AI strategy consulting that ends in a built thing.

AI strategy consulting decides which AI projects will pay off and how to sequence them. The output is a prioritized use-case list, a cost/ROI model per item, build-vs-buy decisions, and a six-month roadmap a board can defend. The dishonest version of the category stops there. Ours is built to be the first two weeks of a build, not a substitute for one - every recommendation we make is one we would ship if you asked us next.

Two weeks, no extensions. Day one is a kickoff and a written contract specifying the buyers, the systems, and the data we will look at. Day fourteen is the final read-out with the deliverable in your hands. We refuse longer engagements at the strategy stage - if it cannot be sliced into a 14-day sprint, it is not a strategy engagement, it is a discovery phase, and we will tell you on the fit call.

Big firms sell strategy and hand the build to a third party. The strategy and the build then drift apart. We do both, in order, because the only AI strategy worth paying for is one written by someone who has shipped enough of them to know what breaks. Our deliverable is fifteen pages and ends in a recommended next sprint, not a hundred pages and a steering committee. If you need the steering committee for procurement reasons, hire a Big Four - we are not better at that than they are.

A prioritized use-case list with one paragraph and a red/yellow/green per project. A cost/ROI model per priority item with the assumptions visible. Build-vs-buy decisions with named vendors where buying makes sense. A six-month roadmap with named owners. A short list of projects to stop funding - the projects we recommend you stop spending on. The whole thing is fifteen pages on purpose. Most strategy decks are long because the firm cannot tell which page is the one you needed.

If your deck ended in a built thing on the timeline it promised, you don't. Most engagements that go badly skip the triage step because someone above the buyer has already named the agent they want. If your existing deck named the agent and the agent is not in production, the strategy was not the problem - the build path was. The honest answer is sometimes that you do not need our strategy sprint, you need the proof-of-concept that follows it. We will tell you on the fit call.

We name vendors. The vendor-agnostic write-up is the genre of strategy work we do not do - it is a way to recommend nine tools and integrate none of them. We will tell you which model, which embeddings, which orchestration layer (the code that routes tasks between agents), which observability stack (the dashboards and alerts that show what the agent is doing), and what the migration cost looks like if you change your mind in six months. We standardize on Anthropic's Claude across the practice and reach for OpenAI, open-source, or specialized models when testing shows a better result.

Yes, mutual NDA before any technical conversation. We do not work for clients with conflicting active engagements in the same competitive set during a quarter - a rule we enforce on ourselves more strictly than most clients ask us to.