About ottertail studio
Operators who build.
ottertail studio is an AI implementation firm based in Vancouver, Canada. We help marketing, sales and operations teams across Canada and the US put AI into production, and keep it working.
Founder
Who you'll work with
Akshay spent years on infrastructure teams where systems have to work every time. At AWS he designed the EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools feature, built to handle more than 10,000 instance launches a minute. At Stripe he was a founding member of the Core Compute team and shipped a package mirroring system that ran without incident through Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Alongside that, he has spent more than ten years running SEO and Google Ads for small businesses, so he knows the manual work behind marketing and operations first-hand.
In 2026 he built Septra, an AI platform that runs Google Ads and SEO work for paying clients, and Tasklix, a second product. ottertail studio brings the same approach to your business: find the work AI can do reliably, build it to production standards, and stay until your team is using it.
Most AI projects fail somewhere between the demo and Monday morning. I've spent my career building systems that have to work every time, and that is the bar we hold every build to.
What we believe
Clever tools, used well
Otters are one of the few animals that use tools. They carry a favourite stone to crack open what they can't open alone. That is the job: bring the right tools, use them with skill, and leave the business stronger than we found it.
Clear over clever
We explain AI in plain language first, and use jargon only when you need it.
Specific over impressive
We promise hours saved and dollars earned, and we report on both.
Production or it doesn't count
A demo is the start of the work, not the end of it.
Say no early
If AI isn't the right fix, we'll tell you before you spend money finding out.
Let's find the first workflow worth automating.
Start with a two-week AI Opportunity Audit, backed by our 10x value guarantee.