Houston's hands-on AI partner

Your 10× AI Promise starts here.

We upgrade your employees — not your payroll.

SplitStep sets AI strategy, trains teams on the tools that matter, and ships real implementations. The result: leaner teams, automated workflows, and capabilities that weren't possible before — proven across the companies below.

10x Client Spotlight
Horizon Industrial Technologies
Rebound Dynamics
Hangar67
Cirrus Aircraft
Nabors Drilling
01 / About

Who you work with

David Kent

David Kent

Founder — SplitStep

David builds and ships AI systems that change how companies operate. He has rewritten multi-year codebases on AI foundations, trained non-developers into working programmers, and wired physical IoT devices to the cloud with conversational analytics on top.

The throughline across every project: replace slow, expensive process with automation and well-trained people — then measure the result. SplitStep brings that same approach to your team, and hosts a growing AI meetup community in Houston.

02 / Services

What SplitStep does

S-01

AI Strategy Consulting

Identify where AI creates real leverage, prioritize use cases, and build a roadmap you can execute — not a slide deck.

S-02

Custom Training

Curricula built around your business, data, and workflows. Designed to make employees measurably more productive — the goal is 5× output, not AI awareness.

S-03

Implementation & Build

Automations, custom AI tools, integrations, and cloud telemetry — built and shipped inside your stack with security and access guardrails.

S-04

Workshops & Enablement

Hands-on, role-specific sessions that get teams confident with the tools they'll use the next day. Plus the Houston AI Meetup community.

03 / Selected Work

Proven results

Rebound Dynamics Rebound Dynamics SmartBox RFID inventory container

Training non-developers into a shipping engineering team

RFID / Inventory Management

Trained non-developers to become working programmers and rebuilt an entire codebase — previously the work of 50+ developers over several years — with a fraction of the team and cost.

80%
Reduction in IT costs
50→2
Reskilled product and operations personnel to save on IT costs
Horizon Industrial Tech Typhoon 325 exploded blueprint view with annotated components

IoT telemetry, conversational data, and AI-streamlined operations

Industrial IoT / AI Integration

Programmed Particle Tracker devices to stream telemetry to the cloud, built a connector to chat with that data plus a dashboard, and integrated the rental, inventory, and bookkeeping systems with AI tools. Set up a centralized repository with security and guardrails to manage employee authorizations.

$100K+
Saved in software consulting costs
15+ hrs
Saved for leadership every week
Hangar67 ICON A5 light sport aircraft listed on Hangar67

A 3-year codebase rebuilt on an AI foundation

Aviation Marketplace / Automation

Rewrote and streamlined a codebase that took three years to develop, giving the platform an AI foundation to build new features at breakneck speed — while fully automating manual data entry.

3→0
Data-entry headcount, fully automated
3 yrs
Of legacy code rewritten on an AI foundation
04 / Trust

Security, privacy & control by default

Adopting AI shouldn't mean handing your data to someone else's cloud. We architect every engagement around your security posture, regulatory obligations, and the option to keep models and data entirely in-house.

T-01 · Security

Guardrails & access control

Centralized repositories with authentication, role-based authorization, and audit trails — so the right people reach the right systems and everything is accountable. Built and proven in production.

T-02 · Data Privacy

Your data stays yours

Clear data boundaries, minimization, and retention controls. We design pipelines so sensitive information is never exposed to third-party training and never leaves systems you control.

T-03 · Legal & Compliance

Built to meet your obligations

We map AI workflows to your contractual, regulatory, and industry requirements — and document them — so legal and leadership can sign off with confidence rather than caveats.

T-04 · On-Premise AI

Private & self-hosted models

When the cloud isn't an option, we deploy AI on-premise or in your private environment — tuned to your data and workflows, fully under your control, with no data leaving the building.

05 / Community

Houston AI Meetups

Where Houston builds with AI

SplitStep hosts regular AI meetup events in Houston — founders, builders, and curious professionals sharing what's working, demoing real projects, and learning from each other. Beginners and veterans both have a seat.

Hosted in
Houston, TX
In-person · Recurring

Let's talk.

Tell us about your team and what you're trying to achieve. We reply within one business day.

EMAIL — hello@splitstep.com
BASE — Houston, TX
WORKING — With teams everywhere
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