About
Two partners. One scope. No employees yet — by design.
We started Murphy Harris Advisors because business owners kept asking the same question and getting no straight answer: what is AI actually for, in my business, right now?
Why this firm exists
Every owner we talk to has heard about AI for two years. Most have tried a chat tool once or twice. Almost none have deployed anything that matters to how their business runs.
That is not a failure of will. It is a failure of translation. The market is loud, the vendors are circling, and nobody is sitting across the table telling an owner what to do first in plain language.
We are not a software company and we are not a generalist consultancy. We are two operators who have built the systems, run the teams, and shipped the work. We take a small number of engagements so we can do each one properly.
No employees yet is a choice, not a limitation. When you hire us, you get us — not an associate, not a junior, not a deck.
Adam Harris
Partner
Adam has spent his career on the operations side of small and mid-sized businesses — running managed services, building internal systems, and shipping software that real teams use to get through their day.
He has built multi-tenant platforms end to end: authentication, data models, billing, the unglamorous plumbing that has to work before anything else matters. That experience is why our advice is grounded in what is actually buildable, not what sounds good in a slide.
What he kept seeing was the same gap. Business owners knew AI mattered. They had tried a chat tool once or twice. And then nothing — because no one could tell them, specifically, what to do first for their business.
That gap is the whole reason this firm exists. Adam’s role is to sit across from an owner, understand how the business actually runs, and translate the noise of the AI market into a short list of things worth doing.
He does not write strategy decks. He ships the work, or tells you plainly when something is not worth doing yet.
Joshua Murphy
Partner
Josh has spent his career on the quality and compliance side of regulated industry — fifteen years building the management systems that keep audited businesses out of trouble. He is an ASQ-certified quality manager (CMQ/OE), which in plain terms is the person who makes sure a company can prove it does what it says it does.
He builds ISO 9001 quality systems, corrective-action programs, and contract-review processes — the unglamorous machinery a business needs to pass inspection. Lately that work runs on AI and automation: Power Automate, SharePoint, and tools like Claude and Copilot, wired in to cut the documentation load that buries small teams without loosening a single control.
The difference shows up in the numbers an auditor cares about. Corrective actions that used to drag on for months now close in a fraction of the time, and the repeat problems that kept coming back across sites have largely stopped. He works from the outcome the business needs, not the tool that happens to be interesting.
That is the half of AI most consultants skip. Demoing something clever is easy; making it survive an audit is hard. Josh makes sure the work we ship for regulated clients is the kind they can stand behind when a regulator, a customer, or their own board comes asking.
He does not chase tools for their own sake. He finds the one process worth fixing first, fixes it so it stays fixed, and tells you plainly when automation is not the answer yet.
How we work
Diagnose, decide, implement.
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Diagnose
We learn how your business actually runs before we say a word about AI.
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Decide
We tell you the one thing worth doing first — and what to leave alone.
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Implement
If you want help doing it, we do the work and report on it weekly.
The full sequence — intro, proposal, sprint, retainer — lives on the process page.
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