Automation & AI Strategy

Turn your most
repetitive work
into your biggest asset.

I help businesses identify, build, and deploy automation that saves real time, reduces errors, and frees your team to do work that actually matters.

daily_report.py — running
status ✓ BatchMaster report parsed
items 247 reviewed automatically
flagged 12 items need ordering
priority3 urgent / 9 standard
output ✓ order_list_apr09.xlsx
time 47 seconds
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vs manual ~75 minutes saved today
 
50+
Companies
30+
Years in tech
10+
Industries
12+
Functions automated

The work your team does every day
shouldn't require your best people.

Save time

Your best people are doing work a machine should handle — data entry, report scanning, inbox triage. Every hour reclaimed is an hour back on work that actually moves the business forward.

Reduce errors

Manual processes breed inconsistency. Automation applies the same logic every single time — no missed items, no transcription mistakes, no fatigue. The output is reliable because the process is.

Create capacity

The goal isn't just efficiency — it's what you do with the time you get back. My clients use recovered hours to support other teams, take on new projects, and do the strategic work that had always been pushed to later.

The window to lead is open.
It won't stay that way.

Save Time

Your best people are doing work a machine should handle — data entry, report generation, inbox triage. Every hour reclaimed is an hour back on work that actually matters.

Save Money

PE-backed vendors raise prices every renewal. Your stack costs 3x what it did three years ago. Automation eliminates entire tool categories and reduces headcount dependency.

Make Money

Faster proposals, shorter sales cycles, new service tiers — without adding headcount. Your competitors are already moving. The window to lead is now.

Real workflows.
Measurable results.

Each project starts with a specific pain — a daily task eating hours, a process prone to errors, a bottleneck nobody has had time to fix. The goal is always the same: build something that works quietly in the background and gives people their time back.
Finance / Operations

Automated Weekly Payment Report

Manual Excel
every week
One-click
automated report

A finance team spent time each week manually building a payment tracking report — combining client payments, highlighting new activity, flagging refunds, and resetting at month end. A custom automation now generates the full formatted report in seconds: cumulative month-to-date totals, green highlighting for new payments, and a dated tab added automatically on each run. Packaged as a one-click installer that non-technical staff can deploy themselves.

Seconds
vs. hours of manual
weekly formatting
IT Operations

Support Ticket Intelligence & Prevention

Thousands of
unread tickets
Proactive fault
prevention tool

A company with years of accumulated support tickets had no visibility into why the same failures kept repeating. Automated analysis scraped and classified thousands of tickets, surfacing the top 10 fault causes, top 10 resolutions, and median fix times by category — revealing that 63% of tickets were high-priority, hardware replacement took 8+ days to resolve, and nearly 300 tickets per year could have been closed with a simple reboot. The findings were translated into a proactive prevention tool and actionable playbook that reduces ticket volume before issues occur.

10–15%
ticket deflection
opportunity identified
Legal

PDF Document Processing

Weeks of
manual review
Hours with
automation

A law firm needed to extract and classify information from thousands of pages of documents. What previously required weeks of paralegal time was condensed into hours, with higher accuracy and a full audit trail.

10×
faster document
processing
Sales

Sales Collateral Automation

Hours of manual
formatting
Auto-generated
on demand

Sales reps were spending hours each week customizing proposals, decks, and one-pagers for different accounts. Automated generation now produces tailored collateral instantly, letting the team spend time selling instead of formatting.

10+ hrs
reclaimed per
rep per week
HR

Candidate Screening Automation

Manual resume
review
Structured
shortlist

A systems integrator with high hiring volume was bottlenecked on initial screening. Automated workflows now score and filter candidates against role criteria, surfacing a structured shortlist and cutting time-to-shortlist dramatically.

70%
reduction in
screening time
Legal / IP

AI-Assisted Patent Application

Technical idea,
no filing docs
USPTO-ready
application + drawings

A founder with a novel AI-powered invention needed to file a patent but faced the daunting complexity of prior art research, claim drafting, and technical figure creation. Using AI tools, we researched comparable patents across the USPTO database, identified the strongest areas of novelty, drafted 20 claims covering system, method, and computer-readable medium, and generated all 9 required technical drawing sheets — producing a filing-ready application in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional patent counsel.

20
patent claims drafted
with full drawing set
Marketing / GTM

AI-Generated Go-to-Market Deck

Rough value prop,
existing slides
Polished pitch deck
ready to present

An edtech startup had a strong product but struggled to articulate its value in a way that would resonate with school administrators and teachers. Starting from a rough brief and an existing slide deck, AI tools were used to craft a compelling two-sided narrative, restructure the deck around that story, and produce a fully designed, on-brand presentation — with multiple rounds of copy, color, and layout refinement — ready for live demos in front of K-12 decision makers.

8 slides
from brief to
demo-ready deck
Marketing / GTM

Slash Agency Costs with AI-Generated First Drafts

Agency brief,
weeks of waiting
First draft ready
same day

Marketing teams regularly commission agencies to produce branded collateral — a slow, expensive cycle of briefs, revisions, and approvals that repeats with every new product launch or campaign. A structured automation workflow now generates a detailed first draft in minutes — typically 80% of the way there, giving the agency a strong foundation to refine rather than build from scratch.

80%
reduction in agency
hours at first draft stage
Operations

RFP & Proposal Response

Multi-day
manual drafting
Same-day
first draft

Responding to RFPs consumed entire days of senior staff time. An automation-assisted drafting workflow now produces a solid first draft from source materials within minutes — leaving the team to refine rather than start from scratch.

