Ben Kanspedos
Applied AI consulting · Essential Concepts LLC · Tucson, AZ

Companies have AI now and little to show for it.

I find where it actually pays off in your business, build the workflows, and make them stick.

01 · Find

Start with the constraint, not the tool.

Somewhere in your business, someone is doing the same task by hand fifty times a week. Somewhere else, an AI pilot you already paid for sits on a shelf. The first step is a diagnosis: map where the time and money actually go, then find the few places where automation genuinely pays. Sometimes the fix is AI. Sometimes it is killing a handoff. The diagnosis decides, not the tool.

02 · Build

Working automation, in production, on your systems.

I build the thing, not a strategy deck about the thing. Claude-driven document pipelines, agent workflows, review gates, and the unglamorous glue between the tools your team already runs. No new platform to babysit, no ML team to hire.

03 · Stick

Adoption is a learning problem, not a software problem.

This is the part most AI projects skip, and the reason most of them stall. I spent thirteen years in instructional design before anyone called this work AI. Every build ships with what your team needs to run it without me: documentation, job aids, working sessions with the people who own it. When I leave, the system is yours. That is the point.

Receipts

Built, shipped, and running today.

21 years at Intuit

Staff program manager across TurboTax and enterprise learning. My last two years: building agentic AI systems used by a 20,000-person customer service organization.

Production SaaS

Lead developer of ConvoWize, an AI conversation-coaching product built with two partners and live today, from architecture through billing.

Client work in production now

Document automation for a commercial real estate firm. An AI course-development engine for an e-learning vendor. Paid engagements, deployed, owned by the client.

How an engagement works

Small first step. Value before commitment.

Step 1

Diagnostic

A short, structured look at where your team's time actually goes. You get a written map of the highest-payoff opportunities, useful whether or not we go further.

Step 2

The quick win

One workflow, fixed scope, fixed price, shipped to production. Priced on the value it returns, not the hours it takes.

Step 3

Expand if it earns it

Once the first win is running, we decide together what deserves the next build. A retainer when it makes sense. No lock-in.

Tell me about the task your team hates.

Two sentences about the work that eats your week is enough to start. If I am not the right fit, I will say so and point you somewhere better.