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Solving complex problems of consequence

We build the intelligence behind what is next

AinsworthLloyd is an operations and technology consulting firm that specializes in the science of how work gets done. We partner with our clients to streamline their business processes and install organizational structures that enable a high-performance culture and improved employee engagement.

Simply put, we operationalize your strategic initiatives and make your organization hum!

AI agents

Quality assurance. Agentic coding.

Two kinds of agent, each with one job. QA agents test your software: give them the address of your staging site and they start. Coding agents fix what they find and build what comes next, and AinsworthLloyd engineers approve every change.

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Products

Powering small and mid size businesses.

Fixed scope products for teams shipping software with AI coding agents, and for small businesses that need their IT looked after. Delivered by the engineers who do our client work.

Services

Digital transformation and culture change.

Consulting for organizations that need their work to flow, their projects to land, and leaders ready for what comes next.

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01

Lean Deployment

Lean principles put to work where the work happens, not on a slide: we map how value actually flows, remove the waste in it, and leave your teams running the improvement themselves.

Every engagement starts on the floor with the people doing the work, and ends with measures your own teams own and keep improving.

  • Value stream mapping
  • Process improvement
  • Kaizen events
  • Standard work
  • Flow and pull
  • Lean measures
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02

Agile Project Management

Projects run in short, visible cycles: a working result every few weeks, priorities set by the people who own the outcome, and risks raised while there is still time to act on them.

We run the delivery with you, or coach your project managers to run it, and fit the method to the work rather than the other way round.

  • Scrum
  • Kanban
  • Delivery planning
  • Backlog management
  • Agile coaching
  • Hybrid delivery
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03

Leadership Development

Leaders developed through the work they are already doing: coaching, practical programmes and support through change, so new habits show up in decisions rather than in a binder.

Programmes are built around your organization's real challenges, with progress measured in how teams are led, not in hours of training.

  • Executive coaching
  • Leadership programmes
  • Leading change
  • Team effectiveness
  • Succession planning
  • 360 feedback
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04

Organization Design

An organization shaped around the work it has to do: clear roles, decisions made by the people closest to the work, and a structure that serves your strategy rather than the last reorganization.

We design with the leaders and teams who will work in the new structure, and plan the move to it as carefully as the design itself.

  • Operating model design
  • Structure and spans
  • Roles and accountabilities
  • Decision rights
  • Governance design
  • Transition planning
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05

Staffing Model

The right number of people, with the right skills, in the right roles: staffing built from the work your organization has to deliver, so headcount, budget and hiring can be planned with confidence.

Every model is grounded in measured demand and workload, and shows leaders what each staffing decision costs before they make it.

  • Workforce planning
  • Demand and capacity
  • Workload analysis
  • Role and skills mix
  • Staffing scenarios
  • Hiring plans
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06

Lean Assessment

A hands-on Lean Operational Excellence Assessment that finds the waste and inefficiency in how your organization runs, and turns it into a prioritized plan for measurable results.

Eliminate waste. Optimize processes. Improve performance.

  • Operational efficiency
  • Process optimization
  • Management effectiveness
  • Technology enablement
  • Performance management

Where our engineers have delivered

Organizations our team has delivered into, directly or through partners. Client names and engagement outcomes are shared under NDA rather than published.

  • NASA
  • IBM
  • Deloitte
  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • U.S. Office of Personnel Management
  • U.S. Department of Transportation
  • Amtrak
  • Navy Federal Credit Union
  • T. Rowe Price
  • Change Healthcare
  • Dartmouth
  • Villanova University
  • Ellucian
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • DC Office of the Chief Financial Officer
  • Forward Edge AI

Position

Most software records what already happened. We build systems that decide what happens next.

AinsworthLloyd combines applied AI research, software architecture, product design and process automation into systems that carry real operational load.

The ones that route the claim, price the risk, schedule the fleet, read the document and answer the citizen. Built to be inspected, tested and handed over.

Founded
2009
Base
Washington, DC
Practice
QA, agentic coding, consulting
Sectors
Federal, health, finance

AI systems

Practical AI. Not a chatbot bolted on top.

We build AI that sits inside an operational process and is accountable for an outcome. Every system ships with an evaluation set, a fallback path and a plain statement of what it cannot do.

