PHYSICAL AI PRODUCT DECISION REVIEW · 2–3 WEEKS

Make one consequential product decision with evidence.

In two to three weeks, Hyperion reviews one product, system, opportunity, launch or architecture decision through the six decision lenses. You receive an executive decision memorandum — go, redirect, sequence or stop — and a prioritised 90-day plan.

Discuss the product decision

Start with a 30-minute, no-obligation fit call.

Five decision moments
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Your Decision Dossier
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The 2–3 week review
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Five decision moments

One review format, five starting points — chosen by the decision in front of you. Product & Production Readiness is worked in full below as an example of the review depth.

  • Opportunity & Product Strategy

    Is this the right product opportunity, for the right customer, with a credible path to value?

  • Product & Production Readiness

    Can this prototype or pilot become a dependable, supportable product — and what blocks it?

  • Launch Readiness

    Can the product be sold, installed, accepted, supported and operated responsibly?

  • Product Family & Scale Readiness

    Do value, deployment and economics repeat across sites, machines, customers and variants?

  • Model, Knowledge & Architecture Decision

    Which system boundary, model strategy and architecture can meet the operating, evidence, safety and economic constraints?

When a review makes sense

  • A consequential product, architecture, launch or investment decision remains unresolved.
  • A pilot works in a demo or lab but can't get sign-off for production.
  • A board or executive sponsor wants the delivery risks quantified before releasing further budget.
  • A go-live slipped, and no one agrees on why.
  • OT/IT integration, reliability or safety questions are blocking the next step.
  • You're deciding whether to build, buy, partner or stop.

Who it's for

  • Engineering, operations and AI leaders at European manufacturers, automotive/mobility and energy organizations.
  • Teams with a specific product, system, opportunity or deployment decision — not a request for generic advice.
  • Sponsors who want an independent, technical read before the next investment.

Who it's not for

  • Open-ended transformation work without one named decision, owner or decision date.
  • Pure research with no production intent.
  • Teams looking for a vendor to simply build, without first understanding the blockers.

What waiting costs

A consequential decision does not stay neutral while it is unresolved. Teams keep building against the assumption nobody has tested, and every committed sprint makes reversing it more expensive.

  • Budget keeps flowing into an option the evidence may not support.
  • The decision is eventually forced by a deadline instead of settled by evidence.
  • Blockers found after commitment — safety, integration, unit economics — cost far more than blockers found before it.

Your Decision Dossier

Even if you decide to stop, or to take the work elsewhere, you leave with an independent production-blocker map, a clear decision, and a 90-day plan you own. The review is designed to be worth its price regardless of what you do next.

  • Decision statement & system boundary

    The decision to close, who owns it, what is inside the product boundary and which constraints cannot be deferred.

  • Six-lens evidence & risk map

    Knowns, assumptions, missing evidence and material risks across customer value, economics, AI and data, architecture, safety and operations.

  • Options & architecture record

    The viable options, trade-offs and recommended product or architecture choice, recorded so the reasoning remains inspectable.

  • Decision memorandum

    A clear recommendation to go, redirect, sequence or stop — including the evidence, dissent and conditions behind it.

  • 90-day commitments & executive readout

    Named actions, owners, dependencies and kill criteria, followed by a live leadership readout of the decision and plan.

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The 2–3 week review

Who conducts the review

The review is conducted personally by Hyperion's founder, Mohammed Cherifi — 17+ years of production systems at Cisco, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and ABB; French Government AI Ambassador for Industry under the Osez l'IA initiative. You get independent senior judgment, not a junior checklist. Any later delivery mandate is separately decided and scoped; the review remains useful if you stop or work with someone else.

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    Phase 1 — Frame & understand

    • Kickoff and scope confirmation
    • Document review (existing technical and business materials)
    • Up to five stakeholder interviews
  2. 02

    Phase 2 — Assess, decide & commit

    • One working session / workshop
    • Evidence, option, architecture and operational-risk analysis
    • Decision Dossier, 90-day commitments and executive readout

The bounded base scope

Remote by default. On-site work, additional sites or use cases, and specialist reviews are scoped separately (see below).

