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About Outsource Think
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Outsource Think exists for teams that know AI should already be changing how the business works, but need systems, workflows, and engineering discipline to make it real.

We do not sell slideware. We map the operating bottleneck, build the useful system, and help the team adopt the change.

The work sits where strategy, automation, product engineering, and daily operations meet.

Operating principles

Useful over impressive

The best AI work disappears into better daily operations.

Systems before spectacle

No demo matters until the workflow is reliable enough for real people to use.

Builders own outcomes

Senior engineering judgment stays close to the business result.

Adoption is the product

A system only counts when the team can use it without ceremony.

We position your enterprise to best adopt AI long-term.

We build & run your outcome-based AI strategy so you stay Relevant for the next decade.

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You're focused on business success today. We focus on the next 10 years. We know that the companies that adopt and iterate with AI are the ones that will stay standing, or rise to the top. We make sure that's you.

Matt Derman, founder of Outsource Think
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That gap

"The gap is rarely ambition. It is the missing system between what the team knows, what the tools can do, and what actually happens every day."

Matt Derman, founder of Outsource Think
Matt Derman
Founder
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Here's what we do

AI Strategy

We audit what takes up your team's workday and produce a high-level AI adoption and strategy plan.

The plan is free. Follow it with or without us.

Team Adoption and Enablement

We help your team get more from AI and the software they already use.

Through practical training, they learn to spend less time on grunt work and focus on the problems that matter. We love upskilling your team.

Our workshops are employee skills-development training. Eligible employers may qualify for SETA grants, subject to the relevant requirements.

Outcome-Based Engineering

Once we've developed the strategy, our senior engineers build context systems, automate workflows and create custom software.

Our in-house software development lifecycle helps us deliver at speed.

Finance Engineering

We help with FP&A, forecasting, budgeting and analysis.

We also work across sales and finance operations, including accounts payable and receivable, procurement, treasury and reconciliations.

We start by upskilling your team. Then we identify workflows and adopt software or our own products, such as our subledger platform, Bastian.

We audit what takes up your team's workday and produce a high-level AI adoption and strategy plan.

The plan is free. Follow it with or without us.

We help your team get more from AI and the software they already use.

Through practical training, they learn to spend less time on grunt work and focus on the problems that matter. We love upskilling your team.

Our workshops are employee skills-development training. Eligible employers may qualify for SETA grants, subject to the relevant requirements.

Once we've developed the strategy, our senior engineers build context systems, automate workflows and create custom software.

Our in-house software development lifecycle helps us deliver at speed.

We help with FP&A, forecasting, budgeting and analysis.

We also work across sales and finance operations, including accounts payable and receivable, procurement, treasury and reconciliations.

We start by upskilling your team. Then we identify workflows and adopt software or our own products, such as our subledger platform, Bastian.

Our Approach

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Strategy

First, we identify:
a) What fires are burning right now (or where your manpower is going)
b) The 80/20 AI use cases that can deliver results. We quantity the potential return where we can.

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Transformation

We up-skill your team so they understand how this new world works and how to iterate on their own workflows day-to-day. We really love teaching and seeing the dramatically higher quality outputs & shared progress from teams who understand and can improve their AI systems themselves.

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Engineering

Our talented engineers really shine when it comes time to build robust software and AI workflows. We are experienced developers from before the age of AI, who use AI-assisted engineering to ship 100x faster than incumbents. We take responsibility for the system and stretching it's last-mile reliability.

FAQs

Useful AI work needs practical answers before it needs another demo.

Dev shops sell capacity. Outsource Think sells outcomes: sharp builders, AI-accelerated delivery, and software that fits how the business works.

Find the biggest bottlenecks, build AI-driven solutions, train people to use them reliably, measure impact, then repeat.

It depends on scope. Engineering can run as an output-based monthly partnership. Transformation work is scoped around time, complexity, and measurable business value.

Business impact comes first. No strategy without implementation, no endless diagnostics, no slideware pretending to be progress.

We run outcome-based product and engineering work that uses AI acceleration to ship production-grade software faster and more affordably.

At-scale teams that want to become AI-first but do not have enough internal focus, tooling, or engineering leverage to make it happen alone.

Send the workflow, tool stack, or operating problem. We will map the first useful system from there.

Matt Derman, founder of Outsource Think

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