AI Strategy Consultant For Businesses That Want AI To Pay Back

Most AI projects stall because the wrong thing was built first. We work out where AI is worth the investment in your business, then give you a roadmap you can actually follow.

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What An AI Strategy Consultant Actually Does

An AI strategy consultant helps you decide where artificial intelligence will and won't pay back in your specific business, before you spend anything building it.

That means looking at how your business actually runs, which processes cost you the most time, what data you already hold, and what your team can realistically operate once we've gone. Then scoring the options by what each is worth against how hard it is to do.

The output is a roadmap: what to do first, what it costs, what it should return, and what to leave alone for now.

Plenty of what we're asked to solve with AI turns out to be better served by a process change or better data plumbing. We say so when that's the case. You keep the analysis either way.

When You Need AI Strategy Consulting

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You Don't Know Where To Start

Everyone's talking about AI, your competitors claim they're using it, and you can't tell what's real. Sixteen percent of Irish SMEs say not knowing where to start is what holds them back.

You've Tried And It Stalled

A pilot impressed everyone in March and nobody has opened it since. Usually the use case was wrong, not the technology.

You're Being Sold To

Three vendors have pitched you three different products. You need someone who isn't selling any of them.

You Need A Case For The Board

Someone has to put numbers against the investment before it gets signed off.

You're Worried About Getting It Wrong

Fear of mistakes is the single biggest barrier to AI adoption among Irish SMEs, ahead of both cost and skills.

Our AI Strategy Consulting Services

AI Opportunity Assessment

We map your processes and score every AI opportunity by business value, feasibility and time to return. You get a ranked list, not a wish list.

AI Roadmap Development

A phased plan covering the next 12 to 18 months: what to build first, what it costs, what it should deliver, and what has to be true before each phase starts.

Data Readiness Review

An honest assessment of whether your data can support what you want to build, and what to fix first if it can't.

Vendor And Build-Versus-Buy Advice

Whether to buy off the shelf, build custom, or wait. We're independent of every AI vendor, so the recommendation follows your business rather than a reseller margin.

AI Governance And Policy Foundations

The policies, oversight and documentation your business needs before AI goes anywhere near a customer or an employee decision.

Fractional Chief AI Officer

Senior AI leadership on a part-time basis. For businesses that need someone accountable for AI direction without hiring a full-time executive.

What You Get

A written strategy document containing:

A prioritised list of AI opportunities, scored and ranked

A phased roadmap for the next 12 to 18 months

Indicative costs and expected returns for each phase

A data readiness assessment with any gaps named

Recommended tools and vendors, with reasoning

A governance checklist covering EU AI Act obligations

A clear first step with a fixed price

It's written for your board as much as your IT team. No jargon, and nothing you need us to interpret.

How The
Engagement Works

Free Call, 30 Minutes

You describe the business and what's prompting the question. We tell you whether strategy work is what you need, or whether you'd be better served going straight to a pilot.

Discovery, One To Two Weeks

Interviews with the people who run the processes, a review of your systems and data, and a look at what's already been tried.

Workshop, Half A Day

We put the opportunities in front of your team and score them together. Decisions made in the room, not delivered in a deck afterwards.

Roadmap Delivered, One Week

The written strategy, walked through with you, with a costed first step.

Typical engagement: three to four weeks from first call to delivered roadmap.

Why Work With Us

We Build What We Recommend

Many AI business consulting firms hand over a strategy and leave. Our roadmaps are written by the people who'd have to deliver them, which keeps them honest about what's actually achievable.

Certified In AI Governance

We are one of Ireland's first companies to achieve ISO 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for AI management, alongside ISO 27001:2022 for information security. Both are independently audited.

Independent Of Every Vendor

We don't resell any AI platform. What we recommend is what fits.

A Decade Of Delivery Behind The Advice

350+ projects delivered, 45+ AI solutions deployed, 150+ engineers on the team.

We'll Tell You When AI Isn't The Answer

Sometimes the right recommendation is a process change. You keep the analysis either way.

Your Strategy Work May Be Part-Funded

Enterprise Ireland's “Access Advice: Digital Discovery” grant offers up to 80% funding to a maximum of €5,000 to hire an expert to take a first or next step in AI, which is what a strategy engagement does.

Eligibility is set by Enterprise Ireland, and your Development Adviser is the authority on it. We help eligible clients through the application as part of the engagement.

Figures correct as of September 2026.

Read our guide to AI grants in Ireland

Find out where AI is worth it for you

A 30-minute conversation with an AI strategy consultant, not a sales pitch. We'll tell you honestly whether strategy work is what you need, and what it would cost.

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Frequently Asked Questions

They help you decide where AI will and won't pay back in your business, then plan how to get there. In practice that means reviewing your processes and data, scoring opportunities against business goals, recommending an approach, and producing a roadmap with costs and expected returns.

We price strategy work as a fixed fee rather than open-ended day rates, scoped on the first call so you know the cost before committing. For eligible Irish businesses, Enterprise Ireland funding may cover a significant share.

Three to four weeks from first call to delivered roadmap, including a one to two week discovery phase and a half-day workshop.

No. Most businesses come to us with messy spreadsheets, inboxes and PDFs. Assessing what you have is part of the work, and we only recommend tidying what a specific use case needs.

Senior AI leadership on a part-time basis, typically a day or two a month. Someone accountable for AI direction, vendor decisions and governance, without the cost of a full-time executive.

Yes, though you're under no obligation. The roadmap is yours whether you build it with us, with your own team, or with someone else.

Yes. We deliver across Ireland and the UK, mostly remote with on-site sessions where the work needs them.