AI for mission-driven organizations & craft-led local businesses
Built for how you already work.
You’d rather spend your time doing the work you love than learning a new AI tool. Olive Juice Digital makes AI to support your mission, your passion, and your way of life.
The difference
I’m really good at speaking your language.
We’ll start with how you already make decisions. Then I’ll build out ways to make it faster, easier and more valuable. We’ll talk through the trade-offs of a tool v a system and pull in your long-term goals without sounding like a robot.
What most AI pitches sell you
- A chatbot nobody asked for
- A new dashboard to learn
- A six-month transformation program
- Speeches about the post-human future
What you get:
- Calmer mornings
- A faster, repeatable workflow
- Decisions made earlier
- More time for the work you're good at
Principles
What I believe about AI for small, serious teams.
5% of the model is enough
You don't need the frontier of what AI can do. A small, well-chosen slice of a model's capability pointed at the right problem does more for a restaurant or a research team than the flashiest demo.
No hype
A lot of AI consulting is people geeking out about the future and selling a tool nobody asked for. I'd rather talk about your Tuesday mornings and show you what a new way of working means for your week.
Outcomes > Deliverables
If you want to geek out about the tool stack and token efficiency, we can. But our metrics will be defined by the outcomes of the tools and workflows we develop: calmer mornings, easier routines, or value generated via time-back and revenue gained.
Proof
Two engagements, one method.
The back office at Oliver’s, a Chicago restaurant, and the Usher III Initiative’s research pipeline.
Oliver’s
Calmer mornings for a restaurant GM
Connected the restaurant's point-of-sale, reservations, weather, and hotel-occupancy data into a foot-traffic forecast, so the GM could plan staffing and events instead of reacting to them.
Read the case study →Usher III Initiative
A repeatable research pipeline toward a cure
Built an AI-assisted search process that helps the team identify other diseases their compound might treat.
Read the case study →Beyond a sprint
Parent Pep Talks
A daily pep talk for parents in the thick of it, with personalized tips based on the age and stage of their kids, when they're ready. Plus Shut the Box, LGBTQueue (Coming Soon), and Comfort & Vice: end-to-end consumer products with revenue, built collaboratively from the ground up.
Oneday
Working 1:1 with founders as they shape their businesses (through Olive Juice), helping them make AI product decisions, build AI products, and generate $1,000,000 before graduation.
Next up: bringing the same hands-on strategy to larger mission-driven institutions, including public media and sports organizations.
How it starts
A small, paid first yes.
A contained discovery and build is the best way to prove value fast. It keeps running in the background while we work on strategy and systems change.
01
Paid discovery
We'll start by learning how you already think and work. You'll get a clear map of where AI can improve your workflows, based on your routines and the tools you already use.
02
Project sprint
Our first job is a solution to a nagging problem: a defined scope, set against a turnaround timeline, that gets you results before you're asked to evaluate a transformation roadmap.
03
Retainer
If the tool earns its keep, we keep it running quietly in the background and build the next piece. Either way, you walk away with a map of your tools and workflows; insights about how to build new systems for yourself; and the markdown files to share with your team if you decide to rebuild later.
The strategy and the implementation develop together. And it all happens while you keep doing the work you’re good at.
Let's make a plan.
Start with a paid discovery sprint: a defined scope, a defined end date, and a clear answer on where AI workflows can help your business.