Independent · Production-grounded · No vendor kickbacks
AI Consulting for Teams That Ship.
Independent AI consulting services — model selection, guardrails, build-vs-buy, agent design — grounded in shipping production AI, not slideware.
Most AI consultants have read more about AI than shipped it. I have shipped 50+ AI-powered products in the last few years — agents, RAG, MCP servers, billing automation, content pipelines — and I bring that production scar tissue to every consulting engagement. You get advice from someone who is currently writing the code, not someone who stopped years ago.
What we deliver
Model & Vendor Selection
Anthropic vs OpenAI vs open-weights. Cost-per-task math, latency budgets, eval design, fallback strategy. Independent of any vendor relationship.
Build vs Buy vs Wait
For each AI capability you need: build it yourself, buy a tool, or wait six months for the platforms to catch up. Honest answers tied to your runway.
AI Agent Design Reviews
Tool boundaries, prompt scaffolding, failure modes, observability, eval coverage. The non-obvious stuff that separates a demo from a product.
AI Risk & Governance
Where AI breaks (and how it breaks loudly vs silently). Access control, audit trails, prompt-injection threat models, content boundaries.
Team Enablement
Workshops and pairing for your existing engineers — Claude Code, Cursor, MCP, agent harnesses. Capability transfer, not dependency.
Why us
Currently Shipping Production AI
AppHandoff, MCP Beast, Context Capture, Shadow Post — products in active production use, not portfolio pieces.
12 Years Enterprise Background
Compliance, multi-stakeholder programs, mission-critical systems — the context most pure AI consultants don't have.
Vendor-Neutral
No reseller margins, no referral fees, no implementation-partner status. Recommendations are made on the merits.
AI consulting that survives contact with production.
Tell me what you're trying to decide — model, architecture, build-vs-buy, hiring. I'll tell you what I'd do, and why, in plain language.
Get in touchFAQ
What exactly does an AI consultant do?
An AI consultant helps your team make the high-leverage AI decisions: which model to use, where to apply AI in your product, build-vs-buy choices, agent design, evaluation strategy, governance, and team enablement. Done well, it compresses months of trial-and-error into weeks of guided execution. Done poorly, it's slideware. The difference is whether the consultant has shipped production AI themselves.
What does AI consulting cost?
Single-decision consulting (e.g. "which model should we use?" or "is this agent design viable?") typically runs €1,500–€4,000 for a 1–2 week engagement with a written deliverable. Multi-week strategy work (AI roadmap, architecture, governance) typically runs €8,000–€25,000 depending on scope. Fractional retainers (4–8 hours per week) start at €3,000/month.
What is the role of an AI consultant for a small business?
For small businesses, an AI consultant is most useful as a translator and a filter: which workflows actually benefit from AI versus which are hype, what the realistic ROI looks like, and which off-the-shelf tools beat custom builds. Most small businesses don't need bespoke agents — they need someone to identify two or three clear automation wins and either set them up or write the brief that another vendor can execute against.
AI consultant vs AI implementation consultant — what's the difference?
An AI consultant focuses on advice and decision-support: which strategy, which vendor, which architecture. An AI implementation consultant rolls up sleeves and builds the thing — agents, RAG pipelines, MCP servers, model integrations. I do both, and most engagements blend the two: a strategy phase to decide, then an implementation phase to ship.
Will AI replace human consultants?
Not for the kind of work that matters. AI is excellent at synthesising and presenting information; it is poor at judgment under uncertainty, vendor politics, and reading a room. Consulting becomes more valuable, not less, as AI commoditises the easy parts. The consultants who survive are the ones who combine domain judgment with their own AI fluency — the rest get replaced by a $20/month subscription.