About

Three decades of production systems. Now pointed at AI.

Big Sky AI is Brian Lockhart—engineer, product and security leader, and the operator of every system on this site.

1990s

Founding-era MSNBC.com, then the MSN platform

First lesson in consumer-internet scale: millions of people notice when you’re wrong.
1999

Early Xbox and Xbox Live

One of the first gamertags on the service, back when “online console gaming” was a bet, not a category.
2007

Turn 10 Studios

Group Program Manager / Executive Producer on the Forza Motorsport franchise—shipping AAA software on immovable dates.
2012

Tableau, through the IPO

Manager of Program Management, then Director of Product Management and Product Security. Vulnerability response, compliance, incident management—what this site calls “trust architecture” was the day job. (Also founded SufferHub that year; acquired within months.)
2017

The Bitcoin years

Product lead for the Casa Node, consulting for Swan Bitcoin, five years running the Seattle Bitcoin Meetup, a decade of angel investing.
2023

Core Scientific

Joined as first Technical PM days after the bankruptcy filing. Two years later: every audit passed, investors made whole, relisted on NASDAQ—and the Bitcoin-mining fleet repointed at high-performance AI compute. Sr. Director of Technical Program Management, PMO & Corporate IT.
2025

Retired to Montana

LinkedIn title: “Ignorer of Emails.”
2026

Big Sky AI

Retirement lasted about a year—long enough to build his family a private AI staff. (You’ve met Ralph: Installation 001.) Big Sky AI is what happened next.

The team

One human. One AI staff.

Human

Founder. Builds it, installs it, and answers the pager. Equally comfortable in a sprint review and a customer conversation.

LinkedIn →

AI staff · Installation 001

Briefings, reminders, watchdogs, memory—in production since early 2026. Interviewed poorly; hired anyway.

Meet Ralph →

It’s a habit formed everywhere the pager was real. If your business could use that habit, start the conversation.