About Riverboat Consulting
Riverboat Consulting implements agentic AI solutions for startups and SMBs.
What Riverboat Consulting does
AI Implementation Consulting
We help you set up proprietary AI agents and chatbots that know your business, with the right security, guardrails, and system prompts in place.
AI Workflow Automation
We automate your recurring tasks and take work out of spreadsheets and into agentic workflows that you own.
Agentic Analytics & Data Platform Buildout
We help your AI agent understand the data in your data warehouse so you can chat with your own AI data analyst.
What makes Riverboat Consulting different
| AI strategy consultants | AI gurus | Riverboat Consulting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | A very pretty slideshow, and not much else | What you could have accomplished yourself if you typed your request into ChatGPT | Finished, scalable agentic AI solutions that you own |
| Technical background | Unknown | Unknown | Staff-level AI, data, and analytics engineers who've worked at startups you know |
| Will your team use what's built? | They need to build something first | Until it breaks on real data | Yes, Disco's team went from 71 to 158 AI analytics chats per week in 6 weeks |
Jacob Adler is the Principal of Riverboat Consulting, LLC. He thrives in ambiguity.
One of his first projects as a data scientist at Caesars Entertainment was writing an algorithm to determine which participant in a marketing campaign would win a $1 million grand prize.
He started reading about transformers (what turned into LLMs) in 2019, then built a Twitter clone of ESPN personality Skip Bayless trained on his tweets. (It didn't work. No matter where a tweet started, it turned into a complaint about Dak Prescott or LeBron James).
He thrived at fast-moving startups, building out the data warehouse as first data hire at Dutchie, and later serving as Future's interim head of data amid a business model pivot.
He began consulting for startups in summer 2024 when old coworkers wanted to continue working together at their new companies. Initial projects were more traditional data consulting, but over time deal flow became so concentrated in AI that Riverboat now brands itself as an AI consulting firm.
There is still so much ambiguity in the AI space. In spring 2025, he used AI to troubleshoot database errors. By the end of 2025, he wrote 99% of his code agentically. Where will AI be this time next year?
Jacob has presented at the dbt Coalesce conference, "Navigating data consolidation after M&A" and written for the Locally Optimistic blog, "Reducing the Lottery Factor, for Data Teams".
Jacob graduated from The Wharton School in 2018 with joint concentrations in Statistics and Operations, Information, and Decisions (OID). He lives in Santa Monica, CA and enjoys playing beach tennis, poker and chess, and reading books about shipwrecks.
Key facts
- Company name
- Riverboat Consulting, LLC
- Type
- AI Consulting
- Founder
- Jacob Adler
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, CA
- Website
- riverboat.ai
- Riverboat Consulting
- Who it is for
- Series A-C startups and SMBs doing $1-10M/yr
- Typical engagement
- 4-6 months, with results in weeks
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