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Free · the 3-step constraint diagnosis

We'll find your #1 constraint
and the best solution for it. Free.

Most AI projects in regulated businesses return nothing because they're aimed at the wrong problem. We'll find the single bottleneck keeping you from your goals, where it's hiding in your business, and show you the best way to solve it for free. The full diagnosis and plan is yours to keep, whether or not we continue working together.

Measured client value
$60M+
Operational savings
$5M+
Regulated industries
15+
Hours building production AI
17k+

Otavio & his team have worked with

  • Intuit
  • OmniAb
  • Armistice Capital
  • Beta Bionics
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Truist
  • Cerebral Connections
  • Adon.ai
  • EIDMI
  • Fenwick & West
  • Office Ally
  • M-Square Capital
  • University of California Merced
  • Intuit
  • Foresight Sports
  • Think Investments
  • Edison Smart
  • Truist
  • Alku Recruiting
  • IKEY International
  • Atika Capital
  • Fenwick & West
  • Private Equity
  • SSTM2
  • Advanced Research Consulting
  • Conquest Trader

It feels like a hundred problems.

But at any moment, a business is held back by exactly one thing - one constraint - and everything else is noise around it. Pour money, people, and hours into the wrong one, and you barely move. Find the real constraint, and a single fix can move everything - your revenue, your margins, and especially what the business is worth. The catch: it's almost never the one you'd guess.

The 3-Step Constraint Diagnosis.

We run the entire first stage of our build process for you, free. About 90 minutes of your time across three short sessions - we do the rest. You walk away with:

  • Your #1 constraint, in one sentence

    The single highest-leverage thing holding you back, in plain English - not a list of twenty.

  • The exact function and workflow it lives in

    Pinpointed, not guessed - so you never aim AI at the wrong thing.

  • The best solution to your constraint

    The highest-return approach to fix it, walked through with you - the part most firms charge for.

  • A prioritized "where AI pays first" roadmap

    Sequenced by return, so you know exactly where to start and what to ignore for now.

  • A cloud-vs-on-premise recommendation

    Your sensitive data handled right from day one - privileged, regulated, or confidential.

  • A one-page sign-off artifact

    Board-ready, in your leadership's language - yours to keep, with us or without us.

Three short steps. About 90 minutes.

  1. Put in your info

    A short form, about 15 minutes. Within a day, we name your likely constraint and the function it lives in.

  2. Workflow deep-dive call

    About 45 minutes. We map your workflows together, live, and pinpoint the exact one the constraint lives in. No homework.

  3. Best solution call

    About 30 minutes. We walk you through the best option to remove it. The plan is yours to keep, whether or not we build it.

Real constraints, removed.

Every result below is a real engagement, anonymized to protect the client. See all services & industries →

  • ~$22M deal sourced by the engine we built

    A private equity firm

    Private equity · Finance

    A research and sourcing engine took the team from 7 analysts to 4 at more than 2× the throughput, removed about $665K a year in operating cost, and sourced a deal that added more than $20M to the portfolio.

  • 6 wks to replace a $200K/year tool

    A biotech

    Pharma · Biotech

    A specialist build replaced a $200K-a-year software tool in under six weeks, and beat every accuracy bar we agreed on up front - something a rented tool and a months-long internal attempt both failed to do.

  • ~$1.7M/yr cloud-AI spend eliminated

    An AM100 law firm

    Legal · On-premise

    Moved a top firm's AI off the public cloud and into their own building - eliminating about $1.7M a year in cloud-AI spend plus a $1.55M one-time cost, with privileged work never leaving the firewall. The firm now builds its own workflows.

  • 40-60 hrs per partner, reclaimed each week

    A market-data firm

    Data solutions · Finance

    Turned a human-bound research service into a scalable product - reclaiming 40 to 60 hours a week of each partner's time, and turning years of stalled growth into a warm backlog of new business.

  • 52% → 86% first-hour modeling accuracy

    A medtech company

    MedTech · Healthcare

    Lifted first-hour modeling accuracy from about 52% to 86% - removing the technical blocker to inclusion in Novo Nordisk's feasibility study, and avoiding a self-run trial that would have cost more than $10M.

We don't just advise. We build.

  1. Measured, not promised.

    Every stage is gated on a measured win against a baseline you record first. You see the proof before you scale it - a number, not a projection.

    Proven by · Every engagement to date

  2. You own it.

    Your team runs and expands what we build. No subscription, no vendor lock-in - we train your people to take it from here.

    Proven by · Clients now building their own workflows

  3. Your data never leaves.

    On-premise or inside your own cloud. Privileged, regulated, and confidential data stays inside your walls.

    Proven by · AM100 Law · Finance · Healthcare · Biotech

  4. Built where mistakes cost millions.

    Law firms, hedge funds, biotechs, and Fortune 500 teams. Seven years, 17,000+ hours, 15+ regulated industries - places where "it kind of works" isn't good enough.

    Proven by · $60M+ in measured client value

The 8-Week Constraint Sprint.

The diagnosis is free. When you want the constraint actually removed, we build it end to end - in 8 weeks - and we train your team on how to run it and expand it so they own the result and are able to solve your next constraint without us.

No failed six-figure experiment or pilots. Every stage is gated on a measured win against the bar we set with you and that you sign off on. No data leaving your control. No dependence on us afterward. All tailored to your stack and your industry's requirements.

Common questions.

We tried AI before and it went nowhere.
That's the norm - about 95% of AI projects return nothing measurable, usually because they were aimed at the wrong problem. We start with the diagnosis and gate every stage on a measured win, so you see proof before you scale.
Our data is too sensitive for AI.
We deploy on-premise or inside your own cloud. Privileged, regulated, and confidential data never leaves your control.
How are you different from a consultancy or a SaaS tool?
We don't hand you a slide deck or a subscription. We build a working system, deployed in production, and your team owns it - no ongoing dependence on us.
Is the free diagnosis just a sales call?
No. You get a real, expert diagnosis and the plan to fix it, yours to keep whether or not we work together. We'll even tell you if AI isn't the right fix.
Why is the diagnosis free?
It's the best way for us to understand your business, and to tell whether your constraint is even best solved with AI. Around 95% of company AI projects return nothing measurable, usually because the work got aimed at the obvious problem instead of the real constraint. So we give the diagnosis away - the constraint, the workflow, and the best way to solve it, whether or not we work together. What we sell is building it, inside a regulated business, without your data leaving.
What does it cost?
The diagnosis is free. If you have us build, we price every engagement at about 10% of the value we name and agree with you first - so the return is roughly tenfold.
How fast is it?
The diagnosis takes about 90 minutes of your time across three short sessions. The build is 8 weeks - 12 if we also build your data foundation.

Next step

Find your constraint.

We only run a handful of these a month, because a real diagnosis takes expertise and deep focus, so the calendar fills up fast. Every month the constraint stays is another month without the growth it's blocking.

Get your free diagnosis

Free. About 90 minutes of your time. No obligation.