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ROI drives every decision.
Every engagement is anchored to a number — recovered revenue, cost saved, hours reclaimed. We model the math three ways before any code is written. If the math doesn't work, we say so.
A small studio,
building serious AI.
We partner with mid-market and enterprise teams to design, build, and deploy custom AI systems. Not chatbots. Not pilots. Real systems, owned by the client, measured by the money they move.
About us
CustomAI Studio was founded in 2024 with the belief that AI would change the way we work, play, and live... forever. In the early days, we were one of only a handful of teams successfully deploying production-ready systems for real world business - this remains to be true still to this day. While the rest of the world was treating AI like a fun new toy, we were obsessively figuring out how it can be used to provide massive leverage for real businesses.
So we built a small senior team that focuses on practical execution over hype: integrating directly into the tools companies already use, building systems that are reliable in the real world, and creating long-term AI architecture that compounds over time. From autonomous workflows to intelligent data systems, we help forward-thinking companies build businesses where AI becomes part of the operating core.
Today we run engagements across multiple industries from a few offices and a globally-distributed studio. Same approach every time: understand the operation, build around it, prove the ROI.
Real systems.
Real receipts.
60+
AI systems shipped to production
11+
Industries in production today
$13M+
Total ROI produced for clients
2.5yr
Building serious AI together
What we believe.
Three convictions the studio is built on. Not a mission statement. Just the things you'd notice in our work.
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Build around the operator.
We don't ask teams to learn new tools. We embed inside the practice management system, the CMS, the ERP — wherever the work already happens. The system has to feel like a weight off, not a workflow change.
03
Clients own everything.
Source code in their repos. Models in their name. Deployments in their cloud. We do not hold the keys to anything. The day we walk away, the system keeps running.
The people
building this.
Senior practitioners. No juniors in name only. Everyone you'll work with has shipped real systems before.
Devin Kearns
Co-founder & CEOThought-leader, operator, and GTM specialist. Owns strategic vision and key enterprise relationships.
Andrew Lewis
Co-founder & COOKey operator managing the delivery engine from sales through implementation with rigor on process, compliance, and KPIs.
Nik Straka
CTOLeads engineering and client relationships. Ensures every system is production-grade and enterprise ready.
Allan Crawford
Lead AI EngineerStays on the cutting edge of AI engineering. Develops and deploys new systems that improve our delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
4 on the team
We're hiring across
strategy, engineering, and ops.
Open roles right now. We hire late and slow — the senior bar is high, and the work is real.
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AI-Native?
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