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AI strategy and custom systems for the businesses underneath the AI hype.

We work with eight-person law firms, twenty-truck HVAC outfits, and four-location dental groups. The businesses that don\'t show up in vendor case studies — but that run the actual American economy.

Built on, and partnered with
Anthropic
OpenAI
AWS
Google Cloud
NVIDIA
Microsoft Azure
Vercel
Cloudflare
Stripe
Twilio
Hugging Face
JunkDNA AI
Our perspective

The AI conversation has been captured by the wrong vendors.

Frontier model labs are building for the Fortune 500. Venture-backed platforms are chasing horizontal SaaS. Both have decided that small and mid-sized businesses don\'t matter — even though those businesses are most of the country\'s GDP, most of its employment, and most of its operational complexity.

The result: an HVAC owner who needs intake automation gets sold a chatbot. A law firm that needs document review gets sold a copilot subscription. A dental group that needs scheduling intelligence gets sold a "transformation engagement" by people who\'ve never been to a dental office.

We think the next decade of AI will be decided less by which model is biggest and more by the discipline of putting these tools inside specific businesses, with specific workflows, with care. That\'s the practice we\'re building.

What we do

Four practice areas. One discipline.

The vocabulary differs across industries. The work — diagnose the bottleneck, build what fits, train the team, hand over the keys — does not.

Operations & Workflow

Dispatch, scheduling, quoting, estimating. The bottlenecks that cost trades businesses billable hours and force owners to add headcount instead of capacity.

HVAC · Plumbing · Electrical · GC · Movers · Roofing

Client Intake & Qualification

Phone, web, and email intake agents that qualify leads, run conflict checks, and book consults. Built for high-volume service businesses where every missed call is lost revenue.

Law firms · Dental · Clinics · Insurance brokers

Documentation & Compliance

Drafting, review, and compliance scanning trained on your matter files, charts, or internal templates. Private deployments for regulated industries — your data never trains a public model.

Legal · Healthcare · Financial · Accounting

Reporting & Decision Support

Weekly P&L summaries, AR aging, productivity rollups, and bespoke dashboards built around the questions you actually ask on Monday morning. Plain English, not BI dashboards.

Cross-industry

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How we work

Four steps. Sixty days. Owned by you.

No multi-year retainers. No "AI transformation" theater. We diagnose the bottleneck, build what fixes it, train your team, and hand you the keys.

1. Discovery

A 90-minute working session — phone, video, or in person — to map where the time actually goes. No deck. No survey.

2. Blueprint

One document. One price. Plain English. You see what we\'ll build, what data it touches, and what it costs — before any code is written.

3. Build

Two-week sprints. Working software at the end of each. Real progress visible every Friday — not a status deck six months in.

4. Handoff

Your team is trained. Your data stays yours. Your agent runs on your infrastructure or ours — your call. Optional ongoing support.

Who runs the practice

A practitioner, not a platform.

BMSachs is the consulting practice of Michael Hanna — 35+ years across mortgage banking, fintech, and AI infrastructure. Same person who\'s filed 42 patents on identity verification through JunkDNA AI. You get a builder who\'s run a P&L, originated $350M in loans, and ships production code himself.

35+
Years in business
$350M
Loan volume facilitated
42
Patents filed (JunkDNA)
5
Languages spoken
Meet Michael at proteushanna.com →

Tell us where the time goes.

If your team is spending more than three hours a day on something a computer should be doing — let\'s fix it. Free 30-minute consult, no slides, no obligation.