Daryl Smith Consulting partners with small to mid-sized businesses to make AI practical and measurable. We help owners clarify the problems AI should solve, map data readiness, and design affordable AI solutions that automate support, streamline back-office tasks, and surface insights your team can trust. From picking the right models to building guardrails and human-in-the-loop workflows, I translate hype into usable tooling that fits your budget, security posture, and pace of change. The goal is to let your people focus on customers while automation takes care of repeatable work.

Cloud migration consulting is often less about tools and more about sequencing. We assess what should move, what should stay, and how to modernize without disrupting revenue. We design landing zones, IaC patterns, and cost controls that keep operations lean. Paired with DevSecOps consulting, We help you standardize pipelines, embed security scanning, and tighten release management so changes ship faster with fewer surprises. Whether you're adopting containers, serverless, or managed services, I guide teams through runbooks, playbooks, and dashboards that make your environments observable and resilient.

Our background includes delivering CMS, Medicaid, DoD, DoJ, and other federal program platforms, so compliance and auditability come baked in. I can help you navigate data handling standards, vendor reviews, and risk assessments while keeping delivery schedules realistic. If you need lightweight governance, I set up clear release gates, artifact traceability, and incident response rituals that match the size of your team. The result is a practical operating model: AI and cloud capabilities you can afford today, a DevSecOps foundation that scales, and a partner who has shipped in regulated environments and knows how to keep stakeholders confident.