AI progress only matters when it becomes economic value.
Most leaders have a long list of AI ideas. Few know which ones will move their financials. We help you find those, and give you a straight answer on the rest.
For executive and functional leaders at mid-sized and large retail and consumer-goods companies.
Possibility is accelerating. Absorption is not.
Getting AI is no longer the hard part. Knowing which workflows change your economics, and getting busy people to work differently, is. Most programs start with the technology. We start with your numbers.
The value concentrates in a few workflows.
Not in transforming the whole enterprise at once. Not in running copilots everywhere. It sits in a few high-value workflows, and the hard part is staying focused on them. We find them, put a number on each, and tell you what it takes to get the money.
Why we look at workflows, not use cases →Six weeks from fifty ideas to a call on every workflow.
Our first engagement is called Find Value. Here it is in a minute. Then we help you make it stick.
- 1Find Value6 weeks · fixed scopeA call on every workflow, the value case with starting numbers, and the riskiest assumption tested.
- 2Prove and buildThe next quarterThe first workflow live with real users. Your team or a partner you choose builds it, and we stay on to guide it.
- 3ScaleQuarter by quarterMore workflows, plus the role redesign and leadership sessions that help the change stick.
Week 1 · Your list. Fifty AI ideas from across the business.
Not ready for six weeks? Start with a leadership session →
Independent by design. No platform or build to sell, and no referral fees. We recommend what's best for you: build it in-house, buy a product, or use what you have. Whatever you choose sits on top of the systems you already run.
Notes from our work.
Brief · October 2026What a board should ask before funding AI
Three questions every board should ask, including what would make it a no.
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Essay · October 2026Absorption capacity: the capacity that isn't budgeted for
Retailers budget money and technology for change, but rarely how much change their people can take on in a season.
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Brief · October 2026Accountability does not delegate
What we learned running campaign agents for a national grocer.
Read the pieceHave a list of AI ideas? Let's find the workflows that pay.
Akshay BardiaFounder & CEOFifteen years helping large retailers and consumer-goods companies decide where data and AI pay. Leads every engagement and builds the economics himself.
Nupur GillFounder & Chief Workforce AdvisorA career on the human side of business. Leads the workforce side of every engagement: how roles change, and how the change lands with people.Read more →