Stop piloting.
Start deciding.
Every vendor promises AI. We make one AI investment decision-ready in two weeks, with a business case that would pass a normal investment committee.
AI investments are made without a business case
Most 2027 budgets now carry an AI line. Few come with a case anyone could defend.
Every vendor promises AI
It is hard to tell what runs in production from what is still a roadmap slide.
No investment case
Nobody is sure what belongs in an AI business case, so it is not made.
Irreversible choices
ERP, data and cloud decisions lock you in for years, often without anyone noticing.
No owner
A full-time Chief AI Officer is out of reach and hard to recruit.
of AI use cases met their ROI target.
Gartner, April 2026of organisations have mature governance for AI agents.
Deloitte, 2026Five questions on every decision
Every major AI decision goes through the same five questions. Money is released one stage gate at a time, and stopping is an accepted outcome.
Value
Who owns the benefit, by which metric, and where does the work move?
Investment
What is the three-year total cost, including the cost of exit?
Data
Does the data exist, may we use it, and who owns it?
Lock-in
What does it cost to switch vendor or reverse the decision?
Accountability
Who answers when the model is wrong, and what does regulation require?
One investment, two columns
An AI assistant for claims handling at an insurance group, counted the vendor's way and our way. Same inputs, different choices.
| Vendor's case | Our case | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual benefit at full use | €1,237,000 | €587,000 |
| Total cost of ownership, 3 years | €687,000 | €1,182,000 |
| Net value over 3 years | €3,025,000 | €110,000 |
| Risk-adjusted value | not calculated | −€31,000 |
Fictional example. Four choices create the gap: the baseline, where the error benefit applies, when benefits start, and which costs are counted. A fifth, displacement, turns the case negative at 15%. Any CFO can check each one.
From one decision to an owned capability
Baseline survey
About 20 minutes. See where you stand against peers on AI decisions.
Decision Package
One AI investment made decision-ready. For example: do we renew 2,000 assistant licences?
Fractional Chief AI Officer
2–4 days a month in your leadership and steering groups for the duration of the transformation.
Benefits review
A post-audit of the decision. The case is updated against what actually happened.
Ten leaders, one decision, one table
Small closed sessions with leaders facing the same decision. Different sectors, no competitors. Chatham House rule, no vendors, no sales pitch.
CFO office & data
The AI line in the 2027 budget, and the data question every case breaks on.
IT function & portfolio
Renewing AI assistant licences when use is uneven and benefit is hard to show.
Customer service & front line
Letting AI answer your customers, and who answers when it is wrong.
Only the client pays us
Independence is a promise that has to survive scrutiny. These are our ground rules.
- No vendor commissions or referral fees
- No sponsored sessions
- The same fee whether the project is big or small
- We build the capability inside your organisation. The goal is to become unnecessary.
Integrators and vendors
- Earn from delivery hours
- Advice leans toward their own offering
- AI sold as separate pilots
Counterweight
- Leadership-level, decision-focused
- Vendor promises tested, lock-ins named
- A two-page output your board can read
People who have sat where you sit
Our advisers have spent their careers inside large companies, between the business, its processes and IT. They have written business cases, run portfolios and carried programmes through. Now they help leadership teams decide.
Inside the business
Portfolio, architecture and process development roles in international companies, not only in consulting.
AI at decision level
Enough depth to test a vendor's claim, and enough distance to say when AI is not the answer.
Independent
No ties to the vendors they assess. Each adviser works to the same method and the same ground rules.
Bring us one decision
Tell us which AI investment is on your table. We will tell you in 30 minutes whether a Decision Package is worth it.