AI consulting for operatorsEst. 2010Arlington, Virginia

A corporate brain. An operating system that delivers.

For companies with a process that eats people's time. We build a brain that holds what your company knows and an operating system of agents that does the work. Live in production, measured in dollars and hours.

$14B+ in loans processed on a marketplace we built. ~30% more sign-ups reaching live after a sales-led flow went self-service.

Brain Memory Every decision your company made, with the reason attached.
$14B+

in loans processed on RealAtom, a lending marketplace built on $5M of seed capital.

0→70+

product and engineering org built from zero at a real estate platform valued above $1B, SOC 2 included.

10K+

lenders brought onto that marketplace, at 51 to 65% twelve-week retention.

85%

accuracy on a machine learning prediction engine built for a venture-backed client.

Calculators

Tell it what you run. It builds the math.

Describe your software or a task your team repeats, in your own words. A model reads it and sets up the right calculator with your numbers. Or fill it in by hand below.

AI reads what you type and fills in the numbers below. You can change any of them. It only answers questions about software and task costs.

What you pay for today

Example figures. Replace with yours.
Assumptions you can change
Over 3 years, building saves $0

$0to keep renting
$0to build and run
n/abreak-even
Keep rentingBuild once, then run it
Cumulative cost over time: keep renting versus build once and run
    See the numbers as a table
    Illustrative. Build costs are planning ranges. A real quote comes from the diagnostic. Send these numbers to us
    What we build

    Two builds. One system.

    The brain is what your company knows. The operating system is what it does with it. Either one alone is a demo.

    The brain

    Everything your company knows, in one place agents can read.

    You already know how to win. That knowledge sits in decks, tickets, chat threads and three people's heads. We pull it into one structured memory that your people and your agents both work from.

    • Memory. Decisions, with the reason attached.
    • Playbooks. How your best operators do the work, written down.
    • Metrics. One definition for every number, so two teams stop reporting two answers.
    • Voice. What customers said, verbatim and searchable.
    The operating system

    Agents that finish the work, on a schedule, with a judge at the gate.

    A brain that only answers questions is a wiki. The OS does the work: your team runs skills by name, agents close tasks end to end, and loops run every morning and stop themselves when the output is wrong.

    • Skills. Repeatable work, one command each.
    • Agents. A narrow job, a named owner, real tools.
    • Loops. Daily and weekly runs with stop rules. Nothing ships silently broken.
    • Evals. A judge scores every output before a customer sees it.
    Services

    Six ways in. Pick the one that hurts most.

    AI agents

    Multi-agent systems for the work that eats your team: intake, document review, compliance checks, content, reporting. A human reviews where the stakes justify it, and nowhere else.

    You get agents in production, an eval suite, and a runbook your team owns.

    SaaS products

    Strategy, architecture and build for AI-native SaaS, from first sketch to paying customers. We have taken products from seed funding to billions in transaction volume.

    You get a shipped v1, instrumented from day one.

    Automations

    The handoffs, re-keying and status chasing between your systems, removed. Event-driven, observable, and boring in the best way.

    You get hours back every week, with a number on it.

    Digital transformation

    Replace a manual, people-heavy motion with a self-service one. We have done it for sales, onboarding and back-office review inside regulated, high-trust businesses.

    You get a roadmap tied to dollars, then the first slice live.

    Custom models

    Classifiers and fine-tuned models for the cases where a general model is too slow, too costly or too loose. One recent build: a 1.9B-parameter model fine-tuned on 150,000 examples across 176 categories, after a smaller one kept hallucinating.

    You get a model you own, with the eval set that proves it.

    Team training

    Hands-on training for executives, operators and small teams. Nobody watches slides. Everyone builds something they will use on Monday.

    You get a team that ships with agents, and the kit to keep going.
    Industries

    Five industries we know from the inside.

    Technology

    The stack, picked for the problem.

    We are not tied to a vendor. The right model is the cheapest one that passes your evals, and the right framework is the one your team can run after we leave.

    Work

    What changed after we built it.

    Three builds running in production at a global two-sided marketplace. The client is confidential. The numbers are not.

    Sales-led to self-service ~30%more signed merchants reach a live listing
    Before
    Every new merchant went through a sales rep to get listed.
    Built
    Self-service sign-up where AI writes the listing and compliance is checked before the contract.
    After
    Onboarding steps cut by a third. Sign-up time nearly halved. No rep in the loop.
    Back-office review ⅓of the manual review time, on every submission
    Before
    People checked each submission by hand: documents, licences, fraud, pricing.
    Built
    A multi-agent system that collects, extracts, validates and flags.
    After
    Reviewers only see the cases where a mistake is expensive.
    Content and classification ~75%lower image classification latency
    Before
    Listing copy written by hand. Image checks too slow for a live flow.
    Built
    Content agents fed by a playbook library, plus a rebuilt classifier.
    After
    A model judge scores every piece, and the score decides what publishes.

