01 · ENTERPRISE STRATEGY
Your AI pilot works. Proving it is the part that stalls.
Vendor-neutral AI strategy for large organisations, from a product leader who shipped generative AI into production at enterprise scale. Every engagement starts with a working session at no cost.
Who this is for
AIAUTOMIC works with CIOs, Chief Product Officers, and transformation leads at organizations that have already run an AI pilot or two, and are now stuck on the harder problem: turning scattered experiments into a governed, funded, enterprise-wide capability.
Good fit
- Executive sponsorship and real budget to move, not just curiosity
- Juggling multiple vendor pitches and need a neutral read on build-vs-buy
- A pilot that works but can't get funded past a single team
Not a fit
- Looking for a slide deck with no follow-through
- Not yet ready to make a decision on AI investment
- Want a single vendor's product pushed on you (AIAUTOMIC doesn't sell or resell software)
The problem, in the words we usually hear it
Every large organisation we speak to has the same shape of problem. Not a shortage of AI activity. A shortage of anyone owning the questions that decide whether any of it survives contact with the business.
Three ways to engage
Every engagement starts the same way, with a working session at no cost. What follows depends on which problem you actually have. Most reviews are funded from the stalled programme’s own remaining budget rather than new spend, which is why they clear without a fresh approval cycle.
Executive working session
Ninety minutes with your leadership and delivery leads. We take two or three of your live AI initiatives and work them against the six points where these programmes usually fail. Not a presentation. If I do not think you need anything further, I will say so in the room.
What independence means here, in writing.
I take no cloud partner funding. I take no vendor referral fees. I do not do implementation work on a system I have reviewed. A review paid for by the company that benefits from a yes cannot return a no, and the no is the entire value.
Independent Production Readiness Review
3 to 4 weeks · fixed fee · a written go or kill verdict
- Fifty real production traces, read by hand and turned into a failure taxonomy
- Interviews with the functions currently blocking the launch, not just the build team
- An evidence pack your risk function will accept, and an autonomy policy to go with it
- The verdict: ship, fix then ship, or kill, with the remediation list if it is not a kill
Independent Vendor and Build-vs-Buy Evaluation
2 to 3 weeks · fixed fee · before you sign
- Product and technical read on the vendors shortlisted, against what they actually do
- The build alternative costed honestly, from someone who has shipped both sides of it
- Autonomy and evaluation questions put to each vendor in writing, with their answers scored
- A recommendation you can hand to procurement, with the trade-offs made explicit
Fractional AI Product Leadership
Retained · two days a week · three-month minimum
- Own the product decisions: roadmap, autonomy, evaluation, pricing and packaging
- Work with your existing team rather than replacing anyone
- Sit in front of enterprise buyers where a product answer closes the deal
- Thirty days' notice on either side, so it stays reversible
Why AIAUTOMIC
"This isn't advice from someone who has only read about enterprise AI. I've shipped it inside one of the largest enterprise platforms in the industry."
As Principal Product Manager driving the "Native AI" strategy at ServiceNow, I owned the end-to-end lifecycle of NowLLM and shipped Now Assist capabilities like Text-to-Workflow and ITOM Alert Summarization into production, used by enterprise customers to cut Mean Time to Resolution, not just as a demo. Before that, I took an AIOps platform to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and sat across the table from Gartner and Forrester analysts. I know how enterprise AI actually gets evaluated, bought, rolled out, and killed. That's the difference between a pilot that stalls and AI that becomes how your organization works.
Track record
Two decades building products, and teaching them.
Product leadership & guest lectures across
Engagement model
Every engagement begins with the complimentary working session above, because you should see how I think before anything is scoped or invoiced. Fees are fixed for the Sprint and the Diagnostic, and monthly for the retainer, with thirty days' notice on either side. I sell no platform and take no reseller fees, so the build-versus-buy recommendation is based only on what is right for your organisation.
Common questions
We already have an internal AI team. Do we still need this?
Often, yes. Internal teams are usually deep in technical execution and don't have the bandwidth for governance, vendor-neutral evaluation, and executive alignment. This engagement is built to sit alongside your team, not replace it.
Do you sell or resell any AI platforms?
No. AIAUTOMIC doesn't take referral fees or resell software from any vendor. The build-vs-buy recommendation is based only on what's right for your organization.
How fast can we start?
Most engagements can kick off within one to two weeks of the first call.
Latest thinking
Why 95% of enterprise AI pilots stall, and what the other 5% do differently
MIT put a number on what every executive already feels. The failure isn't in the models.
The Enterprise AI Readiness Blueprint: five questions before your next AI budget
A vendor-neutral readiness check you can run internally, freely. Scoring guide included.
Agentic AI in the enterprise: separating the real shift from the agent-washing
Three tests to hold vendors to, and the token economics nobody demos.
Ready to stop pitching AI internally and start shipping it?
One call. Bring your current AI initiatives and we'll tell you plainly where the gaps are, before you spend another quarter on pilots.
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