About Lehua AI

Named after resilience. Built for real conditions.

We help leaders at small and midsize businesses navigate AI adoption with a framework, a working cohort, and practical technology leadership.

Why Lehua

The Lehua flower blooms in lava fields.

Not despite the harsh environment, but because of it. We built this practice for organizations navigating equally unforgiving terrain: real business pressure, limited resources, and a market that will not wait for them to figure out AI.

The gap we kept seeing was not a technology gap. It was a navigation gap. Leaders do not lack tools. They lack a structured way to decide which tools, in which order, with which guardrails.

Your guides

Experience at the intersection of business and technology.

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Co-founder · Framework architect

Stephen Kellogg

Thirty-plus years across US Coast Guard service, corporate technology leadership, and consulting with small and midsize organizations. Stephen is the architect and primary facilitator of Helm.

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Co-founder · Delivery architect

Derek Gabriel

More than twenty years helping businesses operate securely on the Microsoft stack across identity, cloud, security, and AI. Derek owns the architecture, tooling, and implementation behind the framework.

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A business should not need enterprise-sized resources to adopt AI responsibly.

That belief shapes the framework, the working room, and every artifact participants take home.

Put the framework to work

Your company is the story. The cohort helps you chart what comes next.