Serving the institutions that serve our communities.
Kolo AI Solutions
AI Consulting for Public Institutions
Four practitioners. Over 80 combined years in public-serving institutions. We help mission-driven organizations identify their highest-leverage administrative and instructional pain points and use AI to lighten them, where it actually fits.
What We Actually Do
We assess your team's real administrative and instructional pain points through a structured survey and in-person sessions. We identify which pains AI can meaningfully reduce, which can't, and which have better non-AI solutions.
A phased plan that names the pains worth tackling, the AI use cases your team has already endorsed, the prerequisites, and what we are explicitly not recommending and why.
Where the strategy calls for it, we build custom AI automations, dashboards, or workflows tailored to your operations. No off-the-shelf products.
Your staff learns to use and maintain every tool we build. We leave capacity, not dependency.
We serve the institutions that serve communities — school districts, social service agencies, nonprofits, and local government — with AI implementation grounded in practitioner expertise, not Silicon Valley assumptions.
Four Verticals
Each vertical is led by a member of the Founding Circle with decades of direct experience in that field. Dr. Burbanks provides AI technical implementation across all four.
K-12 districts and education programs face heavy reporting burden, individualized learning planning, and staff capacity constraints. We map where these pains actually live, then identify AI applications that can reduce them, within FERPA constraints, designed with practitioners, not consultants.
Frontline agencies, JFS, children's services, behavioral health, carry crushing documentation loads while serving people in crisis. We assess where the burden falls, identify AI uses that protect both worker time and client dignity, and recommend honestly when AI is the wrong tool.
Mission-driven organizations stretch small teams across grants, fiscal compliance, donor relationships, and program delivery. We help leadership see which administrative pains AI can ease without diluting mission, and which require people, not technology.
Local governments face constituent demand, transparency requirements, and inter-agency coordination, all on tight budgets. We assess where the bottlenecks actually are, then identify AI applications that respect public trust, transparency, and procurement realities.
The Founding Circle
Not a hierarchy. A circle. Four members who bring complementary expertise and decades of work inside the institutions we serve.
Ph.D., Education · M.Ed. · AI Technical Implementation · 30 years in education
Education · AI Lead Across All Verticals
B.A., African American Studies · Children Services Program Support Specialist · 27 years, Hamilton County JFS
Social Services
Ph.D. · M.C.P., City Planning · Systems design and community development
Government & Municipal
Ed.D. · M.S.W. · Former COO, Boys & Girls Club of Madison, WI
Nonprofits
Services
Every engagement starts with understanding your operations — not selling you a product.
A comprehensive evaluation of your organization's current technology use, staff capacity, pain points, and opportunities. You receive a prioritized roadmap — not a generic report.
Starting at $2,500
Hands-on AI training where your staff builds working tools during the session. Differentiated tracks for leadership, frontline staff, and technical teams.
$1,500 – $3,000 per session
Ongoing AI strategy, implementation, and training on a monthly retainer. A fraction of the cost of a full-time technology officer — with more domain expertise.
$5,000 – $15,000/month
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