AI & software consulting · Michigan
Cut through the AI noise
Elev8ed is a boutique consulting firm focused on AI integration with software engineering. We help leadership teams figure out what their business actually needs, then build it, and build it right.
If AI isn't the right answer, we'll tell you that too.
01Start here
The AI Discovery Workshop
A working session with your leadership team, built on the discovery workshops we’ve run with clients for years and aimed at one question: where can AI actually help your business?
- 1
Understand your world
What’s frustrating right now? Where is time going that you wish it weren’t? We listen before we recommend anything.
- 2
Explore what’s possible
We share what we’ve seen work in organizations like yours, and what hasn’t.
- 3
Separate signal from noise
Where AI genuinely helps and where it’s hype. Quick wins versus longer plays. What would need to be true for it to work.
- 4
Leave with a clear next step
That might be building something, coaching your teams, or Audientic. It might be nothing at all, and that’s a good answer too.
Tell us a little about your business and we’ll find a time.
02What we do
Most firms coach or build. We do both
And when a ready-made platform is the better fit, we run that for you too.
Build
We deliver it
AI integration and custom software, from discovery to production. Story mapping, event storming, clean architecture, and test-driven code, built to keep working long after launch.
Coach
We help your teams deliver it
Embedded coaching across people, product, delivery, and technology, grounded in our Reliable Adaptable Delivery™ approach. No deck and a handoff. We work alongside your teams until the capability sticks.
Audientic
We run it for you
Our AI communications platform. Calls, website chats, and texts answered, qualified, and routed around the clock, built and managed by our team.
03Proof
We don’t just talk about AI. We built and run it
Audientic is the AI communications platform we designed, built, and operate for real businesses, including a multi-location marine retailer. We built it the way we coach clients to build: iterative, test-driven, and focused on measurable value from day one.
- Calls · Chat · Text
- One platform across the channels your customers already use.
- ~1 week
- From kickoff to a live pilot.
- Your stack
- Connected to the CRM, scheduling, and inventory systems clients already run.
04How we work
Plain talk, honest advice, and work that holds up
We listen first
We’d rather understand your world before we recommend anything.
We tell you the truth
If AI isn’t the right answer, we’ll say so. Early, and kindly.
We help before we sell
You should get real value from the first conversation, whether or not you hire us.
We build it right
Reliable, adaptable, measurable. The same discipline we use on our own products.
05Experience
Big-firm experience, boutique attention
Our partners have spent decades leading transformations, coaching teams, and shipping software inside some of the most complex organizations around.
- ~70
- years of combined experience across our partners
- 14+
- years running Agile & Beyond, a 1,000+ attendee conference
- End to end
- from discovery and architecture through production
Where our team has delivered
- Ford
- Ally Financial
- Dana
- Cengage Learning
- Michigan JIS
- OneWater Marine
Where we sharpened our craft
- Pillar Technology
- LeadingAgile
- Accenture
Industries
- Healthcare
- Financial services
- Manufacturing
- Education
06Team
You’ll work with the partners
No bait-and-switch. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Dan Davis
Co-Founder
Todd Urbanowicz
Co-Founder
Jason Dinkelmann
Co-Founder
Tom Churchwell
Co-Founder
Tell us what you’re seeing
No pitch deck. Let’s sit down, hear about your business, and figure out whether AI makes sense for it, and where.