WonderTour Consulting LLC Delaware, Ohio · 40.30°N 83.07°W Est. 2021

Clarity first. Then the tools.

We help established small businesses that are ready to grow figure out what problem they're really solving, then put AI, automation and cloud software to work on it.

Services · five, on purpose

A short menu, done well.

Every engagement starts in the same place. From there we go where the problem points.

Where every engagement starts

Problem Discovery Session

A focused working session to map what's really going on in your business before anyone buys software or writes code. You leave with a clear statement of the problem, what success looks like, and the few moves worth making first.

AI Strategy & Coaching

Where AI fits in your business and where it doesn't. Practical coaching for owners and teams so they can use it well, with no hype.

AI Assistants & Automation

Custom assistants and automated workflows that take repetitive work off your plate: intake, follow-ups, document handling, reporting.

Digital Transformation & Cloud Apps

Paper forms and spreadsheets turned into secure cloud apps that run themselves, built on AWS and sized to your business.

Leadership Clarity Sprint

A short coaching sprint in three moves: Map where you stand, Mirror how you think and lead, then Move on what matters. Real thinking about how to think, not recycled books and talks.

The approach

We explore the problem space first.

Most technology projects fail before they start, because they solve the wrong problem. So the route always runs in this order.

Explore

Understand the terrain

How work actually flows today, where it sticks, and what you're trying to become.

Clarify

Name the real problem

One clear statement everyone agrees on, with a picture of what better looks like.

Build

Choose the right tool

Then, and only then, the AI, automation or app that fits, delivered so it runs without babysitting.

Help people find their purpose and fulfill it, beyond what they think is possible.

Field notes

Things we've built.

Five years of experiments, client work and products, all under the WonderTour name.

Ongoing

Paper-to-cloud field app

A service company's paper job form became a digital form backed by a serverless AWS app. Maintenance is automated and runs under an annual contract.

2022

Restaurant inventory app

A custom inventory management app for a local ramen restaurant, built as a paid consulting engagement.

Ongoing

WonderQuant

In-house research into machine-learning trading systems, from GPU-trained models to a fleet of small networked nodes.

2025

Content and voice

Video and social content under a WonderTour persona, plus a trained AI voice model that other creators licensed.

2023

Digital storefront

An online shop selling digital room mock-ups and scripture-themed designs for shirts and wall art.

Published

Bāsis, Volume One

A book on applied spiritual physiology, published under WonderTour Consulting. More below.

A WonderTour book

Bāsis

Volume One · Applied Spiritual Physiology

Training the body, attention, and will for obedience.

Bāsis is about the ground under everything else. It treats attention, breath and the body as the base layer of a life, the place clarity comes from before any plan or tool.

It's the same idea that runs through the consulting work, turned inward: explore first, name what's real, then build on it.

Cover of Bāsis, Volume 1: Applied Spiritual Physiology, by Derrick Ian Cobb
Available now

Volume One

Applied Spiritual Physiology, in paperback and Kindle. Get it on Amazon.

Free

The Present Attention Starter Kit

A short PDF to start the practice today. Sign up below.

In development

Tōken

A card-sized tactile companion to the book, with a patterned surface for the hands to return to.

Writing · 2027

Volume Two

The next book in the series. Join the starter-kit list to hear when it's ready.

Free · PDF

The Present Attention Starter Kit

Enter your email and we'll send the kit, plus a note when Volume Two is out.

Who you'll work with

Derrick & Drew, co-owners

Derrick

Co-Owner · Principal Consultant

An Ohio State electrical and computer engineer, lifelong builder and PC tinkerer since a 386 in 1990. More than twenty years leading people and systems inside a large company, plus five years of building on his own: cloud apps, AI models, books and content.

Drew

Co-Owner

Drew co-owns WonderTour Consulting with Derrick and shares in steering where the company goes next.

We take on a small number of clients at a time, so each one gets real attention.

Company
WonderTour Consulting LLC
Based in
Delaware, Ohio · serving Columbus and remote
Best fit
Established small businesses ready to grow
Builds on
AWS · Python · modern AI

Start with a conversation.

Send a few lines about your business and what feels stuck. We'll set up a Problem Discovery Session from there.

Not sure where to start? Ask for a free 30-minute AI Quick-Win Check. We open three each month.

  • What your business does and roughly how big it is
  • The one thing you'd fix first if you could
  • What you've already tried