10+ years
01
WordPress development
Custom themes, plugins, performance work, and migrations for small businesses, nonprofits, and cultural projects across the LA area.
Westwood · Los Angeles
Practical AI engineering for real Los Angeles businesses.
We are not a venture-funded AI startup chasing the news cycle. We are a small, working consultancy based in Westwood, Los Angeles — with a decade of real production experience and a calm, privacy-aware approach to AI.
01 / 04Who we are
A working consultancy, not an agency pitch deck.
AI Guy in LA is led by Omar Abu Assaf — a Los Angeles-based full-stack developer with over a decade of hands-on production experience. Most of that experience is exactly what business owners actually need: WordPress that does not break, Django applications that do real work, AI integrations that survive past the demo.
We work directly with the founder, partner, or office manager who has the problem — not through layers of account managers. When you book a call, you talk to the person who will write the code. When you have a question six months in, the same person answers the email.
Our clients tend to be the kind of organizations that take their own work seriously — law firms, clinics, nonprofits, consultants, educational programs, and small research-oriented businesses. They want practical results, plain explanations, and a partner who treats their data carefully.
02 / 04Experience
Real production work, not a portfolio of demos.
Multi-year
02
UCLA department environment
Professional experience supporting web and technology infrastructure within a UCLA department environment — project pages, news workflows, content updates, and institutional-style publishing needs.
Recent
03
Django + Next.js platforms
Production Django + React systems including Alumniyat Hub (AI-powered editorial multi-agent platform), Poets & Liqa platforms, and TaskHub project tracking.
Recent
04
AI workflow automation
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google model integrations — chatbots, content pipelines, multi-agent editorial systems, and internal tools with human-in-the-loop review.
Recent
05
Pasadena Language Center
Legacy PHP/MySQL placement-test modernization — admin workflows, email results handling, database security hardening, and documentation.
03 / 04Engineering philosophy
How we think about AI and software for businesses.
Practical AI, not hype
We build automation that solves a specific business problem you can measure — faster response to leads, fewer hours on repetitive FAQs, more reliable content workflows. If a feature does not save time or earn revenue, it does not ship.
Privacy-first by default
AI only gets the data it needs. We start with public information (your site, FAQs, service descriptions) and only widen access under written scope. Testing uses synthetic dummy data — outside contractors never see real client records.
Human in the loop
AI is great at first drafts, triage, and routing. People are still better at judgment, tone, and edge cases. Our systems route important actions through human review before they go out.
Lightest-touch path
We will tell you when a problem does not need AI at all — sometimes a better form, a faster page, or a small workflow change is the right answer. Tools should match the problem, not the trend.
04 / 04How we work
Four steps from first call to live system.
- Step 01
Listen
30-minute audit. We watch how your team currently works and ask where it hurts most.
- Step 02
Scope
Written scope with a fixed price, a clear timeline, and what is explicitly not in the build.
- Step 03
Build on staging
Everything ships to a private staging environment first. You can click around before any customer sees it.
- Step 04
Ship and support
Go-live, training for your team, and ongoing support with a real person on the other end of the email.
Next step
Want to see if we are a fit?
Book a 30-minute audit. You will leave with three practical automation recommendations — whether you hire us or not.