Decisions before purchases
Advisory & Strategy
Senior practitioners in the room for the choices that set your cost curve for years — what to build, what to buy, what to refuse, and what the whole thing should cost per outcome.
The expensive decisions in enterprise AI are made early and quietly: which workloads deserve a frontier model, which are better served by something an order of magnitude cheaper, what you build versus buy, and where the data is allowed to travel. Get those wrong and no amount of engineering discipline recovers the unit economics.
We put senior practitioners in the room for those decisions — people who have run these systems in production and can tell you what a vendor benchmark is concealing. The output is not a maturity model. It is a ranked set of workloads with an expected cost per outcome, the evidence behind each estimate, and a clear list of the things we recommend you stop doing.
Most engagements begin here because most organizations have more pilots than conviction. Triage is usually worth more in the first month than anything we build in the next six.
What you get
- AI strategy mapped to named business outcomes and owners
- Workload triage with expected cost and risk per use case
- Build, buy, and model selection analysis with real benchmarks
- Target architecture and a sequenced investment plan
- Board-ready briefings, written to survive a hostile question
- A stop-doing list with the reasoning attached
Right fit when
You have more AI initiatives than you can evaluate, and the next round of funding decisions will set your cost base for years.
Typical engagement
Four to eight week strategy engagements, or an ongoing advisory retainer for leadership teams making these calls continuously.