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90-day production pilots · Human-in-the-loop · Houston delivery
Most AI projects stall the same way
- Tool seats sold without workflow design
- Roadmaps written without kill criteria
- Partners who never sit where the work happens
Ballast-AI is built for the opposite.
Production-grade AI on systems you already run
Houston mid-market operators don’t need another transformation narrative. You need one P&L metric moved on the ERP, EHR, WMS, historian, or document stack you already pay for.
Ballast-AI baselines that metric in week one, ships a production pilot in 60–90 days, and keeps security and human-in-the-loop controls where risk requires them. Local delivery. Named senior accountability. No slide deck that dies in a drawer.
- One metric, agreed up front
- Fixed-scope pilots with go/no-go criteria
- Build-with-your-team handoff you can maintain
- Honest calls when AI is the wrong tool
Offer spine
- 01Assessment (2–4 weeks)
- 0290-day metric-tied pilot
- 03Enablement & handoff
- 04Optional Managed AI retainer
How we work
Three commitments that keep delivery steady under load.
01
Workflow-first, model-second
We fix and clarify the process, data slice, and exception path before we touch a model. AI accelerates a true workflow; it is not the product.
02
90-day production with kill criteria
Fixed scope. Pre-agreed KPIs. Baseline in week one. Explicit go/no-go. You always know what “good” looks like—and when to stop.
03
Operator control & Gulf Coast reality
Built for messy data, HIPAA/OT boundaries, and floors that have to use the tool on Monday. Audit trails, enablement, and on-site presence—not offshore opacity.
Built for Houston operators
Depth first where Gulf Coast operating reality is non-negotiable.
Energy
LOE pressure, document chaos, and exception load across field and back office.
Document intelligence, exception detection, ops workflow automation.
Explore →Healthcare
Denials, prior-auth packets, and admin burden that steal clinical capacity.
RCM and operations AI with human review gates and BAA-ready delivery.
Explore →Logistics & industrial
Order exceptions, POD/invoice breaks, and throughput stuck in email and PDFs.
Intelligent automation floors will actually run on Monday.
Explore →View all industries →·Professional services·Local operators & trades
Measured leverage—not theater
Cases describe methodology and controls. Client-approved metrics stay under NDA until released.
Featured · Energy services
Field-ticket intelligence with supervisor gates intact
A mid-market oilfield services operator was losing days to manual field-ticket and coding review. We baselined exception volume in week one, shipped a human-in-the-loop document intelligence workflow on systems they already ran, and kept sign-off where risk required it. Primary metric and adoption figures available under NDA.
Read the caseEngagement that fits a quarter
Assessment → pilot → enablement → optional retainer. Artifacts you can audit.
- Step 01
Assessment (2–4 weeks)
Map the workflow, data reality, risk boundaries, and the single metric worth moving. Leave with a scoped pilot recommendation—or a clear no.
- Step 02
90-day pilot
Production slice on your systems. Baseline, build, controls, and measured results. Kill criteria written into the SOW.
- Step 03
Enablement
Train the people who own the process. Document the runbook. Hand off something maintainable—not a black box.
- Step 04
Retainer (optional)
Managed improvement, monitoring, and the next metric when the first one sticks.
What procurement and operators can count on
- Security posture & access discipline
- BAA readiness for PHI-adjacent work
- On-site workshops where the work happens
- Named senior delivery lead
- SOW kill criteria by default
- NDA on request
For owner-operators and smaller firms
Already know the bottleneck? Start with one automation.
You don’t need a multi-workflow pilot to get value from AI. If you run a professional practice, a trade shop, or a local service business, we can pick one high-friction process—intake, scheduling, quoting, documents, or follow-ups—build it properly, and hand it off so your team can run it.
Same firm that runs mid-market pilots. Narrower entry. Same build standard.
Start with one metric—not a 90-slide roadmap
Tell us where cost, throughput, or labor is stuck. We’ll tell you if a 2–4 week assessment is the right next step—or if it isn’t.