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Independent AI consultancyChris Baarstad · California

Custom software.
Practical training.

Built around your business.

I’m Chris. I build bespoke software for your business and teach you and your staff to use AI well. Work directly with me, from the first conversation to the work your team takes forward.

Bring me a real problemSee the work
Your know-how
A greater capacity to do.
Built around your people. Grounded in your work.Explore the practice

Work that crosses industries

Johnson & JohnsonABS IMPORT TOOLSJam JamTea LabBookPulse
The practice

You know the work.
Let’s give it more room.

The useful question is where AI can take work off your plate, raise the standard, or make something possible that wasn’t before.

People × AI

Make the people
more capable.

AI training for you, your staff or your whole company. Bring the documents, repetitive tasks and awkward bottlenecks. We’ll practice using AI, checking its work and knowing when to leave it out.

Illustrative task · Communication

Turn approved notes into a clear customer update. Check the facts, commitments and tone before it goes out.

A useful draft your team knows how to review.
Your team · Your everyday workLet’s work on it
Bespoke software

Custom software.
Your way of working.

Internal tools, customer portals and document workflows, built around your operation. AI inside the product when it helps. AI in the building process when it helps me deliver.

Your source
A repeatable system
Reviewed output
Custom software · Repeatable workflowsSee what that looks like

Sometimes it’s training. Sometimes it’s a build. Often, it’s both.

The build practice

The spreadsheet worked.
Until it didn’t.

When the work has outgrown the workaround, I can build what comes next. One useful tool, fitted to the way your business actually runs.

Workspace / OperationsIllustrative
YOUR TEAM’S WORKING VIEW

Ready for the next shift.

Training, credentials and follow-ups, connected in one place.

Training libraryReady to use
Credential renewalNeeds review
Onboarding checklistAssigned

The team sees what to do next. You can see what needs attention.

Concept interface. No client records or live data.

AI-powered is an option. Useful is the requirement. Some tools need AI to read, draft or organize. Others need a better workflow. I build both.

Talk through your build
01 Find the friction02 Build a focused first version03 Test it with your people04 Put it to work
Selected work

Different businesses.
Real things, delivered.

Bespoke software for Jam Jam Tea Lab.
AI training for Johnson & Johnson staff.
Two sides of the same practical approach.

The part that matters

The capability
should stay with you.

A useful engagement leaves your team with something they can keep using: better judgment, a repeatable process, a working tool. Something that still helps when I’m out of the room.

Chris BaarstadChris Baarstad · Yorba Linda, California
The person behind the work

I’ve been on
your side of the table.

I’m Chris. I spent fifteen years in the classroom and three in school leadership. Since then, I’ve trained teams, run operations, and built software for the people doing the work.

That experience shapes what I build. I want to know where the work gets stuck, what your team keeps doing twice, and what a good result actually looks like.

You work directly with me.
From the first conversation to the thing we ship.

Tell me what you’re working on
Start with a conversation

What’s taking
too much work?

Bring the spreadsheet you have outgrown, the tool you wish existed, or the team that needs a starting point. We’ll scope the useful next step.

An initial conversation is free. We scope the work together.

Share a little context so I can come prepared with ideas.

Straight to my inbox. I’ll reply personally.

Talk about your project