Burning River AI is an independent, Cleveland-based practice helping insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing businesses figure out where AI actually pays back — and what to do about it.
See the AI Readiness Sprint →A fixed-scope, three-week assessment that tells you — honestly — where AI pays back in your business. You walk away with a scored readiness across seven dimensions, a prioritized list of five to ten real opportunities ranked by effort and payback, a 30/60/90-day recommendation memo, and a 75-minute executive readout with your leadership team.
No scope creep. No retainer. No six-month “discovery phase” that turns into invoices.
Learn more about the Sprint →I started Burning River AI because the way AI is being sold to businesses right now — the hype, the generic pitch decks, the enterprise retainers billed to six figures for PowerPoints — isn't how real value gets built. Especially not in a practical, operations-heavy economy like Northeast Ohio's.
I work with a small number of clients at a time. I walk the plant floor. I sit in the claims office. I read the room in the leadership meeting. The work is strategy first, with implementation when it actually pays back — and nothing I take on involves anything I wouldn't stake my own name on.
The mission is simple: level Cleveland up on AI, one business at a time.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. You tell me where you're stuck and what you're seeing — I'll tell you whether we're a fit, and if we aren't, I'll point you to someone or something that is.
Get in touch →Serving Northeast Ohio businesses, roughly $5M to $50M in revenue, in insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing.