Advisory

There are six ways to work with me. All of them have a fixed scope, and none of them ends with me proposing an implementation.

Start with the one that fits what is on your desk now; the others will still be there when the next decision comes up.

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1. AI Verdict

“I have an AI decision to make this quarter.”

One decision, one working session with your executive team, and a one-page memo five working days later: what to scale, what to change, what to run as a limited pilot and what to stop, plus what still has to be proven. The fee is fixed and published, and the first three clients pay a founding-client fee. Everything about the Verdict, including the price and a sample memo.

2. AI Maturity Diagnostic, run as a cohort

“My executive team doesn’t agree about AI and I can’t see where.”

Each executive answers separately and privately. I read the results and we spend ninety minutes on the disagreements that actually change a decision. The questionnaire is only the instrument; the debrief is what you pay for. How the cohort works.

3. Board AI Decision Lab

“My board needs a shared way of deciding about AI.”

Four hours with the board or the leadership team on one real decision from your agenda. You leave with the decision, with the criteria you will apply to the next ones and with named owners for the next thirty days. It is not a training course. The lab, with the price.

4. AI Due Diligence

“I’m evaluating a company that claims to have AI.”

The AI part of your diligence, done in three to five days before the letter of intent: whether the AI is real, what it costs to keep running and what you are actually buying. It can also run as one workstream inside a wider diligence led by your lawyers or your financial advisers. The three levels.

5. Fractional Chief AI Officer

“These decisions keep coming, every quarter.”

The first thing that goes into the contract is the date it ends.

A few days a month at your table, with a standing mandate to recommend that something be stopped, not only that something be started. A first mandate runs ninety days, at four to six days a month, for a fixed monthly fee. If after that we both still see the point, we extend it to six or nine months.

• Presence in the meetings where AI decisions actually get made, not in a parallel workshop track.
• A monthly memo of two to three pages: what moved, what is stuck, what you decide next.
• A direct line to the CEO between sessions.
• A stop mandate: the standing authority to recommend killing an initiative, used in front of the people who approved it.

I only take on a mandate after we have done a first piece of work together, a Verdict, a lab or a diagnostic. I do not want a seat at a table I have never sat at. The usual reason people ask for this is that two or three AI initiatives have started competing for the same budget and the decisions no longer stop coming.

What you get is not a roadmap. It is a decision record: what was decided, by whom, against which number, and what would make you reverse it.

6. Călătoria AI, one scene, one conversation

“We need the conversation before any of this.”

I send your team the one scene from the book that is closest to the decision you are facing, and we spend ninety minutes on it. You get a page on what it means for you. There is no fee, I do it once per company, and the book itself is with publishers. About the book.

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What I do not do

• Implementation, development, staffing or managed services.
• License, platform or tool resale, of any kind, including referral fees.
• Legal AI Act compliance documentation. I work alongside legal partners and stay on the governance and decision side of that line.
• Subcontracting for consulting firms.

None of this is modesty. It is what keeps the second opinion worth having: there is nothing I can sell you afterwards that depends on the answer.

Fees

Every engagement has a fixed fee, agreed on a one-page scope before we start. I do not bill by the hour, there are no change orders and there is no paid discovery phase. The Verdict and the lab have their prices on this site. For a mandate or a due diligence the fee depends on how many people are involved and how much of the estate is in scope, and I quote it after the first call.

Languages and geography

Romanian and English. Based in Bucharest, working across Romania, Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics. Remote by default, on site when the decision deserves a room.