Sebesta & Co · AI Advisory & Engineering

Everyone says AI will change your business. No one will say which parts.

You know your problems; you suspect AI touches some of them. Between those two facts sits every dollar an owner has ever wasted on this: software no one opens, pilots that fail, promises that were never load-bearing. Sebesta & Co works in that gap and holds one standard for everything that crosses it; 3x on your numbers, or the work is cut. Ours first. Where would your business clear 3x? The assessment below answers exactly that.

Begin the 3x Assessment Or call 559·321·7959

Two minutes; taps, not typing. If you call: we pick up.

95% of AI pilots fail · sold as magic, run without arithmetic $4.2M · the average enterprise write-off 3x, or the work is cut · the house rule
The house rule

Work that cannot prove 3x is killed. Ours included.

Most firms sell their yes. Ours is hard to obtain: every proposal, including our own, runs through the same rule, and anything without a clear roadmap to 3x is removed; the hidden costs of AI projects are exactly how the 95% fails. That discipline is the only reason our yes is worth anything. The assessment below is governed by the same rule.

Ask them out loud

The five questions every owner is actually asking.

Which of my problems is AI actually good at?

The pattern is unglamorous: work that repeats, work that is written down, work that lives in one irreplaceable head. The proposal assembled by hand every Thursday. The twenty questions your best people answer on a loop. The onboarding that takes a quarter because the manual is someone's memory. That is AI-shaped work.

Can we do this without exposing client data?

Yes, if the order of operations is respected: rules in writing before the first tool, not after the first incident. "Everyone just uses ChatGPT" is not a policy; the first deliverable of every engagement is the rules, on paper.

Will this cost me my team?

Only if it is done to them. Done properly, the first hours empower the people most buried in admin, and your skeptics are invited to ask the correct questions. Adoption is not announced. It is earned, one person at a time.

Won't the output be slop?

It will, if no one defines good before shipping; we define it first. Everything is graded against your best person's work; below that bar, nothing ships, and the grading never stops, so quality cannot quietly decay.

What's hype?

Whatever cannot demonstrate 3x on your numbers; not a case study from a company forty times your size. That test is the entire firm; we run our own proposals through it first, and when the math fails, you hear it from us before anyone else.

All five are answered for your business in particular, not in general, in the assessment below. Four inputs; two minutes.

The Method

Discover. Upskill. Build. The arithmetic decides.

1

Discover

We map how work actually moves through your company, which is rarely how the org chart says it does. Each point of drag receives a number: its cost to you today, its worth at 3x. Leadership sees the same figures before a dollar moves. Most owners arrive holding the problem their loudest vendor sold them; they leave holding three larger ones the vendor never mentioned. The assessment on this page is Discover in miniature: the same questions, the same arithmetic, no invoice.

You leave with · priced opportunities + leadership reading from one page
2

Upskill

The ninety-five percent fail here: tools dropped onto desks, no rules, no training, no consent. We proceed in the opposite order. Policy, in writing. Training at every level, skeptics first. Champions inside your walls who carry it forward after we have gone. No one on your team wakes up to a tool they never asked for.

You leave with · a fluent team + written policy + your own power users
3

Build

Short sprints; your team in the room; every bet tried against the bar, ours included. Each system ships with its own examination, graded against your best person's work and re-graded as volume grows. Whatever cannot prove 3x is cut, and that discipline is precisely why the wins hold. When the engagement ends, the capability remains in your building. Not in our invoices.

You leave with · working systems that paid for themselves on paper first
Who our services are for

Built for owners past curiosity and short on patience.

Owners & operators

Burned by a pilot, or stalling because you smelled one coming; both are fine. If the work drags and the margin matters, you fit; the math does not ask how you arrived.

Funds & portfolios

Different conversation, same bar: diligence platforms and portfolio-wide training. Twenty-one funds so far.

Not certain?

Let's start with an assessment. Two minutes, free, and it answers for your business in particular.

Begin below ↓
Miles Sebesta, Principal
Miles Sebesta · Principal

"Senior practitioner who ships. Not a slide-deck consultant."

Who holds the bar

You'd be working with the person who builds.

Fifteen years shipping software; four architecting production AI systems. Miles Sebesta has watched AI projects pay for themselves and watched them quietly fail; the 3x bar is what the difference taught him.

The person who answers the phone is the person who writes the code. There is no junior team behind the curtain, no slide-deck relay. The assessment on this page runs the same math he runs on paid engagements; you are not being handed a lead magnet. You are being handed the first step.

What Miles has built

Kapor Center Investments

Built the fund's AI diligence platform: agents that turn pitch decks, PDFs, and the open web into finished diligence reports; minutes where there had been weeks. Then trained fund managers and portfolio executives across twenty-one venture funds to wield it themselves.

OnwardUS

Idea to live in ten days, mid-pandemic: an ML-powered platform indexing millions of jobs and resources for more than 800,000 displaced workers. Recognized by Governors Newsom and Polis.

Experiences across his career

Who Miles has helped
Kapor Capital Kapor Center Investments Paloma inquirED Medical Billing Technologies Woodland Chamber of Commerce
Sebesta & Co · Prepared for you

You don't need to know what AI does. You need to know what's dragging.

The mapping is our profession. Four inputs; two minutes; taps, not typing. You receive a written read on where AI actually pays inside your business, which of the five questions matters most in your case, and an ROI worksheet with your figures already entered. It runs the same math that removes work from paid engagements; if you land under 3x, the read will say so. It is free, and it is yours either way.

I.

What's dragging

You are not expected to name the problem; almost no one can, cold. Recognition is enough.

Tap whatever resembles your last two weeks.

Growth & sales
Team & management
Workflow & operations
General
Nothing selected yet

II–III.

Two quick questions

II.

Where does AI stand today?

III.

Where would a 3x win change your quarter most?

IV.

The arithmetic

Your figures, our math. Under 3x, we would tell you to keep your money; at 3x, the decision makes itself.

These numbers describe
Recovered at 3x faster
$0
Per year
Hours returned, per week0
What this workflow costs today$0

Assumes the task becomes three times faster; the same bar paid work must clear. Skeptical of the multiple? Good. Bring the skepticism to the call; we will defend the number or lower it.

Now we put it in writing.

Where should we send it?

Answer any section above to begin; the more you give, the sharper the read.

Something failed on our end. Try once more, or write hello@sebesta.co and we will run it by hand.

No assessment required

Prefer to just talk?

The assessment is optional; the standard is not. Bring the problem; if AI is the wrong answer, that is the answer you will receive.

Call 559 · 321 · 7959 We pick up. Write hello@sebesta.co Read and answered the same day. Book A 30-minute call Arrive with a problem; leave with the math.
I.What's dragging
II.AI today
III.Where it matters
IV.The numbers