About
A small team. Decades of combined experience running businesses and shipping technology.
Barnes Signal Advisor pairs senior operators with senior engineers. We've carried P&Ls, led brands, and shipped production AI systems for real customers — and we bring all of it to every engagement.
Tim Barnes spent three decades running consumer businesses — brand and commercial roles at Tim Hortons, LG, Central City Brewing, and Calgary International Airport. He's carried a P&L, run turnarounds, and built brands at scale.
Then he built an AI product himself, BitStage.ai, and learned how to use AI safely first-hand — including the security and privacy parts most people skip.
Barnes Signal Advisor puts that to work for small businesses. The rule we work by: AI should make your people better, not replace them. We use it to take the dull and risky work off your team so they can do the work that matters.
Engineering leadership
A senior engineer behind every build.
Ahmed builds production-grade LLM, RAG, and AI agent systems — not prototypes or API wrappers. Python pipelines deployed on AWS, handling real traffic for real customers. He leads the engineering behind every Barnes Signal Advisor build: AI systems, integrations, and the secure plumbing that keeps client data safe.
Top Rated Plus on Upwork with 8,000+ delivered hours, 30+ completed engagements, $300K+ earned, and a 100% Job Success score across fractional CTO and senior engineering work.
More team profiles coming as we grow.
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A 20-minute call. No pitch — just a straight read on whether AI fits what you're doing.
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