AI Advisory
Strategic advisory for leadership teams navigating AI adoption. We address capability building, vendor selection, internal team development, and how to distinguish substantive AI capabilities from marketing claims.
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The leader's guide to building AI aptitude in your organisation
Most organisations treat AI implementation like building rudimentary websites in 1995: functional but missing the architectural sophistication needed to exploit AI's genuine competitive potential beyond basic automation.
AI governance: what business leaders need to know
Most organisations are building AI compliance theatre whilst competitors build capability fortresses, treating governance as bureaucratic overhead rather than the competitive advantage that enables sustainable AI deployment.
Creating custom benchmarks that align with business objectives
Custom benchmarks, tailored to specific business objectives, are essential for driving meaningful performance insights and strategic success, far outperforming generic metrics.
Reinforcement learning: practical guide for business users
Reinforcement Learning is a pivotal AI component for business, enabling adaptive decision-making through interaction with environments, balancing exploration and exploitation, and offering benefits such as enhanced decision-making and increased efficiency, despite challenges like data requirements and ethical considerations.
Understanding the AI Skills for Business Framework — dimensions and implementation (part 2)
Successful AI adoption for SMEs requires focusing on five dimensions: privacy and stewardship, technical infrastructure, problem definition, problem solving, and evaluation.
Understanding the AI Skills for Business Framework — leaders guide and personas (part 1)
The AI Skills for Business Framework outlines four key personas—AI Citizens, AI Workers, AI Professionals, and AI Leaders—essential for organisations to effectively integrate AI.
Building your AI-first company
The rise of AI-first lean startups: rethinking organisational structure in the genAI era
What does a fractional CTO do?
A fractional AI CTO provides strategic guidance and technical leadership to help organizations assess, plan, and responsibly implement AI solutions.
Conducting a data assessment
We outline our process for and benefits of conducting a data assessment prior to initiating any project.
Quantifying the benefits and risks of an AI deployment
How we at Agathon quantify the benefits and risks of any project we embark upon
Responsible and ethical AI — why does it matter?
Responsible AI is all the rage, but why should one care?
Recent trends in NLP
Examining some recent trends in NLP and AI, including transformer-based models, transfer learning, multimodal AI and conversational AI