Stop paying smart people to do dumb work.
We fix failed AI pilots and install digital associates that buy back time for your top performers. Six-week sprints. Fixed price. Measurable ROI.
Senior AI leadership, built around your team.
Not a full-time hire, not an agency of juniors behind a project manager. One senior operator who listens first, recommends only what works, and builds systems your team will actually use, without the hype or complexity.
Ready to find your highest leverage workflows for AI?
Booking August '26Book your discovery call. We find the manual work that matters and point you at the right starting point, no pressure to pick before we've looked.
We handle everything so you don't have to.
Every engagement starts with a paid diagnostic. We find the right workflow, install the system, and train the team until it actually gets used.
Shadow Day Diagnostic
We spend a day beside your team to find the workflows creating the most hidden cost. You leave with a practical map of where AI can save time and reduce friction.
More about Shadow Day DiagnosticAI Adoption Workshop
Executive workshop that aligns leadership on where AI fits, where it does not, and how to adopt it responsibly across your team.
More about AI Adoption Workshop
Shadow Day Diagnostic
We spend a day beside your team to find the workflows creating the most hidden cost. You leave with a practical map of where AI can save time and reduce friction.
You told your team to use ChatGPT. That was step one of eight. Every level after it is a workflow change, not a tool change. We make the climb with you, marketing to operations, and stay until adoption sticks.How we work, in one promise
We stay until adoption sticks.
Most AI work fails after the demo. Our three-phase process keeps us with the workflow until your team actually uses the system.
Learn
Week 1A Shadow Day puts us beside your team to find the workflows creating the most hidden cost. No science projects, no endless discovery.
Plan & Build
Weeks 2-4A workshop aligns leadership on the right first workflow. Then the Sprint installs a digital associate inside your existing stack.
Train & Optimize
Weeks 5-6+We train your team, measure what changed, and keep improving the workflow until adoption sticks and the system runs itself.
We're not your typical AI consultancy.
The tool is only 30% of the work. The other 70% is adoption, training, and workflow design. That's where we focus.
Work with them
Strategy decks. Hourly billing. Slow timelines. Platform lock-in. Tool-first thinking that leaves your team with software they never actually use.
Work with us
Working systems. Fixed-scope sprints. Weeks, not months. Tool-agnostic implementation. People and process first, because that's what drives adoption.
We help automate what matters most.
Metal-Tech 4x4, a growing off-road parts ecommerce operation, was buried in manual order reconciliation on the wrong platform. We replatformed them from BigCommerce to Shopify and mapped the next automation opportunities for customer support and knowledge management. The result: scalable operations and a clear AI roadmap.
Your questions answered.
Everything you need to know about working with us. Still have questions? Book your discovery call and we'll walk you through it.
winship labs is a fractional AI leadership practice in Portland, Oregon. Companies that get serious about AI usually see two options: hire a full-time executive, or hand it to an agency and pay every step of the way. We're the third way: one senior operator who runs your AI function (audit, workshops, sprints, fractional head of AI) and trains your team until adoption sticks. We build the systems with your team and hand them over.
Our Sprint model is built around six weeks. The goal is to identify one high-value workflow, install the system, train the team, and measure what changed.
No. We focus on practical tools and workflows your team can actually use. If the best solution is no-code, we use no-code. If a technical build is needed, we keep it scoped.
Every engagement starts with a paid diagnostic or workshop. Sprint and fractional pricing depend on the workflow, and we share them on a short discovery call once we understand it.
You get documentation, training, and a clear next-step plan. Some clients continue into ongoing advisory, governance, and rollout support.
No. We are tool-agnostic. We work with the tools that fit your stack, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Airtable, Make, Zapier, and other workflow tools.
Find your workflow worth fixing first.
Manual work has a cost. Book your discovery call. We'll figure out where it's hiding and which engagement actually fits, no pressure to pick before we've looked.
