STEPS Consulting Joins Forces with Childers Architect to Define AI Roadmap
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. / FORT SMITH, ARK. — July 2026 — STEPS Consulting, an Overland Park, Kansas-based full-service AI consultancy, is partnering with Childers Architect, an architecture firm designing community and healthcare spaces with offices across five states, to build a strategic roadmap for how the firm puts artificial intelligence to use. The engagement reflects a growing interest among architecture firms in adopting AI in ways that support design work, not replace it.
"Childers Architect has spent nearly three decades designing spaces that matter to the communities they serve," said Craig Sizemore, Managing Principal of STEPS Consulting. "Our work together is about making sure AI supports that mission, giving their teams more room to focus on the design work only people can do."
"We wanted a clear, practical roadmap for how AI fits into the way we design and deliver projects, not just a list of tools," said Breck Childers, President and CEO of Childers Architect.
The engagement gives the firm a sequence for evaluating and adopting AI, starting with the workflows most tied to project delivery. For STEPS, it extends the firm's work in the architecture sector and its focus on firms whose work centers on community and healthcare spaces.
ABOUT STEPS CONSULTING: STEPS is a full-service AI consultancy that creates trusted, agentic solutions, rapidly transforming the way organizations win. STEPS was recognized by the Kansas City Business Journal as the #3 fastest-growing company in Kansas City. Learn more about STEPS' work at www.stepsconsulting.com.
ABOUT CHILDERS ARCHITECT: Childers Architect is a design-oriented architectural firm with nearly 30 years of experience creating distinctive, functional works of architecture, with a focus on healthcare, community, and civic spaces. The firm is headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with additional offices in Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Bentonville, Arkansas; Phoenix, Arizona; Americus, Georgia; and Dallas, Texas.
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