Every review begins with the same written delivery boundary:

  • One product, system, opportunity or consequential decision
  • One organization or business unit
  • One primary technical environment
  • Up to five stakeholder interviews
  • One primary workshop
  • A fixed document-review allowance
  • Remote delivery
  • One executive readout

Scope extensions

These additions change the written scope and quote, and proceed only by prior agreement:

  • Additional use cases or systems
  • Additional sites or business units
  • More than five interviews
  • On-site work
  • A specialist safety or cybersecurity review
  • Complex regulatory classification
  • Additional workshops
  • Urgent or compressed delivery
  • Documents substantially exceeding the agreed allowance

What this review is not

To keep it honest and focused, the review explicitly does not include:

  • Software implementation or model development
  • A formal certification or regulatory conformity assessment
  • A legal opinion
  • A penetration test
  • A full functional-safety assessment
  • A guarantee that the pilot will enter production

It is a strategic and technical readiness review — an independent decision aid, not an audit, certification or guarantee.

The operating envelope changes first.

A demo proves one behaviour under chosen conditions. A product must preserve value and safe operation across machines, sites, failures, updates and time.

Representative transformation lanesDemo conditionOperational obligation
Scale
One configured device
A versioned fleet across sites
Field conditions
Chosen conditions
People, materials and environments keep changing
Failure response
An engineer intervenes
Degraded modes, rollback and recovery are designed in
Connectivity
A stable lab connection
Intermittency, latency and offline operation are expected
Evidence
The demo is watched live
Telemetry, audit trails and fleet health persist
Change control
A manual deployment
Signed releases, staged OTA and compatibility controls
Decision authority
Model output can act
Deterministic controls enforce the safe boundary

Value on its own

Even if you decide to stop, or to take the work elsewhere, you leave with an independent production-blocker map, a clear decision, and a 90-day plan you own. The review is designed to be worth its price regardless of what you do next.

If you decide to proceed

If the decision is go, the 90-day roadmap becomes the basis for a Product Leadership Program. A portion of the review fee may be credited toward a qualifying Program started within 30 days of the readout. The review stands on its own value — it is not automatically or fully credited toward implementation.

Typically €12,000–€18,000, scoped in writing after a 30-minute fit call.

Price & terms

  • Prices exclude VAT and any other applicable taxes. Tax treatment depends on the customer's location and tax status.
  • 50% at booking, 50% before the executive readout.
  • The client owns the client-specific report and roadmap and may use them for its business purposes, including sharing them within its corporate group and with professional advisers or delivery partners under appropriate confidentiality obligations. Hyperion retains ownership of its pre-existing methodologies, templates, tools and general know-how.
  • Reschedule with at least five business days' notice at no charge.

FAQ

Is this a certification or audit?
No. It's a strategic and technical readiness review — an independent decision aid. It is not a certification, regulatory conformity assessment, legal opinion, penetration test or functional-safety audit.
Do you guarantee our pilot will reach production?
No. The review gives you an honest assessment and a plan; whether to proceed is your decision, and reaching production depends on execution and factors beyond the review.
Is it remote or on-site?
Remote by default. On-site work is available and scoped separately.
How do we start?
With a 30-minute, no-obligation fit call to confirm the initiative — and Hyperion — are a good match. You don't need to complete any long intake form to book the call.
Can the fee count toward implementation?
A portion of the review fee may be credited toward a qualifying Product Leadership Program started within 30 days of the readout. The review is priced to stand on its own.
What do you need from us?
Access to the pilot and relevant documents, a few stakeholders for interviews, and a slot for the workshop and the readout.

What stays with you

The review is bounded on both sides. Hyperion owns the analysis, the recommendation and the readout. These stay with your organisation:

  • One named decision owner, and an executive sponsor who will receive the readout
  • Access to the pilot or system and to the existing technical and commercial documents
  • Up to five stakeholders available for interview, and one slot each for the workshop and the readout
  • Test results, field data and incident history where they exist — and a plain statement where they do not
  • The decision itself: Hyperion recommends, your organisation decides

Relevant evidence

The judgement behind this review rests on a founder career record, bounded client mandates and Hyperion-owned reference implementations. Each is labelled with what it does and does not prove; modelled and simulated work is labelled as such and is never presented as a client outcome.

Review the evidence

Every engagement is led directly by Mohammed Cherifi. Specialist partners may be introduced for clearly defined work when required and disclosed; Hyperion is not a staffing or engineering-delivery bench.

Start with a conversation, not a commitment.

Book a short fit call. If a review is the right next step, we'll scope it together. If it isn't, we'll tell you.

Discuss the product decision

30 minutes · no obligation.