Strategic consulting for technology companies
(Strategy + Innovation + Technology) × (Human Expertise + AI Scale)
We pioneer Centaur Intelligence—the systematic collaboration of deep human strategic expertise and AI computational capabilities. Solutions that are both profoundly insightful and rapidly scalable.
A systematic approach to solving complex challenges through human+AI collaboration
Deep expertise and judgment, but doesn't scale. Strategic work becomes a bottleneck. Analysis takes weeks. Can't process the volume modern decisions require.
Fast and scalable, but lacks context and strategic judgment. Misses organizational dynamics, political realities, and human factors that determine outcomes.
Human expertise provides strategy, judgment, and context. AI provides scale, speed, and pattern recognition. Together, exponentially better than either alone.
For decades, we've faced a false choice: rely on human expertise (slow, expensive, doesn't scale) or embrace AI automation (fast but superficial, lacking context).
We believe there's a third way. The most powerful solutions emerge when deep human strategic thinking collaborates systematically with AI computational scale. This isn't human OR AI. It's human AND AI, working in concert.
We call this Centaur Intelligence. In chess, centaur teams consistently beat both grandmasters and supercomputers. The same principle applies to strategic work.
We've practiced this approach for years solving complex growth challenges for technology companies. Now we're pioneering how organizations build their own centaur capabilities—and productizing what we've learned into tools that make strategic intelligence accessible.
Strategic consulting powered by Centaur Intelligence
We combine human strategic expertise with AI-powered market analysis to uncover growth opportunities competitors miss. Deep intelligence that drives decisions.
We build centaur teams that leverage human creativity amplified by AI scale to drive sustainable innovation. Systematic capability that persists.
We launch businesses designed from day one for human+AI advantage. From opportunity identification through MVP and go-to-market strategy.
Multi-stakeholder problems require both human negotiation skills and AI analytical power. Enterprise sales, partnerships, ecosystem plays.
We transform service delivery models to harness centaur intelligence. Particularly powerful for consulting, agencies, and professional services firms.
Ongoing strategic counsel for founders and executives navigating complex growth challenges. Your centaur-augmented strategy team.
Real results from real engagements
Series B SaaS • 6-month engagement
Growth plateau despite strong product-market fit. Pipeline flat for three quarters. Leadership suspected positioning problem but couldn't pinpoint the issue.
Human expertise: Strategic interviews with sales, customers, lost deals. Pattern recognition through qualitative analysis.
AI scale: Analysis of 10,000+ won/lost deals, competitor positioning tracking, buyer signal detection from reviews and community discussions.
Human synthesis: Identified "developer tools" positioning put them in overcrowded category. Real value was operational intelligence for platform teams.
Repositioned from "developer monitoring" to "platform engineering intelligence." Sales team got new playbook, marketing overhauled messaging.
Validated that strategic account intelligence could be systematized. Directly informed our Strategic Account Intelligence platform.
Series C Security Company • 4-month engagement
Needed to innovate beyond core product but every initiative failed. Innovation was ad-hoc, resource-intensive, and political. Needed systematic capability.
Human expertise: Built innovation framework with cross-functional team. Taught strategic opportunity evaluation, customer discovery, rapid prototyping.
AI scale: Created intelligence feeds for market signals, competitive moves, technology trends. Automated initial customer research, market sizing, competitive landscape mapping.
Result: Team could evaluate 10x more opportunities with human judgment on what mattered.
Launched innovation process the team owned. AI handled research grunt work. Humans focused on strategic decisions, customer conversations, concept refinement.
Team continued innovating after we left—proof that centaur capability is transferable. Process became foundation for helping other companies develop innovation systems.
Public Company • Single deal advisory
$2.5M enterprise deal stuck for 8 months. Fortune 100 financial services. 20+ stakeholders, complex technical environment, incumbent with deep relationships. AE lost in complexity.
Human expertise: Strategic stakeholder interviews. Mapped political landscape, identified true decision criteria, found the "unofficial" buying process.
AI scale: Organization structure deep-dive, technical environment analysis, competitive intelligence on incumbent, buying committee research, budget cycle mapping.
Human strategy: Created engagement plan addressing each stakeholder's concerns, positioned around business outcomes, identified internal champion.
Delivered comprehensive strategic account intelligence report. AE went from "stuck" to clear execution plan. Deal closed in 6 weeks.
This engagement proved strategic account intelligence is repeatable and productizable. Became blueprint for our SAI pilot program.
Pilot Program for Observability Account Executives
You're carrying a $2M quota selling observability to enterprise accounts. Your strategic deals have 15+ stakeholders, complex DevOps environments, and 6-9 month sales cycles. Generic contact data isn't enough. You need real intelligence: org dynamics, technical landscape, political map, buying committee insights, strategic entry points.
Try it risk-free on one of your strategic accounts
Up to 5 strategic account reports per month
One closed deal pays for a year of intelligence. See what centaur-powered research can do for your pipeline.
Founder, Centaur Intelligence
For over a decade, I've helped technology companies solve complex growth challenges through strategy, innovation, and technology consulting. I've worked with startups building new categories, established companies reinventing themselves, and everything in between.
The advent of AI created a unique moment: suddenly, strategic work that took weeks could happen in days—if you knew how to combine human expertise with AI capabilities systematically. Most companies either over-rely on human analysis (slow, doesn't scale) or over-rely on AI (fast but lacks context).
I pioneered Centaur Intelligence as a third way—systematic collaboration between deep human strategic thinking and AI computational scale. I've practiced this in consulting for years, and now I'm building it into capabilities and tools that make strategic intelligence accessible.
Our Strategic Account Intelligence pilot is the first productization of this methodology. It gives observability AEs the kind of deep account intelligence that previously required hiring a research analyst.
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