We believe in challenging the status quo, asking why, and finding a better way to work.
AI is only as good as the systems and data beneath it.
Get in touchEveryone is bolting on AI.
No one is optimizing for it.
Optimizing for AI means looking deeper than the tools. It means looking at the systems, the data, and the workarounds. We work across all three: AI enablement, process mapping & improvement, and systems and data architecture. Embedded with your team, not another slide deck.
The real problem
Your team isn't slow.
Their tools are fighting them.
The broken workflows you see are workarounds. They're the moves your team invented to get work done despite systems and data that don't cooperate. Repeat them long enough and the workaround becomes the process. Then AI gets bolted onto that, and it just automates the dysfunction.
Sometimes it's the process. Sometimes it's the systems and data beneath it. Usually it's both.
How we do it
Brake Hard to Go Fast
Audit
We embed and map how work really flows, then find where AI and automation actually pay off. Realistic opportunities, no hype.
Plan
A prioritized roadmap your team and leadership can both get behind. Quick wins first.
Build
We redesign the workflows and build the AI agents that run them. Then we stay embedded to keep them running and improving. Consultants leave. We don't.
How we work
Low risk. Start small.
We're forward-deployed operators embedded in the work, not consultants who parachute in and leave.
We start with one workflow, the annoying one that takes 80% of your time for 20% of the output, improve it, then scale.
You get a visible win.
What we do
The Menu
AI Enablement
Teaching your people to actually use AI in their day-to-day work.
Process Audit
Mapping how work runs today, then finding the gaps and the places to optimize.
AI Agents
Designing and building AI agents, then deploying them into your workflows.
Forward Deployed Operator
The full arsenal. One operator embedded to run all of the above and keep it working.
The founder
The operator behind the work.
I'm Brian Kuenzi, founder of Flat Circle Labs. I build AI agents and the systems underneath them for small and mid-market companies, embedded with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Deal Desk, and GTM teams. I set the goals, run the projects, and stay in the work until it holds.
Before this I led transformation, critical projects, and global SOX programs at Match Group, a $3.5B revenue company. Earlier, at EY, I ran cross-functional teams across the US, Europe, and India.
Clarity, execution, and a little empathy brought to messy operations.
