PillarPoint Consulting

Practical AI for the businesses that built this region.

Local AI advisory practice. Headquartered in Richland, Washington. Serving the Tri-Cities (Richland, Kennewick, Pasco, West Richland) and the broader Pacific Northwest. Run by Patrick Teglia.

Services

Workshops & Talks

Practical AI training for chambers of commerce, business associations, and individual companies. No vendor pitches. Real prompts, real tools, real examples.

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AI Readiness Audit

Two weeks. We review your operations, talk to your team, and deliver a written report covering where AI saves real time and money, and where it’s the wrong tool. $5,000 fixed price. 15–25 page written report plus a 90-minute live readout.

How the audit works

Fractional AI Advisor

Ongoing AI guidance without a full-time hire. 8 to 10 hours per month, on-call between sessions. $3,000 per month, three-month minimum, then month-to-month.

How the engagement runs

Helper Tools

Self-serve apps for specific repetitive jobs. Nine live now, more shipping every couple of weeks. Three free, the rest unlock for $19 a month. Each tool runs on infrastructure we own in the Pacific Northwest, so your data stays out of someone else’s training set.

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About Patrick

Patrick Teglia. Writing software professionally since 1989. Seven years on backend at Smartsheet. Earlier work for the USDA Forest Service, NBCUniversal, the Gates Foundation, and the Chicago Field Museum. Security+ certified. Founder of PillarShield, a live AI content governance product running on Google Cloud, with an option to deploy locally if your business requires that setup.

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Contact

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Writing

From the Field. Short essays on AI for Pacific Northwest businesses.


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