The War Council

AI Consulting

Most AI strategies die in a deck. Ours ship or get killed in week two.

01 / The Problem

Your board wants an AI answer by the next quarter. Your last consultant left a sixty-page deck and an invoice.

Nobody in the building can say which process is worth automating, what it costs to run, or what breaks when it fails.

So the pilots pile up, the licences renew, and nothing reaches a single customer.

02 / What We Do

The Work

01
Process autopsy
We sit with the people doing the work and map where the hours actually go. Not a workshop. A stopwatch.
02
Shortlist with a bar
Every candidate gets a cost to build, a cost to run, and a failure mode. Whatever does not clear the bar gets killed in front of you.
03
Build, buy or leave it
Off-the-shelf, hosted model, or something we write. We name which one wins and why the other two lose.
04
Data reality check
Whether your data can carry the use case at all. This is where AI projects die quietly, six months in, after the budget is gone.
05
Governance that holds
Who owns the system, who may use it, what gets logged, and what the EU AI Act expects of you before an auditor asks.

03 / How It Runs

Assessment
2 weeks
Interviews, data inspection, shortlist. You end up with a ranked list and a number next to each line.
Build
4–8 weeks
We build the top of the list. One system, in production, used by real people.
Run
ongoing
Monitoring, cost control, and the next item on the list. Or you take the runbook and run it yourself.

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