AI strategy consulting that ends in a working workflow

Your teams already have AI tools. Results come from a redesigned process, governed data and an agreed way to measure value. Our AI strategy consulting for enterprises runs inside the AI Audit, which settles all three in 4 to 8 weeks, before your first workflow goes into production.

Strategy briefSample, workflow 01
  1. Workflow
    Appointment scheduling firstA year of native ERP builds, still not live
  2. Data
    Odoo stays the system of recordFive nightly syncs into a planning cache
  3. Architecture
    Logic moved out of the ERPn8n orchestration with an AI agent on top
  4. Value
    1,500 appointments a week, placed nightlyEvery failed placement explains why, so a planner decides

Drawn from the Odoo scheduling pilot on our AI pilot page.

A strategy your engineers can build from

The AI Audit sets your enterprise AI strategy as six outputs, each with an owner, signed off before a build is approved.

Priorities

A ranked use-case register

Every candidate workflow ranked by value, effort and risk, with the ones to stop funding marked as such.

Process

The redesigned first workflow

How the work moves once an agent takes part: the roles, the decision points and where a person approves.

Architecture

A target architecture

Which workloads use hosted models, which stay in your private cloud and which stay on-premises.

Data

Data gaps, costed

Where your knowledge lives, who may see what, and what it takes to connect it through an enterprise context layer.

Value

ROI models and a value baseline

ROI models for your top three to five initiatives, with cost, decision speed and process speed recorded before the first workflow ships.

Sequence

A roadmap with an owner per item

The register turned into a ranked 90-day plan, the audit's final output, in the structure shown on our enterprise AI roadmap page.

Four decisions to settle before anyone picks a model

Strategies stall at the same four points, and each one surfaces after the deck is approved.

Redesign the workflow before you automate it

Automating a broken process makes it fail faster. We map how work moves today and restructure roles and decision points around what an agent can do, then rank use cases. The mapping starts in the AI Audit.

Govern the knowledge agents answer from

Agents answer from whatever data they can reach, so scattered sources turn into wrong answers in production. A context layer connects your systems, enforces who sees what and logs every retrieval.

Agree how value is measured

Value is set before the build as cost saved, decision speed, end-to-end process speed and new capability, with an ROI model for each of your top three to five initiatives. Every system we ship reports its own results against those numbers.

Place each workload deliberately

Inference costs compound at production volume and residency rules differ by jurisdiction, so each workload gets a home: hosted models, your private cloud or on-premises. Oversight rules come from your AI governance framework.

Hosted, private cloud or on-premises, set per workload

Orchestration runs as self-hosted n8n inside your environment, with no per-seat licensing. A sample placement:

Public cloud

Hosted models

Low-sensitivity tasks where model quality matters most.

  • Drafting
  • Classification
  • Model chosen per task
Where the work runs

Your private cloud

Orchestration, retrieval and agents inside your security perimeter.

  • n8n, self-hosted
  • Context layer
  • Agents
  • Run logs
Stays in place

On-premises

Systems of record and residency-bound data, read through APIs and never copied out.

  • ERP
  • Regulated records
Across all threeAccess rulesHuman-in-the-loop checkpointsAudit logs

Buying AI has not changed how most work gets done

48%

of organizations introduced AI without redesigning the workflows or roles it sits in

Source: Deloitte, AI Transformation Predictions 2026

Each figure maps to the decision that closes it.

88% of AI proofs of concept never reached production

4 out of 33 made it. We test the top use case in a pilot on your own data, with a go/no-go report, before the build is funded.

Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027

Gartner cites escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls. The AI Audit sets cost, value and guardrails before go-live.

Sources: Lenovo CIO Playbook 2025, with IDC; Gartner press release, June 2025.

From diagnosis to a running system, with one team

Timing depends on how many systems the first workflow touches, so we scope it with you before anything is committed. See how we work

  1. 01
    Diagnose

    AI Audit

    Your workflows, data and team readiness mapped in 4 to 8 weeks, ending in a readiness scorecard, an opportunity matrix and a 90-day roadmap. See the AI Audit

  2. 02
    Plan

    Strategy and roadmap, set in the audit

    The audit's final phases rank your use cases, cost the data gaps and set the architecture and governance model before a build is approved.

  3. 03
    Prove

    AI pilot on your data

    The top use case runs against your staging systems for 2 to 6 weeks and ends in a go/no-go report, and the pilot fee is credited toward the build. See the AI pilot

  4. 04
    Ship and run

    Production build and support

    Built into production with error alerts in place, then monitored, tuned and extended. See AI managed services

The four decisions, made for one dental care group's scheduling

A Dutch Odoo implementation partner, building for a dental care group that serves 25,000 dependent residents, spent a year trying to build scheduling natively in Odoo. Read the full pilot

DecisionWhat was decided
WorkflowAppointment scheduling first: rules for 200 practitioners, multiple locations, treatment series with healing intervals and urgency limits had outgrown the ERP's data model.
DataOdoo stays the system of record. Five sync workflows copy it nightly into a Supabase planning cache.
ArchitectureThe scheduling logic moved out of Odoo into an n8n orchestration layer, where an AI agent runs multi-stage matching.
Value1,500 appointments a week placed nightly, and every failed placement produces a report that says why, so a planner makes the call.

Questions leaders ask about AI strategy consulting

Ask us something else

How is an AI strategy different from an AI roadmap?

Both come out of the AI Audit. The strategy settles the decisions: which workflows change, where data and models live, and how value is measured. The roadmap, the audit's final output, sequences the work those decisions allow into 90 days, with an owner on every item.

Why do agentic AI projects get cancelled, and how do you prevent it?

Gartner names escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. The pilot's go/no-go report projects token cost and total cost of ownership at your volume, the AI Audit's ROI models define the value in advance, and your governance framework sets the guardrails.

Do you sell AI strategy consulting services without the AI Audit?

No. We set strategy inside the AI Audit, because the decisions depend on what the audit finds in your systems and data. The audit takes 4 to 8 weeks, costs $10,000 to $100,000, ends in a ranked 90-day roadmap, and its fee is credited toward your first build.

How do you handle data residency and sovereign AI?

Placement is decided per workload. The context layer enforces access rules at retrieval, and regulated records stay on-premises. Our write-up on context layers for protected healthcare environments applies the pattern to patient data.

When does the first workflow reach production?

It depends on how many systems it touches, and we scope it with you before you commit. For a sense of pace, GoKickflip's multi-agent content pipeline was built and shipped in 30 days. Read the GoKickflip case.

Will our teams be able to run what you build?

Adoption is planned with the build. Our corporate AI training programs are built around the workflows your people use every day, and AI managed services keeps each workflow monitored and extended after launch.

Pages leaders read next

Check

AI readiness assessment

Five dimensions and ten questions to answer before you fund a pilot.

See the assessment
Govern

Enterprise AI governance

The oversight rules your placement and guardrail decisions rest on.

See AI governance
Build

AI consulting

Strategy, engineering and adoption from the team that runs what it builds.

See AI consulting

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