Who we are
We build with your team, not for them.
Fieldwork is an AI training and implementation firm in Boise, founded by Gabe Blanchet. No agency overhead. No deck and a flight home. You always know who is doing the work.
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
Sovereignty.
We teach the fundamentals — prompts, context, agents, harnesses — not which SaaS vendor has "AI" stickered on the box. Models get smarter and cheaper every quarter. Teams that own their fluency compound. Teams renting it forever don't.
02
Capability, not dependency.
When something's worth automating, we build it and hand it over running. The goal is never to make you need us forever. We train your team to own the fluency: to operate what we build, push it, and spot the next bet themselves. Most vendors leave you renting a tool nobody can run. We'd rather leave your team more capable than we found it.
03
Operator-rooted.
We've been in the seat — built products, shipped to production, raised capital, sold companies. The guidance comes from scars, not slides.
How we staff an engagement
Two roles, both in the room on the same day.
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. You always know who is doing the work.
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
Vetted where it counts.
Named an OpenAI Select Partner, September 2026.
We build on
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Grok
- OpenRouter
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- QuickBooks Online
Model-agnostic by design. The tool follows the job, not the other way round.
Come spend a day with us.
The AI for Business Leaders intensive — one day in Boise, hands-on. You'll leave fluent, with AI working in your business and your first three moves locked.
Reserve your seat →