Midwest-based AI engineers & integration specialists

Automation & AI built to last for growing businesses.

We turn the manual, brittle, glued-together parts of your operation into systems that run themselves - custom automation, AI workflows, and the integrations that finally get your tools talking to each other.

See how we work
  • Midwest-based - no offshore handoffs
  • 15 years automating complex work
  • Senior engineer on every project

Fluent across the platforms your business already runs on - and the ones it should

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • xAI · Grok
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Snowflake
  • Power BI
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Stripe
  • QuickBooks
  • Slack
  • Twilio
  • Shopify
  • GitHub
  • Zapier
  • Make
  • n8n
  • QGIS

The short version

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Years automating complex work

Hands-on experience behind every engagement

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Years in business as Heiseik

A practice built on repeat clients, not churn

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US-based, no offshore handoffs

Midwest roots, your time zone, start to finish

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Platforms & tools we integrate

SQL Server, Docker & the major clouds to OpenAI, Anthropic & Grok

What we do

One team for the whole problem.

From the first automated workflow to a fully integrated, AI-assisted operation - these are the seven things businesses hire us for most.

The work, not the pitch.

A closer look at the kinds of things we actually build - real automation, web, integration, and cloud work, running inside the tools your team already uses every day.

We build systems that handle your repetitive workflows on their own, so your team spends its time on the work that actually needs a person.

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AI engineering

Practical AI, wired into the work you actually do.

We don’t do AI demos. We ship AI features that pay for themselves - built on OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models, integrated directly into the systems your team already uses.

  • Document & data extraction

    Turn invoices, contracts, and unstructured PDFs into clean, structured data. Pipelines built on OpenAI and Anthropic models with deterministic post-processing.

    • Invoice & receipt OCR
    • Contract clause extraction
    • Form-to-database ingestion
  • AI-powered chat & search

    Embedded assistants trained on your knowledge base. Customers and staff get instant, sourced answers - no more dusty FAQs or "ask Slack" loops.

    • Customer-facing chatbots
    • Internal knowledge search
    • Retrieval-augmented Q&A
  • Workflow automation with LLMs

    Replace the manual back-and-forth in your operations. Email triage, draft replies, lead qualification, meeting summaries - all run on your data, your rules.

    • Email triage & autoresponse
    • Meeting & call summarization
    • Lead scoring + routing
  • Custom models & evals

    When off-the-shelf isn’t enough: fine-tuned models, prompt libraries, and rigorous eval suites so you know exactly how the system behaves before it ships.

    • Prompt engineering & libraries
    • Fine-tuning & adapters
    • Eval suites & monitoring

Curious whether AI is worth it for your team?

Most workflows have one or two AI quick-wins hiding in them. We’ll find yours in a 30-minute discovery call - no slide deck, no pitch, just a plain answer about whether it pencils out.

Book a discovery call →

Human in the loop

We build AI in. We don’t let it fly solo.

The rush to hand everything to AI is already going badly for the companies doing it - buggy software, broken workflows, and security holes that make headlines. We use AI aggressively where it earns its keep, but a senior engineer stays accountable for every piece of it.

AI on autopilot

What the “let the AI do it” crowd is learning the hard way:

  • AI-generated code shipped with nobody senior reading it - so subtle bugs reach production and nobody notices until a customer does.
  • Over-permissioned AI agents wired straight into live systems, turning one bad prompt into a data leak or a deleted database.
  • No evals and no guardrails, so quality quietly drifts and sensitive data ends up somewhere it never should have gone.

How we do it

AI with a senior engineer accountable for the outcome:

  • A senior engineer reviews every line of AI-assisted code and every automated decision before it touches your business.
  • Least-privilege, sandboxed access - AI components only ever see and do exactly what the task requires, nothing more.
  • Deterministic checks, eval suites, and logging around every model call, so behavior is tested and observable - not a black box.
  • You stay in control: clear boundaries, human approval on the actions that matter, and a kill switch that actually works.

How we work

A predictable path from problem to payoff.

No mystery, no runaway scope. Every engagement follows the same five steps, and you know the plan and the price before any code is written.

  1. 01

    Audit

    We start with a free, fixed-scope discovery call to map your processes and pinpoint the highest-impact things to automate or integrate first.

  2. 02

    Architect

    You get a plain-language plan with a price you approve up front - a fixed bid or hourly with a hard ceiling - plus the projected payoff, so you know what you’ll get and what it’s worth before committing.

  3. 03

    Build

    Tight iterations with regular demos. You see working software, not status decks, and you steer the priorities as it takes shape.

  4. 04

    Integrate

    We wire the solution into your existing tools and data, test it against real cases, and train your team so adoption is the easy part.

  5. 05

    Support

    We stay on for tuning and monitoring so the gains compound - and you own all the code and docs, with no lock-in.

Why Heiseik

Boutique by design. Senior by default.

Heiseik Consulting is a Midwest-based automation and AI engineering practice serving clients across the US. For five years we’ve helped small and mid-sized businesses replace manual, error-prone work with systems that simply run - and behind that is fifteen years of hands-on experience untangling complex, real-world operations.

We stay deliberately small so the person you talk to is the person doing the work. That means clearer communication, faster decisions, and software that actually fits how your team works - not a generic template billed at agency scale.

“Most businesses are carrying a few processes nobody should be doing by hand anymore. My job is to find them and quietly make them disappear.”
Cody Heiser - Founder, Heiseik Consulting
  • You work with a senior engineer

    Not an account manager, not a rotating junior team. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it.

  • Midwest-based, your time zone

    Questions get answered the same day. No overnight handoffs, no lost-in-translation specs, no offshore surprises.

  • Clear price, no surprises

    Fixed bid or hourly with a hard ceiling - either way you approve the number before we write a line of code.

  • You own everything

    Full handover of code and documentation on every project. No proprietary lock-in, no hostage maintenance contracts.

How engagements work

Transparent from the first call.

Every project is custom, so we skip off-the-shelf price tags. You’ll always get a number you approve first - a fixed bid, or hourly with a not-to-exceed ceiling, whichever fits your project better. Here’s how working together usually looks.

Discovery Audit

Free

A focused working session to understand your processes and surface the automation and integration wins worth pursuing.

  • Process & systems review
  • Prioritized opportunity list
  • Honest take on what’s worth doing
  • No obligation, no pressure
Book your audit
Most projects start here

Project Build

You approve first

The core of what we do. A defined project with a written plan and a number you sign off on - billed as a fixed bid or hourly with a hard ceiling. For automations, integrations, AI features, or web builds.

  • Fixed bid or hourly with a cap
  • Regular demos as we build
  • Testing against real cases
  • Full handover of code & docs
Scope a project

Ongoing Partner

Monthly retainer

For teams who want a senior engineer on call - to monitor, tune, and keep building as your needs grow. Month to month, cancel anytime.

  • Priority support & monitoring
  • Continuous improvements
  • A standing block of build hours
  • Roadmap & advisory sessions
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Get started today

Tell us about the process that is eating your team's week. We'll tell you what it would take to automate it, and whether it is worth doing. The first call is free.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers to what most people want to know before reaching out. If your question isn’t here, just ask - we reply within one business day.