The short version
Logan Shimmer is a systems engineer who runs the office side of small businesses with their owners, and puts AI on the parts that deserve it. Shimmer Labs is the fractional operations practice he runs out of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The work that became Shimmer Labs was the work Logan was already doing, making complex systems behave, designing the operational glue between tools, shipping reliable infrastructure, before AI became the hammer.
The career arc
Two decades of systems engineering and operations work, in production, before AI was the category it is now:
- National Instruments, test & measurement systems.
- Iterable, marketing infrastructure at scale.
- WeaveGrid, clean energy / utility grid platforms.
- Sense, clean energy / home energy monitoring.
A deeper interview-led narrative is in progress.
Teaching and credentials
2026 Google Data Center Community AI Fellow. Selected for the Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, a program for community leaders using AI to build local solutions in the towns where Google runs data centers. Stillwater is one of them.
OSU class of '09 alum. AI for Industry microcredential through OSU CEAT Professional Development, an applied course on using AI inside technical organizations.
Currently teaching AI & Marketing in the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce's Small Business University program. Local owners learn what AI can actually do for their shop, without the hype, without getting stuck with one company's product, and without the security mistakes that keep showing up in the headlines.
Talks
Guest lecturer for Dr. Victoria Antin Yates's Intro to Entrepreneurship course at OSU's Spears School of Business (October 2026, 110 students, recap and slides), and for the School of Entrepreneurship through the Riata Center (September 2026). Stillwater Chamber Business @ Lunch on AI fraud prevention (August 2026). Meridian Technology Center, "AI for the Boring Parts of Your Business" (2025).
The other business: Techie Grandkid
Logan also runs Techie Grandkid, patient in-home tech help for people in Stillwater who would rather have a person in the room than a chatbot: phones, TVs, email, Wi-Fi, and a free talk called "Don't Get Robbed Online" for the communities and families who need it most. It started because the volunteers at the thrift store where he works kept asking him to look at their phones. Same person, same patience, different customer.
Work that came before the brand
The Supabase and Taddy projects that anchor our case studies happened before Shimmer Labs existed. Same pattern. Same human checking everything before it goes out. Same real, working code in front of real customers. The work didn't change when the brand showed up, that's the proof it was solid all along.
Why Stillwater
Logan returned to Stillwater after 17 years in California to build a rooted business at home. Office Hours runs every Tuesday and Thursday, 2-3 PM, at WorkIT Stillwater. Walk-in, free, in person.
What we do and don't do
We run the office side of small businesses with their owners: trades, studios, shops, property managers, and service businesses with 1 to 50 people in Oklahoma. We start with a free Snapshot, scope the fixes in a paid Operations Assessment, and build them together through the AI Concierge, or build and run them with Sidecar when a process is too big to do together. We don't build chatbots, we don't replace teams, and we tell you plainly when AI isn't the answer. We've been building real systems for two decades. AI is a new tool we picked up, not our whole skill set.
Want to see what that looks like for your business? Let's talk.
Working in higher ed? Logan's an OSU alum, and we wrote a free guide for you: Using AI Securely in Higher Education →.