Houston · Fort Worth, Texas J.D. Candidate, Class of 2028

Benjamin Richter Advisory · Founder & Principal · Est. October 2025

AI strategy a business
can actually run on.

The Advisory exists for one kind of client: an operating business that suspects AI could matter to it and wants working software, not a slide deck. I scope the problem with the people who do the work, build the system, and hand it off with the team trained to run it.

I.

How engagements run

Scope → Build → Handoff
i.

Scope

Sit with the people doing the work, map the systems they touch every day, and agree on the problem worth solving before anything gets built.

ii.

Build

Working software early, then iteration against live operations data until the system earns a place in the daily routine.

iii.

Handoff

Documentation, training, and a team that can run the system without me — including directing the client's own developers when a build needs more hands than mine.

II.

Engagements

Three clients · 2025–present
i. Bradford Consolidated Logistics
Enterprise AI
Campus Logistics
Active

Bradford runs campus logistics at a major technology company's Bay Area headquarters* — thousands of deliveries, inspections, and movements a day, spread across three enterprise systems that don't talk to each other.

I lead AI strategy for the operation: a conversational layer that unifies those three systems, so a question that used to mean three logins and a spreadsheet is answered in one sentence.

  • Conversational AI layer across three enterprise logistics systems
  • Predictive cross-system alerts grounded in real operations data
  • Retrospective coaching for operators, built from what the data shows
  • Build direction for the client's senior developers, plus hands-on development
ii. Handy Hands Roofing
Field Operations
CRM · Vision AI
Delivered

A Houston roofing contractor whose business ran on text messages and memory. I built the firm a full CRM — jobs, crews, materials, payments — shaped around how roofing work actually moves, from the first door knock to the final invoice.

  • Full-stack CRM covering jobs, crews, materials, and payments
  • Vision pipeline that turns job-site photos into client-ready reports
  • Built for the field — simple enough to use from a truck between jobs
iii. HoopsWithZae
Web · Lead Capture
Delivered

A private basketball training business in Houston that needed a front door on the internet. Brand site and lead-capture system, designed and deployed end to end — including the email infrastructure behind it.

  • Brand site, designed and built from scratch
  • Lead capture wired straight to the trainer's inbox
  • Domain, email, and hosting — the whole stack, handled
III.

Considering an engagement?

The practice stays small by design — law school has first claim on the calendar. If your business has a problem that sounds like the ones above, I'd like to hear about it.