Michigan & Midwest · AI/ML Consulting

AI-First Consulting for the Businesses Big Tech Ignores

Boutique AI and ML expertise, built for small and mid-sized businesses. We bring enterprise-scale experience directly to you — at a price that makes sense.

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What We Do

The AI era is reshaping what’s possible.
Most businesses won’t see the benefit.

Large consultancies are chasing enterprise contracts. Startups are building for startups. Small and mid-sized businesses in the Midwest are left to figure it out alone — or waste money on tools that don’t fit.

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Custom AI Products

We build AI-first workflows and software tailored to your actual operations — not generic SaaS you’ll never fully use.

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Local Focus

Michigan and the Midwest. We prefer clients nearby — real relationships, not remote-only engagements.

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Better Value

AI multiplies our output. We pass those gains to you: faster delivery, lower cost, without cutting corners.

The Obvious Question

Why hire consultants when AI can code?

Fair question. Here’s the honest answer:

Experience still drives outcomes

Knowing what to ask AI, what to reject, and how to make the right design trade-offs — that’s a skill. Raw output isn’t the hard part anymore. Judgment is.

Accountability matters

AI doesn’t own the code, support it, or maintain it. We do. When something breaks at 2am, that’s on us — not a chatbot.

Focus on your business

Even if you could build it yourself, should you? Let us handle AI tooling so you can focus on the value you deliver to your customers.

AI still needs human judgment

Architecture decisions, product sense, trade-offs, security, performance — opinionated engineering judgment is still human work.

Our Approach

Four pillars. No fluff.

Human-Centered AI

Technology built around real human needs. Dr. Zhou’s PhD was literally on this — it’s not a marketing line.

AI-First Delivery

Approximately 99% of code written with AI, guided by experienced engineers. Faster delivery, significantly lower cost.

Reasonable Pricing

We’re building new consulting models for the AI era. Pricing that works for small and mid-sized businesses, not just enterprise.

Local Partnership

We prefer Midwest clients and real working relationships over remote-only transactional engagements.

About

Enterprise AI expertise.
Now working for you.

Knowsun is led by Dr. Daniel Zhou, who holds a PhD in Human-Centered AI from the University of Michigan School of Information (2013) and brings 15+ years of AI/ML experience.

His last decade was spent at Amazon AWS, where he launched or led some of the most widely-used AI services in the cloud: AWS Comprehend, AWS Translate, AWS Kendra, Q Business (GenAI enterprise Q&A), and Quick Suite (enterprise Agentic AI).

Now he’s applying that scale of expertise to help small and mid-sized businesses compete in the AI era — without the enterprise price tag.

CREDENTIALS

PhD, Human-Centered AI — University of Michigan

15+ years AI/ML experience

AWS Comprehend · AWS Translate

AWS Kendra · Q Business · Quick Suite

Amazon AWS, 10 years

How We Work

Built for the AI era.
From the inside out.

We don’t just build AI products — we run on AI ourselves. That shapes how we hire, how we work, and what we expect.

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3-Day Workweek

In the AI era, people should work less. We believe AI multiplies output — so we pass that time back to our team. Work smarter, live better.

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Pair Programming

Every unit works in pairs: junior + senior, or peer + peer. Better code, faster learning, shared ownership of quality.

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AI-Native

We don’t fight AI — we build with it. If you want to work at the frontier of how software gets built, this is the place.

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Our Work

Projects in progress.

We currently have two projects underway, both in stealth mode. Details coming soon.

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Stealth Project 01

Details coming soon

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Stealth Project 02