Your Fractional AI & Automation Team
We combine ongoing strategy, hands-on implementation, and practical training to streamline repetitive work, increase capacity, and free people to focus on higher-value work.
How We Help
We turn AI and automation into better ways of working.
Most businesses don’t need more AI tools. They need help figuring out where AI and automation can make a meaningful difference, and the time and expertise to actually put those ideas into practice.
As your business grows, repetitive work, disconnected systems, and manual handoffs quietly eat away at your team’s capacity. We embed a seasoned AI strategist along side an Automation Architect to work alongside your team on an ongoing cadence to prioritize the right opportunities, build practical solutions, and train your people so those improvements become part of how the business runs.
A Smarter Way to Grow
Eliminate repetitive tasks
So your team can focus on high-value work instead of the same steps every week.
Design around your operations
Automations built for how your business works, not generic templates.
Connect your tools and data
Clean, reliable workflows across the systems you already run your business on.
Build systems that scale
More volume without more overhead, more headcount, or more burnout.
This isn't about experimenting with AI. It's about building durable systems that support how your business runs.
How We Work
Ampra supports businesses by providing a fractional AI and Automation team. Our work centers around a cadence of working sessions focused on strategy, building and training. You get an AI & Automation Strategist and an AI and Automation Architect working alongside your team in hands-on sessions, in addition to additional build time that the Ampra team spends building what we identify as the highest leverage opportunities.
FlexFlow Sessions
Working sessions where we:
- Identify the highest-impact automation opportunities in your business
- Design and build automations with your team in real time
- Connect your existing tools and get your team running on them
- Hand off working systems your team owns, not a slide deck
What Working With Us Looks Like
Strategy First
We start with your goals and what you're hoping to accomplish. Once we understand what matters most to you, we'll help you see where AI and automation can make a real difference in your day to day.
Simple Solutions
We work with the tools you already use and love. If there's a need we can't cover with what you have, we'll help you find the right fit and make sure you're comfortable using it from day one.
Done-With-You
FlexFlow sessions are working sessions. We build alongside your team, teaching and training as we go, so they can run and extend the systems once the session ends.
Run by operators, not just technologists.
Ampra is run by two operators who spent their careers inside services businesses, one from marketing and revenue operations, one from IT and cyber security.
Julien Brandt
FOUNDER AND CEO
Julien has spent more than 15 years building, operating, and advising businesses. He founded and grew digital marketing agency OrganikSEO, later merging it into Digitopia, where he served as Chief Culture Officer and then CEO before exiting the business in 2023.
That experience shapes how he approaches AI and automation today. Julien understands firsthand the realities of running a growing company: limited time, competing priorities, messy processes, and plenty of tools that promise more than they deliver. He created Ampra to help leadership teams identify where AI and automation can make the biggest difference, prioritize the right opportunities, and turn them into practical improvements that save time, drive ROI, and make the business easier and more enjoyable to run.
Julien has delivered more than 40 presentations and workshops on AI and automation and serves on the boards of Entrepreneurs’ Organization San Diego and the Better Business Bureau.
Dustin Balint
PARTNER AND COO
Dustin co-founded and operated an IT Managed Services Provider (MSP) company for six years before exiting the business in early 2026. That experience, as well as 20+ years in IT and security, gives him a firsthand understanding of what small business owners and their leadership teams are actually navigating, including what it takes to build a company toward a successful exit.
At Ampra, that shows up as a focus on AI and automation use cases with real ROI, built on solid, best-practices technology foundations. He leads service delivery, operations, and MSP partner relationships.
Who We Work With
Our clients span professional services and skilled trades, from landscaping and construction to wealth management and CPA firms, nonprofits and anyone else looking for help and support when it comes to leveraging AI and automation.
- Landscaping and construction
- Wealth management
- CPA and accounting
- Insurance
- Real estate and escrow
- Healthcare and wellness
- Events and hospitality
- Professional services
- Nonprofits
Let’s build smarter, together.
You don’t need to be an AI and automation expert, you just need a partner who does.
Ready to explore what’s possible?