Two ways to work together

Train your team on AI.Or automate the work for them.

Two practical offers: hands-on workshops for non-technical teams, and custom automation that removes repetitive work and creates capacity.

Training

Hands-on AI workshops for business professionals

For teams that want practical AI skills and immediate use cases.

Automation

Custom workflows built around your real processes

For teams ready to eliminate repetitive work and build capacity fast.

daily_report.py — running

status ✓ Monthly Sales report parsed

items 247 reviewed automatically

flagged 12 items need ordering

priority3 urgent / 9 standard

output ✓ monthly_sales_report_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

Why automate now

AI is finally practical for business teams.
The upside is real, and the window is open now.

Save time

Your best people are still doing work a machine can handle — report generation, inbox triage, data cleanup, and repetitive follow-up. Every hour reclaimed goes back into work that actually moves the business forward.

Improve quality

Manual work breeds inconsistency. Automation applies the same logic every time — fewer missed steps, fewer transcription mistakes, and more reliable output across the board.

Create momentum

The payoff is not just efficiency. Teams use recovered time to respond faster, support more customers, take on new initiatives, and finally make progress on work that kept getting pushed back.

The window is now

The tools are finally usable by non-technical teams, and competitors are already adopting them. This is the moment to build internal advantage before “AI-enabled” becomes the baseline.

Training

AI in Action:
Hands-on workshop for business professionals

A hands-on workshop for non-technical teams who want to use AI in real work, not just hear about it. Participants bring a real task, work through live examples, and leave with practical prompts, workflows, and next steps they can use immediately.

Executive Briefing

AI for Leaders

A focused session for leadership teams that want a realistic view of AI adoption, where the ROI is, and how to get started without hype. Built for decision-makers who need clarity before they invest.

What AI is good at and where it still falls short
Where teams usually find the fastest ROI
How to evaluate tools, vendors, and internal readiness
What leadership needs to model for adoption to stick

1-2 hours · Private · Virtual or in-person

Workshop

AI in Action

A hands-on workshop for business professionals who want practical AI skills without technical complexity. Teams use real business examples live, learn a simple prompting framework, and leave with clearer workflows they can apply the next day.

How to choose the right AI tool for the job
How to write prompts that produce better output
How to turn repetitive work into reusable workflows
How to spot good candidates for automation

1-4 hours · Groups up to 20 · Virtual or in-person

Private Coaching

1-on-1 AI Acceleration

For individuals or small groups who want direct help applying AI to their own work. We focus on your tools, your tasks, and your goals so progress happens inside real workflows, not abstract demos.

Built around your specific workflows and documents
Ideal for founders, leaders, and high-leverage operators
Flexible pace with focused working sessions
Useful when a team workshop is too broad or too early

Flexible · 1–4 people · Virtual or in-person

No-code

no technical background required for the workshop

Real work

built around business tasks, not toy examples

Next day

participants leave with prompts, workflows, and concrete next steps

Want the full workshop agenda, sample exercises, and prerequisites? See the dedicated workshop page for formats, examples, tools covered, and what participants should bring.

See workshop details →

Selected work

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.

Product

AI-Assisted Product Prototype

1 year PRD +
5 man-years to build

→

Full GUI mockup
in under 2 years

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

Financial Planning Dashboard

Manual Excel
+ actuary wait

→

Instant compliant
cost projections

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

Operations

Support Operations Intelligence

18,700
submitted 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 18,700 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 3,000 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

Finance / Operations

Automated Reporting Workflow

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

Legal

Document Processing Automation

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 Content 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

Additional examples

More case studies,
same practical focus.

See additional examples spanning hiring, patents, GTM decks, proposal workflows, and other internal automations.

View more examples →

How it works

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

About

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

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+