Decide what AI should do.
Before anyone builds it.
AI advisory from senior operators, not slideware. We find where AI will pay back, fix the operating model it has to run on, and sequence the build so it ships. Every engagement starts with a Diagnostic Sprint, and first results land by day 30.
KeyDelta's AI advisory helps CEOs and leadership teams at $50M to $1B companies decide where AI will pay back, then makes the business ready for it.Senior operators, a Managing Partner and six Principals who between them have held the CEO, COO, and CRO seats, assess the operating model, rank AI opportunities by return, and fix the decision rights, ownership, and workflows AI depends on. Advisory is the first act of the KeyDelta Method: Advise, Build, Manage. The same firm then builds the AI and manages it after launch, so the advice is never someone else's problem to execute. Operations first. AI second.
Six decisions before the first line of code.
AI amplifies whatever operating model it runs on. Advisory makes sure that is one worth amplifying.
Where AI pays back
Every opportunity ranked by return, not novelty. The question for each: worth automating, or worth redesigning first?
The operating model underneath
Decision rights, single owners, a cadence that forces closure, and workflows documented well enough for a model to plug into.
The business case
What problem, for whom, and how we will know it worked. If those three sentences do not hold, nothing gets built.
Governance and risk
What every agent can and cannot do, who approves changes, and how data is handled. 80% of organizations report AI agents taking unintended actions.
Adoption
Users inside the work from the start, trained before cutover, and adoption measured at 90 days. Generated is not the same as used.
The sequence
The quickest wins with the biggest return first, then the build, in an order the business can absorb.
A two-week Diagnostic Sprint.
A two-week engagement to find the execution constraint. It produces the VOOCS diagnostic, and it tells you honestly whether AI is the next move or the operating model is.
Two weeks
Diagnostic Sprint
The constraint found, scored, and ranked. Where AI will compound value once the foundation holds, and what to fix first.
Three to six months
Embedded Engagement
Senior operators alongside your leadership team, fixing the operating model and building the systems on top of it.
Ongoing
Advisory Retainer
A monthly relationship after an Embedded Engagement, with AAMP keeping every system we built current.
Advice from people who have to live with it.
Strategy and consulting firms
Hand you a recommendation and leave execution, and the risk, with you.
AI engineering firms
Build on whatever operating model exists, broken or not, so the dysfunction ships faster.
KeyDelta
Advises, then builds the AI, then manages it after launch. Most firms sell you the project. We are accountable for the outcome.
Advisory is one of three services, delivered by one firm. AI implementation and AI agent development turn the plan into production systems, and managed AI services keep them current after launch.
Common questions
What does an AI advisory firm do?
An AI advisory firm helps leadership decide where AI will pay back and what has to be true before it can. KeyDelta's advisory ranks AI opportunities by return, fixes the decision rights, ownership, and workflows AI depends on, sets governance guardrails, and sequences the build. It is done by senior operators who have run companies, and it is the first act of a method that also builds and manages the AI.
How is AI advisory different from AI consulting?
Most AI consulting ends at a recommendation. KeyDelta's advisory is the first act of the KeyDelta Method: the same firm then builds the AI and manages it after launch, so the advice is never someone else's problem to execute. It is operator-led: a Managing Partner and six Principals who, between them, have held the CEO, COO, and CRO seats.
How long does AI advisory take?
Every engagement starts with a Diagnostic Sprint: two weeks to find the execution constraint, producing the VOOCS diagnostic. First measurable results land by day 30. If the work continues, an Embedded Engagement runs three to six months alongside the leadership team.
Do we need an AI strategy before we build anything?
You need a decision more than a strategy document. Before anything is built, three sentences have to hold: what problem it solves, for whom, and how you will know it worked. No answer, no build. Advisory gets you to those answers, ranked by return, with the operating model ready to carry them.
What does AI advisory cost?
It depends on the size of the constraint and the scope. The specific number comes from a free 30-minute call, and the Diagnostic Sprint price is agreed before anything starts.
Know what AI should do before you fund it.
Start with a 30-minute call. We will tell you where AI is likely to pay back in your business, and what has to be true first.
Operator to operator. No deck, no obligation.