Piotr Mechlinski
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00
/ ADVISORY

You are not short of AI initiatives, opinions or vendors. You are short of verdicts.

Three ways to work with me. One settles a single decision. One decides what in your portfolio deserves attention. One turns your direction into a strategy your organisation can actually run. Pick by the decision in front of you, not by size. None of them requires the others.

Your portfolio keeps growing because nobody wants to kill anything. That is not a capability problem and no framework fixes it. It ends when a named person makes a call and writes down what would reverse it.

THREE ROUTES
/ EACH STANDS ALONE
01 ONE SESSION

One-to-one consultation

For one executive with one consequential decision already on the table.
THE SITUATION
You know the decision. You have circled it for weeks and the people around you are agreeing with whichever version you said last.
DURATION
One hour · remote or in person
YOU LEAVE WITH
A position you can state in one sentence, and the condition that would change it.
READ SECTION 01 ↓
02 ONE WEEK

Portfolio verdict

For an executive who owns a list of AI and data work and cannot say what deserves attention now.
THE SITUATION
Everything is still promising. Nothing has been stopped and nothing has been scaled, and the list is longer every quarter.
DURATION
One week · five working days
YOU LEAVE WITH
Every initiative marked fund, test, scale or stop, with an owner and a stop condition.
READ SECTION 02 ↓
03 SIX WEEKS · FLAGSHIP

AI Strategy engagement

For an executive whose direction is clear and whose organisation cannot operate it.
THE SITUATION
You have said what matters. Six months on, nobody owns it, nothing measures it and the plan changes with whoever is presenting.
DURATION
Six weeks
YOU LEAVE WITH
An AI strategy with priorities, owners, measures, sequence and a governance cadence your forums run.
READ SECTION 03 ↓
NO ROUTE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR ANOTHER. START WHERE YOUR DECISION IS. FEES AND TERMS FOR ALL THREE ARE IN SECTION 04.
01
/ CONSULTATION

One decision, one session, and you keep the decision.

A paid engagement in its own right. It is not an intake step, it is not credited against anything else, and it is not the free fit call.

WHO IT IS FOR
A CEO, owner, CDO or accountable executive who can act on the answer without a further mandate. There is no requirement to have a portfolio, a programme or a team.
WHAT YOU BRING
One question, written in a paragraph, and the two options you are stuck between. Build or buy. Whether this function should own the data. Whether to stop the thing everyone is proud of.
WHAT HAPPENS
No discovery and no deck. You state it, I press on it, and we test the version you have been avoiding out loud. The reasoning is written down as it is made, not reconstructed later.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
A position, the reasoning behind it, the condition that would reverse it, and what you say to whom on Monday. Sent as a written note afterwards, in your language.
THE TERMS
DurationOne hour FormatRemote or in person
BOOK THE CONSULTATION FEE IN SECTION 04
02
/ PORTFOLIO VERDICT

Five days to decide what deserves attention. One verdict against every line on the list.

This is where the four verbs belong. They are the instrument used to judge the portfolio, not the name of the work.

FUND.
It is working and starved. Money and attention move to it this quarter.
TEST.
The claim is plausible and unproven. One named evidence test, with a date.
SCALE.
Proven small and held back by ownership, not by technology.
STOP.
It survives on sunk cost and someone’s reputation. It ends, on a date, in writing.

By Friday every initiative sits under one of the four, with a named owner, a measure and the written condition that would reverse it. What deserves attention now, what waits, what needs evidence first, and what should end.

THE CONDITION
You are in the room.

Two sessions, roughly half a day each, with the executive who owns the decision present. Sponsors join the second.

A stop decision made by an advisor has no authority and no survival rate. It comes back as a renamed project two quarters later.

YOU PROVIDE
The real list of what is running Spend or budget per line, however rough The sponsor behind each one Two half-days of executive time
YOU RECEIVE
The verdict map: every line, one verdict A decision record with the reasoning One accountable name per survivor Written stop conditions and review dates
WHAT THE WEEK DOES NOT ATTEMPT
Write the strategy. That is the six weeks Build benefit cases or business plans Select vendors or review architecture Set up governance beyond the review dates
FITS WHEN THE LIST IS LONGER THAN YOUR ATTENTION AND NOTHING HAS BEEN STOPPED IN A YEAR.
ENQUIRE · ONE WEEK
03
/ AI STRATEGY
/ FLAGSHIP

Six weeks to create an AI strategy short enough to read, specific enough to own.

The strategy has no authority when the real owner leaves the room. So six weeks assigns it: priorities, ownership, measures, sequence and governance, each with a name against it rather than a function.

