Apache Strike

The Engagement Cycle

Define the boundary first.

Most AI consultants start by automating. I start by defining what you will never hand to a machine. Everything else follows from that.

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Assess

Where AI actually fits your business.

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Define the Line

What you will never automate, and who owns that call.

3

Strategize

Three real options, stress-tested.

4

Plan & Reconcile

The implementation package and how you measure it.

The Critical Thinking Definition gate: no strategic option moves forward until the boundary is signed by a named owner. It is the single most differentiating part of the engagement, and the part competitors don’t offer.

A disciplined AI-targeting methodology, distinct from our transformation practice. Built on military mission-planning rigor, translated for the boardroom.

I sit down with leadership and work out where AI makes sense for your business and where it doesn’t, using a disciplined prioritization framework. Full-cycle, sold in stages: find the opportunities, build the strategy, plan the rollout, measure what happened.

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The Critical Thinking Definition

Before any strategy gets built, you define the thinking your organization refuses to automate, and who owns that line. No competitor requires this.

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Opportunity prioritization

A structured process to identify, prioritize, and plan the specific AI opportunities worth pursuing.

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Three options, war-gamed

Conservative, balanced, and aggressive courses of action, each stress-tested against real scenarios, with a recommendation.

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90-Day Roadmap

A clean handoff package with quick wins and a framework to measure results after implementation.

Engagement Tiers

RapidSingle function · 3–4 wks

StandardFull org · 5–6 wks

ComprehensiveMulti-division

Starting target: automate 10–15% of the lowest-value work, tuned to your business. The aim is to enhance your people, not replace them.

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What You Walk Away With

See how the thinking actually works.

Three deliverables built around one gate most AI consultants do not have. Real examples on a composite client. Click any one to read it.

Target Analysis

Where AI is already touching your business — and which of those places quietly puts your core asset at risk.

EXAMPLE

Document 1 · The Target

Target Analysis

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Critical Thinking Definition

The single signed boundary that decides what a machine will never touch in your business — and why nothing else proceeds until it exists.

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Document 2 · The Gate

Critical Thinking Definition

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Engagement Plan

The AI plan you actually run — war-gamed against what goes wrong before you commit a dollar.

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Document 3 · The Plan

Engagement Plan

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Avenue 1 · Origination	Touches authorship at its source. Critical.
Avenue 2 · The core asset	The exact thing a downstream clause scrutinizes. Critical.
Avenue 3 · Derivatives	Real speed — and real contamination risk. Elevated.
The stakes	Get one avenue wrong and the asset may not be protectable.

What it fixes	The boundary between what AI does and what only a human does
Why it is a gate	The Engagement Plan cannot be written until it is signed
Who owns it	You do — in writing, deliberately, not by default
What it protects	The judgment that makes your work worth paying for

Per-avenue posture	A deliberate stance for each way AI touches your work
War-gamed	Stress-tested against what actually breaks it
Conditions, not dates	Triggered by what is true, not by the calendar
The tools you keep	You run it yourself — no permanent dependency on us

Define the boundary first.

Assess

Define the Line

Strategize

Plan & Reconcile

See how the thinking actually works.

Cut through the AI noise.