Offering 01
Consulting
Technology strategy, architecture, cloud, security, cost optimization and modernization, aligned to your business. You get a prioritized plan and a clear view of spend and risk.
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Strategic consulting, value-focused training, and secure custom development, trusted for over 20 years.20+ years of strategic consulting, value-focused training, and secure custom development.
Redrock Systems is a team of architects and engineers. We tie every technical initiative to a business outcome, design cost control and security in from day one, and train your people to use AI without leaking your data.
About
Architects first. Business always
Technology is our expertise and our passion. We specialize in strategic consulting, security, automation and secure custom development. We combine sound architecture with strategic judgment to help clients find new opportunities, reduce risk and streamline operations.
Services
Four ways we work with you
Every engagement is scoped and fixed in a written Statement of Work before any work begins. It sets out what is included, who will do the work and how long it runs, so there are no surprises. It starts with a short conversation about your goals, followed by a written proposal for your review.
Our offerings
Offering 02
Training
Live, remote secure-AI-use sessions for leaders and staff, plus the "Cut your AI bill" workshop.
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Offering 03
Custom development
We design and build AI and automation systems, with cost control, security and monitoring designed in.
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Offering 04
The CAIO program
A fractional Chief AI Officer who takes the AI seat part-time, owns the roadmap and reports to your board.
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Why Redrock Systems
- Architecture-led.
Every engagement is led by a principal architect. We work at the level where technical projects usually fail: data, integration, identity and cost. - Independent advice.
We take no reseller, referral or partner fees. - Security, infrastructure and automation under one roof.
That has been the core of the practice for over 20 years. - Cost-sensitive architecture, enhanced by AI.
We design for efficiency first and use AI to strengthen the architecture, never to work against it. - Remote-first.
Workshops, reviews and board sessions run on video, and we come on site when it matters.
Approach
How we think about AI
Business outcome first
Every initiative gets an owner, a success measure and an operating estimate before anyone builds. We decide what to build, buy or stop.
Cost control, designed in
We treat AI spend the way good cloud architects treat cloud spend. Cost attribution, model tiering, caching, batching and routing go into the design, not into a cleanup project a year later.
One good system before ten fragile ones
We review agent, memory and integration designs against published frameworks such as the AWS and Azure Well-Architected guidance for AI workloads. Security is part of the design, not an afterthought.
The situation: AI arrived one pilot at a time
Most companies did not plan their way into AI. They bought licenses, ran pilots and let teams try tools. Some of that worked. A lot of it stalled, and the bill kept growing.
50%
of GenAI projects were abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, by Gartner's assessment of hundreds of implementations. An analyst assessment, not a census.
Source: Gartner, "Why 50% of GenAI Projects Fail", Jan 2026
25%
of AI initiatives delivered the expected ROI, in IBM's study of 2,000 CEOs. Only 16% scaled enterprise-wide.
Source: IBM IBV and Oxford Economics CEO study, May 2025
98%
of FinOps teams now manage AI spend, up from 31% two years earlier.
Source: FinOps Foundation, State of FinOps 2026
1in 5
organizations reported a breach involving shadow AI.
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025 (Ponemon), Jul 2025
What is usually missing is one accountable owner for the business case, the architecture and the bill.
Who we work with
Who we work with
- CEOs
- CFOs
- CIOs and CTOs
- Board members
- PE operating partners
Contact
How can we help?
What it is for, what it costs, and who owns it. Start with a short call. We will tell you honestly whether a diagnostic makes sense. Tell us what you are working on.
Experience
20+yrs
Strategic consulting, training and secure custom development for over 20 years.