AI Consulting Firm • Madison, Wisconsin • Serving Clients Nationwide

We build AI that works.

WiscAI is a Madison-based AI consulting firm serving businesses in Wisconsin and across the country with custom AI development, AI audits and strategy, and executive training. Diagnostic to shipped.

  • Fixed-scope pricing
  • Weeks, not months
  • Your team owns the code

AI solutions for real business problems

Every project starts the same way. Something keeps you up at night, your team is overwhelmed, and the business is missing out. A real solution feels out of reach, and nothing on the market fits. So we build it.

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Manufacturing
"Long-tenured staff approaching retirement - and decades of operational knowledge live in people's heads"

Manufacturing Operations AI

Four AI projects running at once for one Wisconsin manufacturer, from invoice generation to production intelligence. Invoice work that took hours now takes minutes.

Wisconsin Manufacturer
Retail & E-Commerce
"The seasonal calendar never slows down, and every campaign has to sound like the brand"

AI Campaign Studio

A campaign studio for a national multi-brand catalog retailer. The marketing team turns its seasonal calendar into on-brand email, SMS, and social drafts in minutes, with brand voice and compliance rules built in. In daily use.

National Catalog Retailer
Financial Services
"Not replacing staff, but getting them to be critical thinkers instead of just order takers"

Credit Union AI Audit & Build Roadmap

We audited a Wisconsin credit union's consumer lending and retail workflows, scored each one on staff time saved, data readiness, and compliance risk, and turned the results into a build roadmap leadership can act on.

Wisconsin Credit Union
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Your Problem Here

Bring us your broken workflow. We'll show you what's possible in weeks, not quarters.

Fixed-scope pricing Weeks, not months Your team owns the code
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Live AI engagements + an active product portfolio across voice, athletics, document scanning, and consumer apps. See the full portfolio →

The people closest to the problem can't get the solution built.

You're a marketing director who knows exactly what report you need. An ops lead who sees the bottleneck every day. An IT director who wants to build all of it, with a queue that never gets shorter. Or you're the one signing off, and your people already know what they need.

It's not a talent problem. Your IT team could build a lot of this, and they want to. They're just buried. Every new idea joins a queue behind integrations, security patches, and keeping today's systems running. That's where we fit in: not smarter than your team, just extra builders who help clear the queue and hand back systems your people own and run.

Maybe you tried AI a year or two ago and it fell flat. Fair. The technology has moved fast since then, and we work with it every day. So we don't ask anyone to take it on faith: we prove it in phases, with a working prototype in weeks and a decision gate before anything bigger. See how the phases work →

"We all want it built in-house. The queue is just three years long."
"The vendor demo looked great. Implementation took 14 months."
"McKinsey wants $400K for a 'readiness assessment.'"
"By the time we bought the tool, there was a better one."

Battle-Tested AI Talent Without the Big-Firm Overhead

Our systems run in production today at manufacturers, retailers, and finance teams, built by AI talent that's already battle-tested and works with this technology every day as it evolves. With no big-firm overhead, complex work moves fast: weeks to a working prototype instead of quarters. And nothing we build is off the shelf. Packaged software solves the average company's problem, so you spend years forcing your business to fit it. We start from your specific problem and build around how you already work.

We learned AI in the hardest classroom there is: Wisconsin's real economy. Manufacturers with decades of knowledge walking out the door. Catalog retailers running national brands. Credit unions with regulators reading every word. If AI holds up here, it holds up anywhere. That's why teams outside Wisconsin hire us too.

  • Custom-built around your business and workflows
  • Direct access to senior builders and top AI talent
  • Production-ready systems designed for everyday use
  • Your code and data stay yours, with no vendor lock-in
  • Clear scope, fixed pricing, and no surprise bills
Big Consulting
6-12 months
to "assess opportunity"
WiscAI
2-4 weeks
to working prototype
Enterprise Software
$200K+/yr
license + integration
WiscAI
Custom fit
fraction of the cost

Wisconsin's AI leadership ecosystem

We don't just sell AI services - we built the rooms where Wisconsin leaders work on AI together. Two peer groups, one goal: practical progress on real work.

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A full room of AAIG members at a bi-monthly forum session in Madison
A small AAIG working session around one conference table

AAIG in session: the weekly build group and bi-monthly leadership forum WiscAI founded. Wisconsin leaders working on real problems together every week since 2024.

AI Agent Innovation Group

Founded in 2024. Every Tuesday, 12-1pm at StartingBlock Madison. The longest-running AI practitioner group in Wisconsin.

AI Leadership Breakfast Forum

Bi-monthly invitation-only breakfast for C-suites and senior AI leaders across pharma, finance, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Co-hosted with Steve Cretney (EVP, Colony Brands). No slides. No vendor pitches.

Open to all levels

Advanced users sharpen their workflow. Beginners find permission to start simply. Everyone makes useful progress on real work.

Pick the track that fits

Track A - Discovery → Build

We build it for you

Have AI delivered as a working system. A 3-week Discovery, then a fixed-fee Build.

01 Discovery 02 Build
Decision gate between phases. No commitment past Discovery.

How it works →

Track B - Workshop & Advisory

We coach your team

We teach your people to use AI on their own work. A short diagnostic to find where it helps, hands-on workshops on their real tasks, then monthly advisory as the habit spreads. Your team keeps the skills, in-house. See Workshop & Advisory →

Featured by Apple in Best New Apps & Updates for LilSense, one of our own AI products.

Ready to build something?

Start with a conversation. 30 minutes, no pitch, no pressure. If we can help, we'll show you how. If we can't, we'll tell you that too.

No forms. No sales sequence. Just a conversation.