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MICHAEL JACOT
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§ 00 / MANIFESTOREADING TIME: 28s

I BUILD
SOFTWAREFOR
messy, real-world
SYSTEMS.

What I believe
FOUR
TENETS.
  1. I.Software should survive contact with reality.
  2. II.Tools should reduce chaos, not add to it.
  3. III.Good systems are built around the people who actually use them.
  4. IV.I care about useful, durable, practical software more than polished nonsense.
SUBJECT / 01
Vessels in the North Atlantic.
AIS · fuel · biofouling
SUBJECT / 02
Weekly grocery flyers.
8 chains · LLM recipes
SUBJECT / 03
Buildings paying demand charges.
kW peaks · battery + PV
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CONTENTS
INDEX
024 pp · staple-bound
specimen — not for redistribution
  1. §00MANIFESTO···· p.001
  2. §01SELECTED WORK · 6 OF 12···· p.002
  3. §02FLYER-TO-FORK · STORES···· p.011
  4. §03ABOUT · SPEAKING···· p.014
  5. §04WORKING HISTORY···· p.018
  6. §05CONTACT / COLOPHON···· p.024
§ 01 / SELECTED WORK · 6 OF 12 · 2021—2026SORT: RECENT ↓
01
flyer-to-fork
2024 — ongoing● Founder · sole dev

Flyer to Fork

PROBLEM
Grocery flyers go up Thursday. Most home cooks never line up the deals with what they actually plan to eat.
APPROACH
Weekly scrape of 200+ store flyers → LLM-built recipes anchored on what’s on sale → SEO-indexed pages per store, per week, per recipe.
RESULT
Daily store-specific menus with price-per-serving. Self-serving SEO funnel; ad + affiliate revenue.
PythonAWSLLMsScrapingSEO
FIG. 01flyer-to-fork.png
FlyerREAD CASE →
02
advisory
2023 — 2025● Data Science Lead · GIT Coatings

Advisory Services Platform

PROBLEM
Vessel owners burn fuel — and millions a year — when biofouling is mis-timed against drydock and trade routes.
APPROACH
Geospatial + time-series stack that fuses AIS, weather, fuel, and coating telemetry into a per-vessel maintenance & financial model.
RESULT
Productized as a paid aftercare offering. Drives recurring revenue and underwrites GIT’s technical claims.
PythonMLGeospatialSimulationLCA
Advisory Services Platform — figure 2
FIG. 02advisory.png
READ CASE →
03
argos
2023 — ongoing● Founder · sole dev

Argos

PROBLEM
Small-portfolio real estate operators juggle deal-finding and asset management across spreadsheets, MLS tabs, and memory.
APPROACH
Django app: market intelligence feed on one side, longitudinal asset book on the other, workflow automation in between.
RESULT
A single workbench from listing → underwriting → operating data.
DjangoPostgresData VizAutomation
Argos — figure 3
FIG. 03argos.png
READ CASE →
04
battery
2021 — 2023● Data Scientist · NSCC AER

Battery Demand Reduction

PROBLEM
Commercial buildings in Nova Scotia get walloped by demand charges. Batteries + solar can shave the peaks — if you size them right.
APPROACH
Time-series simulator on metered loads, NS tariff schedules, and PV generation curves. Sweeps battery/PV configurations for payback.
RESULT
Sizing recommendations used in active AER research and consulting engagements.
PythonTime SeriesSimulationSolar PV
Battery Demand Reduction — figure 4
FIG. 04battery.png
READ CASE →
§ 02 / FIELD OUTPUT · FIG. 04FLYER-TO-FORK · STORE ROLLOUT

STORES,
BY THE WEEK
THEY CAME
ONLINE.

Every store on Flyer-to-Fork, plotted on the date its first weekly flyer parsed cleanly. Accent dots are out-of-region rollouts — the rest are Atlantic Canada.

