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AI consulting for growing businesses

Put AI to work where it actually pays off.

We help growing businesses find the AI opportunities worth pursuing, then design, build, and roll them out with your team. No hype decks. Working systems with measurable results.

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  • Free 30-minute discovery call
  • Vendor-neutral advice
  • You own everything we build

Invoice intake agent

Live

  1. Invoice received

    INV-2041 from Northbay Supply

  2. Details extracted

    14 line items, $8,420.00 total

  3. Matched to purchase order

    PO-7782, quantities and prices match

  4. Freight charge over contract rate

    Sent to Dana in finance for approval

  5. Approved and posted

    Waiting on approval, then syncs to QuickBooks

Connected to

  • Gmail
  • QuickBooks
  • Slack
Fig. 01: An example workflow we build

Vendor-neutral. Built on the tools you already use.

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google Gemini
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • Zapier
  • Make
  • n8n
  • HubSpot
  • Salesforce
  • Slack
  • Notion

Sound familiar?

AI is everywhere. Results aren't.

If any of these feel close to home, you're in the right place. Each one has a practical way forward.

01

Your team is buried in busywork

Hours disappear into copying data between tools, answering the same questions, and rebuilding the same reports.

02

Experiments that never stuck

A few people use ChatGPT, a pilot quietly fizzled out, and nobody can say what any of it was worth.

03

Every vendor is selling AI

Your inbox is full of AI pitches. You need someone with nothing to sell you to separate what's real from what's noise.

04

Leadership wants a plan

You've been asked for an AI strategy with costs, risks, and a first win in months, not years.

What we do

From first idea to working system.

Start with a strategy, or bring us a specific problem. Every engagement ends with something your team actually uses.

All services
01

AI strategy & roadmap

Know exactly where AI will pay off.

We map how work really gets done, size every opportunity, and hand you a prioritized roadmap with costs, risks, and a first project ready to build.

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02

Workflow automation & agents

Take the busywork off your team's plate.

We connect AI to the tools you already use so it handles the repetitive work between them, with people approving the decisions that matter.

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03

Custom AI assistants

Answers grounded in your own knowledge.

Assistants that answer from your documents, policies, and data, for your team or your customers, with sources cited and access controls built in.

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04

Team training & enablement

Make your whole team confident with AI.

Hands-on workshops built around your team's real tasks, plus clear guidelines, so AI becomes part of how work gets done instead of a side experiment.

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How we choose

We start where the value is.

Not every AI idea deserves a budget. We score each one on value, effort, and risk, then start with the project that pays back fastest, so your first win helps fund the next.

Value
Hours saved, revenue protected, mistakes avoided, measured against how things work today.
Effort
Data readiness, integrations, and how much your team's routine has to change.
Risk
Privacy, accuracy, and what happens when the AI gets something wrong.
Fig. 02: A sample opportunity map. Start in the top left.

How we work

A clear path from first call to working system.

Every engagement follows the same four steps, so you always know what is happening, what it costs, and what comes next.

A consultant smiling beside a glass wall covered in color-coded sticky notes during a planning workshop

Week 1

Workflow mapping with the people who actually do the work.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Week 1

    Map how work really gets done

    We interview the people doing the work, map your key workflows, and review your tools, data, and security requirements. No generic playbook.

  2. 02

    Prioritize

    Weeks 2 to 3

    Pick the first win

    Every idea is scored on value, effort, and risk. Together we choose one first project and agree on the numbers it needs to move.

  3. 03

    Build

    Weeks 3 to 8

    Ship a working pilot

    We build in short cycles with your real data, demo progress every week, and put the pilot in front of real users early.

  4. 04

    Scale

    Ongoing

    Hand over and grow

    We train your team, document everything, measure results against the baseline, and plan what comes next.

Our commitments

Built for the real world, not a demo day.

AI that touches your customers and your data needs more than clever prompts. These principles shape every project we take on.

Vendor-neutral advice

We recommend what fits your needs and budget, including off-the-shelf tools when they're the better answer.

Your data stays protected

Business-grade AI services that don't train on your data, minimal access, and deployment in your own accounts when needed.

People stay in control

Clear approval steps wherever judgment matters, and an easy way to see what the AI did and why.

Measured, not assumed

We record a baseline before we build, so results are counted in hours, errors, and dollars, not anecdotes.

You own everything

Code, automations, prompts, and documentation are yours to keep. No lock-in and no black boxes.

Plain-English partnership

No jargon and no surprise invoices. You'll always know what we're doing, why, and what it costs.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Straight answers to what most people want to know before getting started.

Still have a question? Ask us directly.

Often more than for tech companies. The best opportunities usually sit in everyday work: email, documents, data entry, scheduling, and reporting. If your team spends hours on repetitive tasks, there's almost always something worth automating.

Start with one conversation

Let's find your first AI win.

Tell us where the work piles up. In 30 minutes we'll point out the AI opportunities worth pursuing, and the ones to skip.

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Free 30-minute call. Honest advice, no pressure.