ALYESKA DEVBUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CONSULTINGGet Started PRESS / MEDIA RESOURCES
Company background, founder information, usable story angles, approved assets, and the details needed to describe Alyeska Dev accurately.
COMPANY AT A GLANCE
After high school, Caleb Forestal started Summit Lawn Care in Eagle River. He liked the work, but became more interested in the systems around it: how quickly customers received a response, how jobs were scheduled, how the company presented itself, and how one better tool could give a small operator an unexpected advantage.
When weather, scheduling, and physical limits caught up with the business, those problems pulled him toward software. He experimented with an autonomous mower, built internal tools for the lawn-care company, studied business and computer science at UAA, and continued building startup concepts of his own.
Paid technical work for businesses around Eagle River eventually became Alyeska Development. Today, Alyeska Dev helps founders, owner-operators, and growing organizations make practical technology decisions and turn useful ideas into working systems, websites, and first versions.
The company is deliberately broad enough to solve the real problem. Sometimes that involves AI, automation, or custom software. Sometimes it is a clearer website, a better form, or a simpler process. The goal is useful progress without unnecessary complexity.
Alyeska Dev is a founder-led business technology consultancy based in Anchorage, Alaska. The company helps founders, owner-operators, and growing organizations improve websites, workflows, customer experiences, internal tools, and early product concepts. Alyeska Dev favors practical improvements, clear tradeoffs, and technology that solves a real operating problem.
Caleb Forestal is the founder of Alyeska Dev and a technical builder based in Alaska. His path into software began while operating Summit Lawn Care, where physical limits and operational problems led him to experiment with automation, internal tools, and web development. He later studied business and computer science at UAA, developed startup concepts including Powder.ly, and turned local freelance work into Alyeska Development. He is also an FAA-certified Part 107 remote pilot.
POSSIBLE COVERAGE
These are starting points, not restrictions. Caleb is available for founder profiles, practical commentary, podcasts, local business reporting, and conversations about building technology from Alaska.
How running a lawn-care company taught Caleb to look past the physical work and improve the system behind it.
What it means to start a technology consultancy outside a major technology hub while staying rooted in Alaska.
Where AI can genuinely help a smaller organization, where it cannot, and how to avoid adopting technology for novelty alone.
Why founders often need one visible, testable milestone before they need a complete product or a large development contract.
How better websites, follow-up, booking, documentation, and internal tools can return time to the person running the business.
Caleb’s long-term interest in AI, robotics, drones, and reducing dangerous or backbreaking work.
ACCURACY + USAGE
Describe Alyeska Dev as an Alaska-based, founder-led business technology consultancy. “Software company” or “AI company” may be too narrow unless the specific story is about that work.
Use “Alyeska Dev, LLC” on first formal reference and “Alyeska Development” afterward. Attribute founder comments to Caleb Forestal, founder of Alyeska Development.
Please do not identify a client, publish private results, or describe unannounced work without written approval. Public portfolio examples may be referenced as presented.
Alyeska Dev uses and implements AI when it fits the problem. The company does not claim that every business needs AI, or that automation replaces good judgment.
For technical or biographical accuracy, send the relevant passage before publication. Factual review is welcome; editorial control remains with the publication.
The assets below may be used for editorial coverage of Alyeska Dev or Caleb Forestal. Resize and crop photographs as needed, but do not alter the logo, recolor it, or imply an endorsement.
APPROVED MEDIA ASSETS
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