About Thinkfox
Casey Bates founded Thinkfox in the tech hub of Boulder, Colorado in April, 2024. Thinkfox pulls-together Casey's extensive consulting background, his expertise developing online educational content, and his passion for building practical AI applications.
Prior to Thinkfox, Casey spent 11 years in consulting, becoming a Senior Technical Consultant at ERM, a world-leading environmental and sustainability consulting firm. At ERM, Casey discovered Data Science and pivoted to online education, where he progressed to a Technical Program Director at Dataquest, an online learning platform for learning Python, R, and SQL. At Dataquest, Casey led the development of Python programs that generated high-quality research, online courses, and marketing content.
Thinkfox emerged out of conversations with entrepreneurs, creatives, writers, marketers, fellow tech nerds, and educators who are intrigued by AI, but are unsure where to find value in it. Casey's curiosity about AI, his ability to sift though the hype and find value in AI, and his experience working with clients worldwide, led him to start Thinkfox.

Thinkfox Founder, Casey Bates
Our Mission
Our mission is to help small businesses and educators find value in AI. It's that simple.
Offerings
At the core of our offerings is our experience building and using AI tools that enable small teams to be more productive. What makes us unique is that we're users of the leading commercial AI products, and of the custom applications we build. For example, we've build tools to generate high-quality prompts, to create custom knowledge retrieval systems, and to generate custom content at scale.
We understand the opportunities and challenges of using AI in business and in education because we're nimble and iterate quickly. We're constantly exploring how to make AI work for our team and our clients. AI is progressing at a mind-bending pace, so we devote significant R&D time and resources to prototype and test new ideas and technologies.
Our services span from AI productivity consulting, to AI-assisted research, AI-powered content solutions, AI coaching, AI-assisted research, AI application development, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), education and training solutions, and more.
Approach
Are you skeptical about AI? Or are you concerned about introducing AI into certain aspects of your business? No problem. We offer coaching and consulting to solopreneurs and small businesses on adapting to AI. At Thinkfox, we see the opportunity in AI, but we're also paying close attention to the challenges and threats AI poses to industries and specific jobs. We also provide coaching and training to help you and your team upskill and remain relevant and competitive.
Here at Thinkfox it's not all about AI, though. We meet you where you are and help you explore the possibilities, with and without AI. We support our clients with curriculum development, instructional design, small business strategy, and more. We respect when clients don't want to use AI, and we're happy to help you understand your options.
For example, for some of our clients, their writing is their product. They don't want to use AI writing tools because they want to maintain a human touch and preserve their brand identity. However, they may see an opportunity for using AI as a strategic partner, researcher, or to automate certain tasks. We think that's great. We build deep partnerships with our clients to understand their unique needs and goals, and we work collaboratively to achieve them.
Partnerships
Thinkfox partners with experts in various fields to provide the best possible service to our clients. Our primary partner is Cake Studio AI, an AI agency where Casey is a Principal AI Builder. Cake Studio emerged from discussions between AI enthusiasts, colleagues, and friends. Casey (CAke), Kevin (caKe), and Emily (cakE) have been following Generative AI since before ChatGPT was a thing. After working remotely for the last six years, Casey's enjoyed working in-person with Kevin on delivering client projects, whiteboarding AI frameworks, and trying to wrap our heads around AI's rapid progress.
We also partner with marketing firms, editors, branding agencies, designers, software developers, and more.
Thinkfox Brand
The Thinkfox logo, fox characters, and brand identity are the amazing work of Renny Torres. In addition to graphic design and brand identity, Renny can assist with app and product concepts, prototypes, communicating concepts in a visual way, and video production (with or without AI).
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