Your systems, your data, and that AI question, straightened out

A small, senior consultancy in Chicago. Results, not hype.

Your systems don't talk to each other. Your data sits unused. Someone keeps asking about AI. We connect the systems, build the dashboards and automations, and write the custom software, working alongside your team or running the whole thing. We'll also tell you when you don't need us.

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When to call

Sounds familiar?

If you've said one of these out loud lately, we should talk. If you're passing this page along, send it to someone who has.

  • We have four systems and no single answer.

    Sales, inventory, billing and membership each tell a different story. We connect them so the answer lives in one place.

  • Somebody on the team rebuilds that spreadsheet every Monday.

    That's skilled people doing a machine's job. We automate the repeat work and leave the judgment calls to people.

  • The board wants to know if we should be doing AI. I don't know what to tell them.

    We find the two or three places it would help, and tell you where it wouldn't. You leave with a plain answer you can repeat in the meeting.

  • Our software works, but nobody dares touch it.

    The person who built it is gone and every change feels risky. We assess it, then fix it, rebuild it, or tell you to leave it alone.

  • We have the data. We just can't see it.

    Years of records, and every report is a manual project. We build dashboards your team actually opens.

  • We need more hands, but not a full-time hire.

    We can join your team by the hour, on a project, or on a retainer. Or we can take the whole thing off your plate.

We work with manufacturers, restaurants, non-profits, e-commerce, finance, government, legal and logistics teams, from one-person shops to multi-location enterprises.

Not on this list? Tell us what's going wrong in plain English. We'll tell you honestly whether we're a fit. Discovery calls are free.

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Services

How we help

We're a small, senior team of builders. We're also human beings. No sales jargon, no AI hype, no technical runarounds.

  • Software that's showing its age

    We assess where you are, map a practical roadmap, and build or rebuild the software your team runs on.

  • Data you can't see

    We build the reports and dashboards that turn raw data into answers your team actually uses: automated, trusted, and up to date.

  • Systems that don't talk

    We connect your CRM, e-commerce, membership, and back-office tools so critical answers live in one place.

  • The AI question

    We find the use cases worth doing, then build and test assistants and automations grounded in your own data, with privacy and human review built in.

Have an engineering team? Here's how we plug in.

Examples

What that looks like in practice

A few recent engagements. We keep client names to ourselves, and we'd do the same for you.

A multi-location restaurant group

The problem: Every location reported sales, labor and inventory from a different system. Getting the full picture meant waiting on spreadsheets.

What we did: We connected the point-of-sale, scheduling and inventory tools and built one dashboard for the whole group.

A statewide non-profit association

The problem: Membership, the online store and event registration lived in separate tools. Staff re-typed the same data between them.

What we did: We integrated the systems and automated renewals and receipts, so staff could get back to members.

A manufacturer asking about AI

The problem: Leadership kept hearing they should "use AI" and didn't know where to start, or what was safe.

What we did: We reviewed their workflows, ranked the real candidates, and built for the best one, tested against their own data with a person reviewing the output.

A professional services firm

The problem: The business ran on an internal tool built years ago. Nobody left on staff understood it.

What we did: We assessed it, mapped a plan, and rebuilt it in stages while the old one kept running.

Tools we know well

  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Google ADK
  • React
  • Google Cloud
  • Snowflake
  • Tableau
  • GraphQL
  • Next.js
Team

Who you'll work with

A small team on purpose. You'll talk to the people doing the work.

  • Portrait of Chris Birk

    Chris Birk

    CEO / Co-Founder

    Hands-on architect. 15 years of building data platforms and leading engineering teams.

  • Portrait of Mario Medina

    Mario Medina

    Developer

FAQ

Questions we hear a lot

Don't see yours? Ask us directly.

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Tell us what's going wrong

We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.

What happens next

  1. 1You tell us what's going wrong, in plain English.
  2. 2We set up a discovery call. There's no cost for discovery, and we're happy to advise either way.
  3. 3If we're a fit, we propose the smallest sensible next step.

Our Location

Chicago, IL