You’ve tried AI. Nothing’s really changed.
The gap between experimenting and operating differently is real. We close it by mapping your workflows, building systems that fit, and training your team to run them.
See the approach →Your team spends real hours every week on work a system should handle.
Pulling reports, updating spreadsheets, chasing status updates, scheduling — the kind of work that is necessary but never moves the business forward. Your team knows the difference. They just can’t close it alone.
“We processed 5,187 companies in four days. Manual equivalent: three months of research. The automation changed our hiring and strategy priorities.”
Marius, Founder, Foodspace AS — Oslo, Norway
Hans-Jakob Brandt
Founder — Design Systems, AI Operations
I’ve been designing how work happens since 2018, first in product design and design systems, now by building AI systems for service companies.
I started Hanlon because I kept meeting business owners who knew AI should change how they operate, but couldn’t get there alone. Every project is me, from first conversation to live system.
How your team goes from using AI to running on it.
You stop asking ‘can AI do X?’ and start asking ‘what should we be doing differently?’
You know exactly which workflows to redesign first to create immediate value.
Your first AI workflow is live and running in your daily operations.
Your team runs and improves their own AI workflows. No depending on us.
Redesign the work, not the tools.
AI is just a toolset you bolt on. It demands rethinking how work itself is designed.
Your team keeps everything.
We build it. If we disappear tomorrow, your systems keep running.
Prove it first.
Before scaling anything, prove the workflow works. Trust is earned in deliverables, not decks.
The thinking stays. The busywork goes.
AI handles repetitive execution. Your people handle judgment, collaboration, and decisions under pressure.
Results before roadmaps.
We don’t ask you to bet on a forecast. We run a scoped piece of real work first, then you decide whether to continue based on what you saw.
We only take work we can finish.
We don’t work with every organization. Before anything starts, we figure out together whether the fit is real — because a bad engagement helps nobody.
Six deliverables. One working system.
We’re early. That works in your favor.
Founding client rates. The founder’s full attention, and a partner building their reputation on your results. One focused workflow. Two to four weeks.