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Senior Practitioners · Not Junior Analysts

The advisors who have actually built it

Every advisor on this team has spent 15 or more years deploying production AI systems at enterprise scale. Not studying them. Not advising on frameworks. Building, debugging, and shipping them across some of the world's most demanding technology environments.

15+yrs
Avg Advisor Experience
200+
Enterprises Advised
500+
Models in Production
4
Major Firm Backgrounds
Co-Founders

Built by practitioners, not consultants

AI Advisory Practice was founded in 2022 by Fredrik Filipsson and Morten Andersen — two practitioners who have been building AI-powered businesses since AI became practically deployable. They founded this practice to give enterprises access to the same quality of AI thinking they apply to their own ventures.

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Co-Founder · AI Strategy and Enterprise Transformation
Fredrik Filipsson
AI practitioner since 2022 · Building multiple AI-powered businesses

Fredrik co-founded AI Advisory Practice to bring genuine practitioner-level AI guidance to enterprises. He has been applying AI in commercial contexts since 2022, building multiple businesses with AI as a core operational advantage. His advisory focus is AI strategy, use-case prioritisation, and vendor selection.

He advises from direct experience making the same build versus buy decisions, facing the same data quality constraints, and navigating the same organisational resistance that enterprise AI leaders encounter daily. His writing takes a direct, contrarian stance against AI hype and focuses on what actually works in production.

AI Strategy Vendor Selection Generative AI AI Readiness Enterprise AI
2022
AI Practitioner Since
Multi
AI Businesses Built
100+
Articles Published
MA
Co-Founder · AI Implementation and Technical Strategy
Morten Andersen
AI practitioner since 2022 · Building multiple AI-powered businesses

Morten co-founded AI Advisory Practice with Fredrik Filipsson, bringing direct production AI experience to enterprise advisory. He has been building AI-powered businesses since 2022, giving him first-hand knowledge of what enterprise AI implementation actually requires beyond what frameworks and research papers describe.

His advisory focus covers AI implementation architecture, MLOps platform selection, data strategy, and the technical governance structures that allow AI programmes to operate reliably at scale. He bridges the gap between strategic intent and technical execution.

AI Implementation MLOps Data Strategy AI Architecture AI CoE
2022
AI Practitioner Since
Multi
AI Businesses Built
100+
Articles Published
Senior Partners

The practitioners leading your engagement

At this practice, senior partners personally lead every client engagement. There are no handoffs to junior team members. The advisor you meet is the advisor who does the work.

Marcus Chen, Managing Partner AI Strategy
Managing Partner · AI Strategy
Marcus Chen
Former Google Cloud AI · 18 years enterprise experience

Marcus led AI product and engineering programs at Google Cloud for nine years, including the development of Vertex AI enterprise deployment frameworks adopted by more than 300 global organizations. He built and managed machine learning infrastructure serving 40,000 concurrent users, oversaw the deployment of large language model systems into regulated financial services environments, and designed the AI governance frameworks that became Google Cloud's enterprise standard.

Before Google, Marcus spent eight years at enterprise software and financial services organizations deploying predictive analytics and recommendation systems. He has a deep technical background in MLOps, distributed ML infrastructure, and production model monitoring at scale.

At this practice, Marcus leads AI strategy engagements for Fortune 500 clients across financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare. His engagements have resulted in an average time to first production deployment of 12 weeks and documented ROI of 280% to 420%.

AI Strategy LLM Deployment MLOps AI Governance Financial Services
18yrs
Experience
80+
Enterprises Led
$1.8B
Value Created
Sarah Blackwell, Partner GenAI and Data Strategy
Partner · GenAI and Data Strategy
Sarah Blackwell
Former Microsoft Azure AI · 16 years enterprise experience

Sarah spent 11 years at Microsoft in senior roles across Azure AI, the enterprise Copilot program, and Microsoft 365 AI integration. She led the design and deployment of enterprise Copilot programs for more than 50 Fortune 500 clients, built the adoption measurement frameworks used across Microsoft's enterprise AI customer success organization, and was a principal contributor to Microsoft's responsible AI implementation guidelines for regulated industries.

Her data strategy work covers the full lifecycle from data platform modernization to AI-ready data infrastructure. She has architected enterprise data platforms on Azure Synapse, Databricks, and Fabric that underpin production AI systems processing more than two billion daily events.

Sarah leads generative AI and data strategy engagements at this practice. Her specialty is designing Generative AI programs that achieve measurable adoption across 10,000 or more employees, with an average of 2.1 hours saved per employee per day in documented deployments.

