Christi Akinwumi

I design, ship, and measure conversational AI.

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX · christi.io · [email protected] · linkedin.com/in/christiakinwumi · github.com/mrskinzo

Highlights

  • Shipped conversational AI to 20M+ users across 8+ international markets.
  • Led an enterprise migration from rule based NLU to an LLM multi-agent system: 25% faster responses, $2M annual support savings, 60% fewer hallucinations.
  • Built and operate a live tool-using booking agent for a real business, on autopilot since launch (boothlyevents.com).

Experience

Principal & Founder · Intelligent CX Consulting, LLC

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (remote, US clients)

  • Run conversational AI consulting engagements: diagnostic sprints, eval harness builds, intent taxonomies, and orchestration architecture for support organizations.
  • Designed and shipped Boothly, a tool-using Claude agent for a photo booth business. It triages leads, builds quotes from a single pricing source, places holds on the real Outlook calendar, and confirms by SMS. Lead to quote, hold, and text in under 60 seconds, 24/7.
  • Rebuilt planning and review rituals for a cross market AI product team and onboarded 200+ non technical employees to agentic AI tooling.

Conversation Designer · GoDaddy

  • Led the migration from rule based NLU to an LLM multi-agent support system across 8+ markets and 20M+ users: 25% faster response time, $2M annual savings, 40% CSAT lift.
  • Rebuilt the routing taxonomy from 50K+ real conversations: 150+ mutually exclusive intents across 12 product domains, misrouting down 30%, handle time down 20%.
  • Designed and ran a six week RAG evaluation across three configurations. The winning hybrid retrieval architecture shipped to production: 45% accuracy lift, 60% fewer hallucinations.
  • Authored the vendor decision framework (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) that secured a $500K+ budget and leadership buy in.

Workflow Author · Peloton

  • Rebuilt self service for a connected fitness product across 8 international markets: information architecture, decision trees, localization, and a product gap feedback loop that fed the roadmap.
  • Resolution time down 40%, self service adoption up 35%, support volume down 20%.

Selected projects

  • Boothly Booking Concierge. Live tool-use agent for a real business: Claude (Anthropic SDK), Microsoft Graph, Twilio. Case study at christi.io/work/boothly-booking-concierge.
  • RAG Pipeline Comparison. Public companion repo to the production RAG evaluation: three configurations, one eval harness. github.com/mrskinzo/rag-pipeline-comparison.
  • christi.io. This site: Astro, a custom build pipeline, and a Claude powered chatbot grounded in my published writing.

Education

  • M.S., Curriculum & Instruction
    Texas A&M International University
  • Post Graduate Certification, Technical Communication
    University of North Texas
  • B.G.S., Business
    Texas Woman's University

Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
    Scrum Alliance · verify
  • Google AI Essentials
    Google / Coursera · verify

Skills

  • Conversation design
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Prompt architecture
  • RAG evaluation
  • Eval harness design
  • Intent taxonomy
  • LangFuse
  • Dialogflow CX
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • JavaScript
  • Python

Open to full time roles in conversational AI design, AI product, and applied AI. Consulting engagements run through Intelligent CX Consulting. The longer version of everything here lives in the case studies.