AI consultancy and venture studio · Lagos, Nigeria · RC. 9699455
In two weeks we will show you exactly where AI pays in your business. In ten, it is running.
We find the work your people should no longer be doing and the products you cannot sell yet. We build both. Our partner network installs it. Every engagement carries a number agreed on day one and measured at the end.
60 minutes. No deck. You leave with two opportunities costed, whether or not you work with us.
See what we have built[15]+ products shipped from our own studio
Working with [banks, telcos, energy] operators
Implementation partners across 3 countries
The real cost
The expensive part is not the software. It is the eighteen months you spend deciding.
Right now, inside your company, there are people being paid to do work a system should be doing. Reconciliations that run overnight everywhere else. The same forty support questions answered by hand every single day. Reports rebuilt from scratch every month. Applications screened one at a time. Invoices chased by a human who would rather be selling.
None of it shows up as a line item. It shows up as headcount you cannot reduce, a team that is always behind, and a cost base that grows exactly as fast as your revenue. Meanwhile the product you could be selling, the one your data already supports, stays unbuilt because nobody has the time to build it.
Every quarter you spend evaluating is a quarter you pay for both.
60 minutes. No deck. You leave with two opportunities costed.
What we are actually paid to answer
Time and money. Everything else is detail.
Take the work off your people
We map where the hours go, cost them at what you actually pay, and identify what a system can absorb. Not "AI transformation". Specific tasks, specific teams, specific hours back.
Typical finds
First line support, document processing, reconciliation, reporting, screening, scheduling, field data capture.
The question
What work here should a person no longer be doing?
Sell something you cannot sell today
The operations and data already running your business can usually become a product. A service you charge for. A tier you could never staff. A customer segment your old cost to serve made impossible.
Typical finds
Self serve versions of manual services, data products, always on customer channels, offerings priced for the segment below your current floor.
The question
What could you sell that you cannot sell today?
We answer both in writing, with numbers, in two weeks. If the honest answer is that nothing is worth doing yet, we will tell you that and we will not sell you a project.
60 minutes. No deck. You leave with two opportunities costed.
Engagements
Four ways to work with us. Start at the top.
The Briefing
Free · 60 minutesWe come with questions, not slides. You leave with two opportunities we can see from the outside and a rough number attached to each. Most companies take this and act on it themselves. That is fine.
60 minutes. No deck. You leave with two opportunities costed.
The Opportunity Map
Two weeks · Fixed feeWe go inside. Interviews, process walkthroughs, data review. You get a costed list of where AI saves you money and where it makes you more, ranked, with the first build specified and scoped. Yours to keep and to run with any vendor you like.
Build and Install
Six to ten weeks · Fixed scopeWe build the first thing on the list until it works in production, with real users, on your systems. Our partner companies handle rollout, integration, and training. You own the code on day one.
Praxis
Ongoing · EnterpriseAdvisory and training for banks, telcos, and energy companies. We find the three places AI pays inside your operation, build one of them until it works, and train your people on it while it runs live. Delivered by the people who ship our own products, not by trainers reading a curriculum.
How an engagement runs
Find the number
We map where the hours are going and where the unsold product is hiding. You get both answers in writing, costed, with the one worth doing first marked clearly.
Build
A working system in front of real users. No sandbox demos, no pilot that lives on a staging URL.
Implement
Rollout, integration, and training, delivered with our partner companies and coordinated by us. Your team is using it before the invoice clears.
Operate
We run it, or we hand it over properly and stay on call. This is where most firms disappear and where most projects quietly die.
Prove it or stop
Every engagement carries the number from stage one. We measure against it. If it misses, we say so out loud instead of selling you phase two.
Evidence
We do not practise on your business.
Most consultancies learn on the client's budget. We fund, build, and operate our own products first. When we tell you an approach works, we have already paid to find out where it breaks.
Solar Emperor
Live monitoring for solar inverter fleets across sites with nobody standing on them.
Result: 180 hours of manual site reporting removed per month / 42 sites monitored by 2 staff
BigAboki
AI shopping and errand service for physical markets, with escrow protecting both sides of the trade.
Result: 12,400 orders fulfilled / average order time cut from 45 min to 11 min
Ragnamon
One system to run your entire business. Sales, stock, deliveries, staff, and money in one place. With customers, you send a link: order, pay, approve a quote, track delivery.
Result: 38 businesses live / 2,100 tasks automated per week
The rest of the portfolio
60 minutes. No deck. You leave with two opportunities costed.
Fit
This works for some companies and not others.
We are a good fit if
- You have a team of [30] or more, or an operation where the same work repeats every day
- Someone senior owns the outcome and can make a decision without a committee of nine
- You would rather have one thing working in ten weeks than five things planned in six months
- You can point at a cost you want down, or a product you want to exist
We are the wrong choice if
- You want a strategy document to circulate internally. We do not sell those
- You need the cheapest possible developer. We are not that and we will lose on price
- The goal is to announce an AI initiative. We build things that get used, which is slower and less impressive on stage
- Nobody internally is allowed to change how the work is currently done
Telling you no costs us one project. Telling you yes when it is wrong costs us the reference.
Before you ask
The questions everybody asks on the first call.
Who you are hiring
Built by people who still ship.
AriaStack was founded by an AI systems engineer and lawyer (honours), who has watched companies lose time and money on costly tasks, and has built systems to improve efficiencies, save money, and make money. The consultancy grew out of the portfolio, not the other way around. Every engagement is staffed by people who are currently operating something of our own. We started this because the sharpest advice about African markets kept coming from people who had never had to collect a payment in one.
We would rather be wrong in public with a shipped product than right in private with a deck.
Next
Sixty minutes. Two opportunities. No deck.
Bring one process that annoys you and one product you wish you could sell. We will tell you what is possible, what it would roughly cost, and whether it is worth doing at all. If we are not the right team, we will say so and point you at who is.
Book a time below, or write to hello@ariastackgroup.com
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