AI installs for owner-operators, and the research that keeps them honest.

GoldenHammer Innovations is a Decatur, Illinois practice that sets small operations up to run on AI and teaches the people who run them to drive it. The same shop runs a research lab that measures what AI and quantum simulation can actually do on hardware a small company can own.

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Your office, set up to run on AI

For owner-operators who run the operation and the office at the same time, and who are finding that the office is winning. We put your paperwork, books, and correspondence on modern AI tools, built inside your own accounts, and then we stay to keep it working.

  1. Assessment

    Half a day, on-site or remote, mapping what eats your week from your actual files and your actual inbox rather than a questionnaire.

    You leave with a written plan and a fixed quote.

  2. Install

    Two to three weeks of setup, automation, documentation, and training at the quoted price. Everything lives in your accounts, and you hold every credential from the first day.

    You leave with a working system and a playbook.

  3. Operator retainer

    Each month we tune what has drifted, add the next workflow on the list, and coach you on getting straight answers out of the tools instead of flattery.

    Cancel any month.

How an engagement works

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Research on hardware you can own

The research informs how the work gets done, and the work is the proving ground for the research. Every result comes from measurements on our own lab, not from a vendor's benchmark sheet.

Quantum simulation on edge GPUs

Where GPU acceleration overtakes the CPU for quantum statevector simulation on NVIDIA's Jetson Orin, including a silent cuStateVec failure on its sm_87 architecture and the source build that resolves it.

Agent systems

ATHENA, a local agent platform with a fine-tuned tool-calling model, two-stage routing, and retrieval over more than 37,000 indexed passages, evaluated on a 367-case test set.

Edge inference and the lab

Which workloads can leave the data center for hardware a small company can own, tested on a multi-node lab of Jetson and RTX 3090-class machines that we built and validated ourselves.

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Who you would be working with

GoldenHammer is run by Adam Mitchell, an independent researcher in Decatur with more than fifteen years of Linux and systems work behind him. He designed, built, and validated the lab the research runs on, and he runs his own family's multi-entity company on the same tools he installs for clients, which is where every one of the working rules on the practice page was learned.

GoldenHammer Innovations LLC is the AI practice of M&B Consortium Corp., a family-held company in real estate, agriculture, and business services. ORCID 0009-0004-4028-4471.

Start with an email

Tell us what eats your week, or what you are researching. New engagements begin in December 2026, and we are glad to set up a first conversation before then.

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Decatur, Illinois