AI consultant in Johns Creek, from someone who has built with it.
I work with CEOs, owners and operating partners in Johns Creek and across North Fulton on one question: where AI pays in this business, and how to get it into production with an owner and a number. I have built with it. As CEO of Product Genius I built and launched an AI engagement platform, as COO of Blameless I shipped a generative AI product used by Fortune 500 engineering teams, and at New Relic I launched New Relic AI. I still work at the bottom of the stack too: I run two inference servers of my own, so the advice tracks what the models can do this quarter, not what they could do last year.
Johns Creek is next door to my office at North Point in Alpharetta, so a workshop is a short drive, not a fly-in. Most of my AI work runs nationally. Here it can simply happen across a table, at your office or mine, with Zoom between sessions.
The AI questions on the table in Johns Creek.
Johns Creek grew around a technology park that Georgia Tech graduates started in 1981, and its largest employer today is Alcon, with Emory Johns Creek Hospital, EndoChoice and Nordson among the others and Boston Scientific among the life sciences companies that have moved or built here. Device makers and hospitals run on regulated, document-heavy work, and the suppliers, practices and retail and logistics teams around them, from Macy’s to Saia, face the same AI questions with smaller budgets. The decisions leaders here bring me cluster in six places.
AI in life sciences and medical devices
Device makers and health systems carry rules about where data may go and how a decision is documented. The first AI wins are usually in the documents around the product: intake, quality records, and the forms and reports people re-key. Before a model touches patient or product data, one person owns which models run on what, what each one may read, and a log of what it decided.
AI in the operation
Support, success, billing and onboarding: the flows your people re-type day after day. Any process you can model can be mostly automated, with the exceptions routed to a named person. The assessment ranks the candidates by cost and confidence.
AI in the product
Customers now expect AI in the product, and the roadmap has to decide what to build, buy or skip. I have shipped it from the inside three times: at Product Genius, at Blameless and at New Relic.
The AI bill keeps growing
Licenses and agents bought last year, a bill that keeps climbing, and no one who can say what it returned. Mapping the workloads honestly has cut spend by 80 percent on some, with frontier models moved off work smaller models handle.
An AI answer for the board
The board wants a plan, the pilots work in the demo, and nothing has reached production. The answer is a ranked list of workloads with a number behind each, and the first one live inside a quarter. The board version is in the AI answer your board actually wants.
A sponsor’s plan on a clock
An operating partner with a value creation plan that names AI. One win found in one portfolio company, put into production and repeated across the others, measured in EBITDA inside the hold period. More on AI consulting for private equity.
Custom AI agents for Johns Creek back offices, built in weeks.
Most companies in Johns Creek have back-office work that is a poor use of their people’s time: re-keying between systems, chasing approvals and payments, checking documents, answering the same questions. An AI agent can take a large share of that work, so your people do the work you hired them for. The big firms quote months or years and hundreds of thousands of dollars for this. Most of what I build costs thousands or tens of thousands and runs in weeks.
Data entry between systems
Copying orders, contacts and updates from email, portals and spreadsheets into the CRM, the accounting system or the order system.
Invoices and payables
Reading invoices as they arrive, matching them to purchase orders and receipts, and flagging what does not match.
Collections and follow-up
Chasing overdue payments, missing paperwork and pending approvals by email and text, on schedule, in your voice.
Inbox and document intake
Sorting the shared inbox, pulling the data out of forms, contracts and scans, and routing each item to the right person.
Each agent runs against a baseline with named owners for its work, its access and the result. The exceptions, the judgment calls and anything it is unsure about go to a named person, with the context attached. How the builds work, and what they cost to run, is on custom AI agents.
Someone who has done the work, not a team that has studied it.
A consulting team brings a partner to the pitch and analysts to the work. Here the person who scopes it is the person in the room, building with your people and accountable for the result. The difference is not only the shape. It is what stands behind it.
The boardroom and the server room
I have sat in the boardroom as a CEO, a public-company founder and a Managing Partner, and built AI products as a CEO, a COO and a platform GM. I also run two inference servers of my own and work hands on with the models and how they are trained. The board-level call and the technical call get made by the same person, so nothing is lost in translation.
Hands on, with your people
The person on the scoping call is the person who builds it with your team, deployed inside your own systems. You are not paying for juniors to learn your business, and the capability stays when I leave.
Your data stays yours
Your data stays inside the systems you already control, and a model reads what the access rule permits and no more. One person in your company owns the record of which models run, on what, and what they decided.
No vendor in the room
I sell no software and take nothing from a vendor. If I ever advise a company I would recommend to you, I say so first.
A number the CFO can audit
Per workload: the share of volume that no longer touches a human queue, times what a unit of it cost before, against a baseline measured before the switch. Adoption is counted in volume, not in licenses or logins.
Three shapes of engagement, in person in Johns Creek.
We pick the shape together on the scoping call, and it can change as the work does.
