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Cardinal Element is an AI-native consultancy founded by Scott Ewalt, a 20-year operator who scaled businesses from $10M to $250MM+. The firm works where AI adoption is genuinely hard: regulated industries, operationally complex businesses, and markets with long enterprise sales cycles.
Our focus is to empower mid-market operators with AI-native solutions that drive real ROI.
> AI Adoption and Enablement. We take teams from first login to daily production use across Claude (Claude Cowork and Claude Code), ChatGPT and Codex, and Gemini across Google Workspace. Engagements start with an AI Readiness Audit, a two-to-four-week diagnostic that maps your data, workflows, team, and stack against what AI can actually do, delivered as a scored, sequenced plan.
>AI for Operations. We turn operational data into decisions and remove manual work. This includes dashboards and decision-grade analytics built on client data warehouses, pipeline and warehouse buildouts, cross-tool workflow automation, and multi-agent systems built on the Anthropic Claude Agent SDK with custom Model Context Protocol servers and knowledge graphs and context graphs for structured domain memory.
>AI Product Development. We turn what your business has built into something it can sell: data products, AI-powered services, and new revenue lines grounded in the operational systems.
Clients include wireless and telecom, AI infrastructure, retail / ecommerce, film production, and media / entertainment. Note for consultancies: we can work under a prime firm that owns the client relationship, contributing platform and expertise while that firm delivers.
Every engagement is hands on and driven by the founder - who scopes the system, trains your team on it, and stays through adoption.
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Min project size
$5,000+
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Hourly rate
$200 - $300 / hr
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Employees
2 - 9
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Locations
Los Angeles, CA
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Year founded
Founded 2020
1 Locations
- Los Angeles , CA
Service Lines
- AI Consulting
- 40%
- AI Agents
- 25%
- AI Development
- 25%
- Generative AI
- 10%
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Industries
- Telecommunications
- 30%
- Automotive
- 20%
- Business services
- 20%
- Other industries
- 10%
- Retail
- 10%
- eCommerce
- 10%
Clients
- Midmarket ($10M - $1B)
- 85%
- Small Business (<$10M)
- 15%
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Our Story
We are Cardinal Element, an AI-native growth architecture firm. Our team blends AI adoption, operations automation, and AI product development to align orgs, data, and workflows for scalable pipeline, conversion, and retention. We deliver readiness audits, team enablement, data pipelines, multi-agent systems, knowledge graphs, and rapid prototyping—turning client tech and brand assets into repeatable, revenue-driving systems.
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