Phoenix Tree — Demystify the tech. Put it to work. Founder-led fractional CTO and AI advisory for Central Texas businesses.

Your team is already using AI. The only question is whether you adopt it on purpose.

Demystify. Translate. Execute.
How we work

Root. Grow. Rise.

One path, three phases. Start where you are and ladder up as it pays off — no long contracts to find out if it works, no tooling decisions before the strategy.

PHASE 01
Root
Embedded Advisory
$4,500/mo1–3 months

We map the business, stand up a private AI environment, and put a Chief-of-Staff agent on your operator's machine in week one. Roadmap on the table by week four.

  • Stakeholder & process map
  • Private Chief-of-Staff agent, live
  • 12-month strategic AI roadmap
  • Scoped build proposal for Grow
PHASE 03
Rise
Maintain & Tune
$3,000/mo12-mo minimum

We tune and evolve what's deployed so AI becomes how the business runs, not a project that fades. Quarterly roadmap refresh, new agents shipped every quarter.

  • Quarterly adoption & ROI report
  • Refreshed roadmap each quarter
  • New agents shipped quarterly
  • Operator support in business hours
Most owners spend $5k–$10k a month on managed IT that never moves growth. For comparable spend, Root + Rise is an executive AI advisory engagement that compounds month over month — and most Grow builds pay for themselves within a quarter.
What gets measured

Three numbers we move.

Outcome first. Mechanism second. Tooling third — always in that order.

20–40%
More capacity from your existing team — no new payroll.
4–8 hrs
Recovered per operator, per week. The owner gets weekends back.
Profit Margin
Held as you scale. Less rework, fewer dropped balls.
About

Practitioner, not pundit.

I'm Jason Evans, founder of Phoenix Tree. I spent more than twenty years building enterprise cybersecurity and AI programs inside large organizations — not an IT shop learning AI on the side.

Phoenix Tree brings that same discipline to Central Texas businesses, with the founder in the room every step. No account-manager layer, no ticket queue — you get the person who built the playbook. Strategy before tools, always.

I started Phoenix Tree because most businesses don't need another vendor patching laptops. They need someone who can sit across the table, translate what AI can and can't do, and tie it to the numbers that matter — revenue per employee, hours recovered, profit margin held.

So the work runs in that order: strategy first, security from day one, tools last. Your data stays in private environments and never trains public models. You get a written plan your team will actually follow — and an advisor who picks up the phone.

We're rooted here on purpose: Williamson, Bell, Lampasas, and Burnet counties. When something matters, we're already nearby.

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Practitioner depth

Two decades building security and AI programs inside enterprise teams — applied at SMB scale.

II

Georgetown-rooted

Four counties, exclusively. Hyper-local by design, so we're present when it counts.

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Founder access

Every engagement led by Jason directly. The person who built the method is the person you work with.

Insights & Resources

Notes from the field.

Practical writing on adopting AI on purpose — security, governance, and the workflows worth automating first.

Contact

Book an AI assessment.

A 30-minute call. No pitch, no pressure — an honest read on where AI moves the needle in your business, and where it doesn't.

Based in Georgetown, Texas
Service area Williamson · Bell · Lampasas · Burnet

We reply within one business day. Williamson, Bell, Lampasas & Burnet counties.