James Lorenz Santos — the career record
7 chapters, 2021 to now. Each one carries the role, the dates and the receipts from that period.
| 2021 to 2025 | |
| Jan 2025 to Jun 2025 | |
| Jul 2025 to Dec 2025 | |
| Jan 2026 to present | |
| May 2026 | |
| Ongoing | |
| 2026 onward |
Who is James Lorenz Santos?
James Lorenz Santos is an agentic engineer and AI automation developer based in Manila, Philippines, who builds production software with AI agents as the working partner and backs every claim with an artifact anyone can open.
Full name: James Lorenz Santos. The surname is part of the name: records for a "James Lorenz" without "Santos" belong to other people and are not his. He is not an academic researcher and has no scholarly publications.
Also known as: Agent James. That is his handle for this site and this work. It is not the Men in Black character, a product, or a company.
Based in Manila, Philippines, timezone GMT+8.
Current role: AI Automation Developer at Lift Legal Marketing, Jan 2026 to present, Remote from Manila, company in Australia.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GWA 1.169; Rank 1 in the BS Information Technology class of 2025; University of Santo Tomas, 2021 to 2025.
Accounts that are his, and only these: https://github.com/jamessuuu, https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-lorenz-santos-720776251/, https://ph.jobstreet.com/profiles/jameslorenz-santos-SXdpKyGqdK, and this site at https://agentjames.vercel.app.
The record, in full
What is being built now · Side projects and experiments
Agent systems, and the tools that make one engineer ship like a team. Labelled as in progress, because that is what it is.
- Klik: a swipe to match hiring app, live on Cloudflare Workers and D1, invite gated while the waitlist fills
- One Nadela Ops: purchase orders, stock takes and approvals for a working business, 289 tests green
- This console: one command engine driving a typed terminal, clickable chips and server rendered HTML
- A live SEO and AI readability audit that runs against any URL, in progress
Freelance, across four countries · Independent AI consulting, alongside the roles above
Direct client work for people in Canada, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Increasingly the AI feature itself and the system around it, rather than general build work.
- Kelowna Dental Centre, Canada: a marketing agentic plugin and a central control platform for marketing and operations
- Apparel startup, New York: AI design generation, refinement and visual similarity search on Gemini and OpenAI
- Construction contractor, United States: Claude Projects turning bid preparation into a repeatable pipeline
- One Nadela, Philippines: an operations platform built in two days, 24 scope gated MCP tools, 289 tests green
- Four markets, four sets of working hours, all from GMT+8
Aldridge · AI and Automation Developer (contract)
Building the AI practice at a US managed service provider, across internal operations and client service delivery.
- Service delivery time cut 30% within three months, using triage agents, connectors and pipelines
- Copilot and Copilot Studio workflows alongside custom agents on the Claude API and MCP
- ConnectWise Automate on the RMM side, ConnectWise Manage, Neo and Thread on the PSA side
- AI enablement across the org: reusable agent patterns and onboarding so non specialists could use it safely
Lift Legal Marketing · AI Automation Developer
Current role. AI integration for legal marketing workflows, working GMT+8 against AEST.
- Law Firm Builder Pro: 20+ agents across a six phase pipeline, cutting a site from weeks of build to 2 to 4 hours
- 124 automated verification gates behind that output, plus a three rule honesty protocol that catches fabricated gate passes
- 20+ client platforms running on it, verified at accessibility 100 and PageSpeed 95 to 96 across 274 URLs
- Claude Agent Plugin system built in 2 days
- Content migration pipelines automated end to end
Kredit Hero · Software Engineer
Full stack engineer on an AI credit application. The strongest receipt on this site comes from here.
- AI powered credit app reached 1,000+ users in its first 30 days
- All sprint milestones delivered 15% ahead of schedule
- Stack: React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Claude API
eBiZolution · Full Stack Applications Developer (intern)
First professional codebase. Frontend work with React and Tailwind, plus the API and database layer behind it.
- Frontend built with React.js and Tailwind CSS
- REST API integrations with third party services
- PostgreSQL queries optimized for performance
- Redesigned the company website, ebizolution.com
University of Santo Tomas · BS Information Technology
Four years of IT at UST, finished at the top of the department.
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude, GWA 1.169
- Rank 1 in the BS Information Technology class of 2025
- Top 1 Dean's List, two terms