Pillar 03
Build & AI Leadership
The first agent is running. And then? Most companies stop right here. We make sure it keeps going — and in the right direction.
The problem behind the problem
AI rarely fails in mid-sized companies because of the technology. It fails because nobody drives it. IT has no capacity, the business units have no authority to decide, and management has no basis on which to decide. So the usual thing happens: everyone tries something, nothing grows together, and a year later the situation is unchanged — only with more subscriptions.
One half
Building
The larger part of the work. Not advising, but growing the AI capability inside your company piece by piece.
- Finding, assessing and prioritising use cases — continuously, not once in a workshop
- The roadmap across six to twelve months, adjusted every month to what actually happened
- Building the next agent, not just planning it
- Letting the infrastructure grow with you instead of building it twice
- Building up your internal AI people and supporting them day to day
- Carrying the lessons from each project into the next one
The other half
Leading
The smaller part — but the one everything else gets stuck on. Someone has to answer the questions that sit between IT and the business.
- Architecture and model decisions
- What stays local and what may go to the cloud
- Managing external providers so their results fit together
- Governance: what an agent may do, who owns it, what gets logged
- Budget and cost across all AI spending
- Sparring with management and IT — including on the uncomfortable topics
The comparison that actually matters
| Your own head of AI | Full time, permanent | €150,000 – 200,000 in employer cost per year, in a hiring market that is currently empty |
|---|---|---|
| Management consultancy | Project by project | High daily rates, changing contacts, and a document at the end rather than a running system |
| Nobody | The default | Individual tools, no shared picture, and the same discussion again twelve months from now |
| Build & AI leadership | Monthly, cancellable | One person who knows your company, builds alongside you and stands behind their decisions |
What this is not for
This only makes sense once there is something to build on — usually after the first agent is in production. Before that it is too early; a workshop and a roadmap are enough. And it is deliberately temporary: as soon as someone in your company can fill the role, they should. We prepare for that actively rather than delaying it.
Do you need this yet?
One conversation usually settles that — often in less than half an hour.