Independent AI consulting and building · Northwest Ohio

AI set up for your company, in your systems, shaped to how you actually work.

For companies of 1 to 100 people whose work runs on technology. I set AI up so it does the repetitive work in the tools you already pay for, and I build custom systems when those tools won't do. Your people do more of the work that matters. Everything I set up or build is yours.

What should run better than it does?

  • Operations that repeat every week.
  • Data that lives in five places.
  • Decisions that wait on one person.

I set up one AI layer under your company that handles the first, connects the second, and gives the third its time back.

16 yearsleading organizations, then building software
10+ engagementsas a consulting engineer and independent builder, discovery through production
Multi-agent AI systemsdesigned and running in production, including the one this practice runs on
Northwest Ohioworks remotely, in clients' own tools and accounts

Everyone will have the same AI.

Not everyone will have AI shaped to their context, according to how their company operates, that they own.

Where most companies start

The Company AI Layer

The AI tools you already pay for, with your company's own structure underneath them, so they work as one system instead of separate subscriptions.

A supplier invoice, mappedone real workflow
Invoice arrives in the shared inboxConnection Matched to the job and the purchase orderScript The unusual ones are read and explainedAI The office manager approves the paymentPerson decides A readable record is filed where you already keep recordsAction after approval

Every step is typed before anything is built. AI never decides money.

Where things liveYour systems stay the source of truth. Nothing gets copied.
The harnessYour company's instructions, skills and rules, in a repository you own.
Organized by how you workOne space for each part of the business.
Built to extendOne leader, a team, or the whole company on the same foundation. Unattended work becomes a custom build on top of it, not beside it.

One workflow is where it starts. The same structure, the same rules and the same connections run the next workflow, then the department, then the company. That's the architecture: built once, extended, never rebuilt.

How the Layer works →
Case studies

Examples of systems, projects, and ideas.

All work →
Remodeling contractor

Estimate engine

  • Input: recorded site walkthrough
  • Classification over years of past jobs
  • Deterministic pricing in his own rules
  • Owner confirms every line before pricing

A contractor records the site walkthrough. The engine turns it into a complete estimate in his own line items and pricing rules, asks only what the data can't settle, and prices nothing until he confirms each line.

Mechanical contractor · Microsoft 365

Company AI Layer

  • Claude and Copilot side by side
  • SharePoint as the system of record
  • Live connections: accounting, time, vendors
  • Approval gate on anything that touches money

One structure under a company's existing tools. Each team gets its own space, instructions and skills; data from several vendors is read where it lives, never copied; a person approves anything that pays, sends or deletes.

Athletic department

Schedule system

  • Email and database kept in step
  • Integrated across several outside systems
  • Changes reach facilities, officials, transport, families
  • Downstream tasks reopen when inputs change

One master schedule. Move a game and the system knows what else has to change, drafts the notices, and holds the sends until a person approves them.

Installed, multi-user

Plugin workflow system

  • Packaged for Claude Cowork
  • Agents, skills and operations run by name
  • Connectors into the team's systems
  • Shared record store

A team installs one plugin and gets a set of jobs it can run by name. Each job is an agent with its own skills and rules, working from the team's own material and writing back to a shared record.

My own practice

Marketing research engine

  • Multi-agent pipeline on MCP servers
  • Market scan and competitor deep-dives
  • Positioning and a promotion plan
  • Every claim cited to its source

Point it at a market and it comes back with the landscape, the competitors, what to say and where to say it, with sources. Reruns weekly.

My own practice

Elysian command center

  • A director agent per engagement and function
  • Message bus between agents
  • Ticketed work with acceptance criteria
  • Independent review; approval before any external action

The system I run this practice on. Every agent has a defined job and defined permissions; nothing leaves the system without my approval. The same patterns go into every client build.

Any company with documents

RAG knowledge base

  • Retrieval over the company's own files
  • Chunk-level citations
  • Access scoped by role
  • Answers name the document and section

Ask a question in plain language and get the answer and where it came from: your safety manual, your job history, your contracts. Not the internet's version.

The connection layer

MCP servers

  • Custom Model Context Protocol servers
  • Expose job costing, CRM, scheduling as tools
  • Read-only first; write access is earned
  • Typed inputs and an audit log on every call

How Claude or Copilot reaches your actual systems safely: it can only do what the server allows, every call is logged, and nothing writes until it has proven itself.

Custom builds

When the tools you have won't do, I build the thing that will.

Mostly ordinary code, with AI only where it earns its place. Everything sits on the Layer, so each build makes the next one cheaper.

From $2,500 a workflow or plugin $8,000–15,000 a typical custom system Smaller or larger depending on complexity and breadth. The final price comes from the scope of the build.

Sometimes the right answer is "buy this" or "don't build." You'll get that answer too.

See the builds →
How it starts

Discover. Diagnose. Build. Handover.

Free

Discover

A conversation about your company as a whole: how the work runs, where it hurts, what you've tried, and where AI could help. No preparation on your side.

$1,000

Diagnose

Two hours inside your operation. You get a written plan of proposals, like an architect's first sketches: what's worth building, in what order, and what each would take. Yours whether or not we go further.

Fixed scope

Build

The Layer, a plugin, a workflow, or a custom system. Installed in your accounts.

Optional support

Handover

Yours to run. Support options include: Available · Monthly rhythm · Partner.

$1,500–2,500Team Workshop From $5,000Company AI Layer From $2,500Workflow or plugin $8,000–15,000Typical custom system
Need someone to own technology overall? I also work as a part-time technology lead, from $3,000 a month.Prices and process →
Independent.I don't resell software or take commissions. The honest answer is often "use what you already pay for," or "don't build."
Built into how you already work.I start from the last time a job was actually done, with the person who did it and the real documents. Not from a demo.
Yours, not rented.It runs in your accounts, on open standards, documented, and handed over. If we never work together again, it keeps running.
Adoption is part of the job.It isn't done when it's installed. It's done when your people use it, and you can see that they do.
Tyler Kleeberger

You talk to the person who builds it.

I'm Tyler Kleeberger. Sixteen years leading organizations, then building software: more than ten engagements as a consulting engineer and independent builder, and the multi-agent systems this practice runs on. No sales team, no handoff to a junior developer. The person who maps your work is the person who builds it and answers for it.

About Tyler →

The big AI labs embed engineers inside large companies to make AI fit a real operation. Nobody sends one to a fifteen-person business. That's the job I do: independent, with no product to sell, on your side of the table.

Start with the work, not the tools. What takes more of your week than it should?

Tell me about your company and the work. I read every message myself and reply within two business days to set up a free conversation.

What to expect
  1. We talk. 30 to 45 minutes about your company as a whole. No preparation on your side.
  2. I tell you what I see. Where the time goes, what's worth doing, and what isn't.
  3. You decide. If there's a fit, the next step is the Diagnostic. If there isn't, I'll say so.

Do you work outside Northwest Ohio?

Yes. Most of the work is remote, in your own tools and accounts, and I've worked that way for years.

What if I just need advice on which tool to buy?

Then that's what you'll get. Not every conversation leads to a build.