One place to start.
Four ways to win.
Every engagement begins with the Roadmap: a short sprint that maps your workflows, finds where automation actually pays, and hands you a sequenced plan — not a slide deck. From there, the work lands in one of four pillars.
The AI Roadmap
A short engagement that maps your workflows, finds where automation actually pays, and hands you a sequenced plan — not a slide deck. Sometimes the answer is "automate." Sometimes it's "fix the operating system first." Either way, you know.
Back-Office Automation
AI agents and workflow automation that cut the cost of repetitive office work — documents, bookkeeping, order flows. The busywork gets done; your people do the work that needs people.
Own Your Platform
Escape per-seat pricing and lock-in. We implement and maintain open-source business systems — and migrate you off the expensive ones — so your company runs on software you own.
Local, Low-Cost AI
AI on hardware you control — private, compliant, and free of metered API bills. Your models and your data stay in-house, never leaving your walls.
Custom Software
When off-the-shelf doesn't fit, the Lab builds it: production software in your stack, tested, documented, and handed over with the keys.
Back-Office Automation
AI agents and workflow automation pointed at the repetitive work that eats your margins: document handling, bookkeeping, order flows, data entry between systems that don't talk.
Vortex — our universal document inbox — takes documents in, classifies them, and answers "what's the next action required." Our own books are kept by an AI bookkeeper. A pharma-distribution client got orders flowing from storefront to operations in days, at zero software cost.
Week one: we shadow the workflow, count the hours it consumes, and pick the first process to hand to an agent.
Own Your Platform
Implementation and maintenance of open-source business systems — and migrations off the expensive proprietary ones. Per-seat pricing and lock-in contracts treat a 50-person company like a 5,000-person one. You have another option.
We de-platformed a manufacturer from NetSuite to ERPNext, ending enterprise licensing for good — and built the repeatable tooling behind it: a reproducible deployment stack and a migration engine with zero-variance reconciliation.
Week one: an inventory of what you pay for, what it actually does, and what an open-source replacement would take.
Local, Low-Cost AI
AI inference on hardware you control — private, compliant, and free of metered API bills. For document processing, internal knowledge, and workflows where the data should never leave your walls.
Marty, our retrieval expert over real equipment manuals, ships as cloud and fully-local builds side by side — so you can see the cost/capability trade with your own eyes. We extract invoices with local models and run open-weights agents internally.
Week one: we benchmark your actual workload on local models next to cloud models — real cost math, not vendor decks.
Custom Software
When off-the-shelf doesn't fit, the Lab builds it: production software in your stack, tested, documented, and handed over with the keys. No lock-in — it's yours.
Mentor (a coaching-delivery platform built for a client), Meridian (operational availability for distributed teams), and HiCaliber (AI interviewers) all started as client or internal needs. The Lab is how engagements become assets.
Week one: a working-prototype conversation — what exists, what's missing, and what we'd build first.
Two ways to buy.
Project
A scoped build: defined outcome, delivered, documented, and handed over.
Embedded
Pace as your ongoing AI team — senior hands on retainer, no full-time hire.
From idea to embedded
in four moves.
Discover
A week mapping how your work flows, to find the highest-leverage place to start.
Prototype
A working proof you can actually click — in weeks, not quarters.
Build
Production software in your stack, tested, documented and reliable.
Embed
We train your team, hand over the keys, and stay on call.
Let's put AI
to work for you.
Tell us where you're stuck. We'll reply within one business day with a few concrete ideas — whether or not we work together.