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AI Strategy & Transformation for Business

Business AI,
from strategy
to execution.

From AI readiness evaluation to full agentic workflow implementation — we guide European and global companies through every phase of meaningful, compliant AI integration, driving tangible impact at every step.

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Pedigree
20+
McKinsey & Booz & Company consulting engagements
Strategy, transformation & AI across global clients
Big Tech
AI built & launched at Microsoft, LinkedIn & HP
Product strategy, agentic AI & enterprise GTM
30+
Years of cross-industry, cross-functional experience
Finance, healthcare, manufacturing & beyond
Our Mission
To make AI integration tailored, practical, and built for lasting impact — so every organisation can harness its full potential.

~80% companies use AI but less than 20% can generate tangible impact. We exist to close the gap between AI's potential and your organisation's ability to harness it — through deep partnership, honest assessment, and execution discipline forged across 30+ combined years of global client work.

Our Vision
A world where every organisation — regardless of size or sector — can navigate the AI era with confidence, operate with intelligence, and compete on a level playing field.

We envision a world where AI transformation is led by practitioners who have sat at the boardroom table, run the numbers, and delivered real change — not theorists. We are building the new global standard for senior-led, outcome-driven AI consulting.

Three phases.
One transformation.

01
Phase One

Business AI Readiness Evaluation

A structured 4–6 week diagnostic across your processes, data, teams, and technology — delivered with a prioritised use case shortlist and a clear-eyed assessment of what will actually work at your organisation.

  • Process audit across core business functions
  • Data infrastructure & quality assessment
  • AI opportunity canvas with effort/impact scoring
  • Regulatory & compliance risk mapping (EU AI Act, GDPR)
02
Phase Two

AI Integration & Transformation Roadmap

A concrete AI transformation roadmap — with technology architecture, vendor recommendations, build-vs-buy decisions, phased milestones, and an ROI model that shows exactly where the value will come from and when.

  • Phased transformation roadmap
  • Technology architecture & vendor selection matrix
  • Build-vs-buy analysis with commercial models
  • Full ROI model with sensitivity analysis
  • Organisational & change readiness blueprint
  • Industry best practices & benchmarking
03
Phase Three

Implementation & Agentic Workflow Support

Hands-on delivery alongside your team — designing, building, and deploying agentic AI workflows into production. We run weekly sprint reviews, own the outcome, and don't leave until it's working in the real world.

  • Agentic workflow design, build & production deployment
  • Weekly sprint reviews with clear KPI tracking
  • Live pilot → scaled rollout management
  • Team training, handover & capability building
  • Post-launch optimisation & support

Not off-the-shelf.
Built for you.

We don't believe in one-size-fits-all AI. Our methodology — shaped by McKinsey strategy discipline and Booz & Co. / LinkedIn AI product experience — starts with deep listening: understanding your constraints, data reality, and executive priorities before a single recommendation is made.

From agentic workflows that automate complex multi-step operations to OKR-level strategy and board-level change management, our two founders stay hands-on throughout — the same people who scope the engagement are the same people who deliver it.

30+
Years combined consulting & industry experience
20+
Enterprise engagements delivered
$2B+
Estimated client value created across 20+ engagements
100%
Bespoke — no off-the-shelf playbooks
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Senior consultants.
Real accountability.

Varun Kaushik
Varun Kaushik
Co-Founder, Geneva Office

15+ years across McKinsey, Microsoft, and HP spanning AI strategy, portfolio transformation, and enterprise GTM. Led multi-hundred-million-dollar digital programmes across financial services, healthcare, and industrials. Combines rigorous McKinsey problem-solving with deep hands-on expertise in agentic AI systems and product commercialisation.