Days → hrs
proposal
turnaround
Product Management

From Concept to Coded GUI in Under 2 Months

1 year PRD +
5 man-years to build
Full GUI mockup
in under 2 years
AV Ops Center Dashboard

Market research, competitive analysis, feature mapping, PRD authoring, and full GUI mockup — compressed into weeks using AI tools and vibe coding. The resulting dashboard was detailed enough that the development team said it would save them 70% of the time they'd normally spend interpreting PRD features into actual visualizations.

"What used to take a team of engineers years to spec and build, a single person with the right prompts produced in weeks. Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating — and it permanently changed how I think about what's possible."

70%
developer time saved
on PRD-to-GUI translation
Finance / Benefits

401(k) Employer Match Calculator

Manual Excel
+ actuary wait
Instant compliant
cost projections
401k Calculator Dashboard

Takes a standard employee census file and instantly calculates employer match costs, runs compliance checks, and surfaces rich visualizations of plan participation, contribution breakdowns by age band, gender pay gaps, and catch-up eligibility.

"This analysis used to take days and usually required an actuary. Now it's instant, and anyone on the team can run it. We've never seen anything like it."

Instant
vs. days waiting
for an actuary
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Start small. See results fast.
No black boxes.

Every engagement follows the same low-risk structure — high clarity up front, real deliverables at every stage, no long retainers before you've seen what's possible.

Step 1 — Map
Initial Discovery
You identify 3 repetitive or time-consuming tasks. I listen, ask the right questions, and align on where automation can make the fastest impact. We spend time with your actual workflows — not assumptions. No commitment required.
1–2 hours
Step 2 — Score
Discovery Audit
I map your workflows, rank opportunities by impact and feasibility, and deliver a prioritized roadmap with projected ROI. You'll know exactly what to build and why — with honest projections, not inflated promises — before spending a dollar on development.
1–2 weeks
Step 3 — Build
Implementation Sprint
Build, test, and deploy solutions for your top-priority workflows — tool selection, prompt engineering, integration, and training included. You see working software early and often. The tool gets shaped around how your team actually works.
4–8 weeks
Step 4 — Transfer
Ongoing Advisory
Training, documentation, and a runbook your team can hand to the next person. The goal is independence — you own the tool. Optional retainer available for teams who want a strategic partner as they expand to new use cases.
Monthly retainer

See what's possible.
Then go do it.

Most AI training tells people what AI can do. Mine shows them — live, hands-on, using real examples from their own industry. Executives leave with a clear picture of where to start. Teams leave ready to use the tools the next morning.
01
Executive Briefing

AI for Leaders

A focused session for C-suite and senior leadership. No jargon, no hype — just a clear-eyed look at what AI can realistically do for your organization right now, where the ROI is, and how to avoid the most common mistakes companies make when they start. Designed for decision-makers who need to lead AI adoption, not just approve it.

  • What AI can and can't do — honestly
  • Where to start for fastest ROI
  • How to evaluate vendors and tools
  • Building a culture of adoption
2 hours · Private · Virtual or in-person
03
Private Coaching

1-on-1 AI Acceleration

For individuals or small groups who want to move fast. We work through your specific workflows, tools, and goals in focused sessions — building real automation together, not just talking about it. Popular with founders, senior managers, and anyone who learns best by doing rather than watching.

  • Built around your specific workflows
  • Start building in session one
  • Flexible pace and schedule
  • Ongoing support between sessions
Flexible · 1–4 people · Virtual or in-person
½ day
is all it takes for most teams to go from skeptical to excited
100%
hands-on — every session uses live tools, not slides about tools
30+
years of enterprise experience behind every session
Not sure which format is right for your team? Start with a free 30-minute conversation — I'll tell you exactly what would make the most sense.
Book a free call →

Enterprise experience.
Startup speed.
No overhead.

I spent 30 years at Intel leading product marketing, sales, and business development — including running AI partnership programs that drove adoption across dozens of enterprises. I've sat in the room with the people building the technology and the people trying to use it, and I've learned that the gap between the two is where most projects fail.

Today I work directly with companies as an individual consultant. That means you get senior attention on every project, not a junior team handed the work after the pitch. I move fast, I work independently, and I build things that last after I leave.

I'm also a Venture Partner at the Oregon Venture Fund, a guest lecturer at Stanford, and a mentor at the Founders Institute — which means I stay close to what's genuinely working in AI right now, not just in theory.

Ashish Gupta
Ashish Gupta
Founder, Actis Labs

Seasoned product and technology leader with 30+ years at Intel. Led AI partnership programs, drove foundational Wi-Fi innovation, and now helps companies turn automation from a buzzword into a business advantage.

GenAI & LLM Practitioner Enterprise AI Strategy Workflow Automation GTM Strategy Change Management Prompt Engineering Python / Streamlit Microsoft Copilot OpenAI / Claude / Gemini Oregon Venture Fund Stanford Guest Lecturer Founders Institute Mentor
30+
Years in enterprise tech
50+
Companies served
10+
Industries
12+
Business functions

linkedin.com/in/go-gupta

Automation challenges look different in every industry. Here's where I've done the work.

Healthcare Manufacturing Legal Software & SaaS Hardware Life Sciences Finance Education Systems Integration Robotics & Industrial Energy & Utilities Sales & GTM

Ready to see what you could automate?

Start with a free 30-minute conversation. Tell me the three tasks your team spends the most time on — and I'll tell you honestly which ones are worth automating and which aren't.