Author
Josh Booy
Fractional Chief AI Officer and founder of 10 Fold Consulting, based in Centralia, Washington.
Nobody can work with you if they don’t know you, so here’s the short version.
I’ve spent most of my career in IT. These days I help small businesses and public agencies figure out where AI pays off, and then I build it with them. What I write comes out of that same work: start with the problem, put a number on it, build something small, and check that it works.
Background
- Cascade Computers. My first IT job, part-time at a small managed IT services company.
- Lewis County IT. Hired into a role split between the help desk and cybersecurity, then about three years in cybersecurity. I brought EOS and Level 10 meetings into the Security Division. They spread through the rest of IT, and the county manager later took the directors through parts of EOS. I also pitched a tech liaison role and sat down with departments across the county to find where technology could take work off their plate.
- Freelance. Power BI dashboards and forms, plus an HR system and hiring pipeline for an engineering firm.
- 10 Fold Consulting. Founder. Fractional Chief AI Officer since October 2025.
- Education. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, minor in Computer Science.
What I work on
- Training teams to use AI in their daily work, one department at a time.
- Workflow automation, especially the spreadsheets that glue systems together.
- AI agents that work inside the systems you already log into, with a person approving anything that matters.
- Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Automate and Power BI.
- Custom web apps built with Claude.
- AI use policies for public agencies and teams that handle sensitive records.
- Security. Three years in cybersecurity shows up in every build I do.
Outside client work, I host free AI sessions for Lewis County business owners about twice a month. I also speak to local business groups, and I’m a member of Rotary.
What I’ve written
Inside a 90-Minute Test of a 20-Hour County BacklogHow a 90-Minute Prototype Could Return 20 Hours to a County TreasurerAI Agent Use Cases: A Field Guide to Browser WorkflowsHow to Find High-ROI AI Use Cases Before You BuildA Leader's Guide to Solving the AI Adoption CrisisWhy AI Adoption Fails: 3 Hidden Roadblocks in Your StrategyWhy Your Healthcare AI Adoption Is Stalling (And How to Fix It)
