Executive AI Advisory
Senior, ongoing guidance for the leaders steering AI strategy, from someone who has held the seat. A steady hand on retainer, not another deck. You get the principal every time, with no junior delivery layer: monthly senior counsel, vendor-neutral pressure-testing of strategy and investment decisions, and a sounding board that has run the function and answered to a board.
Most AI advice comes with an agenda.
Every vendor in the market is selling certainty, and every board is asking harder questions. The leaders carrying AI strategy sit between the two. What they need is counsel from someone with no product to sell and real operating scars, not another glossy strategy deck that ages in a drawer.
Most of the advice on offer is too junior, too generic, or too conflicted. The analyst doing the work has never run a technology function. The framework was written for everyone, so it fits no one. Or the adviser profits from the tools they recommend. None of that helps an executive who has to stand behind the decision.
What the retainer covers.
- Monthly senior counsel for the executive team.
- Strategy, vendor and investment decisions pressure-tested by someone vendor-neutral.
- A sounding board that has run the function, owned the budget and answered to a board.
What you can count on.
- The principal, every time, with no junior delivery layer.
- Decisions pressure-tested before they get expensive.
- A standing senior counsel cadence your executive team can rely on.
- Vendor claims translated into plain English.
We have held the seat ourselves, including Head of Technology, owning AI strategy end to end. The counsel on this retainer comes from operating experience, not observation.
Questions we get asked
How is this different from a consulting firm?
You get the principal, every time, with no junior delivery layer. There is no team of analysts learning on your time and no handover after the sale. The person who scopes the retainer is the person in the room every month.
What is the commitment?
Retainers typically run three to twelve months, with the cadence agreed up front and reviewed as your needs change. Pricing is scoped to the engagement and agreed before work begins.
Can this start before an assessment?
Yes. Advisory often starts first and shapes the rest. Many clients use the retainer to work out whether an assessment, an adoption programme or a process transformation is the right next step, and in what order.