Practical progress
Connect advice to implementation and improvements people can use.
Our firm
A consulting firm that also builds.
Textstone Labs is a business and technology consulting firm. We help organizations decide what to do, fix how they operate and put change into practice. Our technology work draws on practical experience developing and maintaining software.
Our mission
Turn strategy into lasting improvement.
We help organizations improve how they operate, deliver change and build the capabilities to keep moving forward.
Our vision
Greater capability. Broader possibility.
A future where organizations of every size can access the business expertise and technical capability to pursue their ambitions and serve their communities.
Our values
Independent judgment
Recommend approaches and tools that fit the organization, without allegiance to a vendor.
Shared knowledge
Build understanding as we work, and share useful methods through our writing and tools.
Our perspective
Three things we believe about this work.
Start with the work, not the tool
Most problems presented as technology problems are process, ownership or decision problems. We look at the work first and let the fix follow. Sometimes the right recommendation is a simpler process and no new system.
Decisions should be explainable
A recommendation is only useful if the people accountable for it can defend it. Options, criteria, trade-offs and assumptions are written down so leadership can challenge them before committing.
Change is done by people
A plan, a system or a policy changes nothing until daily practice changes. We treat adoption as part of the scope, with training on real tasks and measures of whether practice moved.
Delivery approach
The scope is written down before work starts.
Every engagement is scoped in writing: the questions to answer, the deliverables, who is responsible for what, how the work will be reviewed and what acceptance looks like. Work is shown as it progresses rather than revealed at the end.
Specialist roles and participation are confirmed in each proposal, according to the scope. You always know who is accountable for the result and who is doing the work.
How engagements work · Printable firm overviewStandards we hold ourselves to
- Plain language in every deliverable
- Assumptions and evidence separated from opinion
- Review proportionate to the decision at stake
- Information handling designed before tools are chosen
- Documentation your team can run without us
- No claims we cannot support
Leadership
Devontae
Founder, Textstone Labs
Devontae founded Textstone Labs to help organizations access the business advice, technology and practical learning they need to move forward. His experience spans business strategy, enterprise transformation, acquisition integration, process improvement and software delivery, from defining priorities through implementation and adoption.
Through Textstone, he brings together consulting, software development and practical AI education. His focus is helping organizations improve how they work while giving their people the understanding and skills to maintain, adapt and build on those improvements. That includes integrating AI into everyday operations, automating repetitive work and developing systems that remain useful as the organization grows.
What we build
Software we build and operate.
Building and operating our own tools is where our practical knowledge of integration, monitoring and handover comes from. It also keeps our technology advice honest about cost and effort.
- Construct Buddy
Reads construction drawings and produces takeoff and review reports with a human check. Private beta. - RateMyCollege
Free public tool showing graduate earnings adjusted for cost of living, minus debt. - Echo
A memory engine for AI agents and teams. Early access, in development.
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Next step
Talk with us about your priorities.
A first conversation is about your situation, not a pitch. We will tell you plainly whether and how we can help.