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Anthony Cruz
Co-founder, Chief Revenue Officer
Anthony leads every evaluation engagement from first call through proposal. Connects with founder-led firms on the mechanics of selling and scaling, and runs the commercial side of every build.
About
We evaluate a business first, then build the fix the evaluation calls for.
AUSH AI is a small, founder-led firm. We started it because most operational fixes get thrown on top of a business and never fit how it actually works. We do the opposite. We go inside, map the real workflows, and build from within.
“Working directly with our clients is the point. For a firm our size, that is not a limitation. It is the architecture.”
Why we exist
Most fixes fail because nobody evaluated the work first.
We kept seeing the same thing. A business is busy, something is quietly costing it money, and the tools meant to help are bought or built on a guess. They are designed around what someone assumes will help, not what an evaluation proves will help. So they miss the workflow, and the business ends up adapting to the tool instead of the other way around.
We built AUSH AI to do it in the right order. We evaluate the operation first. We interview the people who do the work, map where time, money, and effort leak out, and put a defensible figure on each one. Only then do we build, and we only build what the numbers justify. The diagnosis and the build are one engagement, not two sales.
Founded 2025. Small team by design.
What we believe
Four things shape every engagement we take.
We build from within, not on top.
Real value comes from real context. Before we propose anything, we go inside your business and learn how it actually works. The solution is built around how your team already operates, so they never have to adapt to it.
We tell you what not to build.
Not every problem is worth solving. When the numbers say a fix would cost more than it returns, we say so, in writing. We keep a record of what we recommend against, and we are accountable for those calls, not just for the work we sell.
We measure ourselves in your numbers.
A deck is not a result. We judge our work by whether your business is measurably better off, and we keep tracking that after the build ships. If the work does not move a number that matters, we are not finished.
We stay after the build ships.
We do not hand off and disappear. The same founders and engineers who run your evaluation build your system and stay on to keep it tuned. For a firm our size, working directly with our clients is the point.
The team
You work with the people who do the work.
We are a small, intentional team of engineers and operators who would rather go deep on a few engagements than spread thin across many. Every engagement is founder-led. There are no account managers and no handoff to a junior team.
You talk to the people who run your evaluation and build your system, from the first call to long after launch. That is a deliberate choice about the kind of firm we want to be.
The founders
The people who run your evaluation and build your system.
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Dylan Ausherman
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer
Dylan leads the strategic direction of AUSH AI and the build side of every engagement. The technical lead on most engagements.
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Rhett Smith
Chief Technology Officer
Rhett leads delivery on every engagement. The person who turns evaluation findings into shipped systems.
Start here
Want to see what an evaluation would find in your business?
The assessment takes about three minutes and points you to the right starting place. If you would rather just talk, email works too.