Boutique by choice.
Built on a rare combination.
Alpen Tech is an AI consultancy for small and mid-sized businesses that want to operate at the altitude of a company ten times their size, without the headcount or the lock-in. One principal, deep accountability, and a builder-operator-engineer-founder lineage that is uncommon at this size. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and remote-native: we work with clients across the US, on-site wherever it helps.
Phil Howard.
Alpen Tech is founded and led by Phil Howard. Seventeen years in technology leadership, including a technology implementation and operating-model change at a Fortune 20 retailer, high-growth tech, and government agencies. Nuclear and mechanical engineering training before the tech career, with early years on industrial manufacturing floors. He carries executive and corporate-finance accountability, and ships production AI systems every week.
No agency, no handoff to a junior team. You work with senior people who build what they scope and sign what they ship. Phil is the principal and the face of the practice today; as Alpen grows it adds trusted people who work the same way.
Executive, operator, engineer, founder.
One person who has carried each of these, which is why the same engagement can talk to a CFO, a plant manager, a VP of engineering, and a founder without losing the plot.
Enterprise AI leadership
Technology implementation and operating-model change at a Fortune 20 retailer, high-growth tech companies, and government agencies.
Executive accountability
Corporate-finance accountability and small-business P&L ownership. The CFO conversation and the founder conversation in one engagement, no code-switching.
Engineering training
MS in Nuclear Engineering, BS in Mechanical Engineering, and early years on industrial manufacturing floors.
Founder velocity
Production AI systems shipped every week on an open stack the client owns. No proprietary runtime, no hostage data.
Small on purpose. Growing on purpose.
We keep the book small on purpose. A handful of engagements at a time is what makes engagement-level diligence possible, and what lets us quote outcomes instead of hours. As the practice grows, it grows with trusted people who work this way: senior, accountable, and close to the work. You will see it here first.
Work directly with the people who build it.
A short intake call. No agency layer, no handoff. You leave with a written view of where AI belongs in your P&L.
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