Business development and growth

Owen Boesveld

Chief Executive Officer, Ovidius AI

Owen leads business development and the growth of Ovidius as a company. On a new engagement he joins the first calls alongside Jason and stays close until you are onboarded.

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Owen Boesveld, Chief Executive Officer of Ovidius AI

What Owen writes about

Owen writes for the people who decide whether an AI project gets funded and who builds it: what AI consulting is and what it costs, how to compare partners and vendors, when to build and when to buy, and how to get business units to adopt what ships.

The work behind them

AI consultingEnterprise AI strategyEnterprise AI roadmap
Background
Founded Ovidius Marketing, the SEO agency Ovidius AI grew out of, and co-founded Ben AI, which offers AI automation implementation, consulting and education.
Experience
4 years in AI

Articles by Owen

Build vs buy decided layer by layer: build the workflow, highlighted, and buy the platform, such as n8n, and the model.
Strategy

Build vs Buy for Enterprise AI: A Decision Guide

Which AI to buy and which to build, decided layer by layer: five questions to run on each use case, what each route costs as it grows, and what you own when the work is done.

Seven firms with dedicated AI practices, listed alphabetically and unranked, Accenture, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, IBM, McKinsey and PwC, beside the field of specialist firms, highlighted.
Guides

Top AI Consulting Companies for Enterprise in 2026: How to Choose

What Accenture, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, IBM, McKinsey and PwC have published about their AI practices, which kind of firm fits which job, and the proof to ask every firm for.

Three AI consulting billing models and who carries an overrun under each: hourly, you; fixed price, highlighted, the consultant; retainer, shared.
Guides

What AI Consulting Costs: Hourly Rates, Projects, and Retainers Explained

How hourly, fixed-price and retainer AI consulting each bill you, who pays when the estimate is wrong, what Ovidius charges for an audit and a pilot, and what to put in the contract.

Deloitte's 2026 AI Pulse Check: 48% introduced AI without redesigning workflows, only 12% report redesign at scale.
Strategy

How to Build an AI Adoption Strategy Your Business Units Will Follow

How to get business units to adopt AI: let each unit pick one workflow, name an owner inside it, redesign the work, record a baseline, train on the live system and widen autonomy on evidence.

Three kinds of enterprise AI chatbot side by side: a workplace suite priced per seat, a helpdesk agent priced per resolution, and a custom build on n8n paid as build plus hosting, highlighted in orange.
Architecture

What Is the Best Enterprise AI Chatbot? Suites, Helpdesk Agents and Custom Builds Compared

Where a workplace suite, a helpdesk AI agent and a custom build each stop, and how Pinkcube's chatbot handles about 500 chats a week with more than 95% of order lookups succeeding.

A large orange 6% for organisations that see AI payback within a year, beside 85% that raised AI spend, 91% that plan to raise it again, and ROI that mostly arrives in two to four years.
Guides

What Is AI Consulting? How It Moves AI From Pilot to Production

What an AI consultant does from audit to code, a four-step framework from process audit to scaling, and how GoKickflip's pipeline cut cost per article from $700 to $12.11.

Five project stages from scope to run, with the adoption stage highlighted as the work a vendor contract leaves to your team.
Strategy

AI Implementation Partner vs Vendor: What Decides Whether Your AI Gets Adopted

Most AI projects stall after go-live. What a delivery contract covers, what an AI implementation partner adds, and eight questions to put to any provider before you sign.

More from the Ovidius partners

Each partner writes about the stage of the work they own on client builds. Meet the team

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Put your first workflow on the board

Answer a few questions about your team and what you want automated, then Jason scopes it with you on the call.

Owen, Maciej, Jason, Oskar and Ben