Purple Orange AI
Short version: Purple Orange AI helps teams find manual workflows worth automating, then ships production AI systems inside the tools those teams already use.
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Purple Orange AI is a production AI workflow practice that helps teams audit, build, and operate AI automation inside real business systems.
Short paragraph
Purple Orange AI helps owner-led businesses, funded startups, and mid-market teams identify manual workflows worth automating, then ship production AI workflows in the tools they already use. The practice focuses on workflow audits, implementation sprints, AI operations buildouts, MCP servers, agent workflows, human review, and handoff that teams can actually run.
Long paragraph
Purple Orange AI is a founder-led production AI practice based in Chicago. The company works with teams that have real operational drag: lead intake, reporting, research, client communication, document intake, CRM preparation, internal tooling, and other recurring workflows that need better automation. Purple Orange AI starts with a workflow audit, then builds controlled AI systems with connected tools, human review, logs, and practical handoff. Its related projects include Purple Orange Stack, an operator-led software research and comparison platform, and Violema, a controlled AI coworker platform.
Fast facts
Purple Orange AI
Max Markovtsev
Production AI workflows, automation, agent systems
Chicago, IL; remote-friendly worldwide
Reviewable agent, $2,500, live in 7 days. The intake call is free.
Purple Orange Stack, Violema
Founder bio
Max Markovtsev builds and runs Purple Orange AI alone from Chicago. He built Violema, a live multi-tenant SaaS, with parallel Claude build lanes and reviewers on a different model that can block a deploy; the refusal log is public. That system was approved for the AI Tinkerers Chicago main stage in August 2026 and is re-submitted for September 15. He is opening PROOF, an invitation-only dinner in Chicago where one builder runs a live AI system in front of 48 vouched guests. Before Purple Orange he spent 15 years in advertising, shipping work for P&G, Unilever, Nestlé, Wrigley, Western Union, Northwestern Mutual, and the U.S. Marine Corps.
For interviews and quotes, Max is strongest on production AI workflows, human-in-the-loop automation, software stack selection, AI coding environments, agent systems, founder-led operations, and the gap between AI hype and work a team can actually run.
The useful version of AI is not a trick. It is a workflow that survives Monday morning.
Interview and quote topics
- Why most AI automation fails after the demo
- How to choose the first workflow worth automating
- Human-in-the-loop AI agents for business operations
- What a two-week AI automation sprint should actually ship
- How AI search changes software research and comparison content
- Why operator-led reviews beat affiliate-first software rankings
- How founders should think about tool stacks before hiring more people
- What MCP, Claude Code, Codex, and AI coding systems mean for small teams
Related brands and projects
Purple Orange Stack
Purple Orange Stack is an operator-led research and comparison platform for AI, sales, marketing, productivity, and software tools. It is built around real workflows, operational usefulness, and long-term stack fit instead of affiliate fluff.
Violema
Violema is Purple Orange AI's live multi-tenant SaaS for recurring founder workflows. It drafts the work from connected sources, holds it at a review gate until a person approves, delivers through Slack or email, and keeps an inspectable run and cost ledger.
PROOF
PROOF is an invitation-only dinner series from Purple Orange AI. Forty-eight vouched guests, one builder running a live AI system, then the room asks what it costs and what it is worth. Season One opens in Chicago this fall.
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