AI Transformation + AI Engineering
ACG helps mid-market companies set the strategy, change how teams work, and build AI systems that do real work.
What we do
AI Transformation →
Strategy, roadmap, and adoption with ACG at the leadership table.
AI Engineering →
Agents, pipelines, and platforms built into production.
Quick wins in the first 30 days.
You own everything we build.
Senior operators. No junior bench.
Two ways we help
Strategy + adoption
We help leadership decide where AI matters, build a roadmap the business can act on, and change how work gets done. Start with a workshop or assessment, then keep us at the leadership table through an embedded monthly partnership.
Systems + engineers
We build agents, document pipelines, internal tools, and custom platforms around real workflows. Choose a scoped project build or place a senior AI engineer inside your team on a monthly basis.
The stakes
Models are capable. Tools are everywhere. The hard part is choosing the right work, getting people to change their habits, and putting reliable systems into production.
A pilot that never changes a workflow is still a pilot. A license nobody uses is still overhead. The companies pulling ahead are connecting leadership decisions to deployed systems.
ACG for law firms
Legal AI strategy, implementation, and coaching for firms that want to get more from their AI investment.
We help firms improve tool selection, governance, lawyer adoption, measurement, workflows, and custom applications.
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Selected companies we've worked with
Client voices
“Within 60 days, we went from zero AI strategy to three pilots running in production. The speed and clarity they brought was unlike any consulting engagement we've experienced.”
“They didn't just give us a slide deck. They sat with our teams and built the solutions alongside us. That hands-on approach made all the difference.”
“The leadership facilitation session completely changed how our executive team thinks about AI. We went from fear and skepticism to a shared vision in a single day.”
Results
Strategy earns its keep when the plan gets approved, the system ships, or the way people work changes.
$24M roadmap, board-approved
We interviewed stakeholders across the organization, assessed AI readiness, built the governance model, and designed a multi-year roadmap. The board approved the resulting $24M transformation plan.
100+ opportunities, agents deploying quarterly
We embedded with a 310-store retailer, interviewed every department, and scored more than 100 AI opportunities. The work now continues through an ongoing transformation partnership and embedded AI engineering.
Portfolio-wide AI training & board-level strategy
We built AI literacy across a private equity firm and its portfolio through executive training, board presentations, and an HR summit. The work became a repeatable model for portfolio-company AI readiness.
78% to 95%+ accuracy, 40% cost reduction
We built a document pipeline that routes different work to the model best suited for it. Extraction accuracy rose from 78% to more than 95%, while processing costs dropped 40%.
Governance, legal AI pilot, cloud migration support
We joined the leadership team as its embedded AI partner. The work covered stakeholder interviews, an AI governance policy, a legal AI pilot, and support for a cloud document-management migration.
Multi-tenant SaaS with AI-powered parsing & screening
We built a multi-tenant recruiting platform with AI-powered job parsing, candidate screening, and pipeline management. It is a working product, not a prototype or a slide deck.
The Signal
Robbie's notes on AI, adoption, and what changes when companies move beyond experiments.
Attorneys discovered their AI wasn't thoroughly reviewing documents—it was satisficing, stopping early with "plausible" answers. This real-world example reveals a critical challenge in enterprise AI deployment: humans must explicitly encode diligence, not assume it's inherited.
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AI tools have always waited for us to ask. But a new wave of personal agents is flipping the script—taking initiative, monitoring your commitments, and acting before you even realize something's slipping. This shift from consumer to enterprise is coming within a year.
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Building an AI agent with granular permission controls feels tedious—until you deploy it in an enterprise. The author discovered that Copilot's "friction" of explicit permissions is actually a security feature that prevents agents from running amok on corporate networks.
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An AI consultant challenges the assumption that AI itself creates competitive advantage—when everyone has access to the same models and prompts, it becomes table stakes, not differentiation. The real edge? The irreplaceably human elements of your business.
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Personal AI agents are evolving from passive tools to proactive workers that operate independently and initiate conversations. The real question for enterprises: how do you govern autonomous agents' capabilities and access?
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When users claim your AI tool is performing worse, most companies debate endlessly without evidence. This post reveals a simple but overlooked solution: enterprise AI platforms already log every prompt and response—you just need to audit them to separate perception from reality.
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Customers are arriving pre-armed with AI research and ChatGPT answers. Business owners now face a harder conversation—not explaining basics, but sorting through what customers learned, what's wrong, and what's irrelevant to their actual needs. AI can help staff prepare too.
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What if you stopped building separate web apps and built directly into Claude or ChatGPT instead? This post explores how AI platforms are becoming the infrastructure for workflows—eliminating the need for standalone applications when users already live in these tools.
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Usage analytics can backfire: top performers get nervous about being flagged, dashboards misrepresent actual productivity, and ranking people changes their behavior. Real AI adoption requires understanding what users are actually doing, not just counting their prompts.
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Why ACG
After 20+ years building AI companies and 170+ startup investments, we kept seeing the same gap: companies know AI matters, but they cannot get it to work inside the business. That's the gap ACG fills.
3 AI companies founded and acquired
20+ years building AI systems before the current hype cycle
Senior operators only. No junior consultant bench.
Everything is built in your stack, under your accounts.
Founder
Managing Director
Founded Automated Insights, the first generative AI company, before co-founding Infinia ML and Bionic Health. Two Masters from MIT. Cisco's youngest Distinguished Engineer. 8 AI patents. 170+ startup investments.
Executive Director
Serial entrepreneur. Founded and scaled ChannelAdvisor from startup to IPO (NYSE: ECOM). Brings deep experience in building and scaling technology companies.
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Executive Director
Operations and growth leader. Brings deep experience in scaling professional services firms and managing complex client engagements.
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Executive Director
Leadership and organizational change expert. Helps executive teams navigate the cultural and operational shifts that AI adoption requires.
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Director of AI Transformation
An AI product leader, systems architect, and hands-on operator who turns complex workflows into production-ready intelligent systems. Builds automations, agentic workflows, and internal tools across SaaS, data, and operations to move teams from AI experimentation to measurable business outcomes.
Executive Director
Revenue and marketing strategist. Builds go-to-market engines and helps clients think about AI's impact on their customer-facing operations.
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Executive Director
AI and enterprise technology specialist. Designs and deploys the agent systems, integrations, and technical infrastructure for client engagements.
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Research Associate
Researcher and writer with a background in philosophy, computer science, and legal research. Supports client engagements with analysis, writing, and project research.
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The next move
Bring us the business problem. We will help you decide whether the next move is a workshop, an assessment, a build, or an ongoing partnership.
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