Built in the field,
not the abstract.
Drew Anderson is the founder of Thanks Anderson, Inc., an AI and automation consultancy in Scottsdale, Arizona. I do one thing: I find where a business is losing hours to manual work, build the AI and automation that takes it off their people, and then make sure it actually gets used. I built what I needed while doing the job myself. Now I build it for other people.
I didn't come to AI from software. I came to it from the work.
For more than 20 years I worked in sales and management, much of it in territory management, where I grew one region by more than 300% and learned how to turn ambiguity into a repeatable process. Then I went to work in one of the most rule-bound industries there is, and hit the wall everyone there hits: the work that actually helps people is buried under manual, repetitive tasks. Which option fits this client. What the fine print really says. How to get an answer without three days of back-and-forth.
So I built the thing I needed. The result was Max: a system that pulls fast, accurate answers out of 170+ dense source documents, so a team spends its time with clients instead of digging through files. Not a demo: it runs in daily production for a licensed sales team, validated on 1,000+ real cases, in an environment where a wrong answer costs a real person a real outcome.
That's the whole story. I hit the friction myself, built what removed it, and got a team that hadn't asked for it to use it daily. That's the work now, for other businesses, and for public agencies doing the same job on tighter budgets.
Four steps, one direction.
One focus. Not a menu of practices.
AI integration and automation: built, deployed, and actually used.
Finding where the hours go, building the system that takes that work off your people, putting it where they already work, and training them until it's habit. Everything else on this site is a version of that same job, whether it's a private company or a public agency with a fiscal-year window and micro-purchase rules to respect.
The AI works inside our guardrails, so every answer fits your business.
This is why the output can be trusted where it counts. The AI handles the reading and the drafting. The facts come from your rules, and the decisions stay with your people, who now make them faster, with better information in front of them.
Most AI projects never reach daily use. Ours did.
Industry research puts the share of AI pilots that produce no measurable return at roughly 95%. The reason is rarely the technology. It's that nobody trains the team, so people quietly go back to doing it by hand. The team using Max didn't ask for it and didn't want it at first. Getting it into daily use took a training lab, readiness scenarios, and a feedback loop, and that part comes with your build too.
The range is the point.
I work in the field I build for
I built my first system for a licensed, regulated industry, as a licensed practitioner in it. I didn't theorize about where the friction was. we hit it myself, every week, and then built the thing that removed it.
We ship real software
Max is in daily use by a licensed sales team, built by directing AI coding systems, not waiting on a dev team. Production tools that give people their hours back, on a founder's timeline.
20+ years in sales and management
Every number on this site is counted, not estimated.
Including a territory I grew 300%+, plus hands-on experience leading and training teams. I've run the processes I now streamline, so I know what adoption actually takes.
I've run high-stakes projects
As a Licensed Builder I managed complex construction and renovation work: the same rigor around scope, deadlines, and getting it right that I bring to software.
Precision over hype
When the work touches people's money and their families, close enough isn't. Compliance and accuracy come first, every time.
Three rules I don't break.
Build the real thing
Production tools, not prototypes. If it can't survive daily use, it isn't finished.
Do right by people
The tool serves the client, never the other way around. The recommendation is the one that fits, not the one that pays.
Precision over hype
Especially where compliance, money, and families are involved. I'd rather be right than loud.
Where is your team losing hours?
Find out in three minutes, free, without talking to anyone, or book a 30-minute call and we'll work it out together. Want to see one working first? Ask for a demo.
Straight answers, no pitch. If AI isn't the right tool for it, I'll tell you.