Who we are
We build with your team, not for them.
Fieldwork is an AI training and implementation firm, headquartered in Boise and founded by Gabe Blanchet. We staff each engagement to what the work needs, from an AI Program Facilitator who runs the room to a Forward Deployed Engineer who builds at the table.
From the founder — Gabe Blanchet
I trained as a mechanical engineer at MIT, then spent the next decade building software companies. I co-founded Grove Labs out of school — we raised $6M, built a hardware-software product for indoor farming, and got acquired by LG. From there: Imbellus, Revonate (as CTO), Maxable (as CEO), and most recently LeanLaw, where I led product through the company's pivot from SaaS billing into payments and financial services.
Somewhere in there I walked the Appalachian Trail. 2,181 miles. Six months. It taught me a lot of things I still use, but the most useful one was this: the right pack is the one you can actually carry.
I think about software the same way. The right system is the one you can actually run.
Why Fieldwork
The AI revolution is real, but most of what's being sold against it is bad — courses you won't finish, SaaS that locks your data behind someone else's UI, big-firm consultants who hand you a deck and disappear. None of that helps an operator actually use this stuff well.
What does help is sitting with your team, on their real work, and building artifacts they own. That's what we do.
Principles
01
In-person AI fluency, not just tech.
Everyone trained on their own work, at their own keyboard, before and after we build. A team that understands the system uses it. One that doesn't works around it.
02
You own what we build.
It runs in your systems, under your accounts, with your rules. No seats to rent and no platform to be locked into. What we build is yours to keep, change, or run without us.
03
Led by an experienced operator.
MIT engineer. $10M+ capital raised. Four boards managed. Payroll made. Companies started and sold. Rocks missed. Fieldwork's founder, Gabe Blanchet, has run a business like yours.
How we staff an engagement
Two roles, staffed to what the work needs.
An AI Program Facilitator runs the room, training your people on their real workflows, on their own keyboards. A Forward Deployed Engineer works the table: live demos, hands-on with your actual files, and the technical answer to whatever comes up. Senior operators only.
Outside work
Boise, Idaho. Married to Amanda. Two kids — Winter (2) and Brooks (newborn) — and a dog named Kavu. I try to live what I write about: minimal noise, real artifacts, things you can actually use.
Credentials
OpenAI Select Partner. Operator-led. Proven in the room.
Named an OpenAI Select Partner, September 2026.
Forbes 30 Under 30 founder
Co-founded Grove Labs, acquired by LG. Then CEO, CTO and head of product at venture-backed companies.
24 trained. Nine now building.
Designed and led the AI fluency program at Rafanelli & Nahas. Nine of the 24 now build their own AI workflows.
We build on
Models
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)
- Anthropic (Claude)
- xAI (Grok)
- OpenRouter
Where your work lives
- Microsoft 365 & Azure
- Google Workspace
- QuickBooks Online
Model-agnostic by design. We build inside the systems you already pay for.
Start with a 30-minute call.
Tell us about your team and the work that eats the most hours. We'll tell you where AI pays off first.
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