AI Meets Strategy. Execution Follows.
We help individuals, teams, and organizations use AI and strategic thinking to work smarter, communicate clearly, and achieve real outcomes.
How We Work With You
A 20-minute conversation to understand your situation, answer your questions, and figure out together whether working together makes sense. If it's a fit, we'll recommend the right session or package for you.
A focused 90-minute session built around your specific work. We identify where you are stuck, build a working AI tool or workflow together, and you leave with something you can use immediately.
Three sessions across four to six weeks. The first builds your workflow, the second refines it, the third makes it stick. This is where real, lasting change happens. Save $150 compared to single sessions.
For individuals, teams, and organizations that need something more than a few sessions. We design a custom engagement around your goals, your team, and your timeline. Every custom package starts with a discovery conversation to scope the right fit.
These packages start at $1,500.
Most consulting creates dependency. We build capability instead.
We believe AI should make you more capable, not more dependent on someone else to use it. Every session starts with your actual work, not a generic curriculum, and ends with something you can run on your own. We take the work seriously, and we make the process worth showing up for.
Tell Us What You're Building. We'll Help You Get There.
Every great outcome starts with a conversation.
Whether you have a clear brief or just a burning question, we're ready to think alongside you.
Meet Patti
This isn't just a business. It's the work I've spent two decades building toward.
I'm Patti Rausch, an AI strategist who helps people and organizations turn complexity into something they can actually use. I lead AI strategy for a national trade association, I've spoken at industry conferences, and I built this practice because I kept getting asked the same question by people in my own life: can you just help me figure out how to use this for my work?
I believe AI should make you more capable, not more dependent. Every session I run is built around your actual work, not a generic curriculum, because the people who get the most out of AI are the ones who already have expertise and judgment. AI just helps them move faster.
Two Paths. One Practice.
Meet Scott
I'm Scott Rausch, and I handle the policy and government relations side of Rausch Strategies. I spent two decades in Washington and state government before this, working on Capitol Hill for members of the U.S. House and Senate, inside a federal agency's congressional affairs office, and at the state level in the Wisconsin Legislature, where I ran legislative teams and helped move bills from idea to law.
Now I help campaigns and public policy organizations use AI to be more effective. Most of that work isn't about new tools, it's about how a team thinks. Campaigns and advocacy shops sit on enormous amounts of institutional knowledge: research, message testing, relationship history, what worked and what didn't. AI gives that knowledge legs. It can move faster through a team's day-to-day work and turn into more output, more responsiveness, and more impact, without losing the judgment that made the knowledge valuable in the first place.
Patti and I built this practice together because we kept seeing the same gap: people who understood their work but not the policy and political landscape shaping it, or people who understood that landscape but not how to put AI to work in it. We cover both.
Our Story
We spent the first parts of our careers doing the work most people never see.
Patti built programs and operations, the unglamorous infrastructure that makes an organization actually function. Scott spent two decades in Washington and state government, on Capitol Hill, inside a federal agency, in a state legislature, doing the work that makes policy actually move. Different rooms, same instinct: pay attention to what everyone else treats as background noise, because that is usually where the real leverage sits.
Patti was also paying attention to something most people around her were not. When generative AI arrived, she did not wait for permission to understand it. She signed up the day she could, taught herself, then taught the people around her, and within a few years was leading AI strategy for a national trade association, building research infrastructure used across an entire industry, standing on stages telling executives things they had not yet realized about their own organizations.
Scott was one of the people she taught. He brought two decades of watching how policy actually gets made, how much of that work runs on institutional knowledge that lives in staff and relationships and the people who remember why a decision was made three years ago. Once he saw what AI could do with that kind of knowledge, he saw exactly where it was needed most: campaigns and policy shops that had no real plan for the technology reshaping the work around them.
But here is the part that actually matters.
Somewhere in that work, Patti noticed a pattern. The executives who came to her were confident in every other part of their job. And then they would ask the same question: can you just help me figure this out? Not their team. Not their company. Them, personally. Smart, accomplished people who had built real careers, who suddenly felt like they were falling behind on something everyone assumed they already understood.
She started saying yes. Not because it was strategic. Because she could not walk past that look on someone's face and pretend she had not seen it.
That is the moment Rausch Strategies actually began. Not in a business plan. In a hallway conversation with someone who trusted her enough to admit what they did not know.
We built this practice together on a simple belief: people with expertise and judgment do not need to be replaced by AI. They need someone to hand them the tools to move faster, without making them feel small for asking. That is the work. Not novelty. Not hype. Capability, handed to the people who have earned it through years of doing things the hard way.
We are proud of the distance between where we started and where we are now. We are more interested in what happens next, because the people who need this help are not running out anytime soon.