Lifeguard
Essential Designs was able to create a cutting edge application that will save lives, they always say "Anything can be done" and are definitely able to deliver on that promise.
Jeff Hardy, Founder
AI Staff
Assigned to Your Business
Assign senior AI and software capacity to the work your business keeps putting off: automation, integrations, internal tools, customer service workflows, reporting, marketing systems, and custom AI-enabled platforms.
AI consultants who can plan and execute the work, not just advise. Senior people help map the roadmap and then stay assigned to move the work forward.
Essential Designs works like an assigned execution team. We apply dedicated hours to your priorities, help identify useful AI opportunities across departments, and build practical systems that connect to the way your company already operates.
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Our Clients
Making hundreds of businesses
better, big or small.
Teck Resources
We've been engaged with Essential Designs for several years now and we've found that the value they deliver is significantly above everyone else that we deal with.
Rick Twaddle, SBA
Schneider Electric
We are a company present in more than 150 countries. I was very happy with their efficiency. They were responsive and happy to make any changes that we required.
Kirill Kudymov, Product Manager
Handld
I had a lot of trust in them, everyone knew their job, and they worked very efficiently. The trust and communication skills were what distinguished them from their competitors.
Cristen Phipps, Owner
Process
How Assigned AI Staff Works
A practical retained delivery model for owners who need real AI implementation progress, not another strategy deck.
01
Business Review
We review departments, tools, bottlenecks, repetitive work, data sources, and current AI usage to find the best first priorities.
02
Priority Map
We rank opportunities by impact, complexity, dependencies, and speed to value so the first month has clear execution targets.
03
Assigned Hours
Senior AI/software team members work through planning, integrations, automations, prototypes, platform work, QA, and iteration.
04
Implementation
We build and connect the workflows, dashboards, copilots, automations, and custom systems needed to move priorities forward.
05
Team Adoption
We test outputs, adjust prompts and workflows, document usage, improve reliability, and help teams use the systems in real work.
06
Next Priorities
As the first wins are delivered, we move to the next workflow, department, platform, or AI opportunity with a retained rhythm.
Need AI execution capacity? Let's assign the right team to your priorities.
Instead of buying another tool and hoping staff can figure it out, assign experienced AI and software people to identify, build, connect, and improve the systems your business actually needs.
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AI consultants plus execution
AI Consultants Who Stay Assigned to the Work
Many businesses need more than a strategy call. They need a senior AI/software team that can identify the right opportunities, connect the tools, build the workflows, and keep moving through the implementation backlog.
01
Consulting With Delivery
We help define the roadmap, then apply assigned hours to automations, integrations, dashboards, internal tools, and custom AI systems.
02
Useful Across Departments
Marketing, operations, customer service, admin, reporting, sales support, and leadership workflows can all benefit from targeted AI implementation.
03
Built by Software People
We understand AI as part of a business system: data, APIs, permissions, users, workflows, reliability, testing, and long-term support.
Selected Work
See the kind of apps and platforms we build.
A quick look at real mobile apps, web platforms, SaaS portals, and business systems from the Essential Designs portfolio.
Emerson Electric
Mobile AppModernized field operations app with dashboards, alerts, reporting, and low-data workflows.
Field operations modernization
Teck Resources
Web AppResponsive EHSC application for on-site safety checks and reporting.
Enterprise safety software
Lifeguard
Mobile AppGroundbreaking safe-consumption platform with emergency response workflows.
Life-saving mobile app
Good Roads
Web PlatformVendor database and technical-services portal for government procurement workflows.
Procurement SaaS portal
Honeywell
Web AppGlobal license-key management software for a complex enterprise workflow.
License management system
All Skin
Mobile AppPersonalized skincare app using product data, surveys, and routine analysis.
Personalized product matching
What Assigned AI Staff Can Work On
AI Workflow Delivery
We handle repetitive tasks, handoffs, documents, reporting, approvals, and team workflows that can be improved with practical AI.
Systems Integration
We connect CRMs, spreadsheets, dashboards, support tools, marketing systems, APIs, and databases into cleaner daily workflows.
Department AI Rollouts
We help owners apply AI across marketing, operations, customer service, admin, reporting, and sales support with focused use cases.
Custom AI Platforms
We design and build portals, copilots, dashboards, data tools, and AI-enabled platforms when automation needs a custom system.
AI implementation library
Helpful AI And Automation Guides
Use these guides to compare AI opportunities, automation ideas, custom platforms, and software-backed workflows.
Read the guides
AI In Custom Apps Where AI can support better workflows, decisions, and software experiences inside custom applications. Automation Benefits Automation themes that apply to approvals, workflows, data movement, and connected business systems. Custom Or Off-The-Shelf How to decide when a custom AI-enabled system may be more useful than packaged software.
The Essentials of Assigned AI Implementation
Most companies do not need more AI hype. They need experienced people assigned to the work: connecting tools, building internal systems, improving workflows, and helping teams use AI in practical ways.
A retained AI staff model gives owners a flexible way to move through the backlog. One month may focus on marketing operations and lead workflows; the next may focus on customer service, reporting, admin tools, or a custom platform.
Because Essential Designs is a senior software development team, we can go beyond recommendations. We can build integrations, dashboards, copilots, portals, automations, and AI-enabled platforms around your actual data and users.
The work starts with business priorities. We help identify where AI can reduce manual effort, improve response times, support staff, create better visibility, or unlock processes your team did not expect could be connected.
The result is ongoing AI implementation capacity: fewer stalled ideas, more connected systems, and a clearer path from opportunity to working software.
Assigned team hours for AI, automation, integrations, and custom platform work.
We help business owners turn AI from scattered experiments into a practical implementation backlog with senior people assigned to move it forward.
