AI workflow systems
Custom internal apps where AI reads messy inputs, extracts useful structure, and hands decisions to people with the right controls.
AI implementation for real operations
Growth Tech Consulting
Building the systems that turn messy emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, equipment data, and tribal knowledge into structured workflows people can actually run.
AI workflow apps
Industrial data systems
Training and adoption
Production systems, not AI theater.
Databases, permissions, audit logs, human approvals, cloud deployment, and integrations around the model.
Industrial engineering underneath.
Process mapping, capacity rules, root-cause thinking, and measurable operational improvement.
Built by someone who works the details.
From prompt design to PDF handling, Gmail APIs, equipment inputs, and admin dashboards.
Where the work shows up
Selected organizations and operating environments
A practical portfolio across financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, distribution, and higher education.
Staley Credit Union
Circa Resort & Casino
Kirby Risk
Purdue University
Cold Heading Co.
Growth Tech Consulting
Services
What Growth Tech builds
Automation for buried processes
Email, spreadsheet, PDF, approval, reporting, and reconciliation work turned into repeatable software workflows.
Operations and data integration
Connecting ERP data, SQL databases, cloud services, machines, RFID, scales, and business logic into usable dashboards and apps.
AI enablement and governance
Use-case discovery, training, policies, playbooks, and adoption support that make AI useful without giving it uncontrolled authority.
Built work
Systems with business rules, not just demos
Live cloud app
Devon Ticket Ops for Staley Credit Union
Replaced manual ticket emails and PDF handling with private invite links, Gmail reply processing, AI-assisted parsing, admin approval, inventory tracking, and automated fulfillment emails.
- Private tokenized invite workflow
- OpenAI parser with deterministic fallback
- Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Gmail API, Cloud Storage
- Admin prompt controls and audit-friendly workflow
Operations integration
Hospitality laundry operations system
Connected equipment, RFID readers, scales, production data, labor tracking, and management dashboards so a physical operation could be measured and managed digitally.
- Girbau washers, towel folders, ironers, RFID, and scales
- Azure SQL and C# / Blazor application work
- Production, labor, efficiency, and bonus-related metrics
Spreadsheet automation
Surcharge Buddy
Automated quarterly surcharge workflows across vendor pricing, Syteline data, contract prices, quote exports, and submission workbooks.
- Reduced repetitive workbook handling
- Improved reconciliation and review paths
- Structured the quarterly submission process
Enterprise adoption
Kirby Risk AI integration and enablement
Built and supported AI workflows, internal applications, process improvement, training, adoption materials, and practical controls for industrial and distribution environments.
- AI use-case development and training
- Internal app and automation work
- Policy, playbooks, ROI thinking, and controlled adoption
Approach
The operating pattern
Map
Find the actual process, the hidden rules, the exception cases, and the handoffs people are already managing manually.
Structure
Turn inputs into clean data: forms, emails, PDFs, equipment readings, ERP records, and spreadsheet exports.
Control
Keep approvals, permissions, audit logs, validation, and failure handling in the application layer.
Deploy
Ship the working system, train users, watch real behavior, and tighten the workflow around what actually happens.
Founder
Ben Stevens
Industrial engineer, AI integration engineer, software builder, and Purdue-trained operator who likes the unglamorous middle of automation: messy inputs, weird rules, skeptical users, and systems that still need to work on a Tuesday afternoon.
PurdueIndustrial Engineering + Technology Leadership and Innovation
FocusAI implementation, operational workflow software, data integration, and training
PatternManual process to measurable system
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