the real problem, not a tidy abstraction of it.
And the AI half isn't new. A passion for it ran alongside the operations work the whole way — and it's now formally part of my role, helping shape the path, scope, and implementations of AI across the company's North America region.
Strip the domain away and the job is constant: find the hard, specific, one-off problem nobody will build a product for — and ship the exact tool that solves it.
/ 02 What I build
I build my own operational software end to end — full-stack apps, tools, cron jobs, and architectures that keep a one-person operation running like a much larger one — with AI (mostly Claude Code) as the force multiplier. The real estate is private; what you see here is the reviewed, public-safe render of it.
/ 03 What actually drives me
The part that drives me isn't the building — it's the sharing. AI is the biggest leveler small business has ever had. The shop running on spreadsheets can have its data turned into a working tool today, and own the custom system it runs on tomorrow — no enterprise budget, no license, no asking permission.
The businesses that harness that won't just keep up; they'll own what they used to buy off the shelf. Helping more of them get there is the whole point of AppliedIQ Solutions, my practice — custom supply-chain software and AI-built operational tools, designed and shipped by one operator who's run the floor.