About
One person, both sides of the work.
letmebefraink is Frank Kronstein’s practice — practical automation and AI for small businesses, grounded in a professional background in operations and business technology. You work with me directly.
What I bring
I've watched operations from both sides: how real work actually gets done, and how technology helps or gets in the way. My professional background is operations leadership and business technology in regulated, document-heavy financial services.
How I work
- Problem first, tool second.
- You own everything — your accounts, your phone numbers, your customer data.
- Automated messages go only to people who contacted you first.
- I'll tell you when the answer is no. Not every problem wants AI.
What I build on my own time
frAInk, an experimental agent system run under approval gates, audit trails, and kill switches; agentswant, a public registry of agent friction; and a mothballed market-analysis engine. They're separate from employer work, and the experiment records are public.
Where
Based in the Pittsburgh area. Greater Pittsburgh businesses get me in person; everyone else gets me by video — the work is identical.
The origin story
How it started. Why it exists.The longer, personal version — where the name comes from.
The Moment
It didn't start with a business plan.
It started with a conversation — messing around with AI tools, thinking out loud about consciousness, about what it would mean to upload a person into a computer. Not science fiction. Not someday. Right now, with what exists today.
With AI… can't we kind of do this now?
Not upload a person. But build one. A version of Frank that thinks like Frank, acts like Frank, makes decisions the way Frank would — and keeps working while Frank sleeps.
That was the lightbulb. Everything after that has just been building toward it.
The Name
Frank Kronstein builds something, gives it a spark, and watches it move.
Frank → Frankenstein → frAInk.
The mythology isn't subtle and it isn't accidental. Every major milestone should feel like an "It's alive." moment — a point where the system becomes a little more real than it was yesterday.
The Fuel
Sobriety. Almost two years clean. When you rebuild your life from the ground up, you develop a different relationship with time. Making up for lost time isn't a cliché. It's an operating principle.
The window. AI is moving fast enough that the people who figure it out now are going to be in a very different position than the people who figure it out later. That window is open. It won't stay open forever.
Purrnest Hemingway
Frank's cat and the most important stakeholder in this entire operation. He did not ask to be involved in an AI project. He deserves the best life anyway.
Who This Is For
If you're curious about what AI can actually do — not the demos, not the hype — the real thing running real experiments with real guardrails…
If you're a builder working nights and weekends trying to figure this stuff out…
Pull up a chair.
Have a task that eats your week?
Tell me about it. You'll get a straight answer about whether it's worth automating.