AI Integration & Automation

AI That Stays Working.

We design and build bespoke AI integrations and automation systems, then hand them to your team to own. No black boxes. No dependency. Just systems that fit your operations and people who understand them.

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Why Inly Build

Built Different, From Day One

Most AI implementation projects fail not because the technology is wrong, but because the people and processes around them weren't designed to last. We fix that at the source.

Built to Transfer

Every system we build is designed for your team to own and operate from day one. We document everything, run hands-on training, and step back. You don't need us to keep the lights on.

Bottom-Up Scoping

The people with the most valuable operational knowledge are rarely the ones in the scoping meeting. We design structured incentives that bring front-line employees into the brief, so the system reflects reality and the team trusts what gets built.

Education as Standard

We teach as we build. Every engagement includes hands-on knowledge transfer: your team understands what was built, why decisions were made, and how to adapt it as your needs evolve. No black boxes, ever.

People to Higher Ground

We don't sell AI as headcount reduction. We sell it as talent redirection. The goal is to free your best people from repetitive, low-ceiling work so they can focus on what only humans do well: judgment, relationships, creativity, leadership.

What We Build

Bespoke, Not Off-the-Shelf

Generic software solves generic problems. We build for your specific operations, your existing stack, and your team's actual workflows.

AI Integration

Connect large language models, AI APIs, and intelligent agents into your existing workflows. From document intelligence to customer-facing AI, we integrate cleanly into what you already have.

LLM-powered internal tools
Document processing & extraction
Intelligent routing & triage
Knowledge retrieval (RAG)
AI agent design & deployment

Process Automation

End-to-end automation for the repetitive, high-volume work that shouldn't need a human. Built on your existing stack, documented for your team, and designed to be maintained without us.

Workflow automation
Data pipeline design
Cross-system synchronization
Reporting & alerting automation
API integration & orchestration

Bespoke Internal Tools

Software purpose-built for exactly your problem, not adapted from generic SaaS. Fast to build, built to last, and owned entirely by you from the moment we hand it over. No licensing fees, no vendor lock-in.

Internal dashboards & ops tools
Custom CRM & workflow apps
Data review & annotation interfaces
Team-facing AI assistants
Migration & legacy modernization

How It Works

Three Phases, One Outcome: Ownership

Surface the real bottlenecks

We run structured scoping sessions that go beyond the org chart. We design incentive structures so that the people who know where time and energy are actually lost (front-line employees with operational depth) have a real reason to tell us. The brief that comes out reflects reality, not aspirations.

Build alongside your team

We embed with your people and build iteratively, with no big reveal at the end. Your team learns the system as it takes shape: the decisions, the tradeoffs, the maintenance patterns. By launch, they're ready to run it themselves. That's by design.

Hand over the keys

Every engagement ends with a clean handoff: full documentation, a live walkthrough session, and 30 days of post-launch support. You own the system, the code, and the knowledge. We stay available, but you won't need us to keep it running.

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Working Together

How Engagements Work

No discovery fees, no retainer lock-in, no ambiguity about what you're signing up for.

Scoping is free

We don't charge for the discovery phase. We don't want our incentives misaligned with yours before we've built a single thing, so we invest that work upfront, at our cost. Scoping is a focused session, not an open engagement: it produces a clear problem definition and a fixed-price proposal, nothing more.

Fixed price, scoped to the problem

Every engagement is priced against the actual work: the systems involved, the complexity, the team we're embedding with. You get a clear fixed-price proposal before anything starts. No packages, no open-ended billing. Payment is milestone-based: typically split between kickoff and delivery for smaller engagements, and broken into more stages as scope grows.

Post-launch support steps down by design

Every engagement includes a structured support period after handoff. Our involvement decreases on a schedule as your team grows into the system. We know it worked when you don't need us anymore.

Everything we build is yours

Upon final payment, all deliverables transfer to you outright: the code, the configuration, the documentation. No licensing, no ongoing fees, no strings. We retain the right to reuse general approaches and non-client-specific patterns in future work, but everything specific to your operations is yours.

The Team

Who Builds It

A small, senior team. No hand-offs to junior staff, no offshore execution.

Alec Walker

Founder & Principal

Alec has been building and deploying automation systems and AI integrations for enterprise clients since 2009. His work spans workflow automation, data pipelines, anomaly detection, machine vision, and large language models, with clients including Fortune 100 companies, growth-stage startups, and national governments. He holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and an engineering degree from Rice University.

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Alex Romine

Infrastructure & Security Lead

Alex builds the infrastructure layer that keeps automation systems running reliably in production. He has led cloud architecture, deployment automation, and security engineering at Uplight, Corteva, and DuPont Pioneer's Granular, working across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Every system Inly Build delivers is deployed and secured to his standards before it leaves our hands.

Preparing your leaders first?

Executive Education on AI Leadership

Successful AI adoption starts at the top. Our executive education program at inly.education prepares C-suite leaders and senior managers with the strategic AI literacy, design thinking, and organizational framing needed to lead transformation from the front, not just sponsor it from above.

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2-Day Intensive

AI-Ready Leadership

Strategic AI Literacy

Design Thinking

Challenging Legacy Assumptions

Rapid Prototyping

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Tell Us What You're Building

We take on a small number of engagements at a time to ensure depth of focus. If there's a fit, we'll know quickly.