McKinsey Alumni AI Strategy Enterprise Transformation GTM & Commercialisation
Arun Kakani
Arun Kakani
Co-Founder, New York Office

15+ years spanning MBB-tier consulting at Booz & Co. (Strategy&/PwC) and Head of Product & GTM Strategy at LinkedIn's $3.5B Hiring Solutions business. Spearheaded LinkedIn's multi-year AI strategy roadmap — projected to drive $300M+ in annual revenue growth — and led GTM for an agentic AI product launch. Deep expertise in CEO-level strategy, OKR management, market entry, and translating AI capabilities into measurable commercial outcomes.

Booz & Co. Alumni AI Product Strategy CEO Partnership GTM & Revenue Growth

Built different.
By design.

Proven Methodology

Our three-phase framework draws on 20+ enterprise engagements spanning SMB to Large Enterprise organisations. Average time from first conversation to live pilot: 8 weeks. We don't do vague transformation — every milestone has a measurable output.

Deep Industry Experience

We've sat inside financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services at the C-suite level — not as outside observers, but as the people running the strategy. We know your board dynamics, your compliance exposure, and what change actually sticks vs. what looks good in a deck.

Speed & Execution Focus

We move with urgency and we own the outcome. Most consultants hand over a deck and disappear — we stay until it's live in production. Our clients average 8 weeks from engagement kickoff to their first working AI workflow. Strategy without execution is just expensive PowerPoint.

Boutique & Personal

You work with the leadership directly — every call, every workshop, every deliverable. No bait-and-switch. No juniors getting your strategy wrong. Two founders with 30+ combined years who have personally led transformations of this kind. Your success is the only thing that builds our reputation.

Industry use cases.
Real results.

Across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and beyond — our engagements have one thing in common: measurable impact that compounds over time.

Consumer Electronics

Agentic Workflow to Influence Product Roadmap Strategy for a $5B Enterprise

"We had a wealth of customer feedback and RFQ data — but it was unstructured, inconsistent, and impossible to use in product roadmap decision-making."

We built a ground-up agentic workflow with a custom in-house GenAI tool that ingests historical customer feedback and RFQ data, extracts structured product and market signals, and delivers actionable insights directly to product and sales teams — enabling data-driven roadmap decisions at scale.

50%+
Reduction in
processing time
$5B
Enterprise business
transformed
Technology

AI Maturity Assessment & Platform Blueprint for a Global Technology Company

"Years of fragmented AI investment across our portfolio — no shared framework, no prioritisation, no board-level visibility."

We assessed AI maturity across a large HW/SW product portfolio, built a 3-tier prioritisation framework spanning 30+ use cases, and delivered a technology architecture roadmap — adopted at board level as the company's AI strategy.

30+
Use cases assessed
& prioritised
$20M
AI investment
roadmap delivered
Enterprise Technology

Shaping a $300M GenAI Roadmap for a $3.5B Enterprise Platform

"We had scattered AI pilots across the business and no coherent strategy — no investment case, no prioritisation, nothing board-ready."

We built the GenAI strategy from scratch for a global professional network's $3.5B Hiring Solutions business: a prioritised use case portfolio, a clear investment case, and an agentic AI operating model — delivered as a board-ready roadmap that became the company's north star for AI investment.

$300M
Projected revenue
impact
Agentic
AI operating model
delivered

From the
Aurient desk.

AI Adoption

The Real Friction in Enterprise AI: Why Most Initiatives Stall Before They Scale

Over 80% of companies are exploring AI — yet fewer than one in four initiatives deliver expected ROI. The barriers are rarely technical. We break down the five organisational friction points most commonly derailing AI programmes in 2025, and what it takes to move past them.

March 2026 · 8 min read
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Industry Use Cases

AI in Switzerland's Legacy Industries: From Life Sciences to Manufacturing

Switzerland's regulated industries — banking, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing — are at an inflection point. We map the most high-impact AI use cases across each sector, grounded in real Swiss developments and the local regulatory landscape: FINMA guidance, nDSG, and Switzerland's approach to the EU AI Act.

February 2026 · 11 min read
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