Anacay

Most businesses run on systems that don't talk to each other, and a person in the middle holding it together.

Anacay is an independent advisory company that helps a business turn the technology it ended up with by accident into decisions it makes on purpose.

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Stuck on something with AI?

A problem, a challenge, a workflow that won't behave. Send it to us, and we'll publish the path to a solution and send you an answer written for your situation.

Send us what you're stuck on

Does any of this sound like your week?

Nine things owners tell us. Two of them are enough.

If two of these are true this week, that is what a first conversation is about. Pick the one that stings.

What we do

If you cannot point at one thing

We go in, figure out how the business actually runs, and tell you what to keep, what to fix, and what to stop paying for. Then we measure whether it worked.

That is the Walkthrough: five to eight conversations over two weeks, and a presentation at the end.

Five to eight conversations. Two weeks. Then you get the picture.

  1. Conversations
  2. Analysis away from the building
  3. The presentation
→ How the work actually gets done — the Walkthrough

If you already know what is wrong

Almost nobody does the first and third parts. If the one thing is how long it takes your business to answer a stranger, the Front Door Check measures it before and after.

Measure. Fix one thing. Measure again.

Almost nobody does 1 and 3.

A way to start, at a fixed price

Who we are

We sell no software and take no commission.

Anacay is an independent advisory practice in Clearwater, Florida.

Yadira Santos

Co-Founder & President

Yadira Santos

Yadira has owned and run businesses of her own for most of her working life. Two restaurants first. Then a furniture business she ran for sixteen years — started in North Carolina, kept going through a move across the country.

In between she ran a training center building partnerships with government agencies, and closed that chapter as Sales Director for a telecom's government division, accountable for every state and federal account on the island.

Guillermo Martinez

Principal, AI Value Strategy & Delivery

Guillermo Martinez

Guillermo has spent twenty-five years making complicated technology behave — running a small company first, with the P&L on him, then at a scale where being wrong was expensive.

Capacity and cost for infrastructure at a scale where a bad forecast was expensive. Regulatory obligations turned into processes engineers could actually execute. A failing service rebuilt from about seventeen hours of downtime a year to about ten minutes.

By 2019 one of the functions he ran had been automated end to end. There was no manual work left in it, and he was moved rather than replaced — which is the promise this practice makes, delivered once already as an outcome rather than asserted as a claim.

→ Where the method comes from

We are independent. We sell no software, we take no commission from anyone, and we have nothing to push.

The Front Door Check

We test your front door the way a stranger meets it — the form, the phone in and after hours, email and messages — then follow each enquiry inside your business and give you a fix plan, ranked by priority.

It's an add-on to the AI Check-Up or a build. We test openly as ourselves, and you keep the map and the fix plan whatever you decide.

→ What the Front Door Check is

We time your front door.

  • the form
  • the phone during hours
  • the phone after hours
  • the email

Two other ways in

You run a business, and the technology under it is nobody's job.

Practices, firms, clinics, contractors — ten to a hundred people.

→ What we do for small businesses

You run technology at scale, and someone is asking what the AI spend returned.

→ What we do for larger organizations

Where we are

We are spending this autumn in rooms across Pinellas and Hillsborough, listening to what owners actually say is broken, rather than arriving with a package built for a company a thousand times your size.

What we bring is the discipline: connecting spend to what it produced, and saying plainly which it was.

The disciplines are the same at your size. The scale is not.

→ Where the method comes from

Same discipline. Different scale.

in the words an owner uses

  • KEEP
  • IMPROVE
  • RETIRE
  • GOVERN
  • SPREAD

in the words a board uses

  • STOP
  • SCALE
  • FIX
  • GOVERN
  • FUND

The story behind the name

Anacacuya is a story from the island both of us come from — a guide who kept a light where others could find it. We heard it as children, in the way those stories survive: told rather than written.

Anacay is pronounced Ana-kai.

→ The story, as we heard it

Know what is working before you fund what comes next.

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