About Lamp & Path AI
A practical AI practice, built for your business.
We help businesses find where time, margin, and opportunity are leaking away. Then we work out where AI or automation genuinely helps. When technology isn't the answer, we improve the process instead.
Two partners, decades of experience. Practical recommendations you can act on.
What We Believe
What we recommend follows from what we believe.
Prioritize before you automate
Most businesses don't have an AI problem. They have a prioritization problem.
We don't introduce technology until the problem, the value, and the sequence are clear.
Sometimes the answer isn't AI
If a broken handoff, unclear ownership, or an unnecessary step is the real problem, we fix that first.
Sometimes the right recommendation contains no AI at all.
Adoption matters
A solution nobody uses is a cost, not an asset.
Tools should fit the way your team actually works. They should leave your people more capable, not more dependent.
That's why we tailor every recommendation to your team and your workflows, so adoption feels easy and natural instead of forced.
How We Work
One method, from understanding to ownership.
Every engagement follows Guided Intelligence, our six-stage method. It starts with the people and the work, finds the friction, and puts the opportunities in order. Then we build, help your team adopt what's new, and measure what changed.
- 01
Understand
- 02
Prioritize
- 03
Design
- 04
Build
- 05
Enable
- 06
Optimize
Where We Work
Based in the Capital Region. Working with businesses anywhere.
Based in New York's Capital Region
Lamp & Path AI is based in New York's Capital Region, and we work with businesses anywhere. Engagements run the same way remotely as they do in person.
Our local roots still matter. For clients nearby, we can be in the room. For everyone else, the method is identical: understand the work, find the leaks, and light the path.
Experience
Experience before AI became the headline.
This practice wasn't built on last year's tools. It comes from two decades of running programs where failure was expensive.
That work meant improving processes, implementing technology, and leading operational change inside real businesses.
What You Can Expect
Three things you can hold us to.
A real conversation
The first call is 15 minutes and free. We ask what's slowing your business down and look for one useful next step.
A clear response
We'll respond promptly and make the next step clear. No chasing, and no mystery process.
We'll tell you when we're not the right fit
If we don't think we're right for the problem, we'll say so. If there's a simpler path than hiring us, we'll tell you that too.
You'll leave with a useful next step, whether or not we work together.
Start here
Tell us what's slowing your team down.
You don't need a finished AI strategy to talk to us. Fifteen minutes is enough to find your most useful next step.
Book fifteen minutes
Pick a time. Tell us in a sentence what's slowing your team down.
We talk it through
Plain answers about where AI would actually help, and where it wouldn't.
You get a next step
A concrete recommendation, whether or not we end up working together.