NorTex AI Experts

Honest scoping

We'll tell you when AI isn't the answer, when a spreadsheet would do the job, or when the project isn't worth starting. The cheapest engagement is the one we talk you out of.

Real clients

Every customer listed below is a live or recent engagement we can speak to in detail.

Practitioner-led

We build what we deploy. No layers of account managers between you and the engineer doing the work.

What we do

Three practice areas. Real depth in each.

We're a small team by design — what we promise, we ship. Pick the one that maps to your problem, or talk to us about how they fit together.

01 / Data

Data Engineering & Analytics

Pipelines, warehouses, and dashboards that turn raw business data into operational insight. Stack-agnostic — Postgres, BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte, Metabase, Power BI.

→ ELT pipelines
→ Cloud data warehouses
→ BI dashboards
→ Data modeling (dbt)

02 / AI

AI & ML Consulting

Production-grade LLM features for real workflows: document understanding, internal search, automation. We focus on evaluation and reliability, not demos.

→ LLM integrations
→ Retrieval (RAG)
→ Prompt evaluation
→ Agentic workflows

03 / Build

Custom Software Development

Web apps, internal tools, and integrations built to fit how your business actually operates. TypeScript-first, deployed on modern serverless infrastructure.

→ Internal tools
→ API integrations
→ Web applications
→ Cloud automation

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Public work

We don't just consult. We teach.

Two ongoing initiatives outside of paid engagements — one running, one launching this year.

LIVE · 23+ EPISODES

LIVE

AI for Common Folks

Understand AI in plain English. No PhD required.

A free newsletter and growing library explaining AI in plain English — three series (AI Daily Digest, AI Explained, The AI Shift) read by professionals, founders, and students.

READ THE NEWSLETTER ↗

IN DEVELOPMENT · LAUNCHING 2026

DEVELOPING

AI Training for Teams

Bring AI literacy to your whole organization.

Workshops and corporate training programs that demystify AI for non-engineers — built on the AI for Common Folks curriculum and adapted for the specific shape of your team.

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STORIES FROM THE FIELD

Why we do this work.

Two recent moments from the AI for Common Folks beat — the kind of conversations that remind us why the literacy work matters.

Bakht Singh

Founder · NorTex AI Experts

MENTORING

"Today evening, my wife and I sat with 7 students…"

Bakht Singh

Founder · NorTex AI Experts

AI LITERACY

"Taught a 75-year-old friend to use AI this week…"

FEATURED · AI HORIZONS 2026 · UNT

Featured speakers at AI Horizons 2026.

NorTex helped GSC (Graduate Student Council), the UNT AI Club, and SWAGATH bring industry speakers to AI Horizons 2026 at the University of North Texas — including our own founders Bakht Singh and Noel Jerke. A selection of LinkedIn posts from the event below. Hover any card to pause the scroll.

Bakht Singh

Founder · NorTex AI Experts

On the GSC SWAGATH gathering at UNT.

#GSC #SWAGATH

Bakht Singh

Founder · NorTex AI Experts

On career growth at SWAGATH, UNT.

#SWAGATH #CareerGrowth #UNT

Sahithi Chindam

NorTex AI Experts

On AI, Claude, and modern data engineering.

#AI #Claude #DataEngineering

Sahithi Chindam

NorTex AI Experts

On AI Horizons 2026 at UNT.

#GSC #AIHorizons2026 #UNT

Noel Jerke

NorTex AI Experts

On AI and the future of digital marketing.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalMarketing

Shaik Mizan Tazneen

Student · UNT

"Hearing Bakht Singh was a standout. As a UNT alumnus, his story felt very real — no shortcuts, just consistency and hard work."

#AIHorizons2026 #UNT #CareerGrowth

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Partnerships

Building alongside others.

Selected engineering partnerships where we're shipping product together — not white-labelling logos.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH POWER DIGITAL SERVICES

Exploring the next generation of the web.

A growing platform of fast, simple, modern web tools — calculators, productivity utilities, time and date tools — built jointly with Power Digital Services, an AI-powered custom software development firm. The shared goal: explore what a faster, more useful, more pragmatic next-generation web actually looks like in practice.

→ A growing library of free, useful web tools
→ Time tools, financial calculators, productivity utilities
→ Modern stack, fast page loads, zero ad-tech bloat

Visit oNL.LI Power Digital Services

PROJECT

onl.li

PARTNER

AI-powered custom software development

STATUS

SHIPPING

NORTEX LABS · ACCELERATED PROTOTYPING

What we ship between client engagements.

NorTex Labs is our internal sandbox — where we treat the modern AI coding stack as a force multiplier and ship live products in days, not quarters. The work below isn't billable; it's how we stay sharp, pressure-test the tools we recommend to clients, and prove out the AI-Age engineering velocity we sell.

AI-AGE BUILD

TranslationForFree

Free AI translation for text & subtitles.

A free, no-signup web app for AI-powered translation. Paste text or upload SRT/VTT subtitle files; get fast, accurate translations across 50+ languages. Built end-to-end as a demonstration of what modern AI-native tooling makes possible.

→ 50+ languages, no signup, no tracking
→ SRT / VTT subtitle support with timing preserved
→ React/Vite frontend · FastAPI backend · Gemini AI

Visit translationforfree.com

PRODUCT

TranslationForFree

translationforfree.com

STATUS

LIVE

Our clients

Businesses we work with.

Verifiable, working relationships — not logos we scraped.

Denton, TX

Pragmatic AI & Data Engineering
for North Texas Businesses.