EI × AI Advisory

Your AI rollout will succeed or fail on your team, not your tools.

You're 15 people doing the work of 40, and everyone says AI is the answer. It is — but only if it's installed into a team that's built to absorb it. We diagnose how yours actually operates, then build the systems your people will use instead of quietly ignoring.

20+ yrs
Building and scaling teams
6–9 hrs
Reclaimed per person, per week
91%
Tool adoption at 90 days
5 yrs
Hands-on AI practice
12 wks
Diagnostic to embed cycle
30 days
To first measurable win

Built on proprietary models and frameworks tailored to your needs · Teams of any size

EIAINEXUSWHERE ADOPTION HAPPENS

The gap we close

You didn't buy the wrong tool. You installed it into the wrong team.

At 5 people, everyone does everything and the tools don't matter. At 25, the seams show — and AI dropped onto a team with unaddressed friction doesn't fix the friction. It automates it. Faster mess, same mess.

Tooling-only

  • Ships the workflow, ignores the fear driving quiet resistance
  • No change plan, so adoption dies after handoff
  • Treats the team as an implementation detail

Coaching-only

  • Reads the team, but can't actually build the AI system
  • Advice about AI, not an installed capability
  • Leaves the client to figure out the tools alone

We hold both. Our proprietary models and frameworks are tailored to your needs, reading how your team actually operates — so we know what will break before we build. It tells us where adoption fails; applied AI builds the thing that sticks.

What we do

Where we go deepest — plus three more ways in.

Structured, time-boxed engagements. The deliverable is a working capability — rubrics, workflows, adoption plans — not a slide deck.

Core / A

AI Readiness Diagnostic

A two-week structured assessment of how your team actually runs — where decisions stall, where hours disappear, and who will resist versus who simply can't yet. You get current state, goal state, and the roadmap between them, including which AI moves your numbers and which is theater.

Team mappingAdoption riskBaseline metrics

Core / B

Workflow & Automation Build

Redesign of the workflows where AI actually saves hours — client follow-up, intake, reporting, the admin drag that eats your week. Built against the tools you already pay for, not a new stack you have to learn.

Process redesignTool integrationTime recovery

Core / C

Team Design as You Scale

Role clarity, decision rights, and capability gaps mapped before you hire into the wrong shape. The structural work that decides whether your next five people compound the team or complicate it.

Role designDecision rightsCapability mapping

Core / D

Adoption & Embed

Documentation your team keeps and uses, coaching through the first real cycle on the new system, and a close-out that reports against the numbers we baselined in week one.

Adoption planTeam enablementImpact reporting

How an engagement runs

Diagnose. Build. Embed. Every engagement, the same spine.

Standardized so the work is repeatable and the outcome is predictable — roughly a three-month arc for core engagements.

PHASE 01

Weeks 1–2

Diagnose

Baseline the current state — hours lost to admin, decision cycle time, turnover cost, and adoption risk. Map team dynamics against proprietary models and frameworks tailored to your needs and define what success actually measures.

PHASE 02

Weeks 3–9

Build & enable

Build the AI workflows against your real stack. Weekly working sessions and 1:1 coaching iterate the systems against actual use, so the team shapes the tool instead of receiving it.

PHASE 03

Weeks 10–12

Embed & hand off

Adoption plan, documentation your team keeps, and an executive close-out that quantifies the impact in the metrics we baselined on day one.

Who leads the work

Five industries of hard-won experience, distilled into one model.

Five industries of hard-won experience — healthcare, real estate, federal contracting, corporate enterprise, and small business — distilled into one operating model. Five very different playbooks, one approach. Add five years working hands-on with AI, well ahead of the curve, and the result is simple: AI used as a business tool, in the places it actually moves your numbers.

20+ yrs

Building teams and scaling businesses

5 industries

Healthcare · Real estate · Federal contracting · Corporate · Small business

5 yrs in AI

Hands-on practice since before it was table stakes

One model

Five playbooks distilled into a single operating approach

Practical by design

AI treated as a business tool with measurable returns — not a science project

Proof

What changes when both halves get installed.

Every engagement baselines its numbers in week one and reports against them at close. The figures below are the targets we build toward and measure against.

Target outcome

6–9 hrs

Reclaimed per person, per week

Admin and follow-up workflows rebuilt around where AI actually saves time.

Target outcome

Decision speed

Role clarity and decision rights mapped before the tooling goes in.

Target outcome

91%

Tool adoption at 90 days

Change plan and 1:1 coaching run alongside the build, not bolted on after handoff.

Target outcome

−38%

Time-to-fill

Structured screening and AI-assisted sourcing applied to the hiring pipeline.

Target outcome

−26%

Cost-per-hire

Fewer wasted cycles on the wrong candidates and the wrong steps.

Target outcome

2 wks

To a working roadmap

Current state, goal state, and the sequence between them — before any build starts.

We'd bought the tools twice already. This was the first time anyone dealt with why our team wouldn't touch them.
VP of Talent · Federal services contractor
The diagnostic named the friction we'd been working around for two years. Seeing it written down changed the conversation.
Chief Operating Officer · Multi-site services firm
My team got hours back every week without feeling like the tool was auditing them. That balance was the whole trick.
Head of People · Growth-stage technology company
We stopped debating which platform to buy and started fixing how decisions actually moved through the team.
Managing Partner · Real estate group
The rubrics gave us something we could actually defend in a debrief. Internal arguments got shorter and better.
Director of Recruiting · Healthcare system
Every previous consultant handed us a deck. This one handed us workflows the team was already using by week six.
Founder · Professional services firm
Knowing who couldn't yet versus who wouldn't changed how we coached people. That distinction alone was worth it.
Operations Director · Home services company
We were 14 people doing the work of 40. The build didn't add headcount — it gave us back the week.
Chief Executive Officer · Specialty healthcare practice
The close-out reported against the same numbers we baselined on day one. No hand-waving about impact.
Vice President of Operations · Government contractor
Role clarity came before the tooling, and that's why the tooling stuck. We'd have done it backwards on our own.
Co-Founder · Boutique consultancy
Adoption didn't fall off after handoff, which is the first time that's ever been true here.
Head of Revenue Operations · B2B services company
It was practical the whole way through. Nothing felt like a science project, everything tied to a number.
General Manager · Multi-location retail group

Start with a diagnostic

See where AI will help your team — and where it'll break them.

The diagnostic surfaces your real numbers and the friction hiding underneath them. It's the fastest way to know whether a full engagement is worth it before you commit to one.

Typical first conversation: 30 minutes. No pitch — a scoping of the problem.