Consulting

Three capabilities.
One discipline.

Three capabilities composed against the question you bring. Agents that read your operating data and the documents and written judgment a spreadsheet cannot open. Calibrated measurements that guide your firm toward its goals. The frameworks that translate the findings into the move worth making. Anchored in economic research, not the off-the-shelf prompts a vendor would hand you.

I. AI workflow automation

Agents can be built to authenticate to operating systems and read the documents and written material a spreadsheet cannot open, assemble it on a schedule into the working form the analysis needs, and produce the recurring reports that would otherwise be rebuilt by hand.

Sources
Authenticated integrations

Where the data lives.

Accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale, payroll, and marketing-analytics systems, and the documents, written evaluations, and unstructured text a spreadsheet cannot open. Connectable through authenticated application programming interfaces (APIs) on a schedule, with new connectors added per engagement as the question requires.

Pipeline
Assembled for analysis

How the data is shaped.

Source-system extracts can be reconciled, de-duplicated, and assembled into the working form the analysis needs. The same numbers flow through every downstream report.

Output
Calibrated signals

What leadership reads.

Dashboards, calibrated anomaly alerts, and a weekly large-language-model (LLM) generated executive summary that flags what shifted, what looks routine, and what deserves attention before the next operating review.

II. Econometric analysis
Grounded in the business context.

Pricing changes, new markets, redesigned operating processes. Each one raises a question about what's actually moving the numbers.

Most operating dashboards report what moved together. Econometric analysis looks at the relationships between operating measurements and the outcome a firm is working to advance, given the market conditions and expectations the business operates under. It reads measures built from qualitative judgment the same way it reads numeric data, so the patterns inside written assessments can be weighed against outcomes, not merely counted.

III. Strategic analytics & decision frameworks
What each person and team really add.

Turn the read into people decisions. Free the hours lost to repetitive work, and measure what each person and team actually add against the goals the firm has set, with methods built for exactly that question.

Time returned for complex work

The hours, tracked to where they land.

The hours the automation gives back, measured rather than assumed, and tracked to whether they land on the complex work only people can do.

Contribution, net of the team

One person's effect, isolated from the group.

Isolate one person's effect from the group around them, the way performance models control for the rest of the field. Credit and development land where they belong.

Unobservable performance, estimated

The traits a single metric misses.

Recovered with latent-variable models rather than guessed. Reliability, judgment, and initiative, estimated from the evidence instead of left to impression.

Team composition and complementarity

Who works well with whom.

What a given combination produces beyond the sum of the parts. The same people deliver different results in different mixes, and the mix is the decision.

A worked example

Performance evaluations,
read the way an economist would.

Here is how the three capabilities compose into one system. An organization processes performance evaluations across departments and wants them consistent, personalized to the executive who signs them, and read for what they reveal about where people fit.

Years spent turning written evaluations into consistent, defensible assessments across very different people, courses, and goals as an educator sit behind this work. Quantifying qualitative judgment is the craft.

Step i
Ingest and remember

Every read carries the right context.

The submitted evaluation comes in, and the agents build a store of that person's history, the firm's rules, and prior notes. Nothing about the role is forgotten between cycles.

Step ii
Standardize and summarize

Measured against what the role requires.

Agents read the evaluation against what the role and the department actually call for, which differ by job, then produce a short, consistent summary with the full report one click away.

Step iii
Keep the executive's voice

Personal, not boilerplate.

The executive dictates feedback, and the system learns how they write and keeps their wording. Format is standardized across the firm. Tone stays the person's own.

Step iv
One dashboard, one source of truth

Visible only to the executive.

The digested read and the executive's assessment land on a dashboard only that executive sees, each linked back to the original evaluation it came from.

Step v
Read the patterns, place the people

Comparative advantage, applied to your workforce.

Across many evaluations, the agents surface where praise and complaint cluster within and across departments, never singling out one person in isolation. The economics reads it as a question of fit. Who is doing their best work where, and who would do better work somewhere else.

One system, drawn from all three capabilities. The automation ingests and standardizes, the causal measurement reads the patterns, and the strategic analytics turns them into where each person fits best. The same composition meets the other operating questions a business brings.

The toolkit behind the read

What an applied economist and an educator
bring to the read.

Applied-economics methods joined to years of building fair, consistent assessments. The disciplines combine selectively, depending on the question on the table.

Labor economics
Team composition, training return on investment (ROI), compensation structure, and the marginal contribution of each person priced against output. The lens that distinguishes a real productivity gain from a payroll increase, and that reads where each person fits best.
Behavioral economics
How people actually behave, not how a model assumes they do. The biases that creep into a review, like leniency, halo, and recency, and how people respond to incentives and to being measured. Accounted for, rather than ignored.
Causal inference
Quasi-experimental designs (difference-in-differences, event studies, synthetic control). The frontier of econometric methodology, applied so a pattern in the evaluations is a real signal, not an artifact of who wrote them.
Managerial economics
Opportunity cost and marginal analysis brought to bear on people choices. Which seat earns its keep, which strength is being passed up, which move returns the most.
Financial economics
Valuation and discounting brought to people decisions. What a hire, a promotion, or a year of development returns against its cost, and the hurdle that return has to clear.
Assessment design
The craft of measuring qualitative work, built over years of assessing very different people against very different goals. Designed so a score means the same thing for everyone it touches.
The process

From question
to operating system.

Four steps from a question on the table to a system the team runs. The depth shifts with the engagement. The sequence holds.

i.

Diagnose

Sharpen the question. Read the data, the existing reporting, the operating context. Identify what already works and what the dashboard is missing.

ii.

Define

Decide what to measure, from first principles, anchored in the goals the firm has set and the work itself, not a borrowed scorecard.

iii.

Build

Deploy the agents, ship the pipeline, build the dashboard, calibrate the alerts. Hand the running system to the team.

iv.

Operate

Run the system on a schedule. Surface anomalies, refine measurement, support the strategic decisions on the operating calendar.

Bring a question.
Receive scope, fee, and a written reply.

Every engagement begins with a question, usually one sentence. A written reply follows with the engagement format that fits, the scope, and the fee. Usually within a week. Or book a free 20-minute intro call and bring the question to the conversation.