Portland AI Consulting: Strategy, Generative AI and Custom Development
AI strategy consulting and generative AI production for Oregon businesses, from the same Portland team that builds the systems. Most engagements start with a half-day AI Opportunity Session, from $1,500.
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AI consulting for Portland businesses, from strategy to production
SLIDEFACTORY is a Portland AI agency on SE Belmont, upstairs from the Horse Brass. We help Oregon companies decide where AI belongs in their business and then build it: AI strategy and roadmaps, generative AI for video, voice and campaign content, custom agents, LLM applications and workflow automation.
Strategy and engineering sit with one team. The people who scope your roadmap write the code, and when an AI project needs a landing page, an API integration or a production deployment, that happens in-house too. We have been the development team behind Portland startups, healthcare companies and national brands since 2018.
AI strategy consulting
Strategy work starts with how your team works today: how requests move, where the data lives and what each step costs. From that map we rank the places AI could help by value and effort, and we say plainly which ones are not worth building.
Small and mid-sized companies usually start with the AI Opportunity Session, from $1,500: a half-day working session and a written roadmap with two or three candidates, a build or don’t-build call on each, and a cost range. The roadmap arrives in about a week. Some sessions end with the advice that a workflow does not need AI at all.
Larger programs add a readiness assessment, tool selection, governance and an implementation plan your team can run itself or hand back to us. See how AI consulting and development engagements are structured, or start with AI consulting for small business.
Generative AI production
We use generative AI as a production tool for training and product videos, voiceover, character assets and campaign content. People stay on the parts that decide quality: scripting, art direction, editing and review.
For BatchGeo we produced six AI-assisted product training videos plus promotional and social assets in two to three weeks, at roughly a quarter to a third of the cost of a traditional shoot with talent, crew and filming days. In our VR training builds for manufacturers, AI generates the narration voices and the in-scene characters.
Formats, process and project examples are on our Creative and Generative AI Production page.
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Why Portland businesses work with us
Plenty of agencies added “AI” to their homepage in 2023. Here’s what’s different about ours:
- We ship our own AI products. CodeRaven, our AI code-review platform, is built and operated by the same team that will build your project. We live with the consequences of our own architectural advice.
- Our AI work is visible in AI. SLIDEFACTORY is cited inside Google’s AI Overviews and receives referral traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini. We practice the AI-visibility discipline we sell.
- Production software since 2018. We’ve shipped web, mobile, VR, and AI systems for clients from local startups to McFarlane Toys: AI projects here land in production, not in a slide deck.
- One team, on SE Belmont. Strategy, development, design, and deployment under one roof at 4520 SE Belmont St. When you need a working session, come by the office.
What we build
AI Strategy Consulting
Readiness assessment, tool selection and implementation roadmaps built around how your team works today.
Explore AI Consulting ServicesGenerative AI Creative Production
AI video, voice, and campaign content at a fraction of traditional production cost.
Explore Generative AI ProductionAI Agents & Agentic Workflows
Custom agents that automate multi-step business processes, from intake to reporting.
Explore AI Agent DevelopmentCustom LLM Development
RAG systems and language models tuned to your data, your terminology, and your compliance requirements.
Explore Custom LLM DevelopmentAI Consulting for Small Business
The entry point for smaller Oregon companies: a fixed-price opportunity session ($1,500) and, if it points somewhere worth building, a first working automation scoped to that one job.
Explore Small Business AI ConsultingGenerative Engine Optimization
Getting your business cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity.
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How an AI project works here
- Readiness conversation. We map your workflows, data, and constraints, and tell you where AI will pay off and where it won’t.
- Scoped pilot. A fixed-scope build against one high-value workflow, with success criteria defined before we write code.
- Production hardening. Security, monitoring, evaluation, and the unglamorous engineering that separates demos from systems your team relies on.
- Iterate and expand. Once the first workflow earns its keep, we extend to the next one, with your team trained along the way.
Working with a local AI agency vs. a remote AI vendor
Remote AI consultancies optimize for the deliverable; a local partner optimizes for the outcome. Working with a Portland team means whiteboard sessions instead of discovery questionnaires, a partner who understands Oregon industries (from healthcare and outdoor brands to manufacturing) and accountability you can visit. It also means continuity: the team that scoped your pilot is the team that maintains your production system.
An AI automation agency for Portland and the metro
If you are searching for an AI automation agency in Portland, Beaverton, or Gresham, this is our day-to-day work: wiring AI into the systems a business already runs (intake, reporting, content operations, code review) and keeping people in charge of the decisions that matter. Our own automation runs in production. CodeRaven, the code-review system we built, has reviewed 1,164 pull requests over 148 days for $161.20 in total AI spend. That is the standard we hold client automations to: measured output, known costs, and a paper trail.
Our AI work
Recent projects include AI video production pipelines, custom RAG systems for client knowledge bases, agentic automation for business operations, and the AI content strategy behind our own search visibility. Browse selected projects, or read what clients say: “It’s not just that they do high-quality work, listen to the client, meet your deadlines, and bring insights that may not have been on your radar”: Peter Kirwan, mebot.ai.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does an AI agency in Portland actually do?
A Portland AI agency helps local businesses apply AI to real workflows: building custom AI agents, LLM and RAG applications, workflow automation, and generative creative, plus the strategy work of deciding where AI pays off. SLIDEFACTORY handles both the consulting and the engineering in-house from Southeast Portland.
What does AI strategy consulting include?
An AI strategy engagement maps your workflows and data, ranks where AI could save time or money, and ends with a written roadmap: what to build first, what to leave alone, rough costs and the order to do it in. Smaller companies usually start with the half-day AI Opportunity Session, from $1,500, with the roadmap delivered in about a week. Larger programs add tool selection, governance and an implementation plan.
What generative AI work does SLIDEFACTORY do?
We produce video, voiceover, character assets and campaign content with generative AI, with people handling scripting, art direction, editing and review. Recent work includes six AI-assisted product training videos for BatchGeo, delivered in two to three weeks, and AI-generated narration and characters in VR training builds.
How much does an AI project cost?
It depends on scope: engagements range from readiness workshops to fixed-scope pilots to production systems. We define success criteria and a fixed price for the first pilot before any build starts, so you never fund an open-ended experiment.
Do you work with small businesses or only large companies?
Both. Since 2018 we have shipped for local Portland startups and small businesses as well as national brands. Pilot-first scoping keeps entry costs proportional to business size.
Can you fix an AI project another vendor or tool started?
Yes, rescuing AI-generated and vendor-abandoned codebases is part of our consulting practice, backed by CodeRaven, our own AI code-review platform.
Is SLIDEFACTORY an AI automation agency or an AI consultancy?
Both, deliberately. The consulting side decides what to automate and whether AI belongs in a workflow at all. The automation agency side builds and operates it, the way we operate our own code-review system in production. Engagements start with a readiness conversation, then a scoped pilot with success criteria set before any code is written. We are based on SE Belmont in Portland and work across the metro, including Beaverton and Gresham.
