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AI & Strategy Consulting

Strategy you can act on.
A fraction of the time.
AI you can trust.

AI strategy consulting and Claude implementation in Los Angeles — a complete, explicit method, responsible AI, and the build to back it up, for companies of any size.

A complete strategy method — framing, analysis, the frameworks, pressure-tested — delivered fast by a senior team amplified by an AI agent firm. Strategy, AI adoption, and the build to back it up.

The method
A complete method you can read — not a black box.
The speed
A credible view in days, because an AI agent team does the legwork.
The governance
A reviewer panel and accuracy ledger on every engagement.

A clear method — and you can read all of it.

PVT runs a complete, disciplined method — twelve stages, the canonical strategy frameworks, every load-bearing number sourced and every answer pressure-tested before you see it. An AI agent team does the heavy lifting — research, modeling, synthesis — so the work is thorough and fast, without a big-firm price tag or a months-long wait.

01
Problem framing
The real question, sharply defined and bounded.
02
Financial modeling
The value at stake, sized before we scope the work.
03
Market & competitive read
The outside view — forces, rivals, where the profit pools sit.
04
Document synthesis
Your data and the public record, distilled to what matters.
05
Primary research
Interviews and signal from the people closest to the work.
06
Hypothesis generation
Answer-first. Candidate answers, MECE, then tested.
07
Strategic choice
Where to play and how to win — a defensible decision.
08
Execution planning
The roadmap, sequenced and resourced to be real.
09
KPI architecture
A balanced scorecard so you know if it's working.
10
War-gaming
We attack our own answer before a competitor can.
11
Executive communication
The Pyramid Principle — board-ready, answer at the top.
12
Proposal & handoff
Scope, SOW, and a data-handling plan you can hold us to.
Built on the canon Pyramid Principle · Minto Playing to Win · Martin–Lafley Balanced Scorecard · Kaplan–Norton Five Forces · Porter Profit Pools · Gadiesh–Gilbert

We sell the machine, not the magic. The method is the product — and you can read all of it before you ever sign.

Four ways to work together

Every engagement is scoped to the decision in front of you. Most clients start small and fast with a Strategic Diagnostic — then go deeper only if it's worth it.

Priced to the decision, not the hour. Most engagements start with a Strategic Diagnostic — a fast, low-commitment first step. Tell us the decision in front of you and we'll scope the work and the price in the first conversation.

Built for the decision in front of you

PVT Consulting is for any company facing a real decision and an AI question at the same time — whether you're a small team that needs a fast, clear answer or a larger one with a board mandate. We qualify by the situation, not your size. Being honest about fit is part of responsible work, so here's who we're for, and who we'll refer elsewhere.

◆ A strong fit
  • Any size — a small team or a large one — with a decision that genuinely matters.
  • A founder, CEO, COO, or whoever owns the decision and can act on it.
  • A board mandate to "have an AI strategy" — and no clear way to build one.
  • A real fork: where to compete, build-vs-buy, or how to defend margin.
◇ We'll refer you elsewhere
  • Fortune 500 procurement marathons that aren't built for a focused independent.
  • Pure staff-augmentation or bodies-on-seats work.
  • Regulated work needing licensed legal or financial advice.
  • Anyone shopping purely on day-rate.

The moment to call

The best engagements start at an inflection point: a new funding round, a competitive threat, margin compression, a board mandate on AI, a pending build-vs-buy decision, or a stalled internal strategy effort that needs an outside view to move.

If that's the moment you're in, you don't have eight weeks and a big-firm budget to spare. That's exactly the gap we were built for.

End-to-end, every time

Underneath the method, every engagement follows the same four-phase rhythm — so you always know where we are and what comes next.

01

Discovery

We learn your business — the decision, the goals, the constraints, the team — before we recommend anything.

02

Strategy

The method runs: framing, analysis, hypothesis, choice. War-gamed, sourced, and answer-first.

03

Build

When the answer is AI, we build, deploy, and integrate with your team in the loop. Working software, not slides.

04

Enablement

Training, feedback loops, optimization. We're done when your team doesn't need us.

What makes us different

An explicit method, not a black box

Every stage and framework is on the table before you sign. You're buying rigor you can inspect.

Speed you can feel

An AI agent team does the research and modeling, so a credible interim view arrives in days — not the back half of a quarter.

Governance built in, not bolted on

A reviewer panel checks logic, sources, and risk before work reaches you. An accuracy ledger reconciles what we predicted against what happened.

Honest about fit

We say where AI fits and where it doesn't, who we're for and who we're not. The goal is your decision, not our utilization.

Our commitment

The right tool for the right job.

Responsible AI isn't a buzzword — it's how we work. Every recommendation starts with your goal, not with whatever tool is generating hype that quarter.

Sometimes the answer is AI. Sometimes it isn't. Either way, you'll know why.

Independent doesn't mean lightweight.

The fair question about a lean, independent practice is whether it can really deliver serious work. Here's the honest answer — and the evidence behind it.

