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Lone Cowry helps companies across Dallas-Fort Worth put AI agents, workflow automation and chatbots into daily use, with governance that fits Texas's new AI law. We work remotely, inside the tools your team already uses, and we start with one problem you can measure.
Prefer to talk first? Message our founder, Benedict Mbakogu, on LinkedIn.
A ten-person HVAC company in Garland and an operations group inside a Plano enterprise usually start in the same place. Pick a process that costs your team hours each week, then decide where AI should help and where a person should stay in charge.
Agents that read incoming email, forms and documents, pull data from your systems, and draft the next step for a person to approve. Good first targets are quote requests, invoice matching and order status updates.
Website and internal assistants that answer common questions from your own documents, book appointments and hand off to staff when a question needs a human. Where the law or your industry calls for it, the assistant tells people they are talking to AI.
An inventory of the AI tools your team uses, a written AI policy, data-handling rules and testing before launch. We review applications against the OWASP Top 10 and map controls to NIST frameworks, which helps when a regulator or a large customer asks how your AI is managed.
AI-assisted analysis of older code and databases, so your team understands what a legacy system does before deciding to rebuild, wrap or retire it. People review every change before it ships.
Once an agent or chatbot is live, someone has to watch costs, check outputs, update data sources and fix what breaks when a vendor changes something. We can handle that as monthly support.
For data you would rather not send to a public AI service, we design and operate GPU servers and clusters that run models on your own hardware, with tools such as Slurm, DCGM and Kubernetes.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metro had an estimated 8.35 million residents in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The Dallas Regional Chamber counts 22 Fortune 500 companies in the region and tracks financial activities, logistics, health care, aviation and aerospace, and high-tech among its key sectors. Here is where our services tend to fit in each.
Charles Schwab (Westlake) is on the region's Fortune 500 list, and the chamber's list of major employers includes JPMorgan Chase, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Where AI helpsAgents that assemble account-opening or loan document packets and flag missing items for an analyst. Payment approval steps that still hold when a caller's voice could be cloned. Data covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act falls outside the Texas privacy act, but it still needs careful handling in any AI workflow.
BNSF Railway calls Fort Worth home. Its Alliance intermodal facility in north Fort Worth anchors the Alliance Logistics District, which Fort Worth approved in November 2025 for autonomous freight vehicles. American Airlines (Fort Worth) and Southwest Airlines (Dallas) are both on the region's Fortune 500 list.
Where AI helpsAgents that read carrier emails and update shipment status, exception queues that sort late or damaged loads for a dispatcher, and dashboards that bring orders, inventory and deliveries into one view.
McKesson (Irving) and Tenet Healthcare (Dallas) are among the region's Fortune 500 companies. UT Southwestern Medical Center, Baylor Scott & White Health and Texas Health Resources are among the region's major health systems.
Where AI helpsScheduling and intake assistants that answer routine questions and route clinical ones to staff. Texas now requires providers that use AI in health care services or treatment to disclose it to patients, so we build that notice into the workflow.
Energy Transfer (Dallas) and Vistra (Irving) are among the region's Fortune 500 companies. Oncor Electric Delivery and Atmos Energy are also on the chamber's list of major companies in the region.
Where AI helpsSummaries of field and inspection reports, search across years of engineering documents, and modernization of older operational systems. Sensitive operational data can stay on your own hardware.
AT&T and Texas Instruments are Dallas-area Fortune 500 companies, and Ericsson and Nokia appear on the chamber's list of major companies.
Where AI helpsAgents that triage support tickets and route them with context, and AI-assisted analysis of legacy code before a migration. If you supply larger technology companies, a documented AI policy makes their security questionnaires easier to answer.
CBRE Group (Dallas) and D.R. Horton (Arlington) are both on the region's Fortune 500 list. The region's long list of builders and contractors runs from national firms to small specialty trades.
Where AI helpsAfter-hours assistants that answer listing or service questions, document extraction from leases and bids, and a 30-day AI pilot for HVAC, plumbing and electrical firms.
Lockheed Martin builds the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4 in Fort Worth, and Bell, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin all appear on the chamber's list of major manufacturers.
