AI Workflow Architecture

I Turn
Disconnected Workflows
Into Intelligent Systems.

Your team's expertise is trapped in spreadsheets, SharePoint sites, and one person's head. I build AI-powered portals that make that knowledge accessible, accurate, and impossible to lose.

Cornell M.Eng AI Systems Architect Enterprise & SMB

Katie Dickieson  ·  hello@katiedickieson.com

01 / 09

The Problem

Your Knowledge
Is Scattered.
Your People Are Stuck.

Every organization has the same hidden tax: critical knowledge that lives in disconnected tools, tribal expertise, and processes nobody wrote down. Your best people spend hours answering the same questions. New hires take months to ramp up. Compliance depends on understanding things nobody's explained in plain language.

  • 01

    Tool Sprawl

    Your teams bounce between 10+ disconnected forms, calculators, and reference docs. Nobody knows which version is current.

  • 02

    Tribal Knowledge

    The real expertise lives in one person's head. When they're out, the whole team stalls. When they leave, the knowledge walks out the door.

  • 03

    Painful Onboarding

    New hires take weeks of 1:1 training to learn your tools. You can't scale your team without scaling the bottleneck.

  • 04

    Compliance Gaps

    Audit criteria, regulatory requirements, and internal standards are buried in documents nobody reads until it's too late.

02 / 09

What I Build

AI Systems That
Actually Work.

Not chatbots that hallucinate. Not generic AI wrappers. Purpose-built systems grounded in your real documentation, your real processes, and your real expertise.

Grounded AI Agents

Conversational assistants that answer questions using your actual documentation. They cite sources, refuse to invent, and guide users step-by-step through complex processes. Your subject-matter expert, available 24/7.

Unified Portals

One connected experience that replaces the sprawl. Forms, calculators, reference docs, and AI assistants in a single portal your team actually wants to use. Built modularly so your IT team can deploy and extend it.

Knowledge Capture

I interview your subject-matter experts, structure their knowledge into reusable data, and build systems that distribute it at scale. The expertise stays in the company even when the expert moves on.

Calculator & Form Automation

Replace disconnected Excel calculators with smart, guided workflows. Built-in validation, contextual help, and AI that nudges users when they're about to make a mistake.

Compliance & Audit Prep

Turn dense rubrics and regulatory requirements into plain-language assistants. Your team understands what the auditor actually checks, what evidence they need, and how to prepare.

Full IT Handoff

Every system comes with source code, documentation, and a step-by-step handoff so your internal team can own, modify, and extend it forever. No vendor lock-in. No recurring license.

03 / 09

Case Study Fortune 500 Manufacturer

From Scattered
SharePoint to One
Intelligent Portal.

"The packaging portal was a network of disconnected forms, calculators, and SharePoint sites. Engineers bounced between them. New hires took hours of 1:1 training just to use the tools correctly."

Global automotive manufacturer. 150,000+ employees. Internal packaging operations spanning dozens of plants across multiple continents.

Before
5+ disconnected calculators in Excel
Reference docs buried in SharePoint
Audit criteria nobody understood
Hours of 1:1 onboarding per new hire
Knowledge trapped in one director's head
Recurring compliance failures on equipment buyoffs
After
One unified AI-powered portal
Grounded Q&A agent with zero hallucination
Audit criteria explained in plain language
Self-serve onboarding from day one
Expert knowledge captured and distributed at scale
Step-by-step compliance guidance built into workflow
2 wks
Prototype to Proof of Concept
9
Widgets in Full Portal Scope
0
Hallucinated Answers in Testing
100%
Code Ownership to Client
04 / 09

The Approach

Engineer-Built.
Not Agency Fluff.

01

Grounded AI

Every answer cites your real documentation. The system refuses to invent. No hallucination, no generic responses. Your data, your rules, your expertise — surfaced accurately every time.

02

Phased Delivery

Each phase delivers independently usable value. You see working software in weeks, not months. Fixed-fee per phase, scoped against defined deliverables. No open-ended consulting.

03

Code You Own

You get the source code, the documentation, and a step-by-step handoff. Your IT team deploys it on your infrastructure, behind your security controls. No vendor lock-in. Ever.

04

Your Data Stays Yours

I work with your methodology and process logic — never your customer data. Everything runs on your infrastructure. Your confidential information never leaves your systems.

05 / 09

How We Work Together

Three Ways In.
All Roads Lead to Working Software.

Discovery
AI Workflow
Audit

A focused session to map your current workflows, identify where AI can replace manual work, and build a phased roadmap. You leave with a clear plan and a scoped proposal.

  • 90-minute deep-dive with Katie
  • Workflow mapping & gap analysis
  • AI opportunity identification
  • Phased implementation roadmap
  • Written summary & proposal
1 session · results in 48 hours
Full Build
Portal
Engagement

The complete system — multiple AI agents, unified portal, calculator automation, and full IT handoff. Delivered in phases, each one independently usable.

  • Multiple AI agents & portal widgets
  • Knowledge capture from SMEs
  • Calculator & form unification
  • Compliance & audit preparation tools
  • Full source code & IT handoff
  • Deployment support & training
Phased · 3–6 months · fixed fee per phase
06 / 09

Who This Is For

If Your Team Is
Answering the Same
Questions Every Week

This Is For You.

Operations & Supply Chain Leaders

You manage processes that span dozens of tools and hundreds of people. Your best engineer spends half their day answering questions that could be automated. You need the knowledge distributed, not dependent on one person.

Quality & Compliance Teams

Your team is responsible for audit readiness, but the criteria live in dense documents nobody reads. You need people to understand what's required — in plain language — before the auditor shows up.

Department Heads & Directors

You've been asked to "use AI" but nobody's shown you what that actually looks like for your department. You don't need a chatbot. You need a system that solves the specific problems your team faces every day.

Small Business Owners

You're wearing every hat and drowning in processes you've outgrown. You need systems that scale your knowledge without scaling your headcount. Same engineering, right-sized for your operation.

07 / 09

Credentials

Engineer First.
Everything Else Second.

The systems hold because they're built by an engineer — not a marketer who learned to code, not a consultant who outsources the build. The same person who scopes the project writes the code and delivers the handoff.

Cornell M.Eng

Biomedical Engineering. Systems thinking is the degree, not the metaphor.

Full-Stack AI

Production AI systems using Claude, GPT, and custom architectures. Prompt engineering, grounding, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Enterprise Delivery

Fortune 500 engagements with full code handoff, IT integration, and security-compliant deployment.

End-to-End

From SME interviews to production code to IT handoff. One person, one vision, no handoff gaps between strategy and execution.

08 / 09

Let's Talk

Your Knowledge
Deserves a
Better System.

Start with a conversation. I'll listen to what's broken, show you what's possible, and — if it makes sense — scope a prototype you can see working in weeks.

Start the Conversation →
Email
hello@katiedickieson.com
LinkedIn
Katie Dickieson
Web
katiedickieson.com
09 / 09