Operators who want to use AI for real
You want the real version — actual hours recovered every week, not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage.
Automate the work your team still does by hand.
Independent consulting for teams that want AI to actually recover hours — not a chatbot on the homepage. I deploy AI agents into the workflows your ops team runs every day, and fix the CRM and systems underneath so the automation sticks.
Who we help
For teams where the real work still happens by hand.
Usually 10–200 people. The business is working. The manual work behind it is what’s eating your team’s week — and it’s exactly what AI is finally ready to take off their plate.
Growing companies with tools that lag
You've outgrown spreadsheets and workarounds, but replacing everything feels like a project you can't afford to get wrong.
Teams running on broken CRMs
Your CRM is live but nobody trusts it — data is stale, pipelines don't reflect reality, and your team works around it.
Services
AI-first, with the systems work to make it stick.
The lead is AI efficiency and operations automation. When the systems underneath need fixing to make that work — CRM, data, integrations, custom apps — I do that too. One person, one engagement.
AI efficiency & automation
Cut the manual work. Let AI handle the repetitive.
Real, measured hours recovered — not a demo. Agents wired into the tools your team already uses, with a number on how much time each workflow got back after launch.
Claude · OpenAI · n8n · Grok Bot · Vercel AI
- Audit workflows to find where AI recovers 5–15 hours per week — with a number, not a hunch
- Deploy AI agents for CRM updates, email drafting, reporting, ticket triage, and data entry
- Wire agents into the tools your team already uses so the automation actually sticks
- Measure real hours saved after launch — not tool installs or pilot demos
And the traditional tech work underneath
CRM & IT Operations
CRM systems rebuilt around how you actually sell.
Set up or fix CRMs that people trust. Connect the rest of your stack so data flows automatically. Reporting that reflects reality.
Systems Modernization
Retire what's costing you time. Keep what works.
Identify what to keep, replace, or migrate. Move cleanly without losing history. Document everything so it isn't stuck in one person's head.
Website & App Development
Web apps that connect to your CRM and ops from day one.
Marketing sites built for how customers actually search. Internal apps that talk to your systems. Post-launch support so you're not on your own when something breaks.
The approach
Learn first. Build second.
Most consultants come in knowing what they’re going to recommend before they’ve heard anything. I don’t work that way. Before I suggest anything — AI agent or otherwise — I want to know how your team actually gets work done. The workarounds. The stuff stuck in someone’s head. Tools built for how people actually work get used. Tools built for how they’re supposed to work collect dust.
01
Discovery
I learn how work actually gets done — not the org chart version. The workarounds. The stuff living in someone's inbox.
02
Strategy
You get a recommendation based on what I found, not a template I brought in the door.
03
Build & integrate
Hands-on. I do the work or I'm next to the people doing it. Regular check-ins so nothing is a surprise.
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After launch
Most problems show up in the first 30 days. I stay involved until things are actually running.
Also building
SALT Reliability & AIR.
I co-founded SALT Reliability to address a gap the consulting work kept surfacing — no purpose-built reliability platform for the AI systems teams are now depending on.
AIR is our platform for AI deployments — reliability scores, drift tracking, and failure modes that generic monitoring tools weren’t built for.
About
Curtis BiseFounder & Principal Consultant, SALT Consulting
Co-Founder & CEO, SALT Reliability
Co-Founder & CEO, SALT Reliability
Twelve years making enterprise tech actually work.
I’ve spent the last twelve years inside companies that were either scaling fast or cleaning up from scaling too fast — CRM migrations, systems integrations, infrastructure that had to hold at real volume. AI just made the same problem sharper: expensive tools that nobody trusts, doing work that could be automated.
I started SALT because the fix is almost never the tool. It’s setting the tool up around the people using it — and now, letting AI agents handle the parts that were always going to be repetitive. That’s the part I focus on.
Get started
Ready to get real hours back?
Drop your email and I’ll reach out within 24 hours. No forms, no sales process — just a direct conversation about what your team is doing manually today.