AI Implementation Consulting
We'll help you set up proprietary AI agents and chatbots that know your business, with the right security, guardrails, and system prompts in place.
Your engagement gets
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Your own AI agent
Tailored to your company, securely hosted for only your team
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Evals
Run your custom testing suite to confirm your agent answers questions correctly.
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Observability
Monitor your org's usage to enable the feedback loop for refining your model.
Who is AI implementation consulting for?
Situations where we can help you with AI implementation.
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Lack of consensus leaves you in disarray
Everyone on your team uses ChatGPT but lack shared context.
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You need context and memory
You keep having to remind ChatGPT key information about your company.
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You want more privacy
Set up secure, private deployments of AI models to keep important data safe.
How does an AI implementation consulting engagement work?
Length of each step will depend on size and scope of engagement.
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Discovery
We meet with your team and fully understand the problem.
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Set the strategy
We propose the strategy and get sign off before building.
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Implementation
We build your AI agent and quickly get it in front of your team to refine.
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Training and handoff
We train your team on how to maintain your AI agent so your internal champions can keep the momentum.
Is AI implementation consulting right for you?
Cases where we think you should hold off for now.
- Your needs are all neatly answered by ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot out of the box.
- Your documentation and data isn't organized enough to feed into an AI and you want to clean that up first.
- You're okay with your team using different tools until it becomes a big enough problem.
Case Studies
See how we've delivered results for our clients.
Implementing agentic analytics at Disco
AI agents need context. We provided Disco's Hex AI agents with the right context to power self-service analytics.
71 → 158 chats per week, within 6 weeks
"Jacob made key contributions to our dbt project and Hex agentic analytics instance early and often in our engagement. He was agile and unafraid to tackle unfamiliar problems."
Head of Data & ML at Disco Your project leader
Founder and Principal, Riverboat Consulting
Before starting Riverboat, Jacob was the first data hire at Dutchie and later held senior- and staff-level roles at brightwheel and Future. He's presented at the dbt Coalesce conference and written for the Locally Optimistic data blog. He lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Questions about AI implementation consulting
What is AI implementation consulting?
We build you custom AI tools tailored to your business needs. We might use the same models behind ChatGPT and Claude, but we use your business data and workflows to optimize the experience and productivity gains.
What's the difference between an AI agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot is what you are already familiar with from interacting with ChatGPT, Claude, or a support bot on a website. Its goal is to respond to your questions. AI agents can also chat but more importantly can also act. Agents can update your CRM, send emails, write code, or many other things you'd want.
Why can't I just use ChatGPT Business or Claude for my team?
Depending on your requirements, we may in fact recommend ChatGPT Business or Claude! Our value comes in with showing you how to use these tools well and get the most out of them.
Can't we build it ourselves with Copilot Studio, n8n or OpenAI's Agent Builder?
You can. It again comes down to how well you think you can do it and how much time and resources it will take to do it well. Any time your team spends working on building your own AI agents takes away from time they could spend doing their real jobs.
Can we keep our data private, or host the model ourselves?
Yes. Private and self-hosting can mean two different things. Self-hosting the model adds complexity, so we'll want to confirm that it's a good match for your requirements before planning for it.
How will I know if my agent gives correct answers?
We'll build out a suite of "evals" that test how the agent responds to frequently asked or trick questions.
How much does it cost to build an AI agent?
The main drivers of cost are model tokens and the SaaS subscriptions that enable your agent to have the functionality you want. Beyond that, it's time (whether yours or ours).
Who maintains the agent after handoff?
We'll train your team on how to maintain the agent, or we can continue to manage it on retainer.
Related services
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AI Workflow Automation
Do you feel like your team is doing too many things manually or in spreadsheets? You probably are. We'll help you save time and money by automating these recurring tasks with agentic workflows that you own.
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Agentic Analytics & Data Platform Buildout
Want to chat with your data with an AI data analyst? We'll help your AI agent understand the data in your warehouse and how to respond to your business users' plain English questions. Don't have a data warehouse? We can set that up, too.
Want to learn more? Let's chat.
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