AI That
Ships.
The AI revolution isn't coming — it's here. But most businesses are drowning in hype and struggling to ship real AI-powered products. With 25+ years of production engineering experience and deep hands-on expertise with frontier AI models, Stoked Consulting bridges the gap between AI research and production-grade AI systems.
We don't do PowerPoint AI strategy. We build and ship AI products.
5-minute audit · talk to an AI agent Brian built · runs on his own infraTwo and a half decades of production work — now pointed at AI.
911inform
Active shooter alert SaaS — solo build, $17M valuation in 5 months
NextGen Healthcare
Hospital billing & HIPAA-grade systems, real-time perf monitoring
BMC Software
TrueSight Intelligence — 3x ingestion, 89.5% test coverage
Curb Energy
Energy scoring tools + open-source AWS infra CLI (cenv)
Aristocrat Games
Internal knowledge & video editing platform
AAA Games
Silent Hill: Homecoming, Age of Empires 3, GI Joe, Green Lantern
25+
years shipping production software12+
years based in Austin$17M
valuation, solo SaaS build, 5 months$12B/yr
processed by systems Brian led60%
REST API perf improvement at NextGen89.5%
test coverage at BMC — top in divisionTwo weeks of work can change the
arc of your business.
Every small business is sitting on a stack of repeated work — quotes drafted from scratch every week, inboxes triaged by hand, a knowledge base nobody can search, the same five questions answered fifty times a day. None of that is the work that grows your company. We come in, find the three places an agent or model would erase the most pain, and ship them. Real systems, not slide decks.
20+ hrs/week
Hours back in your week
A single well-placed agent — triaging email, drafting quotes, processing invoices — routinely returns half a workweek to the owner. That is the entire ROI conversation.
2–4 weeks
Time to first production win
We pick one painful workflow and ship a working system inside a month. No 6-month roadmap, no quarterly steering committee. One thing, done well, paying for itself.
$0 → ~$200/mo
What it actually costs to run
Most small-business agents we build cost less than a phone bill to operate. Local models for the sensitive stuff, frontier models where they earn it, careful caching everywhere else.
How we work with small business
A short, structured engagement designed for owners who don't have a CTO and don't want a year-long project.
01
Quiet observation week
A few calls and a sit-down with your team. We map the work that actually happens — not the org chart — and identify the manual loops, judgement calls, and "we have always done it this way" patterns that an agent or model can take over.
02
Opportunity ranking
You get a written list of opportunities, ranked by hours saved, cost to build, risk, and disruption. We are blunt: some ideas are not worth doing, and we say so. The goal is two or three obvious wins, not twenty maybes.
03
Right model for the job
For each pick we choose the model honestly. Sensitive data and predictable shapes go to local models (Llama, Mistral, Qwen) running on a small server you own. High-judgement work goes to frontier models (Claude, GPT) with tight prompts and guardrails. Repetitive, specialized tasks get a small fine-tune.
04
Ship and stand it up
We build it, integrate it into the tools your team already uses (email, Slack, your CRM, a Google sheet — whatever you actually open), and stay on long enough to watch it survive contact with the real world. Then we hand you the keys.
Low-hanging fruit, ripe for picking
The opportunities we see again and again across small businesses. If one of these sounds painfully familiar, we should talk.
Inbox & lead triage
Auto-classify, summarize, and draft replies for incoming customer email — owner just hits send.
Quote & proposal drafting
Generate first-pass quotes from a short call recording or intake form. Cuts a 45-minute task to five.
Document & invoice processing
Pull line items, totals, and dates out of PDFs and photos and drop them into your accounting tool.
Searchable internal knowledge
Turn your Drive, SOPs, and past tickets into a question-and-answer system every employee can use.
Customer support deflection
A grounded chat agent that answers the same five questions while only escalating the new ones.
Scheduling & follow-up
Agents that book, confirm, and nudge — without anybody on your team copy-pasting templates again.
Voice-note to system-of-record
Field tech talks for 30 seconds, the work order, the photos, and the next steps land in the right place.
Reporting & weekly recap
Pull numbers from your tools every Monday and write the recap your team would write — in their voice.
Quality, compliance & review
Audit calls, contracts, or chats against your policy and flag the few that need a human eye.
Services
AI and machine learning consulting to unlock intelligent capabilities in your products
AI-Powered Product Development
Custom AI features integrated into your existing products. Chatbots, content generation, document processing, semantic search, recommendation engines, and intelligent automation. We build AI features that users actually love.
LLM Application Architecture
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), prompt engineering, fine-tuning strategies, and multi-model orchestration. We architect LLM systems that are accurate, fast, and cost-effective.
AI Agent Development
Autonomous agents that reason, plan, and execute multi-step workflows. Tool use, function calling, memory systems, and human-in-the-loop patterns. Built on Claude, OpenAI, and open-source models.
AI Infrastructure & MLOps
Model deployment pipelines, A/B testing frameworks, cost optimization (token usage, caching, model routing), observability (LangSmith, Helicone), and guardrails for safe, reliable AI in production.
AI Strategy & Readiness Assessment
Where can AI create real value in your business? We audit your workflows, data assets, and technical stack to identify high-ROI AI opportunities — then build them.
AI Coding Agents & Developer Tools
We're building the future of software development with AI coding agents. Expertise in Claude Code, Cursor, and autonomous development workflows.
Local Model Deployments
Llama, Mistral, and Qwen running on hardware you own. Sensitive data never leaves your network, costs collapse to electricity, and your business does not become a downstream dependency of someone else's SaaS.
Custom & Fine-Tuned Models
When a generic model keeps getting your domain wrong, we fine-tune a small one that gets it right. Cheaper to run, faster to respond, and trained on the way your business actually talks.
Frontier Model Integrations
Claude, GPT-class, and Gemini wired into your systems where their judgement actually earns the cost. Tight prompts, retrieval grounding, and hard guardrails so the smart model stays on-task.
Core
Technologies
State-of-the-art AI and ML tools for building intelligent applications
Claude (Anthropic)
Frontier reasoning models
OpenAI models
Advanced language models
Vercel AI SDK
LLM application framework
LangChain / LlamaIndex
Agent & RAG frameworks
Vector Databases
Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector
Python / FastAPI
AI service backend
Prompt Engineering
Optimized model performance
Fine-tuning
Custom domain expertise
Make AI Work for Your Business
Let's identify the right AI opportunities and build solutions that deliver real, measurable impact.
Why Stoked Consulting for AI? Brian Stoker combines 25+ years of production engineering with deep, hands-on AI expertise — including building an AI-powered SaaS platform (stokd.cloud) from the ground up. We don't just prototype. We ship.
Building intelligent systems with cutting-edge AI