/ APPLIED AI STUDIO — CHICAGO, NATIONWIDE

Practical intelligence under real constraints.

For RIAs and boutique law firms who need real systems, not a brochure with a chatbot bolted on.

Workflow DiagnosticFREE · SELF-REPORT

Operational Intelligence Assessment$7,500 · 3 WEEKS

OUTCOME TOPOLOGY

Outcomes

01 / Revenue

Pipeline, intake, and follow-through that compounds.

02 / Service

03 / Automate

04 / Decide

The methodology ladder

M1 · WEDGE

Fixed-scope evaluation of one or two workflows. $7,500 · 3 weeks.

The one decision that governs a system's reliability, re-drawn with rationale.

Organization-level readiness before agents scale, sequenced against the binding constraint.

M4–M10

Scoped engagements for evaluation infrastructure, governance, provenance, and change control.

Insights

ESSAY

A system does not have one autonomy level. Every action it can take earns its own — classified by reversibility and blast radius.

ESSAY

The single strongest predictor of whether a task can be safely delegated to AI has nothing to do with how hard it is.

TECHNICAL BRIEF

A frontier lab led with computer-use scores instead of knowledge scores. That editorial choice changes the question you should be asking vendors.

FIELD NOTEDemonstration

Before we asked anyone to trust our methodology on their workflows, we ran it on our own tool — and the tool failed its first review.

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