Founder & Lead Consultant — Toffels (Independent) | AI-assisted academic research consulting and mentorship (2022–Present)
Founded and led Toffels, an AI-assisted academic research consulting and mentorship service for postgraduate students across the UK and EU. Provided clients with structured guidance on using AI tools to support reasoning, verification, and research workflow development rather than replacing judgment. Applied prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented AI workflows as part of day-to-day consulting to help clients improve accuracy and reliability. • Literature review and research design support using AI-assisted workflows • Prompt engineering guidance to elicit useful, verifiable outputs • AI output verification frameworks to reduce hallucination and over-reliance • Documented common failure modes and advised targeted interventions