Walker Deyo
Walker Deyo is the co-founder of Elevair. He has worked with artificial intelligence for five years and runs strategy and delivery: what gets built for whom, in what order, and whether it is paying, for established operators, dealer groups, and law firms.
Co-Founder of Elevair · Austin, Texas
Walker has worked with artificial intelligence for five years: building with the models since the GPT-3 era, academic work in AI, and shipping AI products people actually used, all while studying at the University of Texas at Austin. Along the way he saw the gap nobody was filling: businesses were becoming invisible to the AI systems rapidly replacing traditional search, and the tools that existed served SaaS companies, not the operators who run on inbound calls.
That gap became Elevair. Walker and Campbell Hendee built the company around a simple piece of economics: for a service operator, a single AI recommendation can be a five-figure job, and a single missed call can lose one. Walker runs strategy and delivery: what gets built for whom, in what order, and whether it is paying.
Where the Market Is Going
“The way people find services is changing faster than most owners realize. When someone's AC breaks at 10pm in July, they don't open Google and scroll through ten blue links anymore. They ask an assistant for a recommendation, and whatever name comes back is the one that gets the call.
I've worked with these models for five years, since before they could reliably finish a sentence. The thing that changed isn't the demos. It's that the systems finally got good enough to run real operations: answer the phone, qualify the caller, book the job, follow up, and tell you the truth about all of it. Most of the industry is still selling AI as chatbots and content. The value is the machine underneath.
What I love about operators is that the results are countable. We're not selling brand awareness. A captured after-hours call is a job on the board. A name in an assistant's answer is a phone that rings. We measure in booked work, and we expect to be held to it.”
— Walker Deyo, Co-Founder of Elevair
AI Strategy & Delivery
Five years working with the models: what AI can actually run inside a business today, what it can't yet, and the order to build in so each piece pays for the next.
Service-Business Economics
The revenue math of operators: ticket values, seasonal demand, lifetime customer value, and what a missed call actually costs across a year.
AI Search & Retrieval Systems
How AI platforms decide which businesses to recommend: query fan-out, entity recognition, citation signals, and recency weighting.
Sales & Client Strategy
Translating AI capability into commitments an operator can hold us to: written scopes with measurable lines, not buzzwords.
Get in touch with Walker
Want to know if GEO is right for your business? Walker will give you a straight answer — no pitch, no pressure.