ActionableOps

ActionableOps is an AI consulting company that helps businesses unlock AI's potential to excel in their operations. We specialize in guiding companies through the AI landscape with services such as AI governance, Responsible AI, AI Policy development, AI Ethics, AI Training, and AI Implementation. Partnering with industry leaders like Textcortex and MindStudio, we ensure that our clients gain the knowledge and tools needed to thrive with AI.

Founder / AI Consulting

Kansas City AI Club

Primary Purpose: Foster awareness, adoption, and hands-on learning of the latest AI technologies by leading discussions, events, and workshops tailored to real-world business applications.

Key Responsibilities:
 - Technology Trends Leadership in AI
 - Curate and present emerging AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, voice agents, AI-driven automation).
 - Deliver accessible, business-focused insights on cutting-edge advancements.
 - Business Use Case Applications
 - Develop and showcase practical AI use cases (e.g., AI in customer service, operations, or marketing).

Workshops & Education
 - Organize hands-on workshops to teach members how to apply AI in real-world business settings.
 - Guide participants through implementation frameworks tailored to their industries.
 - Event Programming Support
 - Host and facilitate demos at Kansas City AI Club meetups.
 - Develop quarterly in-person or virtual workshop series, such as "AI Applications for Business Success."

Board Chair - Emerging Tech

UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management

The Regnier Institute Mentor in Residence Program connects seasoned mentors with student entrepreneurs in need of a helpful ear.

Mentor-In-Residence

National Speakers Association-Kansas City Chapter

Speaker

MindStudio

Agency Partner

RunWhen

RunWhen is a platform for troubleshooting complex tech stacks. It helps engineers identify when issues they are chasing lie in their app, their cloud-native platform or their vendors by answering the question: “What do I run and when?”

Advisor

Nobl9

Nobl9 is a service level objective SaaS platform that connects reliability metrics to business goals via a modern engineering workflow. Backed by CRV, Battery, Bonfire Ventures, Harmony Partners Cisco and ServiceNow.

Director of Operations

Code Ninjas

Code Ninjas is the world's largest and fastest growing in person children's franchise startup, that teaches kids how to code computers by building video games. Backed by Eagle Merchant Partners.

Director of Operations / Owner

OMT Brands

OMT Brands created a line of consumable pet products to be marketed and sold online through Amazon FBA and the Amazon, Ebay, Sears, and Walmart marketplaces.

Director of E-commerce Operations

City of Lakewood, Washington

Police Officer

🚀 Founder | Startup Operations Executive | Business Scaling Expert | Data Analytics | P&L Management | Process Optimization | Customer-Centric | Revenue Growth | Operational Efficiency | SaaS | Change Management

I’m Dale Thomas and here’s my story in a nutshell. 

- Authored the best-selling book “The Ultimate A.I. Guide for Small Business Success.” 
- Founded several technology businesses
- 20+ years of operations experience in Start-Ups and Enterprise (Ex - Microsoft) 
- Focused on helping SMB’s make sense of AI.  I specialize in AI agents, AI Consulting, responsible AI, ethical AI, policy creation, governance, and implementation of AI solutions. 

What you’ll get by following me: 
🔥Transparent & actionable AI advice
📆 Tips and Tricks Implementing AI Agents
🔍 Insights on implementing ethical AI practices
📢 Up-to-date information on AI regulations and legislation  

AI Partnerships
* TextCortex AI Partner - get a free account https://textcortex.com?via=ops 

A.I. Education
* MindStudio Certified AI Expert
* The London School of Economics - Ethics of AI 
* University of Pennsylvania - AI For Business
* Vanderbilt University - Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT
* MindStudio Certified AI Developer

Struggling to make sense of AI for your small to medium-sized business? 

I’m here to help - so hit that “Follow” button!  

Dale

Dale Thomas

Chad Smeltzer

I work at the intersection of civil infrastructure, technology, and market design.

For more than two decades, I’ve operated inside wastewater, stormwater, and utility systems not just deploying solutions, but watching closely how ideas succeed, stall, or fail once they hit real-world constraints like procurement, incentives, operations, and culture.

Across my career, a consistent pattern has emerged: most infrastructure problems are not technical. They are problems of value distribution, access, and misaligned incentives. Technology only works when those issues are addressed first.

I’ve been early to multiple shifts in the industry from bioremediation and acoustic monitoring to sensor-based I&I detection, data-driven triage, and alternative procurement models. In some cases, the market caught up later. In others, the timing taught me as much as the outcome.