    Products and clients since 2010

    • Voice ProfileFree MCP server and browser demo that measures how you write and checks AI drafts against your own style. Counted in code, compared with 41 public-domain books. Five ways to use it.
    • SquadySocial app for going out together: grab a local deal and get dropped into the squad going with you, with chat, invites and in-app vouchers.
    • Masha Sharma AcademyPractical AI training academy: the site, the downloadable course kit and the sign-up flow.
    • RealAtomCommercial real estate debt marketplace. Both sides designed and built, broker origination and lender bidding, through $14B+ in loans processed.
    • Inventory.aiInventory management for short-term rental hosts. Computer vision and voice count the stock, the system suggests reorders, and damaged or missing items get tracked per stay.
    • IronIndexMachine learning that predicts triathlon race results from athlete and course data.
    • E-commerce marketplace, AtlantaAn online storefront platform built with and for small merchants.
    • Five venture-backed startupsProduct leadership and machine learning builds, including a social analytics platform that grew users 200%.
    • Ad AstraCompany site built to show sign language, internationalization and localization services.
    Process

    Four steps. You can stop after any of them.

    Each step has a fixed price, agreed before it starts. There are no retainers and no hourly billing.

    A 30-minute call

    You bring one process that hurts. We ask what it costs today, in hours and in dollars.

    30 minutes · free

    Diagnostic

    We sit with the people who do the work and map where the time goes. You get a ranked list of what to automate, with a number on each line.

    About 2 weeks · fixed price

    First slice live

    One agent, end to end, on your real data and infrastructure. It ships with evals, so you can see how often it is right.

    4 to 6 weeks · fixed price

    Scale and hand over

    We widen what works, train your team to run it, and leave you the code, the prompts and the runbook.

    Scoped from results
    Fit

    Who this is for, and who it is not.

    Good fit
    • You can name a process that costs real hours or real money every week.
    • Someone on your side owns it and has the authority to change it.
    • You want it running in production, with a number attached.
    • You will give us access to the data and to the people doing the work today.
    Not a fit
    • You want an AI strategy deck and no build.
    • Nobody owns the process, so nobody can approve a change to it.
    • You need hourly staff augmentation for an existing roadmap.
    • You want a chatbot on the website because a competitor has one.
    Training

    Teach the team to run it without us.

    Private training for your team

    Hands-on sessions built around something your people ship by the end. Open courses run through Masha Sharma Academy, a Citrusworks client.

    See the academy
    • Build Your AI BrainAn AI that knows you, your brand, and your first AI employees.
    • Digital TransformationWhere AI changes how a company runs, and how to lead it.
    • Agentic WorkforceTeams where people and agents work side by side.
    • Agentic DeliveryShipping with agents: plan, build, review, release.
    • Agentic CommerceSelling when your customer sends an agent to buy.
    • Custom Model TrainingWhen to fine-tune your own model, and how.
    Blog

    Notes on putting AI to work.

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    FAQ

    What buyers ask before they sign.

    What is a corporate brain?

    A corporate brain is one structured memory of what your company knows: its decisions and the reasons behind them, its playbooks, its metric definitions and what customers said. It is written so that both people and AI agents can read it.

    What is an AI operating system?

    An AI operating system is the layer that turns that knowledge into finished work. It is made of skills your team runs by name, agents that complete tasks end to end, scheduled loops with stop rules, and evals that score every output before it ships.

    What does it cost?

    The first call is free. The diagnostic and the first build are each a fixed price, quoted before the step starts, so you know the number before you commit. If a step does not earn the next one, you stop.

    How long until something is live?

    About two weeks for the diagnostic, then four to six weeks to a first agent running in production on your data.

    Where does our data go?

    It stays in your systems. We work inside your environment and your accounts, under your NDA, and your data is not used to train anyone's models.

    Who owns what you build?

    You do. The code, the prompts, the fine-tuned models, the eval sets and the runbook are yours, and your team is trained to run them.

    What do you need from us?

    One owner with the authority to change the process, access to the data it runs on, and time with the people who do the work today.

    Will this replace our people?

    It takes the repetitive part of the job. People keep the cases where a mistake is expensive, and those are the cases they were hired for.

    What if AI is the wrong answer?

    Then we say so on the first call or in the diagnostic. Some problems need a simpler process or a plain script, and that is cheaper for everyone.

    How do we know it works?

    Every agent ships with an eval suite. You see the score before anything reaches a customer, and you keep seeing it after we leave.

    Contact

    Bring one process that hurts.

    Tell us which workflow costs you the most hours or the most money. We will tell you whether the answer is a brain, an agent, or neither.

    Citrusworks started in Arlington, Virginia in 2010 as a software studio. Today it does one thing: it puts AI to work inside companies. Senior operators only. The people who scope the work are the people who build it, and nothing is handed to a junior team.

    We reply by email. Or write to hello@citrusworks.io.