WHAT YOU HAVE NOW
WHAT YOU HAVE AFTER
A direction people quote
→
Priorities in a fixed sequence
A steering committee
→
One accountable owner per priority
Optimism as a control
→
Measures read without interpretation
A quarterly deck
→
A cadence your own forums run
THE SIX WEEKS
01
Imagine
One AI future leadership actually agrees on. Not four versions of it in four heads.
02
Judge
The portfolio against fund, test, scale, stop, and the kill criteria in writing.
03
Design
The priorities, the order they happen in, and what is deliberately not happening this period.
04
Assign
A name against every priority, said out loud. Not a function. Not a committee.
05
Measure
Few numbers, a baseline each, and what counts as failure. Agreed with whoever is judged on them.
06
Run
The cadence starts inside your own forums, on your own calendar. Then I leave.
WHAT YOU OWN
/ AFTERWARDS
ARTEFACT
WHAT IS IN IT
WHO RUNS IT AFTER
01
The strategy document
What the business is doing about AI and data, why, in what order, and what it is deliberately not doing. Short enough to be read in a sitting.
CEO, board
02
Priority sequence
What happens first, what waits, and what is out of this period entirely. With the dependency that decides the order stated.
COO, delivery leads
03
Ownership map
One accountable name per priority, and what that person is empowered to decide alone. Not a committee, not a function.
Named owners
04
Measure set
A few measures per priority, chosen so a number can be read without a narrator, and the baseline each starts from.
CFO, owners
05
Governance cadence
Who reviews what, how often, what triggers an unscheduled review, and where a priority can be killed. Folded into forums you already hold.
Exec team
06
Decision log
Every call made in the six weeks, on what evidence, and the condition that would reverse it. So the next argument starts from the record.
Exec team, audit
REQUIRED PARTICIPATION
The executive who owns the strategy in every decision session. Priority owners in weeks 04 and 05. If the owner delegates attendance, the engagement stops.
WHAT IT DOES NOT INCLUDE
No pilots launched, no implementation delivered, no build team, no model work, no platform engineering, and no promise of budget approval. Piotr produces the strategy and the operating structure; your teams or a partner execute it.
WHERE THE COMMERCIALS ARE
Fees and terms for all three engagements sit together in section 04, so they can be compared rather than encountered one at a time.
FEE AND TERMS · SECTION 04 ENQUIRE · SIX WEEKS
04
/ COMPARE

Read the table and choose. Everything you need to pick between them is here.

The exclusions row is the important one. It is what each engagement refuses to do, so nobody buys the wrong thing and calls it a misunderstanding.

Consultation
ONE SESSION
Portfolio verdict
ONE WEEK
AI Strategy
SIX WEEKS
BEST USED WHEN
One decision is blocking you and you want it settled properly this week.
The list is long, spend is real, and nothing has been stopped or scaled in a year.
Direction exists but the organisation cannot act on it without you present.
YOUR TIME
One hour, plus a paragraph written beforehand.
Two half-days, decision-holder present. Sponsors join the second.
A recurring session each week, plus owners in weeks 04 and 05.
SCOPE
One question. Nothing else is examined.
The whole portfolio, judged. No strategy written.
Strategy, priorities, ownership, measures, sequence and governance.
YOU PROVIDE
The question and the two options you are between.
The real list, spend per line, sponsor names.
Access to the exec team, the portfolio, and whatever passes for the current plan.
PIOTR DELIVERS
A position, the reasoning, and the reversal condition, in writing.
Verdict map, decision record, owners, stop conditions.
Six artefacts: strategy, sequence, ownership map, measures, cadence, decision log.
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED
Portfolio review, artefacts, follow-on work of any kind.
Writing the strategy, benefit cases, vendor selection, governance design.
Implementation, build teams, model work, platform engineering, budget approval.
COMMERCIAL
€500
€8,500
From €50,000
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Consultation

ONE SESSION
BEST USED WHEN
One decision is blocking you and you want it settled properly this week.
YOUR TIME
One hour, plus a paragraph written beforehand.
SCOPE
One question. Nothing else is examined.
YOU PROVIDE
The question and the two options you are between.
PIOTR DELIVERS
A position, the reasoning, and the reversal condition, in writing.
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED
Portfolio review, artefacts, follow-on work of any kind.
COMMERCIAL
€500
BOOK THE CONSULTATION

