LL-001
Teardown
Three-day audit of your firm's workflows. We map where AI moves the needle and where it doesn't.
- ·Delivered in 3 days
- ·Written report + 60-min walkthrough
- ·Credited toward any Sprint
EST. 2026 · MILWAUKEE, WI · 47.2°N
Lapham Labs
Production AI for Midwest architecture and real estate firms.
Custom systems, shipped in 14 days. Built once, maintained, and yours.
Lapham Labs · Milwaukee
§ 01 · The problem
Most enterprise AI is theatre.
We build the part that ships.
95%
of enterprise GenAI pilots produce no measurable contribution to revenue or margin.
MIT NANDA · State of AI in Business · 2025
80.3%
of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver business value. Twice the failure rate of conventional software.
RAND Corporation · confirmed by Gartner · Apr 2026
39%
of companies now have AI in production at scale, up from under 5% two years ago. The gap is execution, not models.
MIT Sloan Management Review · 2026
§ 02 · Services
Five ways to deploy.
LL-002
Roadmap
A two-week, written plan: which systems to build, in what order, with cost and ROI for each.
- ·10 prioritized initiatives
- ·Build/buy/wait recommendation
- ·Vendor shortlist where relevant
LL-003
Build Sprint
Fourteen days, one production system, shipped to your team and running on your data.
- ·14-day delivery
- ·Production-ready, not a demo
- ·30 days of post-launch tuning
LL-004
Operations
Ongoing tuning, monitoring, and small-feature work for systems already in production.
- ·Same-day Slack response
- ·Monthly written report
- ·Bring-in for new builds at retainer rate
LL-005
Strategic AI Advisor
Embedded as your firm's strategic AI advisor. Strategy, hiring, vendor calls, the lot.
- ·One to two days per week
- ·Quarterly board updates
- ·Direct line to engineering
§ 03 · Live demo
Show me your website. I’ll show you the AI you should be building.
audit.laphamlabs.com
Open in new tab ↗Takes about a minute. We’re really reading your site.
§ 04 · Case study · 2025
Milwaukee architecture firm, multi-hour zoning lookups cut to 20 minutes.
Problem ·A 100-person Milwaukee architecture firm works across most of the municipalities in southeastern Wisconsin. Every early-stage project starts with the same task: pulling zoning, setback, and overlay-district rules out of a different city’s code. Done by hand, that’s a multi-hour stretch of careful reading before anyone can sketch.
Build ·I shipped a retrieval system over every municipal code the firm regularly works in, with an AI layer that finds the relevant sections and summarizes what they actually require. Every answer cites the exact code section it drew from, so the architect can verify in one click.
Outcome ·Multi-hour lookups now take around twenty to thirty minutes. The tool is in active use across the firm and has held up unchanged since handoff.
“I was in a rush the other day and used Win’s tool. What would have taken me an hour and a half took twenty-seven minutes. I timed it.”
§ 05 · How it works
Three steps. No surprises.
- 01
30-min discovery call
We talk about your firm, your workflows, and the two or three places AI could pay for itself this quarter. No deck. No pitch.
- 02
Teardown
Three days later you get a written audit. What to build, what to skip, and what it would cost. Credited toward any Sprint.
- 03
Sprint or retainer
If it makes sense, we move into a 14-day Build Sprint or a fractional engagement. If it doesn't, we don't.
§ 06 · Who builds this
Charles Winder Williams.
President, AI Forge at Marquette. Marquette AIM Fintech program. Builds production AI systems for Midwest architecture, engineering, and real estate firms.
Lapham Labs is a one-person, full-stack practice. I do the discovery, the design, the engineering, and the hand-off. When a build needs more capacity, I bring in vetted engineers from AI Forge, the AI engineering organization I lead at Marquette, and call on my advisor Hunter Sandidge for senior expertise. Every line of code still ships through me.
Advisor
Hunter Sandidge
Former Manager of Data Science & AI Engineering, Collins Aerospace
§ 07 · FAQ
Questions you probably have.
If any of this matches the kind of firm you run, let’s talk.
Thirty minutes. No deck. No pitch. Just a real conversation about what you’d ship if you had the team.