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A steady light for businesses navigating change

Unlock efficiency, automate workflows, and transform your operations with intelligent AI solutions built around measurable business outcomes.

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Built for organizations of 20–500 people ManufacturingConstructionLogisticsGovernment contracting

Outcomes first

We measure AI by what it returns to the business

Most companies don't need another software subscription. They need fewer hours lost to manual work, cleaner data, and faster decisions. Every engagement starts with a baseline and ends with the numbers.

Time

Hours returned to your team

Automate data entry, intake, scheduling, reporting, and follow-ups so people spend their day on work that needs judgment.

Cost

Lower operating costs

Remove rework, duplicate handling, and process bottlenecks. Each improvement is tied to a cost line you already track.

Clarity

Decisions on current data

Dashboards and alerts built from the systems you already run, so leaders see problems while they are still small.

What we do

Five ways we put AI to work

AI Automation & Agents

Intelligent workflows and AI agents that take over repetitive administrative and operational tasks.

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Operations Optimization

Find the bottlenecks, cut the waste, and streamline how work moves through your business.

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Data Analytics

Turn scattered business data into dashboards, insights, and decision-support tools.

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AI Strategy & Implementation

Identify, prioritize, and deploy the AI use cases with the clearest return.

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AI Training & Adoption

Help your teams use AI safely and confidently in their everyday work.

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How an engagement runs

From first conversation to working system

Three phases take a project from finding the opportunity to a system your team relies on every day.

1Assess

Find the opportunities

Map your workflows, systems, and pain points. Set a baseline for time, cost, and error rates, then rank opportunities by value, effort, and risk.

About 2 weeks · Roadmap delivered

2Transform

Redesign and build

Fix the process first, then design and deploy the automation, agent, or dashboard, connected to the tools your team already uses.

4–6 week pilot

3Control

Measure and sustain

Train your people, hand over documentation, monitor performance, and report results against the baseline so the gains hold.

Ongoing

Why Steadylight

Business leadership first, technology second

AI projects fail for the same reasons other projects fail: unclear goals, poor execution, and people who were never brought along. We lead with management and operations experience, then apply the technology.

About the founder

MBABusiness strategy, finance, and ROI-driven decision making.

PMPDisciplined project delivery with scope, schedule, and risk under control.

MilitaryLeadership experience building teams and executing under pressure.

OperationsHands-on process improvement inside real organizations.

See where AI can pay off in your business

A 30-minute consultation to review your operations and identify two or three practical opportunities. No obligation.

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Services

Practical AI for the way your business actually runs

Consulting, automation, and analytics delivered as one engagement, so strategy and implementation stay connected.

AI Automation & Agents

We build workflows and AI agents that handle repetitive administrative and operational tasks end to end, with people approving anything that matters.

Typical deliverables

Document intake and extraction (invoices, forms, reports)
Email triage, routing, and drafted responses
Automated reporting and follow-up reminders
Agents connected to your CRM, ERP, or Airtable base

Example: Vendor invoices arriving by email are read, matched to purchase orders, and queued for one-click approval in accounts payable.

Operations Optimization

Before automating anything, we look at how work flows. Fixing the process first means you automate the right thing.

Typical deliverables

Current-state and future-state process maps
Bottleneck and waste analysis with cost estimates
Standard operating procedures and handoff design
Prioritized improvement backlog

Example: A job-costing process that touches four spreadsheets is redesigned into one source of truth before any automation is added.

Data Analytics

Your business already produces the data you need. We clean it, connect it, and put it in front of the people making decisions.

Typical deliverables

KPI dashboards for leadership and operations
Python-based analysis and forecasting models
Automated alerts when metrics drift
Data cleanup and integration between systems

Example: A weekly operations dashboard that combines scheduling, labor, and job data and flags projects trending over budget.

AI Strategy & Implementation

A clear plan for where AI fits in your organization, which projects to fund first, and how to deliver them without disrupting operations.

Typical deliverables

AI readiness assessment
Use-case inventory scored by value, effort, and risk
12-month implementation roadmap
Governance, security, and data-handling guidelines

Example: A leadership workshop produces a ranked list of 15 use cases and a funded first pilot within 30 days.

AI Training & Adoption

Tools only pay off when people use them. We train teams to use AI safely and build it into everyday routines.

Typical deliverables

Role-based AI training for staff and managers
Acceptable-use policy and prompt playbooks
Change management plan and champions network
Adoption tracking after go-live

Example: A half-day session for office staff on drafting, summarizing, and data cleanup, with a shared library of approved prompts.

Ways to work together

Start small, prove value, then scale

Start here

AI Readiness Assessment

Fixed scope · about 2 weeks

A structured review of your operations, systems, and data with a prioritized opportunity list.