Portfolio verdict

ONE WEEK
BEST USED WHEN
The list is long, spend is real, and nothing has been stopped or scaled in a year.
YOUR TIME
Two half-days, decision-holder present. Sponsors join the second.
SCOPE
The whole portfolio, judged. No strategy written.
YOU PROVIDE
The real list, spend per line, sponsor names.
PIOTR DELIVERS
Verdict map, decision record, owners, stop conditions.
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED
Writing the strategy, benefit cases, vendor selection, governance design.
COMMERCIAL
€8,500
ENQUIRE · ONE WEEK

AI Strategy

SIX WEEKS
BEST USED WHEN
Direction exists but the organisation cannot act on it without you present.
YOUR TIME
A recurring session each week, plus owners in weeks 04 and 05.
SCOPE
Strategy, priorities, ownership, measures, sequence and governance.
YOU PROVIDE
Access to the exec team, the portfolio, and whatever passes for the current plan.
PIOTR DELIVERS
Six artefacts: strategy, sequence, ownership map, measures, cadence, decision log.
EXPLICITLY EXCLUDED
Implementation, build teams, model work, platform engineering, budget approval.
COMMERCIAL
From €50,000
ENQUIRE · SIX WEEKS
I WILL SAY NO
TO ALL THREE IF
You want external validation of a decision that has already been taken.
The executive who owns the decision will not be in the room.
You are looking for a delivery partner, a build team or a vendor recommendation.
STILL NOT OBVIOUS AFTER THE TABLE
Take the free fit call. Fifteen minutes, no charge, and no advice given. I tell you which of the three fits, or that none does.

It is not a step in any of the engagements and it is not a sales call.

BOOK THE FIT CALL · FREE
SEPARATE FROM THE PAID CONSULTATION
05
/ PROOF

This is where the judgment comes from. The organisations it was built inside.

No client quotes and no case studies: the engagements are private. What is checkable is where the work was done, and what gets published under my name every issue.

WHERE
/ THE WORK WAS DONE
ABB
Shell
Rolls-Royce
ING
PKO Bank Polski
T-Mobile
OPERATING CONTEXTS
Chief Data Officer
GOVERNANCE
VP Product
TIMING
Chief Executive Officer
SUBTRACTION
Delivery and programme roles
SCALE
THE THINKING IS PUBLIC FIRST
Natural + Artificial Intelligence. One argument every issue.

Read four issues before booking anything. If the reasoning does not hold up for you there, it will not hold up in a session, and you will have saved yourself the fee.

READ THE WRITING
No case studies are published. Where a client is willing to be named, it will appear here in their words, not mine.
06
/ QUESTIONS

Four questions people ask before they commit money to this.

Anything else, write to me directly.

Do I have to do them in order?

No. They are three routes, not three stages. Most people who take the six weeks have never had a consultation, and plenty of consultations are the only thing that ever happens. Start where your decision is.

How much of my own time does this take?

More than you would like, and it is not delegable. One session for the consultation. Two half-days for the week. A weekly decision session for six weeks. If your calendar cannot hold that, the work will not survive contact with your organisation.

Does my data need to be in good shape first?

No. Every one of these engagements is about judgment, ownership and sequence, and all three can be decided on incomplete data. If the honest answer to a question is that nobody knows, that is a finding, and usually the most useful one.

Where does your work stop?

At the decision and the structure that carries it. I do not build, staff or run implementation, and I take no vendor commission. Everything discussed is confidential and no client is named without written permission. Where specialist help is needed I will say so rather than extend my own scope.

A QUESTION THAT IS NOT HERE · PM@PIOTRMECHLINSKI.COM · ANSWERED BY A PERSON, NOT A SEQUENCE
07
/ NEXT STEP

Three routes, three different first messages. Pick the one that matches your decision.

ROUTE 01
Book a one-to-one consultation
Choose a time and write the question in the field that follows. One paragraph is enough.
BOOK A CONSULTATION
ROUTE 02
Ask about the one-week verdict
Send the list, however rough. Three lines is enough to tell you whether the week fits.
ASK ABOUT THE WEEK
ROUTE 03 · FLAGSHIP
Discuss the six-week AI Strategy
Tell me the direction you have set and where it stops being followed. We will talk about whether six weeks is the right instrument.
DISCUSS SIX WEEKS
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SEND IT
I read it, not an assistant
One reply, from me. No sequence, no nurture, no drip.
You get a verdict on fit
Including no, with the reason, and which of the other two would have suited it better.
Nothing is signed
Scope and dates are a separate conversation, after fit is established.
It stays between us
Everything you send is confidential, whether or not the engagement happens.

ENQUIRY

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