Bad Alien · AI consultancy
AI Consultant in Pasadena, CA
Bad Alien is an independent AI consultancy in Pasadena, California. I help teams in Pasadena, Los Angeles, and remotely put AI to work: AI solutions built with you, hands-on enablement with tool and model selection, and websites made for AI search. Discovery first, no black boxes, and your team runs it without me when we're done.
Discovery first, no black boxes, and your team runs it without me when we're done.
- Based in
- Pasadena, California
- Working with
- Teams across Los Angeles, and remotely
- Before this
- Eight years in product
Results
Results
“He's become someone we trust for both advice and execution, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to any business looking to improve its operations.”
CAMCO
45min
or less to answer a client or partner inquiry, down from 3+ hours
Read the case study →The Property Inspection Pros
56%
less time per inspection report: 90 minutes to 40, across 400+ inspections
Read the case study →
Who this is for
Teams with a process that eats hours every week
Clients range from medical practices and agencies to investment groups and film productions, usually with one or two workflows everyone knows are broken. These are the kinds of organizations I have built for.
Medical and professional practices
Built a new primary care practice its website, and helped it choose a patient platform on what HIPAA-compliant AI it could support, so front-desk work and patient outreach could be automated from the start.
Read the case study →Primari Health
Real estate and property groups
Rebuilt CAMCO's website, then stayed on as the investment group's AI advisor: a Claude Team rollout that reads SharePoint through the Microsoft 365 connector after an Azure workflow redacts each offering memorandum and a managing partner approves it, two onsite training visits, and a web app that scores prospective properties on power availability. Inquiries that took 3+ hours now take under 45 minutes on average.
Read the case study →CAMCO
Agencies and creative teams
A CFO-sponsored coaching sprint for Code3, a 140-person advertising agency: a ChatGPT-to-Claude migration playbook, a Skills playbook and a ranked map of ten AI opportunities for its executives.
Read the case study →Code3
Inspection, field and document-heavy work
Multimodal AI that organizes each inspection's photos, suggests categories and comments, and surfaces what matters. Report preparation time cut 56%, from 90 minutes to 40.
Read the case study →The Property Inspection Pros
Film, media and mission-driven projects
An agent that coordinates screenings for an independent documentary, from first inquiry to booked date, plus training the crew to use AI for outreach and marketing.
Read the case study →An independent documentary
How it runs
How I work
- 01
Discovery
Deep-dive into your business, challenges, and what you've already tried. No solutions until I understand the problem.
- 02
Plan
Design the right approach: a rebuild, enablement, automation, a full build, or a combination, and whether to build at all.
- 03
Build together
When I build, I build with you. Weekly check-ins, visible progress, and you understand every decision along the way.
- 04
Handoff & beyond
Every engagement ends with your team able to operate independently. And if you need me again, for a new challenge, a second opinion or just a gut check, I'm here.
Why local
Why work with an AI consultant in Pasadena
In the room, not on a call
I'm based in Pasadena and meet clients in person across the San Gabriel Valley and greater Los Angeles: Old Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, Arcadia, Alhambra, Glendale, Burbank, and downtown LA. Discovery works better at your desk, watching how the work actually happens, than over video.
Sensitive data stays in bounds
Law firms, medical practices, accountants and anyone handling client files should not be pasting them into public chatbots. When the data is sensitive, it is scrubbed or kept out of the AI's reach before anything is connected, access follows the permissions you already have, and a usage policy says what may go where.
You own the result
I build with you, not for you. Every engagement ends with a handoff, documentation and 30 days of support, and your team able to run and adapt the system without me. I succeed when you stop needing me.
Services
What I do for Pasadena businesses
Three ways to work together, from a few sessions of coaching to a full custom build to a website made for AI search. Hire me for one or all three; most clients start with one and grow from there.
- 01
AI Solutions
Automations and agents built with your team, with the permissions and approval rules to trust them, after an honest look at whether to build at all.
- 02
AI Enablement
Hands-on sessions built around your real workflows, plus the tool and model choices and the policy to run them safely, until your team can build its own.
- 03
Modern Web
Websites on a modern stack that LLM coding tools can build on, AI features can run on, and ChatGPT / Claude can cite.
Questions
Questions Pasadena business owners ask
Do you only work with businesses in Pasadena?
No. I meet clients in person in Pasadena and across Los Angeles, and I work remotely with businesses anywhere in the US. After discovery, most of the work is remote-friendly either way.
What does AI consulting cost?
It depends on the scope, so I do not quote numbers before understanding the problem. Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute intro call. Then you get a fixed scope and a capped budget, agreed before work starts, and I stay inside it.
How long does an engagement take?
Typical engagements run four to eight weeks, with weekly check-ins. Some proofs-of-concept are done in under two weeks, and enablement sprints for a team can be shorter still.
Do we need technical staff?
No. Most of my clients have none. Enablement work is designed for non-technical teams, and anything I build ships with documentation and a handoff so your people can run it.
Can our data stay private?
Yes. For sensitive data such as client files, patient records or internal financials, sensitive fields are scrubbed or kept out of reach before anything is connected, access follows your existing permissions, and provider data settings are set so your data is not used for training.
What happens after the project ends?
You get a handoff with 30 days of support, and your team operates independently. If you need me again later, for a new challenge or a second opinion, I am a call away.
Start
Ready to talk?
Free · 15 minutes
A free 15-minute call
You describe the work; I say whether and how I can help. If it is a fit, you get a fixed scope and a capped budget before anything starts. If it is not, you get a clear no.
Office Hours · $200 remote · $350 in person
A paid hour on your problem
Nothing is charged when you book. If it wasn’t worth it, tell me within 24 hours and you won’t be charged.
- AI your team pays for and barely uses
- Your first assistant or automation
- A tool decision
- Something that stopped working, or an idea to test
Your data
Sensitive data stays within the permissions you already have: scrubbed or kept out of reach before anything is connected, with a usage policy that says what may go where. The chat on this site is for a general description of the work, never client records.