We teach building-industry companies to build and run their own AI tools.

For remodelers, designers, builders, and the trades and suppliers who serve them. If you want an app delivered with nobody inside your firm to own it, we are not your firm.

Adam Vellequette Ashley Sheaffer
Adam Vellequette & Ashley Sheaffer Owners, KBF Design Gallery · $5.2M to $13.8M, 2021 to 2025 · Orlando, FL
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Proof from inside the firm

We built these tools for our own firm first.

Our lead designer spent 7 hours per project writing scopes, estimates, and proposals before a single design decision was made. At 70 projects a year, that was 490 hours on one task. We built a workflow around it in a week. Her scope time fell to about 30 minutes.

7hrs
Per project on scope writing, before
30min
Per project on scope writing, after
490hrs
Per year on that one task, before
$13.8M
KBF revenue in 2025, from $5.2M in 2021

KBF Design Gallery is the design-build remodeling firm we own and run in Orlando, Florida. Every workflow Datum teaches ran there first, on real scopes, schedules, selections, and field work.

The tools we use are the ones we run the company on: Claude and Claude Code by Anthropic, ChatGPT and Codex by OpenAI. Tools change monthly. The judgment we teach, what to trust, what to connect, and where a person reviews, does not.

KBF Design Gallery building, Maitland, FL
KBF · Orlando, FL
Recognition earned by the firm these tools run inside
Florida Design Seaglass Award 2025Florida DesignSeaglass Awards Orlando Magazine Home Design Awards badgeOrlando MagazineHome Design Awards Best of Houzz award badgeBest of HouzzDesign recognition Parade of Homes 2025 award badgeParade of HomesOrlando recognition Orlando Business Journal Golden 100 badgeOBJ Golden 100Private company list Architectural Digest coverArchitectural DigestExcellence in Design Florida DesignSeaglass Awards Orlando MagazineHome Design Awards Best of HouzzDesign recognition Parade of HomesOrlando recognition OBJ Golden 100Private company list Architectural DigestExcellence in Design
Watch it work

Watch the scope write itself.

Sample output from the scope workflow we built inside KBF, the one that took a 7-hour task to about 30 minutes. Pick a project type and watch a reviewable draft assemble.

Datum scope workflow · sample output 0.0s

From a 20-minute project conversation: full kitchen, wall opening, island, new appliances.

Illustrative sample, streamed in your browser. Names and numbers are not from a real client file. Every real run ends the same way: a draft with flags, reviewed by a person before it touches a customer.

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Who we are

Two operators. Still in the work.

We bought KBF Design Gallery in 2021 at $5.2M in revenue and ran it to $13.8M by 2025. Every tool we teach came from a bottleneck we hit ourselves.

Adam Vellequette, founder of Datum and co-owner of KBF Design Gallery
Founder · Datum · Co-owner, KBF Design Gallery

Adam Vellequette

Adam grew up in his family's remodeling business: demo in high school, then tile, cabinetry, and framing alongside KBF's tradesmen before moving into sales and operations. He built KBF's AI tools himself and teaches the method that came out of it.

Ashley Sheaffer, co-founder of Datum and co-owner of KBF Design Gallery
Co-founder · Datum · Co-owner, KBF Design Gallery

Ashley Sheaffer

Ashley started at KBF as a receptionist straight out of college, earned her NKBA certification as a kitchen and bath designer, rose through sales management, and became co-owner alongside Adam in 2021. She knows the workflows from the ground up, which is why she knows what AI should and should not touch.

Where we work

Based in Orlando, Florida. Working across the United States.

On site for intensives and presentations, anywhere in the country. Remote for the strategy session, ongoing consulting, and the Community. Our office is in Maitland, just north of Orlando.

adam@datumconsulting.ai · (407) 929-3431

Is Datum for you?

A good fit

  • You run a building-industry company.
  • At least one person inside can own the work.
  • You want tools that run on your accounts and stay yours.
  • You will sit for a real conversation about the work first.

Not a fit

  • You want an app delivered with no one inside to own it.
  • You want AI to price jobs or send client commitments without a person reviewing.
  • You want a price before a conversation. We quote one fixed price after we talk.
Questions

The four we get first.

How much does Datum cost?

Every engagement is one fixed price, quoted after a conversation. It includes the AI compute and tools we use for your work. When we come to you, travel is one flat fee quoted with it. Ongoing work is one fixed monthly amount. The Community is $200 a month, and that is the only price on this site.

Do we need a developer?

No. You need one person who will own the work. Training starts from what to install and how to give AI your business context, and builds from there.

Do you build it for us?

We build with your people, and we license the software we built for our own firm so you start from a working system. We do not deliver an app and leave. A firm that wants that is not a fit, and we say so on the first call.

Where are you?

Orlando (Maitland), Florida. We serve the United States: on site for intensives and presentations anywhere in the country, remote for everything else.

Start with a conversation.

Thirty minutes with Adam, weekday evenings, Eastern time. We talk through your bottleneck and whether Datum is the right door. If it is not, we say so.