Sixth City AI team of consultants and AI agents collaborating on client deployment

Culture, Curiosity, and the Coming AI Wave: Why Sixth City AI Works Differently

At Sixth City AI, we don’t operate like a traditional consultancy—and that’s by design.

Our cross-functional AI consulting teams don’t look like the norm.  We're lean, cross-functional squads made up of seasoned professionals and AI agents working side-by-side. In the morning, a team might design a custom prompt system; by lunch, they've connected it to the client’s live environment; and by afternoon, they’re already guiding teams through hands-on adoption workshops. It’s fast, efficient, and deeply collaborative. But it only works because of how we hire—and how we think.

We don’t just look for technologists. We look for translators—people who can break down complex AI systems and explain them in plain English. We seek out curiosity, humility, and empathy. The kind of people who don’t just know how transformers work, but how they’ll change the daily life of someone in accounting, or HR, or logistics.

And while our teams include both humans and AI agents, the relationship is symbiotic. Our consultants aren’t just prompt writers—they’re thought partners with their digital counterparts. We rally fast to crack problems—together, creatively, and without the red tape. We thrive in constraints. We move with urgency. We know how to get big things done with small budgets because that’s where we come from.

Our roots go back to the dot-com boom, when the scrappy won the day. Now, we're watching the next transformation unfold—bigger and faster than what we saw in the early 2000s. Artificial intelligence isn’t a trend. It’s a tidal shift. And it’s going to hit American businesses harder than the industrial revolution did a century ago.

That’s why we exist.

AI has the power to level the playing field—to turn today’s Davids into tomorrow’s Goliath-slayers. But that only happens if small and mid-sized businesses have the right tools and trusted guides to navigate the change.

At Sixth City AI, we bring both. We combine deep expertise with practical empathy. We don’t believe in selling AI for AI’s sake. We believe in helping clients make it real—ethically, effectively, and affordably.

And when we’re not building solutions or running workshops, you might find us kayaking down the Cuyahoga River, sharing stories about the projects that excite us most.

This is more than work—it’s a calling to make AI truly useful for real people. A movement. And we’re just getting started.