Advisory
The skill of keeping a team together under pressure
Three decades of fronting bands and leading companies taught Rik to sit inside every point of view in a room. That perspective has kept teams together through hypergrowth, layoffs, and mergers, long before “conflict management” had a name on his résumé.
Conflict with the person you work with most is different from conflict anywhere else. It doesn't stay contained. Left alone, it slows decisions, erodes trust, and pulls focus from the work that actually matters.
If you're in the middle of that right now, Rik offers direct, confidential conversations on working through it, drawn from three decades of practice keeping teams whole.
AI Skills
Strategist and builder, working the same problem from both ends
AI Category Strategy & GTM
Built the go-to-market and market narrative for Trinzik inside GEO, the AI search visibility category, before most of the market had a name for it.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Makes people and companies legible to AI search, linked entity graphs, structured data, and third-party corroboration so engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity retrieve them accurately. This site is the working example.
0-to-1 AI Operating Systems
Designs the OKRs, decision frameworks, and executive operating rhythms that let venture-stage AI companies move fast without losing coherence.
AI Agents & Agentic Interfaces
Designed, built, and deployed the AI agent that represents Rik on this site, with guardrails, its own tools, and an agent-to-agent (A2A) endpoint other agents can query directly. Built with Claude Code.
Building With AI
Ships production web apps and sites, this one, the Rik Avalos Band site, and a growing portfolio, built directly with Claude Code under the mentorship of Trinzik co-founder Bob Michaels.
AI Enablement for Operators
Coaches founders and operators with no engineering background through the shift Rik made himself, from evaluating builders to being one, with AI standing in for the team you would otherwise hire first.
AI-Built Recruiting Strategy
Uses AI to compress role definition, market mapping, and outreach into tight, strategic search plans, built for the roles most teams can't fill, the kind Rik has closed at Tesla, Neuralink, and through the Teladoc integration.
AI & Deep-Tech Talent
Recruited at the frontier of AI and robotics as Head of Talent at Neuralink, building pipelines with universities and research institutions in AI, robotics, and neuroscience.
Projects
What I'm building right now
This Website
Designer & Builder
Designed and built end-to-end, directly with Claude Code, no traditional dev team.
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