Steel Tensor | Practical AI Solutions for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

AI That Works for Your Business

Every day, AI tools are changing how businesses operate, but most of the conversation is aimed at large enterprises with dedicated technology teams. That leaves a lot of businesses wondering where to start.

Steel Tensor bridges that gap. We work directly with business owners and their teams to find the places where AI makes a real difference: saving time, reducing errors, and freeing people up for the work that matters most.

No buzzwords. No unnecessary complexity. Just straightforward help from people who understand both the technology and the realities of running a business.

Who We Work With

We specialize in helping small and mid-sized businesses across a range of industries, including:

Accounting Firms
Law Practices
Medical Practices
Financial Advisors
Insurance Brokers
Community Banks
Manufacturing
And many more

How We Can Help

Whether you're just starting to explore AI or you're ready to put it to work, we offer services tailored to where you are right now.

Discover

AI Readiness & Opportunity Assessment

Not sure where AI fits into your business? We'll sit down with you, walk through your day-to-day operations, and identify the areas where AI can have the biggest practical impact. We look at how information flows through your organization, where bottlenecks slow things down, and which tasks eat up time that your team could spend on higher-value work. You'll walk away with a clear, honest roadmap built around your priorities.

Small Business Search

Your team wastes hours hunting through file shares, inboxes, and spreadsheets for answers that should be at their fingertips. Enterprise search tools solve this, but they're built and priced for large organizations. We bring that same AI-powered search capability to small and mid-sized businesses at a scale and price that makes sense, combining best-of-breed tools with our own data loading and analysis software.

Build

Workflow Automation & AI Integration

This is where it gets real. We take the opportunities we've identified and put them into action, connecting your existing tools with AI capabilities to streamline how work gets done. Most of the time that means smart combinations of proven solutions, tailored to how your business actually operates.

Build

Custom AI Development

Sometimes off-the-shelf isn't enough. We (with the help of AI agents) write the code that connects AI to your business: custom MCP servers, API integrations, data pipelines, and purpose-built tools that let AI work with your specific systems.

Secure

AI Governance & Security

There's a good chance your team is already using AI tools on their own. That's natural, but it can create risks. We help you get ahead of it by putting sensible policies and guardrails in place, so you get the benefits of AI without the headaches.

Learn

AI Education Workshops

Whether it's your leadership team thinking through strategy or your staff picking up practical day-to-day skills, we offer hands-on sessions designed to meet people where they are. No prior tech experience required.

Enable

Developer Enablement

We train development teams to use modern AI tooling to speed up their daily development process. Our training emphasizes safe and secure practices so your teams can adopt AI-assisted coding without introducing vulnerabilities or exposing sensitive data.

Whether your focus is greenfield work or you're dealing with large legacy codebases, we can help improve code quality and developer velocity with AI.

Maintain

Managed AI Optimization

AI isn't a set-it-and-forget-it investment. As your business evolves and the technology improves, your systems should too. We provide ongoing support to keep everything running smoothly, up to date, and working hard for you.

How We Work

We keep things simple and transparent. No long-term contracts required. Just clear steps that move your business forward.

Conversation

We start by listening. Tell us about your business, your challenges, and what you're hoping to accomplish. No commitment, no pressure.

Plan

Together we'll identify the best opportunities and map out a clear, realistic plan with honest expectations about what AI can and can't do for you.

Results

We get to work: building, integrating, and training your team. You'll see measurable improvements and understand exactly what changed and why.

Who's Behind Steel Tensor

Steel Tensor is led by Chris Umbel, a technologist with formal education in cybersecurity and AI and over 25 years of experience in the software industry. He has worked for small consultancies serving small clients as well as large Silicon Valley firms whose clients include some of the world's largest companies and governments. That range gives him a clear view of what works at every scale.

Chris's experience spans software development, systems architecture, and AI. He has spent years building real solutions for real businesses, and understands that the best technology is the kind you barely notice because it just works.

When you work with Steel Tensor, you're working directly with Chris. Not a sales team, not a rotating cast of junior consultants. Just experienced, hands-on help.

View Chris's background on LinkedIn →

Practical AI Solutions for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses