The method
Interview. Analyze. Execute.
The way we approach every engagement, regardless of whether it ends in a 200-page evaluation, a custom agent, or a multi-tenant platform shipped to production. Borrowed from a long arc of work that started before Yikes Dude. Refined across four platforms in production.
01
Interview.
We sit with your operators for sixty to ninety minutes per workflow. Not the executive walk-through. The actual work, screen-shared. We pay attention to what people tab into when they think no one is watching, spreadsheets, group chats, that one document that everyone secretly relies on.
The output is a stakeholder map, a workflow inventory, and a list of the surfaces where automation could earn a first win. No commitments yet. No roadmap yet. Just a clear picture of where the friction is.
What we ask
- “Walk us through a normal Tuesday, what consumes the morning?”
- “Where does this team copy-paste between two tools?”
- “What does leadership think the bottleneck is, and what do operators think?”
- “What did you try last year that didn't stick?”
02
Analyze.
We score your systems, vendors, processes, and data against where AI and custom software can move the needle. We map the build-vs-buy decisions explicitly. We are honest about where we are not the right fit.
Output: a bottleneck map, a quick-wins shortlist with budgets, a phased plan with dependencies, and a risk register. If we recommend the work we can sell instead of the work that should be done, we lose your trust forever, so we don’t.
What we ask
- “Where is the data clean enough for an agent to act on it?”
- “Which vendor is locking you in, and what would it take to unwind?”
- “What is the quickest path from a thin slice to real adoption?”
- “Build, buy, or rent?”
03
Execute.
We ship a thin slice in week one. One agent, one workflow, observable. Real data, real users, real evaluation harness catching drift. Two-week vertical slices from there. Every slice ends with something live in staging that you can click.
We hand off with observability, runbooks, and a relationship for the next phase. No black boxes. If we’re the wrong long-term partner for a piece of the work, we tell you which studio or vendor to call next.
What we ask
- “What is the smallest thing we can ship in week one?”
- “How will we know it’s working, and what triggers a kill switch?”
- “Who owns it after we leave?”
Want this run on your business?
Tell us what is broken. The first week is on us to scope.