We turn AI hype into things that actually work.
Sweet Gum Solutions is a small, developer-led studio. We help small businesses and startups put AI to work on the unglamorous problems — the manual tasks, the leaky pipelines, the data trapped in spreadsheets — and measure success in hours saved and deals closed.
Give small teams the leverage of a much bigger one
The sweetgum tree drops a spiky seed pod that looks a lot like a network of connected nodes — which is exactly how we think about your business: a system of workflows that should move data and decisions smoothly from one stage to the next. When one part is manual, the whole thing slows down. We find those bottlenecks and automate them.
# what we optimize for
def success(client):
return (
client.hours_saved > 0 and
client.understands_the_system and
client.can_run_it_without_us
)The standards we hold ourselves to
Clarity over black boxes
You'll always understand what your AI does and why. We build transparent systems you can audit, explain, and trust — never a mystery you have to take on faith.
ROI before novelty
We don't chase shiny demos. Every project starts from a number — hours saved, revenue recovered, cost cut — and we measure against it.
Built to be handed off
Our goal isn't to make you dependent on us. We document, train, and equip your team to own the system long after we're gone.
How an engagement actually runs
Four phases, fully transparent, with you in the loop at every step.
Map
We sit with your team for a week and trace where hours actually go. You get a clear diagram of every workflow and a ranked list of what to automate first.
Build
We design and ship the automation in tight iterations — you see working pieces every few days, not a black box that surfaces months later.
Harden
We add guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop checks so the system is dependable, auditable, and safe to trust with real work.
Scale
Once it's proven, we expand it across the rest of the business and hand you the documentation and dashboards to run it confidently.
What we build with
Whatever stack you already use, we meet it where it is.
A note from the founder
“I started Sweet Gum because I watched great small businesses lose their best hours to busywork a computer should be doing. AI finally makes that fixable — if it's built honestly. That's the whole job.”
Hemanth Grandhige
Founder & Lead Engineer
Let's find your first automation
A 30-minute call is usually enough to spot where AI can save you the most time. No pressure, no jargon.