AI strategy & training

Do more.
Less time.

Increase Margin AI helps small and mid-sized businesses put AI to work, whether you’re just getting started, stuck in neutral, or ready to go further. We build the strategy and training that turns AI from a buzzword into real time saved and margin gained.

Hunter Doster, AI Strategist and founder of Increase Margin AI

Why now

You’re not behind. You’re early.

The internet connected the world. The dot-com era brought business online. Mobile and the App Store put every customer one tap away. Each time, the companies that adapted early pulled ahead, and the ones that waited spent years catching up, or never did.

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Every era follows the same shape: a slow start, then acceleration, then maturity. AI is still near the beginning.

Plotted out, every one of those eras followed the same curve. Right now it feels like AI is everywhere and you’re already behind, but look at where the marker sits. We’re still in the slow start, before acceleration.

The companies that learn to adapt now are the ones pulling ahead when growth kicks in. Big companies have the budget to figure this out through trial and error. Small and mid-sized companies don’t get that luxury. That’s where we come in.

Wherever you are, we meet you there

Some businesses haven’t touched AI yet. Some have dabbled but never gone deeper. Some have been cautious, worried about getting it wrong. Some are already deep in it, running more tools than anyone can track, with no clear read on which ones pay for themselves. Increase Margin AI meets you exactly where you are and builds a clear path forward, so AI becomes a tool your team actually uses, not one more thing to figure out.

Three ways to work together

Start with your people, your operations, or both

Some companies want their people using AI and nothing else touched. Some just need AI integrated into their business workflows and operations. Every engagement is scoped to your business and runs on a retainer.

Training

One person, a team, a department, or the whole org

Personalized AI training built around your role. We work one-on-one to identify where AI can save you real time in your day-to-day work, then teach you how to use it with confidence. The same approach scales to a team, a department, or the whole company when you want everyone using AI and nothing else touched.

  • Tool selection for technical and non-technical teams
  • Live training, scoped to one person or a company-wide rollout
  • Self-serve courses the team keeps afterward

Optimization

The way your organization runs

A full assessment of your team's workflows to find the friction points, bottlenecks, and manual work slowing you down. We build an AI strategy that solves for them, so your business runs leaner and your team does more with less.

  • AI needs assessment with ROI analysis on prioritized use cases
  • Values, ethics, and AI policy set before anything gets built
  • Two custom automations, integrated with your existing tools
Most common

Full engagement

Both, start to finish

Everything in training and everything in optimization, sequenced so the automation lands with a team already trained to run it. Most engagements end up here, because the two halves hold each other up.

  • The full roadmap, from discovery through rollout
  • Automation built, and the team trained to run it
  • One engagement, one plan, no gap in the handoff

How we work

A path from where you are to AI your team uses

01

Assess

We start by understanding how your team actually works today: where time gets lost, where AI is already in use, and where it isn't.

02

Strategize

We build a clear, practical plan for where AI fits, tailored to your business and your goals, not a generic playbook.

03

Implement

We train your team and put the plan into action, so the strategy turns into real results, not a document that sits on a shelf.

Works with the tools you already use

No rip and replace required

Most AI tools plug straight into your existing stack. Here is a sample of the platforms already running inside the companies that trust us to work in theirs.

  • AI tools

    • Claude
    • Claude Code
    • ChatGPT
    • Microsoft Copilot
    • Jasper
  • Productivity & communication

    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365
    • Microsoft Teams
    • Outlook
    • Zoom
  • CRM & marketing

    • HubSpot
    • Salesforce
    • ZoomInfo
    • Canva
  • Development & project management

    • Jira
    • Confluence
    • GitHub
    • VS Code
  • Web & marketing ops

    • WordPress
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Ads
  • Security & compliance

    • Drata
    • Microsoft Defender
    • Wazuh
    • Snyk
  • Design

    • Adobe Creative Suite
    • Adobe Acrobat
Hunter Doster, founder of Increase Margin AI

About the founder

Hunter Doster

AI Strategist & Founder

Hunter Doster is the founder of Increase Margin AI. He holds a master’s degree in computer networks and artificial intelligence from the Air Force Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Before founding Increase Margin AI, he directed $77M+ in advanced radar, electronic warfare, and sensor programs at the Air Force Research Laboratory, work that demanded the same thing every AI rollout does: turning complex systems into results people can actually use.

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