I ship AI from pilot to production. No decks. No delegation. No dependency.
You've seen the pattern. A Big 4 firm charges $500K for a 300-slide deck. A boutique agency builds a demo that wows the boardroom. Then nothing ships. The project dies somewhere between 'looks great in the presentation' and 'works for real users.' That gap between AI demo and AI production is where 70% of initiatives die. I close it. That's the entire business.
Strategy Theater: You pay $500K. You get a 300-slide deck. Nobody reads it. Nobody implements it. The consultants leave. You're exactly where you started, minus the budget. I've watched this destroy AI programs at Fortune 500 companies. Smart people. Big budgets. Zero production systems.
Consultant Dependency: The engagement never ends. You can't run your own AI because the consulting firm designed it that way. Every change request, every new model, every retrain cycle goes through them. You're not building capability. You're renting it. My goal is the opposite: I build myself out of a job. Every engagement includes capability transfer. You end stronger, not dependent.
Permanent Pilot: The demo works. Leadership is impressed. But it never graduates to production. No clear criteria. No architecture for scale. No plan for real users. Months pass. Budget burns. The pilot becomes a permanent state. At Hyperion, every initiative gets a 90-day checkpoint. It either ships, pivots, or gets killed. 'Permanent pilot' is not in my vocabulary.
Close the gap between AI potential and production reality. 70% of AI pilots never reach production. Every engagement I take is designed to prevent that--with clear graduation criteria, production-first architecture, and capability transfer that makes you independent. I've done this at Cisco (100M+ users), Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (€250M program, 20 vehicle launches), and across 8 AI ventures I shipped myself.
Diagnose the real problem--not the symptom the board noticed. Engineer for production, not demos. Pilot with clear graduation criteria and kill switches. Launch to real users with monitoring from day one. Optimize continuously against business metrics. Yield measurable impact and full capability transfer. This method is built on 15 years of shipping at organizations where failure meant lost revenue, not lost slides.
Every initiative gets a 90-day checkpoint. Ship to production, pivot with purpose, or kill it. I will never let you burn budget on a pilot that has no path to production.
No partnerships. No kickbacks. No bias. When I recommend open source over proprietary, or build over buy, it's because the math says so for your situation. I have zero incentive to push any vendor.
I tell you what you need to hear. Sometimes that's 'don't do this.' Sometimes it's 'you're not ready.' Respectful pushback is part of what you're paying for. If you want a yes-person, I'm not it.
I build myself out of a job. Every engagement includes documentation, training, and knowledge transfer. When I leave, you run your AI yourself. That's success.
Hyperion is not for everyone. I'm the wrong choice if:
I'm for organizations who want an honest partner who ships production systems, not a contractor who presents slides. If that's you, let's talk about your specific challenge.
30 minutes. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about your challenge and whether I can help. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you and point you somewhere better.