How an AinsworthLloyd AI system is put togetherRequests, documents and events reach an orchestrator inside a bounded scope with policy, budgets and an audit log. The orchestrator consults retrieval over your own sources, models routed by cost and latency, tools limited to approved actions, and a deterministic fallback for when a model cannot answer. Its result meets an evaluation gate scored against an evaluation set: it either passes back into the process, or escalates to a person whose approval sends it on. Traces, evaluations, cost, latency and the audit log are observed throughout.POLICY · BUDGETS · AUDIT LOGPASSESCALATEREQUESTSDOCUMENTSEVENTSORCHESTRATORRETRIEVALMODELSTOOLSFALLBACKEVALUATIONOUTCOMEHUMAN REVIEWOBSERVABILITYTRACES · EVALS · COST
◤Fig. 01Retrieval, reasoning and tool use, under one bounded scope
  • 01

    AI Agents

    Multi-step agents with real tool access, bounded scope and an approval gate on anything that leaves the building.

  • 02

    Computer Vision

    Detection, classification and document understanding on images, video and scanned records.

  • 03

    Generative AI

    Drafting, summarisation and synthesis, grounded in your sources and cited back to them.

  • 04

    Intelligent Automation

    Models placed inside a workflow where they beat a rule, and rules kept where they beat a model.

  • 05

    Recommendation Systems

    Ranking and personalisation trained on your data, measured against a holdout, not a demo.

  • 06

    Decision Support

    Systems that show the evidence behind a recommendation so a person can accept or overrule it.

  • 07

    AI Integrations

    Model routing, cost and latency budgets, caching and graceful degradation across providers.

  • 08

    Enterprise AI

    Tenant isolation, data residency, audit logging and human review, designed in from the start.

Evaluated
Offline evaluation before release, online measurement after
Grounded
Answers carry their sources, uncertainty is stated
Bounded
Scope, cost and blast radius fixed before a system runs
Reversible
Every model path has a deterministic fallback

Software engineering

We build the whole system.

Not a prototype that needs a real team afterwards. Interface, service, data, infrastructure and the operational work that keeps them running.

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  1. 01

    Interface

    • Design systems
    • Web applications
    • Mobile
    • Accessibility
  2. 02

    Service

    • APIs
    • Microservices
    • Real-time
    • Background work
  3. 03

    Data

    • Schema design
    • Migrations
    • Analytics
    • Search
  4. 04

    Platform

    • Cloud
    • CI and CD
    • Observability
    • Cost control
  5. 05

    Trust

    • Authentication
    • Authorisation
    • Payments
    • Audit

How we work

From a problem to a system that holds.

The same six stages whether the engagement runs six weeks or three years. Each one produces something you can read.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We map the process as it actually runs, not as the documentation describes it, and agree what success will be measured against.

  2. 02

    Architect

    Written architecture decisions, a data model, an integration plan and a cost envelope, before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Short increments against a working system. Tests, review and a deployable trunk from the first week.

  4. 04

    Integrate

    Identity, payments, records and the systems you already depend on, connected behind contracts that are versioned.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Staged rollout behind flags, with monitoring, alerting and a rollback that has been rehearsed.

  6. 06

    Scale

    Capacity, cost and reliability tuned against real traffic, then handed over with the runbook.

Technology

Fifteen capabilities. One connected system.

A capability is only worth listing if it connects to the others. Intelligence needs somewhere to run, engineering needs something to reason over, and a platform is what keeps both accountable.

Intelligence

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Generative AI
  • Computer vision
  • Data systems

Engineering

  • Web applications
  • Mobile applications
  • APIs
  • Microservices
  • Automation

Platform

  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • Observability
  • Cybersecurity
  • Compliance

Why AinsworthLloyd

Six reasons that survive contact with the work.

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  • 01

    Accountable for the system

    We are measured on whether the thing works in production, not on whether the sprint closed. That changes what gets built.

  • 02

    Architecture before code

    A written decision record, a data model and a cost envelope come first. Most expensive failures are architectural and arrive early.

  • 03

    AI where it earns its place

    Deterministic logic is cheaper, faster and testable. We use models where they beat it, and we show you the comparison.

  • 04

    Built for the hard rooms

    Federal procurement, clinical governance and financial audit. We build to survive the review, not to pass a demo.

  • 05

    We hand over the keys

    Source, infrastructure, credentials, documentation and a runbook. No dependency on us that you did not choose.

  • 06

    Since 2009

    The firm predates this wave of AI and will outlast the next one. We have replaced our own work more than once.

Start here

Let us build what does not exist yet

Tell us what you are trying to build, automate or transform. You will speak to an engineer, and you will leave the first conversation with an opinion about your problem whether or not you hire us.