I co-founded RMS Utility Services, where we combined inspection data, monitoring technologies, and prioritization frameworks to help utilities pinpoint infiltration and inflow and target repairs more effectively. RMS was acquired in 2020.

In 2021, I cofounded Bidcurement a project acquisition and bidding platform to rethink how infrastructure work is sourced and visualized. While it didn’t reach its intended scale, it significantly deepened my experience in software architecture, procurement workflows, and why legacy models resist change.

Over the past year, I’ve focused heavily on learning how ideas actually move through this industry. Using content and community as a testing ground, I built and activated a senior-level civil engineering audience reaching millions organically validating pain points around burnout, compensation, procurement, and value capture, and converting attention into action quickly and without gatekeepers.

That work clarified my role:

I’m not a traditional vendor, consultant, or evangelist.
I operate as a system-level thinker and builder identifying structural friction, pressure-testing new models in public, and helping design platforms and partnerships that align incentives before scaling solutions.

Today, my work centers on:
•	infrastructure platforms and marketplaces
•	procurement and access reform
•	monitoring and decision-support models
•	and helping organizations see where value is leaking and how to redesign for sustainability

If you’re working in civil infrastructure, GovTech, utilities, or an adjacent space and are serious about rethinking how work is priced, procured, or delivered not just adding another tool. 

I’m always open to thoughtful conversations.


President and CEO

At Bidcurement, we're more than a done for you podcasting system; we're your storytelling partners. With 30 years of building relationships between businesses and governments, we understand what makes a community tick. Our mission? To humanize your message, educate your audience, and build a culture that's distinctly yours. Let's make your story heard and your solutions seen. Together, we'll create something unforgettable.

What We Do:

❤️Custom Podcast Production: From idea to airwaves, we manage all aspects of podcast creation, delivering content that captivates and educates our audience.

🧲Expert Guest Acquisition: Our podcasts feature insights from leading experts in the civil infrastructure field, adding depth and value to every episode.

🎙️Strategic Content Management: We ensure your podcast reaches its full potential with strategic planning, audience engagement, and performance analytics.

🗝️Integrated Support: Our plug and play approach includes SEO, social media content, and cross-platform distribution to maximize your podcast's visibility.

😊Exclusive Networking Opportunities: Join our growing network of over 150 businesses and government entities, opening doors to new collaborations and opportunities.

Our team is passionate about leveraging technology and media to make a tangible impact on the civil infrastructure sector. Through Bidcurement, we bridge knowledge gaps, promote innovative solutions, and build a more connected and informed community.

Let's connect and remember no one wants to have a meeting, everyone wants to have a conversation!

Videos like this reflect contractor experience, not independent testing. Tap-related PVC failures are typically tied to pipe class, saddle design, and installation not the material alone. Specifications matter..

Cheap products cost more! 

Notice how they used social media to get thousands of people to engage!!! 

#FactsMatter #WaterInfrastructure
#PVCvsDI #Engineering
#PublicUtilities

Helping Civil Engineering and Sewer Construction Companies Win More RFQs and RFPs by Using Proprietary Technologies.

Some (89%) engineering firms carry ridiculous overhead and bury rookies in design churn, rework, and toxic culture.

Not because they’re evil.
Because this business model was inherited.

Think about it.

A PE starts a firm.
Grows it the only way they know how.
Mentors other engineers who follow the same footsteps.
Same habits. Same thinking. Same structure.

Those engineers become principals.
Leadership changes the culture doesn’t.

That model was born in the 1970s.

Now it’s 2026, and younger generations are responding exactly how you’d expect:
They’re leaving.

Here’s the uncomfortable part 👇
Most firm leaders:
	•	Never went to business school
	•	Never built tech
	•	Never operated outside the AEC bubble
	•	Never questioned the system they inherited

So what happens?

• 112–200% overhead
• Burnout pushed downward
• Utilization weaponized
• Innovation avoided
• “That’s how we’ve always done it” becomes policy

Not because it works 
But because generational habits + personal risk-aversion + quiet greed froze the model in time.

You can’t compete in 2026 with a 1974 operating system.

So maybe the real conversation isn’t:
“How do we retain talent?”

It’s:
Why are we still structured this way at all?

Which brings us to the next evolution 👇
On-demand civil engineering.

Technology coming soon! 🔜 Sign up today, send me a DM.

Decentralized talent.
Lower overhead.
Engineers closer to value creation.
Tech built around how work actually happens.

Same profession.
Different model.

Let’s talk about it.

#CivilEngineering
#EngineeringReform
#ValueCapture
#OnDemandEngineering
#FutureOfWork

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