BearDuckHornEmpire is a small, independent studio that builds and integrates production AI for ambitious operating businesses. We don’t sell decks. We ship working systems — and we own four of our own to prove it.
We don't separate strategy from build. The person who scopes your problem is the person who writes the code. Every capability below is something we've already shipped — both inside our own products and inside our clients'.
Multi-step Claude and GPT agents that read your tools, decide, and act. Scheduling, dispatch, follow-up, triage — all with humans in the loop where they should be.
Production RAG over your documents, transcripts, CRM, and calendar. Semantic search that actually returns the right answer with the right citation.
Invoices, BOLs, intake forms, contracts, inspection photos — parsed, classified, and routed without retyping. We replace the data-entry team, not the people.
Inbound and outbound voice agents that book, qualify, and respond. Twilio-grade infrastructure, real telephony, not a chat widget in disguise.
Greenfield SaaS, iOS, and internal tools where AI is the spine — not a sidebar. We've shipped four ourselves. We know what holds up in production.
Every system we ship comes with an eval harness, prompt versioning, and traceable outputs. So your AI doesn't degrade quietly six months from now.
Most agencies have a portfolio. We have a P&L. Five products in market — across fitness, nutrition, travel, hospitality, and the personal OS that runs the whole studio. Each shipped from the same studio that will ship yours.
An AI-powered fitness OS for hybrid athletes — the intelligence layer above HealthKit, Strava, Garmin, Oura, and Whoop. Adaptive programming, biomarker review, and a Motus Score that re-plans your week around recovery, in real time.
Precision-nutrition delivery. A customer specifies exact meals or macro targets; a vetted kitchen prepares the food with verifiable nutrition discipline. Claude orchestrates ordering, the kitchen ships the boxes.
A travel-day gym finder. SEO-first, city-by-city. Structured data, FAQ schema, and passport-style visit tracking — built to rank for the moment you land in a new airport.
A personal operating system. Ingests Gmail, calendar, voice memos, and project state across the empire; runs scheduled jobs; routes tasks; surfaces the three things actually worth doing today.
Travel and hospitality, word-of-mouth only. Invite-gated web MVP live on thestayed.com; native iOS shell in the App Review queue. Investors and design partners only.
Every other consulting site puts a contact form here. We put the work. Describe your business and your single biggest pain point — the page will diagnose it and tell you what we'd build, live, in front of you.
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Tell us about your business on the left, and we’ll write your audit here — in real time.
We've stripped the consulting process down to the part that produces value. No discovery decks. No 60-day onboarding. The first working system shows up in your business before you sign anything.
A 15-minute call. We listen for the bottleneck, not the buzzwords. By the end, you'll know whether AI is the right answer for your problem.
We ship one working automation, free. No deck. No commitment. You see the system run on your data before you spend a dollar.
If the proof works, we scope the rest. Fixed-fee where we can, transparent retainer where it makes sense. You own the code from day one.
We deploy, instrument, and report. Hours saved, errors reduced, revenue recovered — real numbers, surfaced monthly. No vanity metrics.
We price for the work, not the hour. Every tier ends with a working system in your business and your code on your servers. The only way out is forward.
One working automation, shipped free. We earn the next conversation.
A single workflow, fully automated and deployed inside two weeks.
An operational audit plus two to four automations shipped together.
Ongoing AI partnership. We become your in-house AI team.
“Most AI work fails not because the model is wrong, but because nobody scoped the workflow it lives inside. We scope, ship, and stay. That is the entire pitch.”
Tyler Young · founder · BearDuckHornEmpire
Big Four sells you slides and subcontracts the build. We are the build. The person on your discovery call is the person writing your code. We own four production AI products of our own — your engagement is staffed by the same people who shipped them.
It means one working automation, delivered to your business, before you spend a dollar. You keep the code either way. We do it because explanation has a ceiling — proof doesn't. About 70% of audits convert to paid work; the other 30% keep their automation and our blessing.
We work with operators. Most of our clients are 10–250 person companies where one person can say yes. We're happy to work with larger companies, but only when there's a single decision-maker. We don't sell to committees.
Whichever is correct for the job. We're deepest with Anthropic Claude (sonnet and opus for reasoning, haiku for cheap fast work) and OpenAI GPT-4o for vision. We use open-source models when latency, cost, or data residency demand it. Our default stance: production AI is about plumbing, not model choice.
Discovery calls inside a week. First proof build inside two. We hold capacity at four active engagements; when we're full we're full.
You do. Source code, model prompts, eval suites, deployment configuration — yours from the moment we ship. We don't operate hostage-ware. If you fire us tomorrow, your business keeps running.
Two sentences is enough. Send us the one workflow that should already be automated and isn’t. We’ll write back within a business day with whether we can build it, how, and what it would cost.