Where AI helpsOn-premises AI for controlled data, application security reviews mapped to NIST CSF, and AI tools for public agencies that meet the Texas rule requiring agencies to tell people when they are talking to AI. FORGEGRID, our distributed manufacturing capability, is in development for sustainment teams that need low-volume parts made close to where the work happens.
Most companies in Dallas-Fort Worth are not Fortune 500 firms. They are clinics, shops, agencies, contractors and family businesses with a few people doing many jobs.
Where AI helpsQuote and follow-up drafting, appointment booking, invoice reminders and a simple AI policy so staff know which tools are allowed. We keep the setup small enough for your team to run.
Two state laws shape how a Dallas business should set up AI, and both make it worth knowing what your AI tools do with people's data.
TRAIGA, passed as House Bill 149, took effect on January 1, 2026. It applies to anyone who does business in Texas, offers a product or service used by Texas residents, or develops or deploys an AI system in the state.
In practice that points to a short list of habits: keep an inventory of your AI systems, write down what each one is for, test before launch and keep records. Our AI governance work sets those up at a size that fits your business.
The TDPSA has applied since July 1, 2024. It covers businesses that process Texas residents' personal data and are not small businesses under U.S. Small Business Administration size standards.
Small businesses are generally exempt, with one important exception: they must get a consumer's consent before selling sensitive data, which includes precise geolocation and health diagnoses. The law also excludes data covered by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA-covered entities, nonprofits and electric utilities, among others.
For larger businesses using AI, the practical points are collecting only the data a task needs, a privacy notice that matches what your AI tools actually do with personal data, and reasonable security around it. Those fit naturally into the design of an agent or chatbot when they are handled at the start.
For a starting template, see our guide to an SMB AI policy and data-handling checklist.
This section is general information, not legal advice. Talk to your attorney about how these laws apply to your business.
Delivery is remote-first. Discovery calls, build reviews and training happen over video and shared workspaces, and each project ends with documentation your team can work from.
A short discovery call about what is slowing your team down and which data and systems are involved.
One problem, a fixed scope and results in weeks. You see the agent or assistant working on your real tasks before committing further.
Monthly support and new tools as your business grows, including the upkeep covered in our note on maintaining AI after launch.
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Practical notes from our blog that match the work above, plus one news story from Cowry Tech News.
A pilot plan for HVAC, plumbing and electrical firms.
Five steps for an AI-assisted modernization program.
Five habits for keeping AI workflows and agents healthy.
Five checks for app and backup exposure in Microsoft 365.
A lightweight AI policy and data-handling checklist.
Quarterly results from Applied Digital, the Dallas-based developer of AI data centers.
Both. Many first projects come from small teams: a contractor that wants quotes drafted faster, or a front desk that wants routine customer questions answered after hours. We size the work to the problem and start with one workflow you can measure.
Yes. Our delivery is remote-first. Discovery calls, build reviews and training happen over video and shared workspaces, and the work runs inside the systems you already use. Each project ends with documentation your team can work from.
TRAIGA (House Bill 149) took effect January 1, 2026, and applies to anyone doing business in Texas. It prohibits AI built or used with intent to unlawfully discriminate or to encourage harm, requires government agencies and health care providers to disclose AI use, and is enforced by the Texas Attorney General with a 60-day cure period. Testing and an internal review process aligned with a recognized framework such as NIST's Generative AI Profile are part of the law's defenses. This is general information, not legal advice.
Businesses that qualify as small under U.S. Small Business Administration standards are generally exempt from the TDPSA, which took effect July 1, 2024. The exception: a small business must get a consumer's consent before selling sensitive data, such as precise geolocation or health diagnoses. Larger businesses have broader duties, including data minimization, a privacy notice and reasonable security.
It starts with a short discovery call about what is slowing your team down. Then we run a pilot on one problem with a fixed scope and results in weeks. If it works, we add monthly support and new tools as your business grows.
Yes. For data you would rather keep in house, we design and operate on-premises GPU servers and clusters that run models on your own hardware, using tools such as Slurm, DCGM and Kubernetes. We help you decide which workloads belong on-premises and which can use a cloud service.
Tell us which process eats the most time at your company. We will tell you plainly whether AI is a good fit, and what a small pilot would look like for your Dallas-Fort Worth team.
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