People first
Technology should free people to do the part of the work that needs human judgment. We do not deliver AI that displaces the people whose work it touches.
Extending Human Capacity
About Argentix
Argentix Consulting is a management consulting firm based in Woodbury, Minnesota. We work with small and mid-sized organizations across the United States, helping their leaders and teams through change.
Our mission
We help organizations extend what their people can do. Most of that is management work: helping executives decide, helping managers lead, and helping staff learn new ways of working without losing what already works.
We are vendor-agnostic. We have no partnerships, commissions, or referral arrangements with AI platform vendors, so what we recommend never depends on what you buy.
Our name comes from argentum, Latin for silver. Silver tarnishes when it is neglected and shines when it is cared for. Organizations work the same way.
What we hold to
Relationships over engagements
The relationship with a client matters more than any single project. We stay in touch after the formal engagement ends.
Practical over theoretical
We are paid to change how the work gets done. A strategy deck that changes nothing is not our product.
Security by default
Every system we design has security built in from the first day. It is a constraint on the design, not a layer added at the end.
The SIMPLE standard
Six principles we apply to every recommendation, in every engagement. They are filters, not phases.
Stewardship
Make good use of the people, resources, and technology an organization depends on.
Intentionality
Know where, how, and why each change is made. Every recommendation has a defined purpose and a named owner.
Meaningful
Change has to produce measurable results for the organization, its customers, and its employees.
Powerful
Solutions must be robust and secure enough to hold up in daily use.
Levelset
We are vendor-agnostic. Not every problem needs new technology, and we say so when it does not.
Effective
Judge the work by its effect on the organization and the people in it.
The founders
Argentix was founded by three partners with backgrounds in management, higher education, engineering, cybersecurity, and international consulting.
L. Eric James, JD, MS
Founding partner and managing consultant. His career has centered on management, systems design, teaching, and change management.
Zachary Johnson, BSE
Founding partner and AI consultant. He leads the firm's engineering work on AI workflows.
Matthew Buhler
Founding partner and AI security consultant. He leads the firm's cybersecurity work.
Our book
The New Management
Where We Are and Where We Need to Go: Management in the Age of AI
Most managers got the job through one of four inherited paths: tenure, the old boys' club, the MBA, or being the top performer who got promoted. None of them reliably produces the manager an AI-era organization needs. The book names the five capacities that close the gap: managing change, understanding people, accountability that scales, technology literacy, and systems thinking.
“A change moves through an organization at the speed of the smallest group that has learned it.”
Talk to the people who wrote the book
Tell us what is changing in your organization. You will speak with one of the founders.