Stakeholder interviews
Process and systems review
Roadmap and first-project recommendation

Most common

Pilot Build

Fixed scope · 4–6 weeks

One high-value automation or analytics solution, designed, built, deployed, and measured.

Baseline and success metrics
Working solution in production
Training and documentation

Ongoing

Automation Partner

Monthly retainer

Continuous improvement: new automations, monitoring, support, and quarterly results reviews.

Dedicated monthly build capacity
Monitoring and maintenance
Quarterly ROI reporting

Technology

Proven tools, chosen for your environment

We are tool-agnostic and build on platforms that are affordable to run and easy for your team to maintain.

n8n workflow automationPythonAirtableClaudeLarge language modelsMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceREST APIs & webhooksDashboards & BI

Not sure where to start?

Most clients begin with the Readiness Assessment. We'll tell you honestly if AI is the right answer.

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Portfolio · AI Tools

Working solutions you can see in action

Repeatable AI systems built for common problems in small and midsize organizations. Each one can be adapted to your tools and data.

Demonstration builds. These are solution designs that show the kind of systems we deliver. Target figures are design goals, not results from named clients. Ask us for a live walkthrough.

Automation agentAny industry

Invoice Intake Agent

Reads vendor invoices from a shared inbox, extracts line items, matches them to purchase orders, and flags mismatches for review.

Email arrives→AI extracts fields→PO match→Approval queue

n8nClaudeAirtable

Design target: cut manual invoice entry time by more than half

Reporting assistantConstruction

Daily Field Report Summarizer

Turns crew notes, photos, and voice memos into a consistent daily report and rolls them up into a weekly project summary for owners.

Field notes→Structured report→Issues flagged→Weekly digest

n8nClaudeGoogle Workspace

Design target: same-day reports from every active site

Monitoring & alertsLogistics

Shipment Exception Monitor

Watches carrier updates and order data, detects late or at-risk shipments, and drafts customer notifications before the customer calls.

Carrier feeds→Risk scoring→Dispatcher alert→Draft customer update

Pythonn8nAPIs

Design target: proactive notice on every delayed order

Document analysisGov contracting

RFP Compliance Matrix Builder

Reads a solicitation, pulls every "shall" requirement into a compliance matrix, and maps each one to the proposal section that answers it.

RFP upload→Requirement extraction→Compliance matrix→Gap report

PythonClaudeExcel

Design target: first-draft matrix in hours instead of days

Estimating assistantConstruction

Bid & Estimate Assistant

Reads plans and scope documents, builds a first-pass quantity takeoff and cost estimate from your historical pricing, and flags missing scope before the bid goes out.

Bid documents→Scope extraction→Draft estimate→Estimator review

PythonClaudeExcel

Design target: more bids submitted with the same estimating team

Analytics dashboardManufacturing

Inventory Reorder Forecaster

Combines sales history, lead times, and current stock to forecast reorder points and recommend purchase quantities each week.

ERP export→Demand forecast→Reorder list→Buyer review

PythonDashboardsAirtable

Design target: fewer stockouts with less cash tied up in inventory

Have a process that should run itself?

Tell us about it. We'll sketch how an automation would work before you commit to anything.

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About

Built on leadership, operations, and practical AI

Steadylight Intelligence helps small and midsize organizations adopt AI with the same discipline they'd apply to any major investment.

Artis T. Carhee, founder of Steadylight Intelligence

Founder & Principal Consultant

Artis T. Carhee, MBA, PMP

Steadylight Intelligence was founded on a simple observation: the businesses that stand to gain the most from AI are often the ones with the least time to figure it out. Their leaders are busy running operations, serving customers, and managing people.

Artis specializes in AI automation and operations improvement. He brings 19 years of military leadership, an MBA, and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification to every engagement.

Over his military career, Artis has led teams of up to 200 people, managed complex operations, and improved how organizations perform under pressure. That experience shaped his approach: understand the mission, find the inefficiencies, build practical solutions, and measure the results.

Through Steadylight Intelligence, he brings that same discipline to small and midsize businesses: technology that pays for itself, delivered by someone who understands how operations actually run.

How we work

Principles behind every engagement

Measurable results

We set a baseline before we build and report against it after. If we can't measure it, we say so.

Practical over flashy

The best solution is often a simple automation, not the newest model. We recommend what fits.

Secure by design

Your data stays under your control, with clear rules for what AI tools can see and do.

People first

Automation should make jobs better. We involve the people who do the work from day one.

Our mission

Establish AI as a trusted, everyday advantage for growing businesses

We combine business leadership, operational expertise, and intelligent automation to deliver results organizations can see on their income statement. The name reflects the job: help you see clearly, avoid the rocks, and reach your destination safely.

Practical Automation. Proven Leadership. Measurable Results.

We help growing businesses simplify operations, automate repetitive work, and put AI to work without unnecessary complexity.

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