AI Assessment
A fixed-fee assessment of where AI pays in your business, ending in a written plan you can run with me, run yourself, or shelve. A small business, under 50 people, takes two weeks, remote with one session in person in Johns Creek, from $3,500. A mid-market company, 50 people up to $1B in revenue, or any PE-backed company, takes four weeks at $15,000 per company. An enterprise is quoted after the scoping call. The fee credits in full toward an Adoption Sprint that starts within 90 days.
AI Adoption Sprint
One or two workloads into production inside one quarter, with owners, dates and a baseline measured before the switch is thrown. Your people build the muscle, and the first win funds the next one.
Fractional AI leadership
A fractional Chief AI Officer: executive ownership of the AI agenda across a company or a portfolio, on a monthly retainer, with a monthly line to the board or the operating partner, until someone inside passes the test or the right talent is hired.
What the assessment answers
- Where does AI pay in this business, ranked, with a number on each workload?
- Is the data ready: where does it live, and who owns it?
- Can the systems take it, and what has to connect to what?
- Which processes can be modeled, at what volume and unit cost, and where do the exceptions go?
- Are the people ready, and who owns each workload after I leave?
- What are the risks: governance, compliance and security?
- Build, buy or skip, and which vendors, if any?
- What is AI already costing you, in tools and spend without an owner?
- What happens in the next 90 days, and what does the board hear?
The output is a ranked plan, not a maturity score. The forty-five minute scoping call before it is free.
Next door to North Point.
Johns Creek, with 82,453 residents at the 2020 census, sits in northeastern Fulton County, between Alpharetta, the Chattahoochee River and Forsyth County, and became a city in 2006. My office at North Point in Alpharetta is a short drive away, so the standing cadence can simply be in person.
The record behind the work: an AI platform built and launched as CEO, a generative AI product used by Fortune 500 engineering teams, New Relic AI across two billion events a minute, and the cloud transformation inside Cox Automotive. And the outcome I point to most: a CEO with $25M in revenue, a one-time $50,000 investment in automating the flows his team re-typed day after day, and $250,000 of annual cost out.
The seats, not the theory
In the press
Featured in CNN, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, Fast Company and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. See the coverage.
AI consulting in Johns Creek: the questions people actually ask.
Do you work in person in Johns Creek?
Yes, at your office in Johns Creek or at mine at North Point in Alpharetta, a short drive away. Workshops and working sessions in person, with Zoom between them when that is easier.
What does an AI consultant actually do?
An AI consultant separates where AI pays in your business from where it does not yet. That means mapping real workloads, putting a number on each, and getting the first wins to production. The difference between AI consultants is what stands behind the map. Mine is having built and shipped AI products as an operator.
What does AI consulting cost?
The first step has a published price. The AI Assessment is from $3,500 for a small business under 50 people, $15,000 per company for a mid-market or PE-backed company, and quoted for an enterprise, and the fee credits in full toward an Adoption Sprint that starts within 90 days. The sprint carries a project fee with owners and dates, and fractional AI leadership is priced like the operating commitment it is. The forty-five minute scoping call before any of it is free, and the first workload is chosen so the savings are visible against the fee.
How much does a custom AI agent cost in Johns Creek?
Most of what I build costs thousands or tens of thousands to build, and the running cost depends on the model choice; open models on your own server carry no per-use fee. A free call tells you straight whether an agent can take the workload, and gives you a rough plan for building it yourself or having my team build it.
Are you a firm, or one person?
One person, by design. The person on the scoping call is the person in the room and the person accountable for the result. Where the work needs more hands, your own team does it with me, which is how the capability stays in the company after I leave.
Do you work with life sciences and medical device companies in Johns Creek?
Yes. The AI questions are the same as elsewhere, with stricter rules on the data and on how a decision is documented. The assessment scores each workload on its data and its rules before it scores it on its savings, and nothing touches patient or product data until one person owns the record of which models run on what.
Do you work with PE-backed and founder-led companies in Johns Creek and North Fulton?
Yes: AI diligence on targets, post-close AI value creation plans, portfolio-wide workload sweeps and exit readiness, for the sponsor and for the company. I spent a decade as a Managing Partner on the investing side, so the EBITDA lens is native, not adopted.
How long does it take?
The AI Assessment takes two weeks for a small business and four for a mid-market company. An adoption sprint puts one or two workloads into production inside one quarter, with owners and dates. Fractional AI leadership is an ongoing seat. Data readiness is what adds time, which is why the assessment asks the data question first, before a date is set.
Do you work with companies outside Johns Creek?
Yes. Most of my AI work runs nationally, remotely and on-site. In Johns Creek the in-person sessions are a short drive from my office.
Bring me one workload, or the whole portfolio.
Forty-five minutes, no pressure, no pitch. Bring the AI question that is actually on your desk, and we will work out together whether you need an assessment, a sprint, a seat, or a custom AI agent built in weeks, not months or years, and whether I am the right one. In person in Johns Creek or on Zoom.
- Send the note, or book the call if you would rather pick a time.
- Forty-five minutes, on video or across a table in Johns Creek.
- A scope and a number if it makes sense to work together, and a straight no if it does not.
Or reach me directly:
(629) 304-8755
ken@kengavranovic.com
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