AI Consulting · For 20–200 person companies
Strategic guidance from opportunity assessment to live implementation. I work alongside you to identify where AI creates measurable value and train your team to use and extend the systems we build — long after the engagement ends.
Dr. Federico Pacheco
MD · RWTH Aachen, Germany
Independent AI operations consultant
2 weeks
From kickoff to a written brief in your hands — not a slide deck.
8–12 weeks
From the brief to a live system your team is already using.
30 + 60 days
Follow-ups after handover — to catch what only shows up in real use.
How I work
From opportunity assessment to live system to a team that can extend it. Every phase is designed for one thing: the handover.
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Engagements
The diagnostic stands alone or credits in full toward the sprint. The fractional retainer is for operators who want continuous leverage past the build.
i · Diagnostic
Opportunity Assessment
$9,500
Two weeks · fixed fee
A written brief: where AI compounds in your business, a prioritised opportunity list, financial projection, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.
ii · Sprint
Implementation Sprint
$28k – $45k
Eight to twelve weeks · fixed scope
The top intervention from the diagnostic, designed and shipped as a working system your team uses. Documentation, training, and a written extension guide ship with it.
iii · Fractional
Fractional AI Operator
$7k – $10k
Per month · one day a week
For operators who want AI leverage to compound past the build. One day a week inside the company — owning the roadmap, vetting tools, training the team, shipping continuously.
Healthcare-adjacent engagements are priced at a 30–80% premium against the bands above. See the healthcare page for the framing.
Selected work
Sportswear & teamwear e-commerce
Location
Wiesloch-Walldorf, DE
Founded
1983
Staff
51–200
Owner-operated specialist e-commerce. Working directly with the owner to identify where AI compounds the business and ship working systems into operations — internal tooling, process automation, an AI access governance framework, and a unified knowledge layer for staff. The team uses what we built every day.
The engagement pioneered the model behind this practice: operator walkthrough first, single highest-leverage intervention next, team in the room throughout.
Defended
2026
Grade
Summa cum laude
Highest distinction
Field
Clinical research
Built a personal AI-powered "second brain" to run a four-year clinical research project. The system connected information across hundreds of papers, surfaced structural patterns I would not have found manually, and let me transform raw data into forms that simply weren't possible before. The methodology — not the topic — is what travels into client work.
The system is open and replicable. Ask if you want the write-up.
The deliverable is not the system. It is your team — capable of using and extending it after I leave.
— The brief, in one sentence
Why me
An independent practice, not an agency. You work with me, not an account manager.
Most AI consultants either sell you a tool you didn't need or ship a strategy deck nobody reads. I do neither. I sit alongside operators of 20–200 person companies, learn the business well enough to argue about it, and ship the one system that earns the engagement.
The discipline comes from medicine: gather signal, rank hypotheses, intervene where it matters, verify the outcome. The doctoral work itself was a four-year exercise in building an AI-augmented research operation. The credentials shape how I work — and they're part of why I'll tell you plainly when AI isn't the answer.
FAQ
If something isn't here, ask on the call. Honest answers are part of the offer.
A written brief — not a slide deck. It contains a current-state map of where your business makes money, a prioritised list of 3–5 places AI would compound it, a financial projection for the top-ranked intervention, and a 90-day implementation roadmap. If you proceed to a Sprint, the $9,500 fee credits 100% toward it.
Yes — because they're in the room from day one. The operators who will run the system attend build sessions, are named in the runbook, and are trained inside the engagement. Every system ships with documentation good enough that a new hire could pick it up. Adoption is designed in, not bolted on at the end.
That's a valuable outcome too. Knowing it before you spend six figures on a build is worth the diagnostic fee. The brief will tell you exactly where AI would have failed, and where else to look for operational leverage. I don't push interventions that aren't earned by the work.
About four hours across two weeks: a 90-minute kickoff, one structured walkthrough of how the business makes money, and a 90-minute readout. The Sprint then takes a weekly working session — usually you in the first half, your operators in the second.
No. The point is higher-leverage work per employee, not quiet headcount reduction. Every engagement ships with training, documentation, and an extension guide. Where capacity does free up, it's because the team is doing higher-value work — by design.
Clinical training is, at its core, a course in working through complex systems under pressure: gather signal, rank hypotheses, intervene where it matters, verify the outcome. That discipline transfers cleanly to operations. The doctoral work was itself a four-year exercise in building an AI-augmented research operation. The medicine is the source of the rigor — not the framing of the offer.
Engagements are delivered remotely with optional on-site visits. Billing in USD. Working hours overlap the US East Coast morning. European fluency in GDPR and the EU AI Act is an asset for operators thinking about international expansion or governance gold standards.
Begin with a 30-minute call
No deck. No obligation. The call itself is free. If a paid diagnostic is the right next step, we'll talk about it. If it isn't, I'll say so.