AI consulting for businesses that run their own way
AKARI helps you accelerate your team with AI.
Everyone's asking "how do we use AI?" That's the wrong question. The right one: how do your people do less of the mundane and more of the work that actually matters?
Everyone is asking the wrong question.
"How do we use AI?" is where most businesses start — and where most get stuck. Tools get bought, licences sit idle, and nothing about the week actually changes.
The better question is: how do we accelerate our team with AI?
Ask that one, and the rest answers itself. You stop hunting for places to insert a tool and start looking at where your people's time goes. The invoicing that eats Thursday afternoons. The report nobody enjoys writing. The follow-ups that fall through cracks. That's where AI earns its keep — giving your team the hours back for the work they're actually great at.
Your team should be seeing an unprecedented multiplier in what it can do. Not fewer people. The same people, doing more of the exciting work and less of the grind.
Your business isn't a boxed mix.
Every business bakes its own recipe — the way you quote, schedule, invoice, and keep promises to customers is yours. Off-the-shelf software forces your recipe into someone else's mold, and your team spends its days working around the gaps.
AI has changed the math. Custom tools that fit exactly how your team works used to be for enterprises with IT departments. Now they're practical for businesses like yours. AKARI's job is to make that safe and achievable.
Two ways of working. One standard of care.
Start where your team is today. Grow into the next step when they're ready.
Not sure which fits? That's what the intro call is for.
AI Starter
We turn a small group of your people into your first AI team. They learn tools like Claude on their real work, and together we find the use cases that land wins fast — proof, not promises.
Learn moreAI Navigator
Your people build the tools, and we guide every step. Architecture, reviews, security, and the guardrails that keep it all running — so the capability lives inside your team, with an expert in their corner.
Learn moreBuilt by you. Secured by us.
The freedom to build comes with someone responsible for keeping it safe. Every tool is reviewed before it ships. Access is locked to the right people. Everything runs on infrastructure we manage and monitor. Your team gets the speed; you keep the sleep.
Small steps, real deliverables, your call at every checkpoint.
Every engagement starts with discovery in checkpointed steps, each ending in something your team can act on — starting with a ranked map of where AI (or something simpler) will pay off. You decide whether to continue at every checkpoint. And when the honest answer is a process fix instead of an AI project, we'll tell you that too. Your trust is the asset; we don't spend it.
A practice built on keeping teams running.
We build for your team, with ours in your corner.
Chris Doucette
AKARI Founder
AKARI was founded by Chris Doucette after 18 years building and securing IT for thousands of users — migrating companies to the cloud, leading a security-first practice, and learning one thing over and over: the businesses that win aren't the ones with the most software. They're the ones whose people are freed up to do their best work.
More about AKARIBring us the job your team dreads most.
Thirty minutes. We'll tell you honestly whether AI can take it off their plate — and what it would take.
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