The Way of Product with Caden Damiano · 2026-06-16 · 51 min
Issac Hicks is the Founder and CEO at Autonomi , an AI and automation consulting firm that helps mid-market and enterprise companies make critical work reliably repeatable. Rising to prominence in the applied AI space in the early 2020s, Hicks built Autonomi into a recognized force in business process automation - earning a seat on the Forbes Technology Council - by focusing on a thesis most consulting firms won’t touch: that the biggest source of wasted enterprise spend isn’t bad strategy, it’s the avalanche of tedious, repetitive operational work that consumes employees’ days. His firm has driven over $50 million in wasted spend back to the bottom line across deployments spanning custom applications, AI-enabled workflows, and end-to-end process automation. Hicks arrived at entrepreneurship through an unlikely path. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (class of 2016), then spent roughly a year working as an aerospace engineer for the government before pivoting into Big Four business consulting.
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