About us
Pointed in the right direction.
Big Dipper Consulting is led by Erin, our CEO, with a small senior team behind her. We started this company because we kept watching good teams struggle with the same two problems: operations that grew messier than the business, and technology decisions made without anyone technical in the room.
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Erin
CEO
Erin is our CEO and leads the operations practice, working with teams whose day-to-day has outgrown their systems. She maps how work actually flows, redesigns the processes held together by habit, selects and implements the right tooling, and builds lightweight AI workflows that save real hours — and her recommendations always come back in plain English with a price tag attached. She sets the direction on every engagement and stays close to the work.
- Operations
- Process Design
- Tooling
- Airtable
- Automation
- AI Workflows
The team
The people behind the build.
Erin leads, and a small senior team delivers alongside her — engineers and operators who have built across the stack, from web apps and data pipelines to production AI systems. We take on the problems off-the-shelf tools can't reach, and our rule for every build is the same: it should be boring to operate.
Custom Software
Web applications and internal tools built around how your business actually works.
Systems Integration
APIs, data pipelines, and the connective tissue between the tools you already run.
Applied AI
Agents, RAG, and LLM integrations built for reliability in production — not for demos.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical judgment on call, for teams that aren't ready for a full-time hire.
How we operate
What you can hold us to.
Plain language
If we can't explain a recommendation without jargon, we haven't finished thinking about it. You'll always know what we're doing and why.
Small by design
A small senior team — no juniors, no handoffs to people you've never met. The people you talk to on the first call are the people who do the work.
Build what lasts
We optimize for what your team can run without us. Documentation, training, and handoff are part of every project — not an upsell.
Honest maps
If a $30/month tool solves your problem, we'll tell you — even when a $30,000 build would pay us more. Long-term trust beats short-term invoices.
The Big Dipper isn't the brightest thing in the sky — but it's the constellation people actually find, and it points to true north. We liked that as a mission statement: be easy to find, easy to follow, and reliably pointed in the right direction.
Want to work with us?
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute call. Tell us where you're trying to go — we'll tell you honestly whether we can help you get there.