Proof of execution

Built at scale, AI-first

The same method and AI-first approach behind PVT built ShowOps.AI — an AI-native operations platform for large-scale live-event broadcast infrastructure: 13 modules, ~474 API endpoints, an AI-agent layer with per-tenant learning and human-in-the-loop review, and enterprise hardening underway (strict access controls, SSO/SAML + MFA, SOC 2 work).

It's a separate company — but it's the clearest proof that an AI-native approach can ship serious systems other shops staff with a full team.

13
platform modules
~474
API endpoints
10k+
automated tests
Proof of rigor

A reviewer panel and an accuracy ledger

Before any work reaches you, a panel of review checks — logic and structure, sources and accuracy, risk and responsible-AI, and client-fit — runs against it. It's the discipline a senior partner would bring, applied every time.

And we keep an accuracy ledger: predictions reconciled against outcomes, engagement after engagement. Most firms never measure whether they were right. We do.

Pedro van Tol

Founder & Principal

Pedro spent 25 years producing live events — live broadcasts and large-scale productions, multi-million-dollar budgets, audiences past 50,000 — where the plan has to hold in real time. Then he built the software: he designed and shipped ShowOps.AI, an AI-native operations platform for live-event broadcast infrastructure, end to end on Claude.

Senior operator judgment paired with hands-on AI engineering, so the strategy and the build come from the same person. He builds on Claude in production daily and is pursuing the Claude Certified Architect credential — and you work with senior people from first call to final delivery, no handoff to juniors you never met. More about the practice →

Our default starting point.

We specialize in implementations on Anthropic's Claude. Three reasons it's where we start most engagements.

01 — REASON

Built for responsible AI

Anthropic's safety-first design mirrors our commitments. The tool and the practice agree on what good looks like.

02 — REASON

Strong at the work you actually do

Reading documents, drafting, reasoning, analysis, coding assistance — the bread-and-butter of business AI work.

03 — REASON

Real practitioner experience

We build on Claude every day. We know where it shines, where it stumbles, and how to deploy it in production.

Not a Claude problem? We'll tell you. Sometimes the right answer is ChatGPT, Copilot, or no LLM at all.

What we commit to, on every engagement

Responsible AI isn't a policy document, and it isn't bolted on at the end. It's six commitments built into the method — claims you can hold us to.

01 — COMMITMENT

Fitness assessment before build

We assess whether AI is the right tool before we build anything. Sometimes it isn't. You'll know either way, and why.

02 — COMMITMENT

Your data stays yours

We don't use your data to train models. We don't share it with third parties. We define a data-handling plan before any model sees your information.

03 — COMMITMENT

Human-in-the-loop by default

Decisions that affect customers, employees, or money route through a human review step. We design the workflow so the human can actually intervene — not just rubber-stamp.

04 — COMMITMENT

Named limitations

We tell you where the AI is unreliable, what it can't do, and what it costs to run. Before launch, in writing.

05 — COMMITMENT

Documentation your team can read

We document how the system works in language your team understands. No black boxes. If we leave, you can still explain it.

06 — COMMITMENT

Bias and fairness review

For anything that ranks, screens, scores, or recommends — we run a bias check and document the results. We flag risks before you ship, not after.

Aligned with GDPR and recognized AI governance frameworks. If we can't meet a commitment on your engagement, we'll tell you up front.

The things people ask first

PVT runs a complete, explicit engagement method — twelve stages, sourced and pressure-tested — with an AI agent team doing the legwork of a full engagement pod. A reviewer panel checks logic, sources, and risk before any work reaches you, and an accuracy ledger reconciles predictions against outcomes. You get thorough, well-reasoned work fast, without a big-firm price tag or wait.
Any company facing a real decision and an AI question at the same time — from a small team that needs a fast, clear answer to a larger one with a board mandate. We qualify by the situation, not company size. The buyer is usually a founder, CEO, COO, or whoever owns the decision.
Engagements are priced to the decision in front of you, not to hours. There are four productized shapes — a Strategic Diagnostic (1–2 weeks), a Strategy Sprint (4–6 weeks), an AI Opportunity & Readiness engagement (2–4 weeks), and a Fractional Strategist retainer. Scope and price are set in the first conversation.
Every engagement starts with a fitness assessment. We say where AI fits and where it doesn't, in writing, before anything is built. Sometimes the right answer is a different tool, a process change, or no AI at all — and you'll know why.
Days, not weeks. Because an AI agent team handles research, modeling, and synthesis, a credible interim view is possible within the first week of most engagements — the most visible difference from both big firms and freelancers.
Yes. Responsible AI is built into the method, not bolted on: a fitness assessment before any build, your data never used to train models, human-in-the-loop by default, named limitations in writing, documentation your team can read, and a bias and fairness review for anything that ranks or scores. The practice aligns to GDPR and recognized AI governance frameworks.

Tell us the decision you're facing.

We'll respond within one business day — and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.

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