Custom AI Crews for High-Stakes Operations
Mālama Consulting designs and orchestrates multi-agent AI systems that work as an extension of your team. We are the AI-literate layer for your organization — handling the complexity of agentic workflows so you can stay on mission.
What We Do
Most organizations don't need more AI tools. They need someone who can command them.
We build custom AI crews — specialized agent systems that work inside your operations as a coordinated team, handling orchestration, integration, and the day-to-day execution. Think of us as your technical co-builder: we handle the API glue, the autonomy contracts, and the operational intelligence layer so your team can stay focused on strategy and delivery.
Listen first
Discovery before design. We start from your actual operations, not from what AI can technically do. The chart only matters if it matches the water.
Build for the long voyage
Systems designed to be maintained, not abandoned. Every line of code we ship is something we're prepared to come back to. Provision the vessel for the trip, not the demo.
Crew over chatbot
Specialized agents with defined roles, working inside contracts you control. Distributed responsibility beats one heroic prompt every time.
Whether you're running a nonprofit, scaling a consultancy, or steering complex operations, we become the bridge between your vision and AI execution.
Featured Work
Built. Shipped. Running.
These aren't demos or wireframes. Every project here is deployed to production and used by real people solving real problems.
Luna
AI-Powered Project Intelligence
A web-based control plane for multi-stakeholder projects. Real-time status synthesis, intelligent document search, and adaptive task prioritization — designed for teams working across time zones and disciplines.
Built for: high-coordination environments.
Live at: luna.movecon.org
Meridian
Local Crew Cockpit
Meridian is the desktop runtime for crew work — a native macOS app where the captain dispatches specialists with slash commands, watches their work stream in real time, and intervenes when the situation calls for it. Paired with Luna (the cloud control surface), it forms a two-surface operating environment: local for deep work, cloud for ambient command.
LunarLegacies.com
Digital Legacy Platform
A Mālama-built product for preserving family stories, archival documents, and lived history as digital legacies that can be passed down without rot. Built for families who want their record kept with care, not stranded on a dying drive.
Featured Case Study
The AI-Literate Operations Layer
How we became the technical co-builder for an executive coach who needed to focus on her work, not on AI plumbing.
Client: Kristin Kirk (Executive Coach & Leadership Consultant)
The challenge: High-level visionaries get bogged down in the technical friction of AI — prompting, API management, glue code, tool-switching. Kristin needed to focus on her expertise, not wrestle with implementation.
The solution: We became her technical co-builder, providing three dedicated lanes of effort:
- Content leverage — automated batch SEO optimization and podcast intelligence extraction.
- Operational glue — syncing vision (Asana) to reality (Google Sheets, CRM) via custom agents.
- Agentic critique — specialized review agents auditing and refining marketing funnels in real time.
The result: Kristin focuses on coaching and content. The AI layer handles research, synthesis, distribution, and operational continuity — an invisible but capable operations partner.
Process
Discovery → Design → Deliver
Discovery
We listen. What's broken? What's manual that shouldn't be? Where does your team lose hours every week? A 30-minute call tells us whether we can help — and if we can't, we'll say so.
Design
We scope the build. What gets built first, what comes later, what the architecture looks like. You review and we align. No surprises, no scope creep, no bills you didn't expect.
Deliver
We build in weekly increments. You see working software from week one. We ship to production when it's ready — not when a contract says so. Typical V1 timeline: 2–6 weeks.
Why Mālama
Built for the Long Voyage
Mālama means "to care for, protect, and preserve" in Hawaiian. We don't build systems and disappear. We design for resilience, maintainability, and long-term partnership — the way you'd provision a vessel for a long voyage, not the way you'd rent a kayak.
- Local-first where it matters High-security, low-latency execution at the edge of the boat.
- Edge + cloud hybrid The right compute in the right place.
- Autonomy with guardrails Agents that work independently inside defined contracts.
- Built for humans Systems that extend your team's capability, not replace its judgment.
Ready to Build?
Let's Start with a Conversation
Tell us what's broken or what you wish existed. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.