Steve Burtch — Principal
25 years of enterprise delivery. Affordable, secure, built to last.
I help businesses turn unstructured information into actionable knowledge
Turn document chaos into searchable knowledge. Deploy a reasoning engine that lets your team ask questions across all your files — PDFs, contracts, reports, spreadsheets — and get accurate answers with source citations.
Ideal for: Law firms, accounting, real estate, healthcare
Connect your systems, automate your workflows, and stop doing by hand what software should do for you. API integrations, data extraction, report automation.
Ideal for: Any business with manual data processes
Senior product strategy and technical leadership, two days a week. I've led Agile teams of 5‑10, managed multi‑million‑dollar projects, and shipped 20+ enterprise applications.
Ideal for: Startups, small tech companies, gov contractors
Production systems I've designed and built, demonstrating the kind of solutions I deliver for clients.
Featured Project
A production document intelligence platform that transforms any collection of documents into a searchable, AI‑powered knowledge base. Users ask questions in plain language and get accurate answers with source citations.
Full-stack SaaS production scheduling platform for specialty mushroom growers. Backward-schedules concurrent cultivation runs from target harvest dates, with integrated yield tracking, culture lineage, and daily work orders.
Python · FastAPI · Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Tailwind
Prompt version control with automated testing, live evaluation, human feedback loops, and embedded RAG.
Node.js · OpenAI · Express · YAML
BC government digital transformation, Microsoft Canada web development, WorkBC job board, and more — delivered over 25 years.
Government · Enterprise · Agile
I'm Steve Burtch, principal of Netscribe Communications — an incorporated consultancy based in Victoria, BC. I've spent 25+ years delivering complex IT projects — from BC government digital transformation to web applications for Microsoft Canada.
Now I combine that enterprise delivery experience with AI‑powered development tools to build solutions faster and more affordably than traditional approaches. I use tools like Claude, purpose-built RAG pipelines, and modern Python to deliver what used to take teams of people.
I've managed 10‑person Agile teams, multi‑million‑dollar contracts, and 20+ projects from requirements through production. I'm Prosci change management certified, experienced with Scaled Agile frameworks, and I write code that ships with 90%+ test coverage.
Currently accepting new clients for Q2 2026. Whether you have a specific project in mind or just want to explore what's possible, I'd welcome a conversation.