AI Enablement · DC Metro Area

Real AI adoption,
not hype.

You've heard the pitch a hundred times. What you actually need is someone who's spent 25 years making complex systems work in the real world — Navy weapons labs, the Pentagon, large-scale SaaS platforms — sitting down with your business and figuring out where AI genuinely helps, then building it.

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Who We Help

Small and medium businesses across the DC area

Owners & leadership teams

You know AI matters but don't have time to sort the real opportunities from the vendor noise. We give you a straight answer.

Small dev teams

You want AI coding agents in your team's hands, rolled out with the right guardrails — not just a license nobody uses well.

Growing operations

A repetitive process — quoting, intake, scheduling, reporting — is eating hours every week. You want it automated properly, once.

What We Do

Four Ways We Help

01

AI Adoption Strategy & Readiness

Most "AI strategy" decks are generic slideware. We start with your actual workflows — sales, ops, client delivery — and find the handful of places AI will save real time or money, not the thirty places a vendor wants to sell you.

Best for: Owners and leadership teams who want a clear "where do we start" answer.

02

Agentic Coding & Dev-Tooling Rollout

If you have developers, AI coding agents — Claude Code, Copilot, and similar tools — are the single highest-leverage AI investment available today, if they're rolled out right. We set up the tooling, guardrails, and workflows so your team ships faster without shipping mistakes.

  • Claude Code, Copilot, and AI agent tooling setup and configuration
  • Guardrails: permissions, review workflows, secrets handling
  • Team workflow design — where agents help, where humans stay in the loop
  • Hands-on pairing with your developers during rollout

Best for: Small dev teams and technical founders who want AI coding tools adopted properly, not just installed.

03

Custom AI/Agent Builds

Sometimes the right answer isn't a tool, it's a small piece of software built for exactly how you work. We build internal agents and automations — quoting, intake, scheduling, reporting — using the same AWS/Azure infrastructure discipline behind 25 years of mission-critical systems.

Best for: Businesses with a repetitive, well-defined process worth automating.

04

Team Upskilling & Training

A ChatGPT license doesn't make a team AI-literate. We run hands-on sessions using your real work, so people leave knowing exactly how to use AI in their actual job — not a generic tutorial.

  • Practical, role-specific workshops (not generic "intro to AI" seminars)
  • Working sessions using your team's real documents, workflows, and tickets
  • Simple internal guidelines: what to trust, what to check, what not to paste into a chatbot
  • Follow-up office hours to answer real questions as they come up

Best for: Teams who've been handed AI tools but never really taught how to use them.

Why Anvil

A local partner, not a big consultancy

You work directly with me

No account manager routing you to a junior contractor. 25 years of experience, on your project, start to finish.

Fixed scope, DC-area

Based in Manassas, VA — available in person for DC-area businesses, or remote. Engagements are scoped and priced up front, no surprise hours.

Discipline without the overhead

The same rigor that hardened Navy and DoD systems, applied to your business — without the enterprise price tag or the enterprise timeline.

Track Record

The same discipline, now sized for you

Pioneered container technology and Kubernetes inside the DoD — built and scaled multiple clusters into highly resilient environments.

Championed early DevOps and container adoption at USPTO before either was standard practice — driving real automation ahead of the industry.

Modernized CI/CD and AI/LLM integration for a large-scale commercial SaaS platform, end to end.

25+ years operating where failure isn't an option — from Navy weapons labs to modern AI infrastructure.

Ready to Put AI to Work?

Free 30-minute AI Readiness Call. A plain-English look at where AI actually helps your business — no strings attached.

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