Applied AI Systems · Raleigh, NC

Don't sign another software contract.

Off-the-shelf software makes you run your business its way. We build the system that runs your way: completely custom, around your actual process, with AI doing the work, in weeks. Fixed scope. Fixed price. You own it. We stay to run it.

"Stop adapting your business to the software that's available. Get the software that matches your business."

Justin K Schaad · Founder & CEO
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SDX–01 · Process Audit

Two weeks. Fixed fee. A straight answer.

Two weeks inside your operation. We find the process your software has been bending out of shape, spec the system that fits it, and put a fixed price on the build.

Duration
2 weeks, on your floor and in your tools
Pricing
Fixed fee, quoted before we start
You get
Ranked process map, system spec, fixed-price quote for the build
Then
SDX–02 System Build, 4–8 weeks · SDX–03 Operate, monthly

If there's nothing worth building, we tell you. You keep the map.

Built here
StruxenIndependent companySapient CaliberIndustrial QCSapient PulseMachine healthSapient VeriscopeInvestigationsCogNexusOperations
Who we build for

Businesses that run on process, not software.

Our customers make things, build things, move things, investigate things, and service things. They have real revenue, real operations, and no AI team. They've been told to pick a platform and adapt. They'd rather have a system that fits.

Manufacturing

Inspection, quoting, scheduling, maintenance, documentation.

Construction

Project pursuit, preconstruction, submittals, RFIs, closeout.

Logistics

Dispatch, exceptions, customs and compliance paperwork.

Field service

Scheduling, job reporting, parts, invoicing, warranty.

Investigations

Multi-camera evidence review, timelines, chain of custody.

Back office

Intake, document processing, billing, collections, reporting.

Programs

Three programs. One path to a system that pays for itself.

Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price. You know what you get, when, and what it costs before we start. No hourly billing. No open-ended pilots. Each program ends with something you can use whether or not you continue.

SDX–01

Process Audit

Two weeks inside your operation to find the one process worth rebuilding.

Duration
2 weeks
Pricing
Fixed fee, quoted before we start
You get
A ranked map of where AI changes your economics, a system spec for the first one, and a fixed-price quote to build it
Best for
Owners and operators who know something is broken and want a straight answer

If there's nothing worth building, we tell you. You keep the map.

SDX–02

System Build

The process rebuilt around AI, in production, in your tools.

Duration
4–8 weeks
Pricing
Fixed price, quoted from the audit
You get
A production system integrated with what you already run, human checkpoints, an audit trail, documentation, and a trained team
Best for
Businesses ready to change how a process works, not just speed it up

Production, not a pilot. You own what we build.

SDX–03

Operate

We run the system so you don't have to hire the team that can.

Duration
Month to month
Pricing
Flat monthly retainer, sized to the system
You get
Monitoring, evaluation, model and integration updates, cost control, incident response, and a standing plan for the next process
Best for
Anyone running an AI system in production without an AI team

Knowing how to run AI is the scarce skill. Keep ours on call.

How we work

We start from your process and what AI can do. Not from someone else's product.

For thirty years the answer to a business problem was "find the software and adapt to it." Most AI is sold the same way, bolted onto a process that was already bent out of shape. That makes it faster, not better. We look at how the work actually runs, ask how it should run when it's built around what AI can do, then engineer exactly that and put it in production.

"A broken process with AI is a faster broken process."

Justin K Schaad · Founder & CEO
01
Find the process that's actually broken

Not the one that's slow. The one where the process itself is the bottleneck, usually because it was shaped around a tool that never quite fit, and where fixing it moves margin.

02
Rebuild it from first principles

We don't automate the old steps or configure someone else's product. We design the system around your process and what AI makes newly possible, with people at the decisions that need them.

03
Engineer it for production, then run it

Real data, real edge cases, real integrations. We put it in production, and we stand behind it once it's running.

Why Sapient Dynamics

Built like an engineering firm. Not like an AI startup.

The software market sells you a product and asks your business to adapt to it. The AI market sells you a tool and asks the same. We take responsibility for the whole system, design, build, integration, operation, the way a contractor takes responsibility for a building. And the system is built to fit you.

Most AI vendors
Sapient Dynamics
Make your business adapt to their product
Build the product around your business
Sell you a tool and leave
Build the system and run it
Bill by the hour
Fixed scope, fixed price
Run a pilot
Ship to production
License you their platform
You own what we build
Bolt AI onto the old process
Rebuild the process around AI
Demo
Deploy
Built here

Programs become products. Products become companies.

Every program teaches us something. When a system proves out across customers, we productize it. When a product outgrows us, we spin it out with its own team and its own name, as we did with Struxen.

Sapient Design, our design-engineering division, builds the websites and brand systems for our programs and for clients at sapientdesign.io.

Contact

Book a Process Audit.

Tell us about the process that isn't working. Two weeks later you'll know exactly what to build, what it costs, and whether it's worth it.

Opens your mail app addressed to hello@sapientdynamics.com. We reply within one business day.

What happens next
01
We reply within one business day.A short call to hear the process and decide whether an audit makes sense.
02
Fixed fee, start date, in writing.You know the cost and the timeline before anything begins.
03
Two weeks later: a spec and a quote.Build it with us, build it with someone else, or don't build it at all.
Headquarters
421 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1100
Raleigh, NC 27601
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