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AI & AUTOMATION / CHICAGO
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AI and automation consulting / Chicago / est. 2026

Your old systems are billing you every single day.

Mid-market companies running aging software, manual handoffs, and processes held together by spreadsheets. We find the work worth automating, put a real number on it, then build the thing that does it.

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POSSIBILITY / IN PERSPECTIVE
6+
HOURS PER PERSON, PER WEEK

Nearly 60% of workers estimate they could save six or more hours a week if the repetitive parts of their job were automated. Over 40% already spend at least a quarter of the week on that work.

SMARTSHEET, AUTOMATION IN THE WORKPLACE

What we do

01 / FIND

AI opportunity assessment

Every department has ideas. Most are not worth funding. We rank them by real return, using a costed model rather than enthusiasm, so you know what to do first and what to skip.

02 / AUTOMATE

Workflow automation

The repetitive work quietly draining your team. Intake, reconciliation, reporting, the copying of data between systems that should have been talking years ago.

03 / BUILD

Agents that do the work

Purpose-built agents wired into your actual tools and data, running unattended, with the approvals and audit trail a real business needs. Not a demo.

OUR SOFTWARE FREE TO USE

How we find out what is worth doing.

You should not have to guess which parts of your business AI could help. The people doing the work already know. EVolve asks them, interviews each idea, prices it, and ranks it by three year net present value.

SAMPLE OUTPUT / RANKED BY 3 YEAR NPV
01 Automate customer credit release Finance +$212,400
02 Build the weekly ops report from source data Operations +$88,900
03 Restock demand forecast Supply chain −$40,600

That third row is the whole point. Ideas that do not pay for themselves come back with a negative number and a recommendation not to build them, and you find that out before you fund the work rather than eleven months into it.

INSIGHT / GIVEN FORM
WHERE IT STARTS / THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT

The Scoping Sprint

A short, fixed-fee engagement that produces a ranked roadmap with the return, the effort, and the risk written down for each item. You own the output whether or not you build with us.

01 Every automation candidate, ranked and costed
02 Return, effort, and risk written down for each one
03 The ones we recommend you do not fund, and why
04 A fixed-price build quote for whatever you pick
05 No retainer, no sequence of follow-up emails
WHAT IT COSTS

Fixed fee, scoped to the size of your estate and agreed in writing before anything starts. Ask on the first call and you will get a straight number.

WHO YOU ARE ACTUALLY HIRING

Jeffrey Dolph

The hard part of this work is rarely the technology. It is knowing which system is load bearing, which process people have quietly worked around for years, and which project will stall in month three.

AskEV is not an agency that has read about your problem. It is someone who ran the systems, owned the budget, and had to answer for the outcome.

LAST ROLE Director of Applications, a national industrial distributor. Reported to the CTO.
TENURE 25+ years inside enterprise IT
PORTFOLIO 41 enterprise applications, owned end to end
BUDGET $4.5M applications and consulting, $2.8M managed directly
FOOTPRINT 1,300 employees across the US and Canada
BASED Lemont, Illinois. Chicago area and remote.

Tell us what is slow, manual, or breaking.

A first call is genuinely free, it is thirty minutes, and there is no sequence of follow-up emails waiting for you.

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