Twin Cities · Norton Lam · Shoreview, MN · updated
Practical, human-in-the-loop AI for lean teams across the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro. Remote clients welcome too.
TL;DR: I'm an AI consultant based in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro, working with small businesses and nonprofits across the Twin Cities. I help lean teams find the manual, repetitive work AI can take off their plate, then build practical tools and hand them off so your team owns them. Most of it runs remote, so I take clients beyond the metro area, and Minnesota, as well.
A lot of AI consulting is impersonal, remote, and priced for companies with a marketing/strategy department. That's not who I work with. My clients are Twin Cities organizations with small teams and real limits: a founder who wears five hats, a nonprofit where the Executive Director is the bottleneck, a business sitting on data that never gets used. I keep the focus on practical work, and being local means I know the kind of organizations the metro is actually made of.
The catalog updates, data entry, content writing, and follow-up that eat hours every week. If a task is high-volume and follows a pattern, it's a good fit to run on its own, over and over. For example, I rebuilt SEO across thousands of product pages for a Saint Paul specialty supplier so weeks of manual work was completed in just a few minutes.
The manual copy-paste between systems that never quite connect. Doing that by hand costs time and causes errors, and it's often where a small, focused automation pays for itself fastest.
Grant drafting, prospect research, SEO content, and other research-heavy work, built around how you actually work with a human review step so the judgment stays yours. For example, a grant-drafting and funder-research assistant for a Minnesota STEM-education nonprofit where I serve on the board, built to give the Executive Director her time back.
I build and hand off. Every job has a clear start and end: a working tool your team owns. You get the tool without being tied to me. I'm available if you have questions, but you shouldn't be dependent on me. Being local makes the handoff easier: I can sit down with your team, walk them through it, and make sure it sticks.
I'm based in Shoreview and work across the Twin Cities, so local organizations can meet in person. The tools travel well, though, so I also take remote clients beyond Minnesota when the work is a fit. If you're local, meeting face to face is a bonus, and if you're not, remote works just as well.
Five signals you're ready and honest signs to wait, drawn from real Discovery Sessions.
Read the readiness guide →A plain walkthrough of the interview and the three documents you get from it.
See how it works →The Discovery Session is free. Beyond that, the flagship engagement is the X-Ray: a fixed fee, set by your annual revenue or operating budget, with no hourly billing and no retainer. Smaller automation and build work is quoted per project.
$3,000 under $1M in revenue, scaling to $25,000 for larger organizations. Under $1M, the fee can be adjusted.
See the full pricing →$2,000 under a $1M operating budget, scaling to $10,000 for larger organizations. Under $1M, the fee can be adjusted.
See the full pricing →The best first step is a Discovery Session: a short, AI-led interview you take on your own time. It finds where you're losing time and tells you honestly whether AI is worth it. I'm local to the Twin Cities and happy to meet, or we can do it all remote.