We don't sell more AI. We assess what you've already built — token spend, infrastructure cost, agentic throughput — and quantify the actual P&L return of every initiative. You leave with a CFO-ready report on where your stack is leaking capital, and what it would take to fix.
Most companies have builders; very few have optimizers. Bringing in a Fractional Chief of AI from Carion means injecting rigorous financial discipline into your technology stack. Your internal developers built the engine; we tune it for the track.
Forensically identify redundant software, underutilized hardware, and spiraling token costs across your AI stack.
Shift the engineering focus from "what can we build?" to "what makes us money?" — every initiative tied to P&L impact.
Reclaim ownership of your data by strategically replacing outsourced black-box solutions with high-performance localized architecture.
A one-week forensic audit for CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CROs and BU leaders. We map every existing AI workflow against its P&L contribution — surfacing the bloat, the leaks, and the leverage. You leave with a CFO-Ready Performance Report and a 90-day plan to redirect capital toward what actually generates return.
We forensically measure every active AI workload — token spend, GPU utilisation, vendor contracts, agentic throughput — against the P&L impact it's actually delivering. Bloat surfaces fast; so do the underused assets worth scaling.
Identify where metered proprietary APIs can be replaced with optimised local inference — typically yielding 40–80% TCO reduction on lead-gen, support, and back-office workflows without sacrificing accuracy.
Pipeline generation, qualification, and customer success — restructured into agentic systems with named KPIs. We've moved B2B lead conversion from 0.8% to 2.0% and cut cost-per-converted-lead by 85% in a single optimization cycle.
Replace black-box vendor dependencies with localised, sovereign architecture you control — protecting margin, data, and pricing power as you scale beyond the next compute generation.
Not 80-page strategy decks. Real artifacts your leadership team and your CFO can use Monday morning — built around your business, your numbers, your constraints.
Every candidate use case in your business, plotted on a 2×2 of impact vs effort — so the leadership team can see what to ship in 30 days and what to defer.
A board-grade view of where the dollars are landing — OpEx saved, revenue uplift, throughput gains — tied to the line items in your P&L, not abstract "AI maturity" scores.
An honest read of your AI readiness across five axes — Strategy, Data, Talent, Governance, Adoption. Tells you where you actually stand and what to fix first.
Week-by-week Gantt with named owners, success criteria and CFO-validated milestones. Built so PMO, product and finance can all read the same plan.
Ranked list of every shortlisted AI use case with a composite score (impact × feasibility × speed). The team leaves knowing exactly what's #1, what's #5, and why.
A side-by-side scorecard across the 6–10 vendors in your shortlist — cost, fit, speed-to-deploy and risk — so procurement and the CTO are aligned before the contract goes out.
Not for tinkerers. Not for theorists. For leaders who already know AI is non-negotiable — and want to translate that into results before the quarter closes.
Small and mid-sized businesses that want to leapfrog incumbents — not wait three years to catch up.
Portfolio companies under pressure to lift EBITDA and growth multiples ahead of the next exit window.
Operators facing rising competition and shrinking margins who need AI leverage applied where it counts.
Executives owning a cross-functional change mandate who need a single day to align the team and ship.
We deliver fast, practical executive enablement — built for real business results. No frameworks-of-frameworks. No 40-slide intros. No vendor pitches. One week, your leadership team, a plan you ship.
Success fee tied to P&L impact
Our retainer fee is paired with a Performance Success Fee tied directly to the OpEx savings and revenue lift our work delivers to your P&L. If the optimization doesn't move your numbers, you don't pay the success portion — full stop. We share the risk because we're confident in the yield.
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