The Short Version

I'm Crystin, and Eagle County isn't a "market" to me — it's home. I live here, I shop here, I know what it's like to run a business where the off-season is real and every dollar matters.

Before founding Vail Valley AI, I spent over ten years building production machine learning systems at Fortune 50 scale. I've designed and deployed AI systems that process millions of transactions, serve real-time predictions, and automate complex business workflows.

Now I bring that enterprise-grade expertise to local businesses — without the enterprise price tag or the agency runaround.

Crystin VanWagenen — Founder of Vail Valley AI, Eagle County, Colorado

What I Build

  • Custom AI Agents — Chatbots, workflow automation, and multi-step AI systems trained on your business data
  • Custom Software — Dashboards, portals, process automation, and integrations
  • Websites — Performance-optimized, SEO-friendly sites that convert visitors into customers
  • CRM & Marketing Automation — Email campaigns, lead tracking, and customer engagement on autopilot
  • Data Intelligence — Analytics, forecasting, and actionable business insights

Why Work With Me

You talk to the person who builds it. No account managers, no layers of project coordinators. Just direct, honest conversations about what your business needs and the fastest way to get there.

Enterprise quality, local pricing. The same engineering rigor I applied at Fortune 50 companies — applied to your business at a fraction of the cost. Projects start around $5,000 for a website or a focused automation, and scale up from there to full multi-system platform builds.

Honest recommendations. Not every problem needs AI. Sometimes a well-designed website, a properly configured CRM, or a smart marketing automation is the better call. I'll tell you which one.

How I Work

Every engagement starts the same way: I look at where your time actually goes. Not where you think it goes — where it measurably goes. Most businesses are losing hours to three or four specific handoffs, and until those are named, buying software is guesswork.

  • Scope first, build second. A short paid discovery beats a long unpaid proposal. You get a written plan you own, whether or not you hire me to build it.
  • Working software in weeks, not quarters. You see something running early and often, because a spec nobody has used is a guess.
  • Built on your data, in your tools. Systems that connect to what you already run beat systems that ask your team to start over.
  • You own it. Your code, your data, your accounts. No hostage situations, no per-seat fees to read your own records.

Industries I Serve

Hospitality & lodging, restaurants & food service, retail & ski shops, construction & trades, real estate & property management, professional services, and outdoor recreation — all across Vail, Avon, Edwards, Minturn, Eagle, Gypsum, and Eagle County.

Technical Expertise

Large language models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-source), fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reinforcement learning, production ML systems, API design and integration, full-stack web development, database design, cloud infrastructure, and data pipeline architecture.