Portland, Oregon
We work with growth-stage companies and leadership teams ready to actually move — with a clear framework for where you are, a team that knows how to get you further, and builders who can ship.
Let's talk →How We Think
Over 80% of organizations are using AI the same way — individual employees prompting tools ad-hoc. That's useful. But the companies pulling ahead are the ones building AI into how they actually operate. There are four stages to that journey. Knowing where you are is the first step to getting somewhere.
Where most companies are today.
Employees use AI individually — drafting, researching, answering questions. Useful, but fragmented. The productivity gains don't compound.
A few hours saved per person, per week.
AI is embedded in daily workflows with access to company context. Teams get faster. Individual contributors do more with less.
Teams reclaim 10–40% of their time.
AI agents handle recurring work — ticket routing, pipeline updates, reporting, onboarding. People stop doing things machines should do.
Revenue per employee as the metric that matters.
AI runs critical workflows. Human teams focus on judgment, relationships, and the work that actually requires them. The org scales without proportional headcount.
The gap between stages isn't about buying better tools. It's about operator judgment — knowing what to change, in what order, and how to bring your team along. That's where we come in.
How We Work
We assess your current AI maturity across the org — not just which tools you're using, but how work is actually getting done. Then we build a roadmap that's honest about the gap and realistic about how to close it.
Strategy without execution is just a deck. Our team designs and builds the workflows, agents, and systems that actually advance your maturity — and we do it alongside your people, not as a handoff.
Sometimes you need someone who's done this before to sit at the table with you. We embed as fractional CPO or COO — in the meetings, on the roadmap, making the hard calls — until you're ready to own it.
The Team
Doug Hanson founded PDX Consulting after years at Amazon, Microsoft, Vivid Seats, GrubHub, and Topcoder. The practitioners around him don't fit neatly into job titles — they're people who use AI to move faster than traditional teams, ship things that used to take months in weeks, and adapt quickly because that's how they've always worked.
We're not a staffing agency with a bench of specialists. We're a small team that's figured out how to get outsized things done — and we bring that to every engagement.
What we're good at
Moving organizations up the AI maturity curve — from scattered tool usage to real operational leverage.
How we're different
We bring operator judgment and builder capability to the same engagement. You don't have to choose between strategy and execution.
Where we work
Remotely and on-site — whatever moves the work forward.
Let's Talk
If we're a good fit we'll say so — and if we're not, we'll tell you that too. No pitch decks. No lengthy process. Just a straight conversation.
Portland, Oregon · Available Remotely
hello@pdxconsult.com