About the Founder
Hunter Strange
An accounting-firm owner turned CIO who built an aviation company's technology from the ground up and carried it through a corporate acquisition — now putting that same leverage in the hands of small businesses that can't hire a CIO.
Greater Mobile, Alabama · Director of IT, PrimeFlight Aviation Services · former CIO & accounting-firm owner · B.S. Accounting
Most AI consultants come at small business from the technology side: they're fluent in the tools but have never run a business, never carried a budget, never sat across from an owner sweating payroll.
Hunter has done all three. He spent six years owning a public accounting and advisory firm — a small business serving small businesses. Then he spent a decade as a technology executive, taking an aviation company from paper-and-spreadsheets to a fully modern, automated stack — and carrying those systems through the company's acquisition by a national operator. Then he went deep on AI and found he could deliver, solo, work that used to require an entire team and an enterprise budget.
StrAInge AI is what happens when you point that combination — owner's judgment, an accountant's discipline, and genuine AI fluency — at small businesses instead of at the enterprise.
The Experience Behind the Advice
Each chapter is here for one reason: it's what makes the advice you get worth listening to. So for each, here's what it actually means for your business.
He's sat in your chair
Owner — Joel H Strange LLC (public accounting & advisory firm)
2010–2016 · 6 years · ran his own small business serving small businesses
Before any of the technology work, Hunter owned and ran a public accounting firm — a small business himself, advising other businesses across every sector. He delivered the books, the insights, and the technology recommendations, one owner at a time.
What this means for you
He's been where you are: making payroll, watching cash flow, wearing every hat. When he scopes a project, he's thinking like an owner who has to justify the spend — because he was one.
Ground-zero transformation
Chief Information Officer — GAT Airline Ground Support
2016–2019 · Peachtree City, GA · built the technology organization from scratch
Hunter took GAT from minimal technology use to a modern stack — standing up Google Workspace, an ADP HRIS, and analytics tools like Knack and Qlik so the company could actually make decisions from its data. This is the "horse-and-buggy to automated" transformation, done for real, at the executive level.
What this means for you
Taking a business from manual, paper-and-spreadsheet processes to automated systems isn't a theory for him — it's the exact thing he did as a CIO. That's the work StrAInge AI does for you, sized to your budget.
A decade keeping it running
Director of Applications & HRIS Administrator — GAT Airline Ground Support
2019–2026 · part of a 10-year tenure · SaaS suite across the U.S. & Canada
After building the stack, Hunter ran it — managing and improving a SaaS application suite across operations in the U.S. and Canada. Most recently he self-taught the Dayforce HRIS platform over a few months to lead a full system reconfiguration — work that positioned him to take on the HRIS Administrator role in addition to his IT Director role. The rebuild was performed in conjunction with Clearcourse Consulting and was so successful that at Dayforce Discover 2025, Hunter presented on a panel about how he managed such a successful outcome in a highly compressed four-month timeframe.
What this means for you
He's not a one-project consultant who disappears. He knows what it takes to keep systems running long after launch — so what he builds you is built to last and built to be maintained, not a demo that breaks in a month.
He took the company through an acquisition
Director of IT — PrimeFlight Aviation Services
2026–present · joined through PrimeFlight's acquisition of GAT
In February 2026, PrimeFlight Aviation Services — one of the largest aviation-services companies in North America — acquired GAT. Hunter transitioned in as Director of IT, carrying the systems he'd built through a change of ownership and into a far larger organization.
What this means for you
He's seen first-hand what makes a business valuable enough to be bought — clean systems, documented processes, operations that don't live in one person's head. That's the same work that makes your business easier to run today and worth more whenever you choose to sell.
From "Java fluent" to "AI fluent"
The leverage, in real numbers
An enterprise HRIS data migration — the kind that normally runs a team four to six weeks and tens of thousands of dollars — delivered solo with Google Antigravity and Claude Code. That's not a parlor trick; it's the economics StrAInge AI brings to your business.
~$4
of compute for an enterprise HRIS migration that normally costs $25K–$50K
~8 hrs
start to finish, vs. 4–6 weeks for a typical team
15,000+
lines of working code produced with AI (Jul–Dec 2025)
97%
faster — three-hour workflows compressed to about four minutes
Built with NotebookLM on 30,000-page datasets, Gemini Deep Research, and Claude Code — fluent across the Google (Antigravity, GCP) and Anthropic ecosystems and the local developer tooling underneath them.
Why This Makes Him the Right Fit for a Small Business
He speaks owner and accountant
He ran his own firm and trained as an accountant. He thinks in payback periods, not features — every recommendation ties back to time saved or money made, and he can defend it to anyone watching the cash.
He's done it under real constraints
Aviation ground services means compliance, multiple sites across two countries, and messy real-world data. He's automated work that had to keep running every single day — not in a sandbox, in a live operation.
You work with him directly
No account manager, no junior hand-off, no telephone game. The person who built and ran an enterprise's technology for a decade is the person building your automation and answering your email.
"I've used AI to solve real business problems inside large operations. StrAInge AI puts that same leverage in the hands of small businesses."
— Hunter Strange, Founder
Put That Experience to Work
The first conversation is free, and it's with Hunter — not a sales rep.