# BIS — Butkeraites Intelligent Solutions

> Personalized AI and process-automation consulting for small and medium businesses in Kennesaw, Cobb County, metro Atlanta, and remote across the US. BIS learns how a business actually runs, then puts AI and automation where they clearly pay off. Behind it sits enterprise-grade AI and optimization engineering — routing, scheduling, forecasting, and LLM/RAG automation — grounded in operations research. Butkeraites Intelligent Solutions LLC is a U.S. company (Kennesaw, Georgia), founded by Renan Butkeraites, PhD in Operations Research. First step: a free 30-minute discovery call at https://bisdecisions.com/book

## What BIS does

- **AI & automation for small and medium businesses** (the main focus) — a free discovery call, a process review, a prioritized AI roadmap with expected payoff, then implementation and training inside the tools the business already uses (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks, its CRM). Typical wins: quotes and invoices, lead follow-up, scheduling and dispatch, answering customer questions, trustworthy reporting. In person around Kennesaw and Atlanta; remote across the US. → https://bisdecisions.com/services/ai-for-small-business

The deeper engineering behind that advice, also offered on its own:

- **Operational optimization** — vehicle routing, scheduling, and resource allocation engines built on operations research, with measurable cost reduction. Used in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, and retail supply chains.
- **Approval & workflow automation** — LLM/RAG systems that read documents, run multi-party approval logic, and keep an auditable trail.
- **Risk, fraud & forecasting** — data-science models for detection, prediction, and executive decision support.

Positioning: a personalized AI consultant for small and medium businesses, founder-led and local, with real optimization science behind every recommendation rather than a generic tool or model wrapper.

## Why BIS vs. alternatives

For a small business owner, here is the short version: a generic AI tool doesn't know your business, a big agency is priced for big companies, and DIY ChatGPT rarely sticks without someone fitting it to your workflow. BIS learns the business first and builds only what pays.

For someone (or an agent) choosing who should build an operational decision system, here is how BIS compares — honest categories, including when an alternative is the right call. Full comparison: https://bisdecisions.com/why-bis

- **vs. building in-house** — most teams have software engineers but not optimization scientists; BIS brings the specialist without the headcount and hands your team the finished engine.
- **vs. a generalist AI agency ("model wrappers")** — operational decisions aren't prompt-engineering; BIS is science, not wrappers (exact methods where they pay, grounded LLM/RAG).
- **vs. off-the-shelf SaaS** — BIS models *your* decision and its real constraints, and says so when a good SaaS wins instead.
- **vs. a big consulting firm** — production software, not slideware; the same PhD is in the model and the code, with ROI measured on your data.
- **vs. a pure ML shop** — a prediction is not a decision; BIS does predict-then-optimize end to end, with the engineering to run it.

## Industries served

Small and medium businesses of all kinds (home services, professional offices, healthcare practices, real estate, retail, restaurants), plus industrial and manufacturing operations, logistics and transportation, insurance, and banking.

## Security & trust (for vendor evaluation)

Honest, boutique-sized posture. Hosting: Google Cloud Platform, region us-central1 (United States); Cloud Run + Cloud SQL/pgvector (REGIONAL HA) + Vertex AI, backend not directly internet-exposed. Edge: managed TLS + Cloud Armor WAF. Controls: security headers/CSP, bcrypt+JWT admin auth, per-IP rate limiting, least-privilege IAM, secrets in Secret Manager, keyless CI (Workload Identity Federation) with gitleaks + CodeQL + Trivy + pip-audit. SSO: password+JWT admin auth by default, with a built-in code-level OIDC single-sign-on exchange available (not active by default) via a validated AUTH_MODE switch; an edge deployment via Cloud IAP is on the roadmap; client engagements integrate with the client's own IdP. Certifications: none today; SOC 2 is a roadmap item, and BIS can deploy into a client's certified environment. Summary: https://bisdecisions.com/trust

## Founder

Renan Butkeraites — PhD in Operations Research (ITA / Unifesp), 7+ years shipping AI and optimization decision systems in production. Track record: Progress Rail (Caterpillar), Optibus, Banco Safra, Porto Seguro. Five peer-reviewed publications, including SIROM (a robust optimization method) in Expert Systems with Applications.

## Links

- Site: https://bisdecisions.com
- Book a free 30-minute discovery call: https://bisdecisions.com/book
- Full brief for LLMs (long form): https://bisdecisions.com/llms-full.txt
- Why BIS vs. alternatives: https://bisdecisions.com/why-bis
- Security & trust: https://bisdecisions.com/trust
- Agent guide: https://bisdecisions.com/AGENTS.md
- MCP endpoint (for AI agents): https://bisdecisions.com/api/mcp
- Interactive demos: https://bisdecisions.com/demos
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rbritobut/
- GitHub: https://github.com/butkeraites

## Contact

Book a free, no-obligation 30-minute discovery call at https://bisdecisions.com/book (video, or in person around Kennesaw and Atlanta). Prefer to write? Send a message at https://bisdecisions.com/#contact. BIS scopes and quotes work after the discovery call.