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Advise

AI strategy, roadmap, and organizational readiness. For leaders who need to know where to go before they can move.

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AI tool builds, automations, BI systems, and reporting infrastructure. Project-based. Shipped.

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Work

SICSA · Dayton, OH · Nonprofit Animal Welfare

Custom AI Assistant

End-to-end agentic workflow design and deployment for a nonprofit animal welfare organization. Claude-powered assistant supporting major gifts program operations — from discovery through daily active use.

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About

Richard Wherry

Data and AI practitioner with 20+ years finding complex systems, understanding them underneath, and making them legible and actionable. Most recently led analytics at Paycor — 200+ Power BI dashboards, a 12-person analyst team, metrics that actually moved the business. Founded Lumen Solutions LLC in June 2026 to bring that capability directly to organizations that need it.

He works with an AI partner. That’s not a feature — it’s the core of the model. The research is faster, the output is sharper, and problems that used to require a team get solved by two.

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