PRAXISFIVEYour AI pilots
aren’t failing.
They’re stuck
in purgatory.
Every senior executive we talk to has the same drawer: AI pilots that never shipped, licenses without an owner, and a board asking for ROI nobody can defend. We pick one workflow, rebuild it with your people and AI, and prove the before-and-after in four to six weeks.
Start with one workflow →No 100-page strategy deck. No proof of concept that quietly dies in someone’s inbox.
The shift
Every org chart in America is a pyramid. A wide base doing the transactional work. A narrow top making the calls. It was built for a world where only humans could do the work.
That world is over. AI can run the base now. The shape that replaces the pyramid is a diamond: judgment concentrated in the middle and the top, an AI workforce running everything underneath it. The scarce thing stops being headcount. It becomes judgment.
Whether you built this org chart or inherited it, it’s still a pyramid. The shape has to change either way.
Pilot purgatory
Only 23% of companies can tie AI spending to revenue gained or cost saved, according to Bain. Yet 92% of CFOs feel pressure to prove AI is paying off, according to CFO Dive. That gap is pilot purgatory: AI spend without a number the board can defend.
Tools were bought faster than workflows were rebuilt. Experiments made demos. Demos made announcements. Very little survived the handoffs into daily work.
Strategy, operations, and execution were sold separately. No one owned the seams. The pilot died between the recommendation and the work. That is not a technology problem. It is the problem.
Corporate IT once accepted eighteen-to-twenty-four-month software backlogs. Knowledge work is next. A ninety-day deck is now the backlog.
The strategy firms take the top of your company. The tool vendors take the bottom. The middle, where the judgment actually lives, is served by no one. That’s where we work.
Continuous action. Compounding value.
Three steps. Each one earns the next.
Prove it.
Four to six weeks, fixed price. We find the highest-leverage bottleneck, baseline it, rebuild it with your people and AI, and hand you a signed before-and-after number.
Compound it.
Sprint by sprint, workflow by workflow. Your people move into higher-judgment work as the AI workforce takes on what used to eat their week.
Run it.
The ongoing retainer. A regular scorecard, monthly scans for the next opportunity, and a skill library that keeps growing, built from how your company actually works.
These are our own numbers from operating work before PraxisFive existed. Ask for the math and we will walk you through it. Future client cases will be baselined in week one and signed by the client before they appear here.
Leadership at the center. A specialist bench behind it.
The AI-native operator
Runs AI-native growth and operations across a live portfolio of companies. If it’s on this site, it’s been run somewhere first.
The AI depth
Nearly two decades building production AI inside a Fortune 50 company. He’s the reason the AI workforce is real infrastructure, not a demo.
The business anatomist
Twenty-five years building alliances and partner ecosystems for the biggest names in tech.
The commercial connector
A Wharton MBA who spent eight years running strategy inside a real mid-market manufacturer.
Four leadership disciplines stay accountable. The delivery team expands around the workflow with proven builders, designers, data specialists, and security experts. You get the bench the work requires without funding a pyramid of juniors.
Nobody here learned business from a prompt.
Straight answers.
Is this about cutting my people?
The goal is to move people into higher-judgment work. We automate the transactional work, amplify the judgment-intensive work, and remove work that should not exist at all.
What if it doesn’t work?
We baseline the numbers in week one and you sign off on them. You will know inside of weeks, not after another board meeting built around a number that does not exist.
Is our data ready?
Almost certainly not. Neither is anyone else’s. Cleaning it up is step one of the work, not an excuse to wait another year.
We’re a fund with a dozen portfolio companies, all running on something different.
That’s exactly the problem our framework was built for. We run the same battle-tested diagnostic at every company, find the highest-leverage bottleneck at each one, and hand you one comparable scorecard across the whole portfolio, not twelve consultants with twelve different opinions.
Our first meeting is 45 minutes, and it isn’t a pitch.
We come with a point of view on your business already researched: where we’d start, and what it’s worth. You keep that thinking whether you hire us or not.
Start with one workflow →Email goes to the leadership team, not a funnel. You’ll hear back within one business day.