Welcome!

Finding the right Balance

Yes, "AI" is out there and we're embracing it, here at PH-Balanced we lead by example.

Generative AI has had a big leap forward and it is rewarding to see how much it can accomplish in a short period of time. However it is not perfect and has limitations.

We want to challenge you to take a deep dive on the generated images we created. Be critical of the output. There is a logic behind the images and the styles we chose and prompts we engineered.

What we want you to learn from your deep dive is that if you are expecting Machine Learning, Deep learning and neural nets to be a magic wand to wave, change your expectations.

For the foreseeable future, AI is still very much learning and growing. If you are asking yourself if AI is right for you - talk to us first.

We've been in the thick of Generative AI for a while now, and have our sea legs. Let us help you!

Oh, and spoiler alert: Artificial Intelligent doesn't exist. It is a term of use, like "The Cloud". And no, we didn't use GPT to write the copy, that's all us.

Proposing Innovative Solutions

In a lot of ways, innovation is a leap of faith. But let's be pragmatic: innovation is difficult and risky.

Let us help you mitigate the risk of finding emerging technologies to use. Honestly, we may even propose some battle tested tech because sometimes the risk isn't worth it and comes at too high a cost.

We're here to help you find the right solution at the right time and on budget.

Executing on Deliverables

If you're still reading this, good for you! TLDR; If you can't execute on deliverables, you won't achieve success.

The first step is to define what success means to you and your organization. After that, we can find solutions to support your deliverables.

At PH-Balanced, we don't do endless meetings and reductive slide-shows that don't go anywhere, or upsell you to another product. We want you to be successful.

After you define what success looks like (even on a napkin) we will help you execute it.

Finding the right technology

Vendor Assessments, Security Assessments, build vs. buy, TCO, ROI, SOC. It's a lot to handle.

Finding the right technology is simultaneously the most trivial and non-trivial decision your business can make. It's a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a... well you know the quote.

We have two decades of experience using technologies as consumers, developers, engineers, architects, security specialists and managers.

We've done everything from making small e-Commerce sites to creating brand new products from scratch.

If you're stuck, let us guide you. We can help with everything from RFPs to analysis.

Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is not about lurking on social media and then deciding what the next trend is by scrolling your feed and saying: "I want to be the next...". That rarely if ever works without a lot of capital investment.

At PH-Balanced, we did the whole social media thing and we've gone back to basics. You're not going to find us posting to up our brand through click-bait. Our brand is our word, and that is something in short supply these days.

Our goal is to find the spaces in between, to figure out where the gaps are in the market and help you find your niche that is sustainable.

If we can be brilliant along the way, all the better!

Having Fun along the way

So, yeah - we got the generative AI bug... there's that.

But can you blame us? It's just really fun! And, everyone needs to have some fun once in a while.

Running a business can be a chore and stressful beyond belief. The world is a funny 'ol place.

Our goal at PH-Balanced is to provide a really healthy work experience. The best ideas come from when we have fun.

Every image here, the CSS and some of the coding was done with an AI assistant, because we wanted to see what it could do. For us, developing the next move was realizing that there are some really great tools out there.

And honestly, we had to step in a few times because we knew better. Generative assistants still don't know how to keep one organized and we don't want to grant them all access in our file system yet.

Communicating Results

At the core of our delivery strategy is supplying you with a way to communicate back to your stakeholders with honesty and conviction. We want you to know that when you speak, you can back up what you say.

What drives this core is the ability to see the micro and macro level of engineering with a great deal of perception. And we'll create great documentation to that effect.

Part of our mission is a philosophy we've coined: "The Art and Zen of Successful Failure." or "How we learned to love it when things go wonk-a-doodle."

Success and Failure are not spherical in nature, nor are they weighted all the same. They do not take up the same amount of volume, or have the same densities.

Let's face it: one person's definition of success is sometimes another's definition of failure. We'll help you control that.

We will pledge to you that we will be honest with how to proceed in a way were your organization can make the most out of your definition of success.

Developing the next Move

A quick admission here - we're ok at chess, but collectively we will never be a champion. However, we can program the code that makes an AI bot that will play chess for us.

Developing the next move is still very much a human endeavor, no amount of programming of synapses can reach the computational level and experience you have right now - today - reading this with your mind.

Developing the next move within your organization will be a human effort. You, your staff, your stakeholders are all valuable and valued. We're not interested in changing that.

Having said that, we will always look to future technology and give it a go. It's only human.

A desire to learn

Our vision statement is this:

You are only limited by your imagination, and a desire to learn.

Our goal is to learn everything we can about your organization, your mission, your culture and how you are successful.

You're going to expect a lot from us, so we're going to expect a lot from you in return.

The best thing about how we work, is that it shouldn't feel like work. Well, maybe keeping the network up, or the datacenter intact, or keeping bugs out of the application code, keeping funders and the executive team in the know, problem solving, writing documentation... but other than that: totally not work. Promise.

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