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IT Consulting, Nutanix Deployment, and AI Automation in Los Angeles and Maui, The Carbone Group

A Senior‑Led Technology Advisory

Big‑Firm Thinking. No Big‑Firm Baggage.

The best technology advisory has always been locked behind enterprise budgets and six‑month sales cycles. The Carbone Group exists to change that. You get direct access to a senior advisor with deep experience in AI, cloud infrastructure, and financial systems. Someone who has done this work at the highest level and now brings that thinking to businesses that are actually building something. No account managers. No junior analysts. No recycled slide decks.

The Carbone Group builds two things: infrastructure that runs your business, and AI that runs the work around it.

We design and deploy Nutanix hyperconverged solutions, production compute, Oracle database environments, VDI refreshes, and we help you decide what actually belongs in the cloud through our audit‑grade repatriation framework.

Then we build the agentic AI systems that take the repetitive operational work off your team’s plate: intelligent email triage, document processing, and workflow automation on n8n, the Claude API, and Microsoft 365.

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Areas of Practice

Three Disciplines
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Discipline, Intelligence

AI & Automation Strategy

Most companies either over‑invest in AI tools they don’t need or underestimate what’s possible with the data and systems they already run. We cut through that by identifying where intelligent automation creates real leverage, then building it.

We design and deploy agentic AI systems that eliminate operational bottlenecks: intelligent email triage and response platforms, document processing pipelines, and end‑to‑end workflow automation built on n8n, the Claude API, and Microsoft 365 integrations. Purpose‑built automation mapped to your actual operations, not proof‑of‑concepts that never ship.

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Discipline, Infrastructure

Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Implementation

Cloud costs spiral. On‑prem commitments lock you in. Most infrastructure decisions get made on vendor pitches instead of financial models. We design and deploy Nutanix hyperconverged solutions for enterprise clients: production compute clusters, Oracle database environments, and VDI refreshes, handling end‑to‑end sizing, architecture, and deployment.

And we help you decide where workloads actually belong. Our proprietary cloud repatriation framework delivers audit‑grade TCO, NPV, and break‑even analysis across cloud, on‑premises, and hybrid scenarios. The kind of business case your finance team can trust and your board can act on.

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Discipline, Transformation

Digital Transformation & Strategic Consulting

Modernization is rarely a technology problem. It’s a decision problem: what to move, what to rebuild, what to leave alone, and in what order. We help small‑to‑mid‑sized businesses answer those questions with the same rigor a Fortune 100 would expect, without the six‑month sales cycle.

Every engagement is scoped to your operation, your stack, and your constraints. The outcome is a defensible roadmap, infrastructure that’s right‑sized, and workflows that run themselves, so your team can spend their time on the work that actually moves the business forward.

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Field Reports

Case Dossiers · 03 On File
Dossier 01
TCG‑CLD‑001 Cloud Repatriation

Cloud Repatriation Decision Framework

Challenge

Clients were making expensive, long‑term infrastructure commitments based on gut feel and vendor sales pitches. There was no defensible financial model behind the decision, just competing opinions and disconnected spreadsheets.

Solution

An audit‑grade decision framework combining TCO analysis, NPV modeling, risk scoring, and break‑even projections in a side‑by‑side comparison across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid scenarios.

Turned hand‑wavy cost debates into defensible business cases. Stakeholder friction disappeared once everyone was looking at the same analysis.

Dossier 02
TCG‑NTX‑002 Nutanix HCI

Enterprise Nutanix HCI Deployment

Challenge

Enterprise clients needed to refresh aging compute, Oracle database environments, and VDI infrastructure, but were stuck choosing between legacy three‑tier builds and public cloud costs that wouldn’t pencil out at their workload profile.

Solution

End‑to‑end Nutanix hyperconverged design and deployment: sizing, architecture recommendations, production compute clusters, Oracle DB environments, and VDI refreshes, all delivered as a single integrated engagement.

Right‑sized infrastructure with predictable costs. Simplified operations. Workloads landed exactly where the financial model said they belonged.

Dossier 03
TCG‑AIW‑003 Agentic Automation

Agentic Email & Document Workflows

Challenge

Manual, document‑heavy workflows and endless inbound email were creating bottlenecks across client operations, tying up skilled people on repetitive triage and processing work that should have been automated years ago.

Solution

Purpose‑built agentic AI systems on n8n, the Claude API, and Microsoft 365 integrations: intelligent email triage and response, document processing pipelines, and workflow automation mapped directly to the client’s operations.

Reduced manual processing time by 85%. Eliminated high‑error repetitive tasks. Freed the team to focus on the work that actually moves the business forward.

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Operating Principles

The House Rules
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Direct Senior Access

You work with a seasoned advisor from day one. The person who scopes the work is the person who does the work. No hand‑offs to teams learning on your dime.

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Audit‑Ready Deliverables

Our frameworks are built to survive scrutiny. Transparent assumptions, reproducible models, defensible outputs. When your CFO or board asks how you got to a number, you will have an answer.

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No Generic Playbooks

Every engagement is scoped to your situation, your data, your constraints, your stakeholders. We bring enterprise rigor and adapt it to your business, not the other way around.

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You don’t need a polished RFP or a fully baked project scope. Most of our best engagements started with a phone call and a question. Tell me what you’re working on. I will give you an honest take on whether I can help and what that would look like.

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