Consulting & Optimization. We map how your company works today, find what is slowing it down, and design the workflow it should have. AI where it earns its place, not where it is fashionable.
Tech for themodern age
(Who we are)
One team, working two problems at oncePortillo Technologies is an AI consulting, organization-optimization, and custom software practice in Orange County, California. We work out how a company should run, then build the software that runs it. Our team of creative engineers and systems engineers, led by principal Jason Portillo, does the work — senior people, and the same ones who write the code.
We start by rethinking how your company actually operates — where the friction is, what should be automated, where AI earns its place and where it doesn't. Then we build the software that runs the new way.
Portillo Technologies is a team of creative engineers and systems engineers. We re-engineer how a company works, then build the custom software that runs it.
Built on a plain belief: the strategy and the engineering are the same job. One team, start to finish.
We work two disciplines at once, hand in hand:
Custom Software & Products. We build the tool that is only yours, shaped to your workflow and owned by you. From the first prototype to the platform your team runs every day.
Both halves are the same team. The engineers who map your workflow are the ones who write the code, so there is no handoff for anything to fall through.
The practice runs across industries — security, healthcare, live production, operations. All of it ships as client software, owned by the client.
Just for you
We hand over the keys, the code, and the knowledge. It is yours.
Some of what we build together, you didn't know to ask for. That's usually the part you keep.
(Who we build for)
If you can describe the way you want to work, we can build it.
AI that disappears into the work
(What we do)
Consulting &
Optimization
We re-engineer the way you work.
The software is downstream of a better way to work.
The software is downstream of a better way to work.
Custom Software
& Products
We build the tool that is only yours, shaped to your workflow, owned by you.
Strategy and engineering sit at the same table. That is the whole trick.
Strategy and engineering sit at the same table. That is the whole trick.
(How we work)
One method, whether we are rethinking a workflow or shipping a platform: understand it deeply, prototype fast, build it right, and stay after it ships.
Understand
Design
Prototype
Build
We learn how your company actually works before we propose anything. The first week is mostly listening.
We re-engineer the workflow on paper first. The shape of the software follows the shape of the work.
A working slice, fast, so we are validating the real thing instead of a slide.
Test-first engineering. The system your team runs every day, built to outlast us.
(Where to start)
Most AI pilots die in the same two places.MIT found that 95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing measurable. Not because the models are weak. Because the pilot never knew the business, and nobody could prove it was right. We work in the other order: understand the work, write the test, then build.
AI Pilot Autopsy
FreeTwo pages on why your pilot stalled and the two changes that unstick it. Emailed as a PDF. There's no form to fill in and no follow-up sequence.
Get the autopsyDiscovery
$2,500 · about two weeksYou get the annual dollar value of your best workflow with the arithmetic shown, plus the acceptance test written before anyone builds. If discovery doesn't surface at least 10x the fee in quantified annual value, you don't pay.
What discovery coversThe build
10–20% of the value foundPriced against the number discovery produced, never by the hour. We work it until it passes your acceptance test. You own the code outright and we never resell it.
custom software development in Orange CountyReplies inside two business days, from Jason, not a sales queue.
Portillo Technologies is an AI consulting, organization-optimization, and custom software practice in Orange County, California. We work out how a company should run, then build the software that runs it. Work runs remote across the US. We keep a small number of engagements open at once, and the engineers who map the workflow are the ones who write the code.
Let us build what is only yours
Let us build what is only yours
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