▸ VISIT FLYERTOFORK.COM ↗
LIVE
1,702
UNIQUE VISITS / WK
LIVE
1,890
RECIPES GENERATED
LIVE
210
FLYERS PROCESSED
LIVE
34,120
GROCERY ITEMS PROCESSED
2025
2026
Sobeys Atlantic
Sep 02, 24 · NS
Gateway Meat Market
Nov 18, 24 · NS
Walmart Canada
Feb 10, 25 · CA
Farm Boy
Apr 07, 25 · ON
Food Basics
May 26, 25 · ON
Market Basket
Jul 14, 25 · US
Aldi
Sep 15, 25 · UK
La Comer
Nov 10, 25 · MX
▸ WEBINAR
Gateway · Webinar ↗
Dec 08, 25 · YOUTUBE · MEAL-PLANNING FROM FLYERS
▸ COMING SOON
Costco
Feb 02, 26 · NS
▸ COMING SOON
H-E-B
Apr 13, 26 · US
▸ COMING SOON
Whole Foods Market
Jun 01, 26 · BC
ATLANTIC CANADAWEST / NATIONAL ROLLOUTCOMING SOONTALK / WEBINARSTACK: PYTHON · AWS · LLMs · STATIC SEO PAGES
§ 03 / ABOUT — OPERATOR PROFILEOPERATOR.001 · MICHAEL JACOT
ABOUT.01 / PROFILE

HI, I’M
MICHAELJACOT.

Data scientist, AI consultant, and builder. I turn complex, real-world problems into reliable software, models, and dashboards that people actually use.

ROLE
DATA SCIENCE LEAD
ORG
GIT COATINGS
BASE
HALIFAX · NS
STUDY
PHYSICS · CS · DAL
STACK
PY · ML · TIME-SERIES
OFF-HRS
SQUASH · REAL ESTATE · GARDEN
FUTURE OF AI IN TRANSPORTATION
PANEL · 2024
FUTURE OF AI IN TRANSPORTATION
Transport Canada / NRCC · ITS Living Labs
ABOUT.02 / LONG-FORM
01

I am a data scientist and software developer with 6+ years of experience building decision tools for energy, maritime, and finance. I specialize in Python, machine learning, time series, and modern web stacks that make insights measurable and repeatable.

02

I studied Physics and Computer Science at Dalhousie University. Professionally, I lead and ship analytics at GIT Coatings, where I have worked as Data Scientist, Vessel Analytics and Software Lead, and now Data Science Lead. My work spans data infrastructure, forecasting, model validation, and productizing analytics for internal teams and clients.

03

Outside of tech, I play squash, manage and invest in real estate, and work in the garden — spending hundreds of dollars and days of my summer producing strawberries I could have bought from the grocery store for $4.

ABOUT.03 / FIELD APPEARANCES
3 ENTRIES · 2024 →
FUTURE OF AI IN TRANSPORTATION
PANEL · 2024
FUTURE OF AI IN TRANSPORTATION
Transport Canada / NRCC · ITS Living Labs
AI-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN ATLANTIC CANADA
PANEL · 2025
AI-DRIVEN INNOVATION IN ATLANTIC CANADA
COVE · H₂O Conference
GLOBAL HQ — OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING
INVESTOR PRESENTATION · 2025
GLOBAL HQ — OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING
GIT Coatings · vessel performance briefing
ABOUT.04 / APPROACH
HOW THE WORK GETS BUILT
01
USER-CENTERED DESIGN

Build tools around real workflows and decisions.

02
MEASURABLE OUTCOMES

Define success metrics, test against reality, iterate.

03
PERFORMANCE & RELIABILITY

Optimize for speed, robustness, and traceability.

04
ACCESSIBLE BY DEFAULT

Clear visuals, keyboard-friendly, readable at a glance.

05
TESTED & VERSIONED

Automate checks, document assumptions, keep data lineage.

§ 04 / WORKING HISTORY7 ENTRIES · 2017→
PERIODORGROLENOTES
Aug 2024 — PresentGCGIT CoatingsData Science LeadLeads DS team. Strategic direction on analytics + ML across marine-coatings validation.
Oct 2023 — Aug 2024GCGIT CoatingsVessel Analytics & Software LeadHeaded the vessel analytics + software division. Tools for internal teams and clients.
Oct 2022 — Oct 2023GCGIT CoatingsData ScientistBuilt the foundational data infra. Reporting pipelines now in daily use; validated coating efficacy.
May 2022 — Dec 2023NSNSCC · Applied Energy ResearchData Science ConsultantOn-call DS for AER. Demand-reduction work on NS commercial buildings.
May 2021 — May 2022NSNSCC · Applied Energy ResearchData Science InternBattery + solar demand-reduction simulations under the Clean Internship Program.
May 2019 — Sep 2019PPPEJK Property ServicesLandscaping ManagerRan ops on a 45-property book. Crews, scheduling, equipment.
2017 — 2022DUDalhousie UniversityBSc · Physics, CS minorDean’s List. Howe Hall house president. Dalhousie IMPACT Award.
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