Consultancy · Round Rock

Find where AI pays. Then build it.

I am James Jones. I learned the work at McKinsey and how to run it in the Army. We work with small businesses to streamline the parts of the operation that AI can actually move, and to put a working system in place.

A quiet limestone room with a single walnut table and late-afternoon light
  • McKinsey & Company
  • U.S. Army
  • Chief of Operations

The work

An operator who builds AI, not a deck about it.

I have put AI into real operating models a few times. The pattern is the same: pick the constraint, build something people will use, then change how the work runs. I do that now for small and mid-size businesses.

  1. 01

    Find the bottleneck

    Not every process wants a model. I look at the work, the cost, and the friction until it is obvious where AI would actually change the numbers.

  2. 02

    Build the thing

    A working model and the workflow around it — something operators will use on Tuesday, not a prototype that dies in a slide.

  3. 03

    Install the rhythm

    KPIs, ownership, and the operating cadence so the gain does not walk out with the consultant. This is the part most AI projects skip.

Still life of blueprints, a machined part, and a notebook

Engagements

Professional services, scoped in writing.

Typical work starts with a two-to-four week diagnostic. If the numbers work, we scope a build. You get a tight engagement — not a team of twenty billing you to discover the problem you already named.

Fees are set in an engagement letter. Payment by invoice, ACH, or card. I work with small and mid-size businesses that have a real operation to improve, not a pitch deck to decorate.

If the problem is operational and the answer might be AI, write.

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