Advanced technology without enterprise-size complexity.
AAS designs practical AI systems, automation, software, databases and web applications tailored to the way your business actually operates — not the way a product catalogue assumes it does.
First 30-minute conversation is free. You own everything we build for you.
Serving small and midsize businesses worldwide through virtual collaboration, with in-person meetings by appointment at client locations within approximately 200 miles of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including northern Illinois.
What we do
Most technology projects fail not because the software was badly built, but because nobody agreed on what it was for. We start with the problem, and we say so when the answer is simpler than you expected.
Put AI where it saves real time — and nowhere else.
Most businesses have a handful of jobs that eat hours every week: reading documents and typing what they say into another system, answering the same customer questions, moving data between t...
Software shaped around how you already work.
Off-the-shelf software makes you change your process to fit it. Sometimes that is fine. When it is not — when the workaround spreadsheet has become the real system — a purpose-built applicat...
AI that runs on your hardware and keeps your data yours.
If your work involves client records, medical information, legal documents or anything else you would not paste into a public chatbot, you can run capable AI models on your own machine or se...
Applications your team and your customers actually use.
Not a brochure site — a working application. Somewhere your customers log in to see their own information, or your staff log in to get work done, on any device, without training.
Get your data into one place you can trust.
A lot of businesses have the same problem: the real numbers are spread across three spreadsheets, an old accounting package and someone's inbox. Nobody is sure which copy is right. We design...
Make the systems you already pay for talk to each other.
You already have tools that each do their job. The expensive part is the person copying data between them. Integration removes that person from the loop — and with them, the typos and the fo...
Problems we solve
These are the situations businesses actually describe to us. If one of them sounds like your week, there is usually something straightforward to be done about it.
Integration or automation removes the retyping, and with it the typos and the version that never got updated.
A purpose-built application with real validation, proper access control and a history of who changed what.
Automate the repetitive part, keep a person on the judgement calls, and measure what it gave back.
Private AI running on your own hardware. Nothing leaves your network.
Where there is a credible self-hosted equivalent, we will tell you — and where there is not, we will say that too.
Assessment, documentation, and incremental modernisation that does not require switching everything off.
Applied where it pays for itself: document handling, routine replies, moving data between systems that will not talk to each other. We will tell you which of your jobs are worth automating and which are not.
Capable models running on your own hardware. Nothing leaves your network, there is no per-seat subscription, and no third party is reading your documents. Genuinely useful when your work involves records you cannot paste into a public chatbot.
Source code, database schema, deployment configuration and documentation are yours at handover. Dockerised, self-hostable, and built so someone other than us can maintain it. That is the arrangement, not a concession.
How it works
No month-long silences followed by a reveal. You see progress as it happens, and the scope is written down before anyone starts building.
We learn how your business actually works — not how a flowchart says it works. What takes too long, what break...
We write down exactly what will be built, what it will cost and roughly when. Anything we are not going to bui...
Data structure, screens, and how it fits alongside the systems you already run. For anything with a user inter...
The actual development, in visible increments rather than months of silence followed by a reveal.
Automated tests, plus deliberate attempts to break it — bad input, missing permissions, the awkward edge cases...
You use it properly, with real data, before it goes live. We fix what is wrong and adjust what is merely awkwa...
Deployment, documentation, and handover. You get the source code, the deployment configuration and instruction...
Optional ongoing maintenance, or simply knowing who to call. No lock-in either way — if you want to take it in...
Pricing
So you can work out roughly what something costs before you talk to anyone. Final pricing depends on scope, and you get that in writing before work begins.
A first system, a small tool, or a website that has to do more than sit there.
Capable AI running on hardware you own, with your data staying put.
Automate a real process end to end, with a person kept in the loop where judgement is needed.
A complete application: database, interface, access control, deployment and documentation.
Why AAS
Not adjectives. Each of these is something you can check at the end of a project.
Source code, database schema, deployment configuration and documentation are yours at handover. If you want to take it in-house or hand it to someone else, nothing stops you. That is the arrangement, not a concession.
We build on open, widely supported technology. Where a proprietary service genuinely is the right answer, we will say so and explain what it would take to move away later.
Where your data is sensitive, we design so it does not leave your infrastructure in the first place — rather than relying on a third party's promise about how they handle it.
Starting prices are published. Scoped work gets a fixed price before it begins. If something will cost more than expected, you hear it while you can still decide, not afterwards.
A language model is a poor substitute for a database query and an expensive way to do arithmetic. We will tell you when the boring solution is the right one.
Tests, documentation and readable code, on the assumption that someone other than us will eventually need to work on it. Possibly you.
The first conversation is thirty minutes, free, and has no pitch in it. We will tell you whether we can help, roughly what it would cost, and if the honest answer is that you do not need us, we will say that too.