Friction is our specialty.
We’re not experts on your business. We’re experts on friction: we understand it, and we build what removes it.
Good systems make work easier. The principle holds wherever structure shapes how work happens — chemistry, engineering, organizations. Coleman Intelligence applies it to your workflows.
Structure drives function.
I have witnessed this since my earliest work as an electrochemist, and it’s the perspective I bring to every system I study, build, or improve.
After completing my PhD in analytical chemistry, I joined Intel as a process engineer, building chips with nanometer-sized transistors. I learned firsthand that the structure of the whole system determines what is possible inside it.
An opportunity then took me to Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, where I studied how the surface structure of a material determines atomic-level reactions.
To optimize our research, I began writing software to augment our instrumentation and data analysis. I transitioned to software engineering because I fell in love with using technology to eliminate operational friction.
I went on to engineer software at Synchrony Bank, Chowbus, Twitter, and Square. Across these companies, I gravitated toward building frameworks and developer tools that made other engineers’ work easier, many of which outlived me at the companies I left.
I have also built and shipped my own products through my app studio, SciCoTherapy Labs, including Smart Spend, a personal budgeting app, and Remote Codetrol, a mobile platform for AI agents.
I have now brought this experience together to launch Coleman Intelligence, a consulting service designed to help organizations optimize their operations. Most operational pain is caused by the structure surrounding the work — fragmented tools, redundant steps, manual handoffs. When the system’s structure is right, the function takes care of itself.
Based in Columbia, South Carolina, I work with businesses across the Midlands, as well as remote engagements throughout the Southeast, including Charleston, Charlotte, Greenville, and Augusta.
We’re not experts on your business. We’re experts on friction: we understand it, and we build what removes it.
A clearer process often beats a new tool. We aim for the smallest intervention that meaningfully reduces friction.
Based in Columbia, South Carolina. Available for remote engagements across the Southeast.