We build the systems your business runs on.
A boutique consultancy that ships production AI infrastructure for revenue, customer, and data operations.
AI isn't a productivity tool. It's infrastructure.
Most teams use AI to make individual tasks faster. We use it to replace entire workflows, the kind that quietly run your business in the background.
We embed deeply, design end-to-end, and ship systems that operate without supervision. The work isn't a chatbot or a Zap. It's operational infrastructure that does what a team of analysts used to do, in production, every day.
What we build
See all capabilities →AI Sales & Lead Operations
Agent systems that ingest, qualify, and follow up across email and SMS. Handles intent classification, scheduling, CRM updates, and human escalation. Built to run a sales pipeline at 10,000+ leads a month.
See related work →Data Ingestion & Pipelines
Scraping, ETL, and normalization for messy multi-source data. Built to absorb 100,000+ records a month from 200+ sources, deduplicated and emitted as clean, structured output.
See related work →Data Warehousing & Reporting
Warehouse design, modeled data, and the dashboards your team actually uses. Snowflake, dbt, and a single source of truth your operators can trust for daily decisions.
See related work →Customer Intelligence & Lifecycle
Predictive systems that flag upgrade opportunities, retention risk, and the lifecycle moments your sales team has been missing. The signal underneath your CRM, surfaced and acted on.
See related work →Find out what slow lead response is costing you.
Five inputs. Honest math from the MIT speed-to-lead study. Built for solar and home-services operators.
Open the calculator →Run by a builder, not an advisor.
I started Black Octopus after 20+ years in engineering and operations leadership at Cisco and BlackBerry, with an MBA from Harvard Business School. I started this firm because most businesses bolt AI onto broken processes. We build the alternative: real infrastructure, designed end to end, accountable for outcomes.
More about me →Cisco, BlackBerry. 20+ years engineering and operations leadership.
MBA, Harvard Business School. B.Eng., Queen's University.
San Diego, California.
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