AI consulting · Kouts, Indiana

AI consulting in Kouts, where twenty people cover three townships.

The companies working the south county out of Kouts are bigger than Main Street suggests: crews on the road, a yard, an office keeping it straight. We sit down with all of them and write the plan.

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First call is free. We schedule around the season.

Kouts is the only incorporated town in Porter County's three southern townships, so its Main Street is the front desk for a lot of ground, from the Valparaiso edge down to the Kankakee. The storefronts are small. The companies behind them are not always. Grain and farm-service operations with a scale house and a dispatch desk, trucking fleets that run State Road 8 and 49 all season, ag suppliers with a yard crew and a counter, excavating and site contractors that cover the whole south county. Past twenty people the owner still knows every name but cannot see every desk, and the season sets the workload. That is where the hours go: the order taken at the counter and retyped for dispatch, the ticket that lives in a truck cab until Friday, the invoice waiting on a signature nobody can find in October.

The AI Opportunity Assessment is built for companies of twenty or more, and it runs the same way in a grain operation as in a clinic. Two weeks. Interviews with the owner, the dispatcher, the driver, the scale operator and whoever keys in the tickets. We follow a real load or a real job from the first call to the day it is paid, tag every step that burns hours or causes errors, and put a number on each. On day fourteen you get the written plan: what to do first, what is the big swing, what to leave alone, and the math, conservative on purpose.

You see every finding before it goes in the plan, and nothing in the plan requires buying software from us. If the honest answer is a better spreadsheet, it says so. We charge for the thinking. Building is optional. Kouts is close enough that the interviews happen at your yard or office, and if harvest is on, we work around it.

What we tend to find

What we tend to find along 8 and 49

The ticket is keyed three times

A load or a service order is written on a ticket, typed into dispatch, then typed again for the invoice. Across a season that is a full-time job nobody hired for, and the place errors start.

Paperwork rides in the cab until Friday

Delivery tickets, hours and fuel come back with the truck at the end of the week, so billing runs a week behind the work. The assessment puts a number on that lag.

Three townships of customers, one dispatcher

In season, one person schedules, confirms, answers running-late calls and reorders on the same phone. We map which of those steps needed a person and which never did.

The assessment

Two weeks in Kouts. Then the plan.

The AI Opportunity Assessment runs the same way everywhere: we sit down with the people doing the work, map how a job actually moves, and hand you a written plan for where AI actually helps. Yours to keep, whether we build it or your own people do.

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14days, start to plan
20+people is the size it is built for
5parts in the written plan
0software to buy from us

Questions

Questions from Kouts companies

We're a farm-service company with twenty-five people, and half of them are seasonal. Is that the right size?

Yes. Seasonal companies are often the best fit, because the same handoffs that are fine in February break in October. We interview people from both the year-round core and the seasonal crew, and the roadmap is built so nothing lands in the middle of harvest.

How much of our people's time does this take during the two weeks?

Each interview runs thirty to forty-five minutes, and a company your size usually needs between four and twelve of them, all in the first week. Drivers and yard crew talk to us where they work, between loads, not in a conference room. The delivery date gets set on day one, so the two weeks stay two weeks.

Our customers are spread across the south county and down to the river. Does that change the plan?

It usually shapes it. When the crew, the yard and the customer are twenty minutes apart, the leaks are in what happens between them: the address that did not make the schedule, the drive that could have been avoided, the ticket that comes home late. We follow the job across that radius, not just the office.

Your next step

What is the season costing you?

Forty-five minutes, free, at your yard or office in Kouts. You'll leave with the two or three places we'd look first, and a straight answer on whether two weeks is worth it.

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