OpsAI

Former Google PM • Azteco co-founder • AI systems built by operators

Find the AI workflows worth building. Skip the demo theater.

OpsAI Lab helps operations-heavy teams identify where AI can safely reduce manual work, then builds the reliability layer around the workflows that pass the business case.

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How It Works

Start With The Operating Problem.

We separate real workflow leverage from AI novelty before asking you to fund a build.

01 · FREE

1-Page Opportunity Scan

Tell us where work is slow, repetitive, error-prone, or hard to scale. You get a directional scan of the most plausible AI leverage points.

02 · FREE

60-Min Walkthrough

We pressure-test the scan with real volume, cost, quality, and process data so the next step is grounded in how your team actually works.

03 · PAID

Playbook Build

If one workflow has a clear business case, we build the automation, evals, escalation paths, dashboards, and handoff process around it.

Operating Reality

Where AI-Ops Actually Pays Off

The best candidates are high-volume workflows with clear rules, measurable error cost, and a human escalation path.

Volume
Enough repeated work to make automation worth maintaining
Support, ops, finance, sales ops, compliance
Risk
Clear review, escalation, and audit paths for AI-assisted work
Evals, QA loops, source tracking, human review
ROI
A business case your team can inspect before a build starts
Savings, throughput, quality, cycle time
Bottom line: we do not recommend a build unless the workflow has a clear owner, measurable value, and a reliability plan.

Fit

Is This Right for You?

We work best with operations-focused leaders at companies doing $5M-$500M in revenue

You're a Good Fit If...

  • Your team spends hours on repetitive data entry, reporting, or approvals
  • You know AI could help but don't know where to start
  • You've tried AI tools but they didn't stick
  • You need to show ROI to justify the investment
  • You want a partner, not a vendor

Probably Not the Right Fit If...

  • You need a chatbot or customer-facing AI product built
  • You're looking for the cheapest option
  • You want AI for AI's sake without clear business goals
  • Your organization isn't ready to change existing workflows

Engagements

Service Offerings

Tailored solutions for every stage of your AI-Ops journey

AI-Ops Playbook Build

6-8 weeks • Full implementation

Complete automation implementation with enterprise-grade security.

  • Full workflow automation & integrations
  • Custom dashboards & analytics
  • Security & compliance guard-rails
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Fractional AI-Ops Lead

Ongoing • Strategic AI leadership

Ongoing strategic guidance and optimization.

  • Ongoing governance & vendor curation
  • KPI reviews & optimization
  • Strategic roadmap evolution
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Team Upskill -- AI-Ops Essentials

Half-day or full-day • Hands-on workshop

Empower your team with practical AI-Ops skills.

  • Hands-on workshop format
  • Live teardown of your real workflows
  • Reusable prompts, checklists, and operating guides
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Framework

The SHIFT Method

We use SHIFT to move from messy current-state workflows to tested, governed AI-assisted operations.

STEP 01
S

Survey

Capture the current workflow

  • Shadow work processes
  • Time-study tasks
  • Map Tier-1/2/3 effort
STEP 02
H

Harmonize

Redesign a realistic future state

  • Lean out steps
  • Assign AI vs human tasks
  • Model ROI projections
STEP 03
I

Implement

Build & integrate the automation

  • Create prompts & agents/RPA
  • Build API hooks
  • Implement security & governance
STEP 04
F

Feedback

Iterate until KPIs hit target

  • Human-in-loop review
  • Prompt/RAG tweaks
  • Accuracy dashboards
STEP 05
T

Transition

Roll the solution out to the team

  • Team training & communications
  • Adoption tracking
  • Solution redeployment

Field Notes

Latest AI-Ops Articles

Practical writing on workflow reliability, evals, escalation, and where AI can safely reduce manual load.

Scorecard

What We Measure Before We Build

A workflow only becomes a build candidate when the measurement plan is concrete.

Hours
Manual effort that can realistically be reduced
Quality
Error rate, rework, and escalation thresholds
Speed
Cycle time from request to completed work
Trust
Auditability, source tracking, and human review

Team

Two Operators. No Associates.

You work directly with Paul and Jeff on every engagement — from the scan through the build.

Paul Ferguson

Paul Ferguson

Founder & Principal

Architects and ships agentic AI systems for operations — agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-use orchestration, and the engineering realities of making LLMs work reliably in production. Two decades of production engineering, former Product Manager at Google. Started OpsAI Lab because most AI consultants don't understand operations — and most ops leaders are tired of AI demos that never ship.

Jeffrey Ferguson

Jeffrey Ferguson

Principal, Strategy & Business Systems

Philosopher and entrepreneur at heart, Jeffrey thinks abstractly about how data, AI, incentives, and operating models come together to create value. His work at Google Cloud sits at the intersection of data and AI, and he helps pressure-test where AI should change a workflow versus where the business system needs to be redesigned first.

Operating Standard

We build AI into operations only when the workflow has repeated pain, measurable value, clear human escalation, and a reliability plan your team can inspect.
Best fit: operations-heavy teams with repeated work, measurable stakes, and a leader willing to improve the process.
Operator-led Reliability-first No build without a business case

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