Generative AI Data Strategy Copilot Programs Azure AI Change Management
16yrs
Experience
60+
Enterprises Led
500K+
Employees Upskilled
James Thornton, Partner AI Governance and Risk
Partner · AI Governance and Risk
James Thornton
Former McKinsey Global AI Practice · 17 years enterprise experience

James spent 12 years at McKinsey as a senior engagement manager and later a principal in the Global AI Practice, where he led AI transformation programs for Fortune 100 financial services, insurance, and healthcare organizations. He designed AI governance frameworks for organizations operating under EU AI Act, DORA, and US federal AI regulatory requirements, and managed concurrent AI programs with combined budgets exceeding $800M.

His risk management experience spans model risk, algorithmic bias assessment, AI audit frameworks, and board-level AI governance reporting. He developed McKinsey's proprietary AI risk taxonomy, which has since been adapted by more than 20 global financial institutions.

At this practice, James leads AI governance and risk engagements for regulated industries. He works with CROs, Chief Compliance Officers, and boards to design governance frameworks that enable AI innovation without creating regulatory exposure. His frameworks have passed regulatory examination at three major central banks.

AI Governance Regulatory Compliance Model Risk EU AI Act Financial Services
17yrs
Experience
40+
Enterprises Led
3
Central Bank Reviews Passed
Priya Mehta, Partner AI Implementation
Partner · AI Implementation and CoE
Priya Mehta
Former Accenture AI Practice · 15 years enterprise experience

Priya led Accenture's AI Center of Excellence practice for six years, designing and standing up internal AI CoE organizations for 25 Fortune 500 enterprises across manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. She built the CoE operating model frameworks that became Accenture's global standard, covering team structure, model governance, technology stack selection, and talent development pipelines.

Her implementation specialty is the end-to-end deployment of production AI systems, from data engineering and feature engineering through model training, evaluation, MLOps infrastructure, and organizational change management. She has deployed AI systems across Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and GCP environments, with particular depth in hybrid cloud architectures common in regulated industries.

At this practice, Priya leads AI implementation and AI CoE engagements. Her average time from engagement start to first production model is 11 weeks. She has built AI CoEs that have become self-sustaining within 18 months, reducing ongoing advisory dependency for clients while delivering 3x to 5x increases in internal AI deployment velocity.

AI CoE Design MLOps AI Implementation Manufacturing Talent Development
15yrs
Experience
25
CoEs Built
11wks
Avg to Production
Associate Advisors

Domain specialists supporting every engagement

Senior partners are supported by a bench of associate advisors with deep specialization in AI-adjacent domains. All bring a minimum of 10 years of enterprise experience.

Associate advisor
David Park
AI Data Engineering
12 years enterprise data platform architecture. Former Databricks, Snowflake partner advisory. Specialist in AI-ready data infrastructure at petabyte scale.
Associate advisor
Elena Vasquez
AI Vendor Selection
10 years enterprise technology procurement and vendor evaluation. Designed AI vendor selection frameworks used by 30+ Fortune 500 procurement organizations.
Associate advisor
Robert Nakamura
Healthcare AI
14 years clinical informatics and healthcare AI. Deep expertise in HIPAA-compliant AI deployment, clinical NLP, and regulatory pathway navigation for AI medical devices.
Associate advisor
Amara Osei
AI Change Management
11 years organizational change management with specialization in AI adoption at scale. Designed workforce AI upskilling programs reaching 50,000 employees across three continents.
Engagement Model

How we staff client engagements

Our staffing model is designed around one principle: your organization deserves the senior practitioner on every call, not just the first one.

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Named partner assigned at intake
Every engagement is assigned a named senior partner before work begins. That partner leads your engagement personally from assessment through delivery. No surprise handoffs after the sales call.
02
Partner access throughout the engagement
Senior partner availability is built into our engagement structure. You have direct access to your partner via scheduled working sessions, ad hoc conversations, and async review of materials. No routing through account managers.
03
Domain specialists on demand
When your engagement requires depth in a specific domain such as healthcare AI regulation or large-scale MLOps infrastructure, we bring in the relevant associate advisor. You benefit from the breadth of the practice without paying for the full bench.
04
Maximum 4 concurrent engagements per partner
Senior partners carry a maximum of four concurrent client engagements. This is a hard constraint, not an aspiration. It ensures your engagement receives the senior attention it deserves, and it protects the quality of our work.
05
No junior team members on delivery
We do not use junior analysts to reduce engagement cost and then claim senior oversight. If a deliverable is going to your organization, it was produced by a senior practitioner. This limits our scale intentionally. That is a trade-off we accept.
06
Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement
Every engagement includes explicit knowledge transfer sessions designed to leave your team more capable than when we arrived. We document decisions, build internal playbooks, and train your people. The goal is your independence from advisors, including us.
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Every engagement led by a senior practitioner

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