Advisory + Implementation for Lean Teams

AI-assisted operations
for founder-led teams.

I design AI-assisted research, decision, and execution workflows for founder-led teams who are tired of bloated agency pitches and generic AI advice. No account managers. No junior benches. Just systems that run.

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Years in Data & Ops
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Deep AI Research Base
Experience with
IBM
Harvard
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
McGraw · Hill
YouTube

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The Operator

Senior operator. Hands-on builder. No agency theater.

I work directly with founders and lean teams. Not through a sales deck. Not through a rotating cast of junior analysts. My background is in data science and technology leadership — running systems, leading teams, and making decisions under pressure in complex organizations.

Today I apply that operator discipline to small, independent businesses: designing AI-assisted research, decision, and execution workflows that actually run inside your team, with tools you already use, and processes your people can own.

What you won't get here
×A 40-page strategy deck
×A junior team learning on your dime
×Monthly meetings about meetings
×Vague deliverables you can't use
×Upsells before the first system works
×Bloated tool stacks you didn't ask for
Data & SystemsWorkflow DesignerAI ImplementerOperator
Portrait of Alonzo H. Mays, founder of Autonomous Methods
Operator workspace with workflow diagrams and analytics dashboards
workspace
10+

Years turning complex data into working systems

Services

Research, decisions, and execution — redesigned with AI assistance.

04 / Capabilities
01

AI-Assisted Research Workflows

Turn scattered market intelligence, customer signals, and competitive data into structured, searchable insight your team can act on in hours instead of weeks.

02

Decision Workflow Design

Replace slow, consensus-heavy meetings with clear, documented decision systems — the right inputs, the right owner, and a repeatable path from question to call.

03

Execution & Automation Playbooks

Build repeatable, AI-assisted processes for content, reporting, admin, and client work that your team can run, refine, and own without daily handholding.

04

Operator Advisory & Implementation

Strategic guidance plus hands-on build work for founder-led companies that need senior operational help without hiring a full-time executive.

RESEARCH
DECISIONS
EXECUTION
ADVISORY

How This Is Different

Not an agency. Not a freelancer bench. A single operator working like you do.

What most AI agencies do
  • ×Sell a 6-month retainer before any system is built
  • ×Hand your project to a junior analyst behind the scenes
  • ×Deliver decks, workshops, and tool lists — not running workflows
  • ×Add every SaaS under the sun to your bill
  • ×Disappear after kickoff and reappear for renewal
What happens here
  • Fixed-scope sprints with one clear outcome per engagement
  • You work directly with the person designing and building the system
  • Every deliverable is a workflow your team can run next week
  • Lean tool stack — usually the apps you already pay for
  • Available in Slack between sessions, not just on renewal calls
Who designs it
Agencies
Account director sells it, junior team builds it
Autonomous Methods
The same senior operator runs the diagnosis and the build
What you get
Agencies
Strategy and recommendations
Autonomous Methods
Working systems, documented playbooks, trained team
How it's priced
Agencies
Open-ended hours and markups
Autonomous Methods
Fixed scope. You know the cost before work starts.
Interactive · Live Tool

Score your operation in under 5 minutes.

The AI Operator Audit asks 12 questions about how your team runs research, decisions, and execution today — then returns a custom readout: where you’re leaking hours, which workflows are automation-ready, and the first three systems worth building.

Take the audit →Free · No login · Results in your inbox
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How many hours per week does your team spend on recurring research or reporting?
Under 5
5–15
15–30
30+ (we're drowning)

Pricing

Fixed-scope engagements. Senior operator economics.

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Case Studies

Real engagements with founder-led teams.

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Free Playbook

The AI Operator Audit

A 7-step playbook for founders: audit your operation, score what's worth automating, and pick the first three workflows that actually earn their keep. 30 minutes, no agency follow-up.

Get the playbook →Email only · No drip campaigns
  • Map every recurring workflow on one page
  • Score on volume, time, decision risk, stability
  • Separate research, decision, and execution
  • Pick exactly three first automations
  • Rollback, instrumentation, 30-day review

Operator Background

A decade of building systems that have to work under real constraints.

Current
Head of Technology
Community Dynamix (CDX)
Leads technology and data systems for teams solving complex public-sector and community challenges — the same operator discipline applied to lean, high-stakes environments.
Recent
Manager, Data Science
The Terra Fund
Built data and analytics infrastructure that informed investment decisions in social and environmental outcomes, translating messy real-world signals into clear executive judgment.
10+ Years
Data Scientist & Operator
Across Industry
A decade of turning ambiguous problems into working systems: predictive models, optimization pipelines, analytics, and the operating models that actually deliver decisions.
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Years in Data & Ops
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Person Teams Designed For
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Founder Advisory
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Handoff Risk

Work With Me

Advisory + implementation for teams that want systems, not slide decks.

I work in two modes: focused advisory and hands-on project implementation. Engagements start with a clear diagnosis of where manual work and slow decisions are costing you most — then we build the workflow, playbook, or decision system to fix it.

01
Strategy Call
30-min diagnosis of your highest-leverage workflow
02
Workflow Audit
Map where AI can cut manual work and speed decisions
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Implementation
Build the system and train your team to run it
04
Ongoing Advisory
Monthly guidance as you add workflows and scale

Ready to build your AI operator layer?

If you lead a small team and want to stop drowning in manual research, slow decisions, and repetitive execution work, let's talk.