AI consulting, built in Irvine, for owners who run the business
Obsessed AI is based in Irvine and works in person with owner-run businesses across Orange County and Los Angeles, and remotely everywhere else in the United States. It was built by someone who ran an AV company in Los Angeles for twenty years, not a generalist agency that added AI consulting this year.
Where does the work happen?
Irvine is home base. Meetings, walkthroughs and discovery calls happen in person for companies in Orange County and greater Los Angeles, and over video for everyone further out. The work itself, building and testing an AI system, happens the same way regardless of distance. What in-person time buys is a faster first conversation, not a different level of system.
What does a first engagement look like?
It starts with a free 30-minute discovery call, not a sales pitch. The conversation covers what's costing time or money right now: slow proposals, missed calls, a handoff that breaks between sales and the field, a senior employee who's become the only source of answers. If the problem and the fix are clear, a scoped proposal follows within 48 hours, sized to one system. If it isn't clear yet, a short paid discovery phase maps the business first, so nothing gets built on a guess. Either way, the first real system is usually running inside two to four weeks.
| Step | In person (Orange County / LA) | Remote (everywhere else) |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery call | Same, free, 30 minutes | Same, free, 30 minutes |
| Walkthrough | At your business | Over video |
| Scoped proposal | Within 48 hours of the call | Within 48 hours of the call |
| Paid discovery phase, if the fix isn't clear yet | Maps the business in person first | Maps the business over video first |
| First system running | Two to four weeks in | Two to four weeks in |
Who is this for?
Owner-run companies doing roughly $1M to $10M a year, where one person still sits in every decision that matters. AV and home automation companies are the starting point, because that's the industry Obsessed AI comes from, but electricians, plumbers, contractors, architects and interior designers in the same revenue range have the same problem: too many hours, too much manual work, too much of the business living inside one person's head. Below $1M the math on a system usually doesn't work yet. Above $10M there's normally already a management layer handling what Obsessed AI would otherwise fix.
Why an operator, not a generalist agency?
Most local AI consultants learned about a dozen industries at once, by reading about them. Obsessed AI learned one industry by running it. Every system that gets offered to a client was built and tested first inside VLOX, a smart home integration company running on these systems, not designed in a conference room and pitched cold. That order, prove it inside a real company before selling it, is the whole difference between an agency guessing what a business owner needs and an operator who has already needed it himself.
What does Orange County's trades economy have to do with this?
Orange County runs on companies exactly like the ones Obsessed AI serves: AV integrators, electricians, custom builders, landscape and pool contractors, interior designers, all owner-led, most doing a few million dollars a year with a small core team and the owner still approving nearly everything. It's a market built on craft and reputation, referrals from other owners and from architects and builders, not national advertising. That makes the owner-dependency problem sharper here than almost anywhere else: the same relationships that built the business make the owner harder to replace inside it. An AI system built for that specific shape of company looks different from one built for a venture-funded startup, and that's the shape Obsessed AI builds for.
What to do this week
- Write down the one thing costing you the most time or money right now, proposals, calls, a handoff, or one person who knows everything
- Note whether an in-person walkthrough matters to you or a video call works fine
- Book the free discovery call and bring both answers
Questions owners ask
Do you have an office I can visit in Orange County?
Obsessed AI operates from Irvine and meets clients in person across Orange County, but does not run a public storefront office. Meetings happen at your business or a location that works for both sides.
Is this only for AV and home automation companies?
No. AV is where Obsessed AI comes from and where the deepest expertise sits, but electricians, plumbers, contractors, architects and interior designers in the $1M to $10M range have the same owner-dependency problem and fit the same systems.
What if my business is smaller than $1M?
The systems Obsessed AI builds are usually not worth the investment yet below $1M in revenue. The free resources, the blog, the glossary and the leak calculator are still useful at any size.
How is a local AI consultant different from a national one?
A national firm often serves dozens of industries without deep expertise in any one of them. Obsessed AI serves Orange County and Los Angeles businesses built around the same trades economy its founder ran a company inside for twenty years.