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A lean consulting firm building AI operating systems for small teams — and documenting every step.
Most people selling AI services can't show you their own system. We can. Ridley Research is a lean consulting firm running on the same AI infrastructure we deploy for clients — persistent memory, autonomous agents, automated workflows, scheduled operations. Built, broken, fixed, and rebuilt in real production.
We started by solving our own problems. Email triage, client follow-up, data entry, research summaries, scheduled reporting — the manual computer work that fills hours and produces nothing. Once the system worked for us, we started deploying it for others.
Building in public means this site is a live artifact. The blog documents what we build, what breaks, and what we learn from it. The demos are real deployments, not slide decks. If something fails in production, you'll read about it here. That accountability isn't incidental — it's the whole point.
A 9-Person Business in Plano, TX
No technical staff. No IT department. The deployment covers email automation, follow-up queues, scheduled reporting, and document handling — all running on hardware the firm controls. The work gets done. Nobody has to babysit it.
This is the thesis made concrete: a small team running production AI infrastructure without a single technical hire. We're documenting the full engagement. If it works — and it will — we'll have the repeatable playbook for the next 50 teams like it.
the learning curve?
We build the system for you — process audit, full agent OS deployment, team onboarding, SOPs, and support. From $497 for a personal install to $2,000–$5,000 for a full business loadout.
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