AI strategy that makes sense for humans.

Meaning …
what, exactly?

What we offer:

  • Analytical tools to guide you through introducing AI into your processes with minimal stress, confusion, and missteps

  • Editorial services to help you shape your public-facing statements about your commitment to responsible AI

  • The upcoming blog, where we will feature Q&As with experts, hot takes on recent AI developments, and the occasional mess-around with AI. And whatever else we wanna write about. Did we mention it’s upcoming? It’s not quite a living thing yet.

  • Our resource network, compiled to help you connect with the engineers and data scientists who are experts in AI technology and its applications

AI holds tons of promise, but the anxiety around it is understandable. There are well-founded concerns about job displacement, privacy issues, and biased or otherwise flawed outcomes. At Abeio, our goal is to help you get out ahead of the pitfalls.

To realize AI’s potential, humans have to guide it with intention. The world is getting closer to achieving AI that reflects human-like intelligence (some would say it already exists), so we should think of it sort of like raising a human. That means thinking one step ahead to make sure it’s doing no harm, isn’t filling its own head with total nonsense (aka bad data), and has guardians who are accountable for its deeds and misdeeds.

Meet Alison

I’m Alison Aves, the royal “we” previously referenced on this site. If you’re interested in the TL;DR (yet also more detailed) version of my professional background, here’s my résumé; my portfolio is just next door here on the site. I’m a deeply seasoned writer, editor, project manager, and team leader, and have been growing my bona fides in AI strategy.

Before hatching the idea for Abeio, I spent more than two decades working with editorial content in one way or another. I wrote, copywrote, copy edited, senior edited, edited in chief, and editorial directed. I worked with academics, tech bros enthusiasts, dot-com evangelists, lifestyle journalists, performing arts lovers, retail marketers, music journos, and others. And then I decided to take all that experience and, of course, start from scratch, at a time when everywhere I looked, creative professions were getting squeezed by AI, or even just the idea of it. I identify as an idealist, so I decided to see if I could make a place for a little idealism in our wariness of an AI-dominated future.

About the name, which is pronounced ah-BAY-oh: At some point after 2012, I started signing holiday cards “ABEO,” an acronym that comprises the first initials of my husband, my two totally incredible kids, and me. And I thought about using that as the name of my business, but it turns out a shoe company had already claimed it. Somehow I thought of throwing in another vowel, and “I” seemed like a good choice, so in it went. And then I noticed that the end of the name was “E-I-O,” which made me think of Old Macdonald, which has nothing to do with anything but is an apt match for my typical level of solemnity (hint: low). And so … E-I-E-I-Abeio.