AI does the heavy lifting. Your team does the work that matters.
Metro AI Partners trains your people on-site, maps your workflows, and builds the automations that run without you watching.
On-site, DC Metro area, senior leadership only. We come to you.
The Competition
Sounds efficient. Until it isn't.
No persistent memory. Learns nothing from one session to the next.
No institutional knowledge. Starts from zero every time.
No relationships. Can't read the room or the client.
No judgment. Follows instructions, misses context.
No accountability. When it fails, nobody owns it.
Hallucinates. Needs exact instructions or it drifts.
Replaced the moment a better model ships.
The Metro AI Approach
Knows your clients, your history, your culture
Builds trust. Relationships are the business.
Judgment sharpened by years of real experience.
Owns outcomes. Skin in the game.
Loyal to the team, the mission, the brand.
Gets better every day. AI makes them unstoppable.
The New Way
Pick your role. See the before and after.
Controller
GovCon firm
Before: The Old Way
Pulls AR aging report manually every Monday morning
Scans for accounts 30+ days overdue
Makes individual phone calls or sends one-off emails
Logs each contact attempt in a spreadsheet by hand
Follows up again a week later if no response
Escalates to management when there's a dispute
After: AI handles it
Typical Results · DC Metro
Service
Project Coordinator
Mid-size construction firm, DC Metro
subcontractor coordination + client updates
Technology
IT Help Desk Manager
Mid-size law firm, Washington DC
per help desk ticket logged + routed
Illustrative examples based on typical engagements of this type, not verified client results. Individual outcomes vary.
ROI Calculator
Industry data shows employees save an average of 5–9 hours per week with AI. Run the numbers for your team.
Industry average
Annual hours saved
1,250
hours
Estimated annual savings
$56,250
per year
Based on Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis research (2025) on AI time savings. Actual results vary.
Bottom Up. Not Top Down.
Your biggest obstacle to AI isn't the technology. It's buy-in. Most companies hand AI down from the top. We do the opposite. Your employees are the ones in the trenches: they know the bottlenecks, the problems, and the opportunities. We train them, guide the conversation, and let them surface the solutions themselves. That's how you get real buy-in.
On-Site
We show up at your office with your people in the room. No Zoom. No webinar. You're either all-in or you're not, and we only work with companies that are.
Education + Breakout
We don't hand them a list of use cases. We teach the fundamentals, then break them into groups to find where AI can take the weight off, for their own jobs, in their own words.
Self-Discovery
Your people see what the C-suite can't: the daily friction, the workarounds, the hours that quietly disappear. When the fix comes from them, they own it.
Buy-In
Most AI training fails because it's imposed top-down. Ours sticks because the team co-creates the answer. When people are vested in the solution, adoption isn't a mandate. It's a choice they already made.
The Three-Visit Structure
Visit 1
Educate
Education, breakout sessions, self-discovery. Your team identifies where AI can help, in their own words.
Visit 2
Delegate
We return two weeks later. What's working? What needs adjustment? Everyone gets back on the same page.
Visit 3
Automate
Cement the habits. Align on policies and procedures. After Visit 3, your team either runs the automations themselves or we build them. We're available as coaches, builders, or both.
Most companies stop here. The ones that pull ahead don't.
Ongoing Partnership
The three visits are just the beginning. For companies that choose to keep us on, we become part of the team. We know your people, your tools, and your operation. AI changes every month and so does what you can do with it.
We already know your systems, your culture, and how your team works. Every new employee gets onboarded into your AI workflows without starting from scratch. Your competitive edge doesn't walk out the door every time someone leaves.
AI changes every month. We track what matters for your industry and your roles, bring you up to speed, and show you where to apply it in your operation. No news feeds, no conferences. Just what's relevant to you.
Training that doesn't stick is just an expense. We check in with your employees every month to make sure the habits are holding, the tools are part of daily work, and nobody has quietly gone back to the old way.
As your AI subject matter experts, we're available for planning, decision support, and coaching. When AI decisions come up, you have people in your corner who already know your operation.
“Most training companies train and disappear. Metro stays in the room.”
ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System, Certification In Progress 2026
The international standard for responsible AI governance, audited and certified by an accredited third-party registrar.
On-Demand Training Videos Coming Soon
Role-specific AI training videos for every member of your team, available on demand. Great for new hires and ongoing reinforcement.
Ask about the Partnership when you book your call.
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What's happening in AI and what it means for your business. Written for Controllers, CIOs, and Operations leaders. Not developers.
Browse Insights →Who We Are
We've run every part of a business. Not from a textbook, from the chair. Across a multimillion-dollar government-contracting firm and the companies we've built since, we've personally owned the finance, the accounting, the legal, the contracts, the HR, the hiring, the training, the insurance, and the technology. CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CHRO, often all at once.
And we've had a direct line into the inner workings of more than 500 organizations across every size and sector. So we know how a business really runs, where it breaks, what's quietly eating your team's day, and which work is ready to hand to AI. That's the part most trainers miss: knowing what to automate, and what to leave alone.
Industries We've Worked In
20+
Companies Built
500+
Organizations Served
30yr
Business Experience
The Team

Joey Zabaglo
Founder
Strategic operator focused on the human side of frontier technology: trust, adoption, and narrative.

Danny Zabaglo
Consultant
An AI developer with a strong understanding of sales, business operations, and real-world implementation.

Todd Zabaglo
Consultant
Brings decades of experience across enterprise technology, federal contracting, and large-scale operations.
ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System, Certification In Progress 2026
The international standard for responsible AI governance, audited and certified by an accredited third-party registrar.
Why Us
Most AI trainers have never shipped a product. We build automated-intelligence systems for a living: AI agents and software that already run sales, support, and operations inside our own companies. The team brings decades of enterprise technology and cybersecurity, engineers who've taken multiple products from idea to market, operators who've run every function of a real business, and the rare knack for translating all of it into language your people will use. We're not theorizing about AI in your business. We've already built it in ours.
Ready to Start
We'll ask about your team, your tools, and where the friction is. No pitch. Just a real conversation about whether we're a fit.
Book a CallNationwide · Any company size
If you're in the DC Metro area, we'll come on-site for one hour with your senior leadership team, at no cost. We'll show you where AI can take the weight off, right now, for your specific operation.
Schedule a Discovery Session →DC Metro only · Senior leadership · Free · Limited availability
One-on-One
Two-hour private sessions for CFOs, controllers, owners, and managers. Work on your workflows, in your tools, at your pace.
See PackagesVirtual or DC Metro in-person · Starting at $750