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Your business operates differently. In 90 days. Guaranteed.

AI-Powered Consulting embeds inside your company to redesign the workflows your team actually uses, train them on the behaviors that produce real output, and stay until your Behavior Gap drops by 50% or more. Starting at $10,000/month.

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Current Capacity: 2 of 5 slots available
If you do not see measurable ROI in 90 days, the engagement extends at no additional cost.
Engagement at a Glance
5,000+
Professionals trained across 75+ companies
90
Days to measurable ROI. Written into the contract.
5%
Of employees use AI with real sophistication. APC closes that gap.
Flagship Engagement
Why AI Fails

Most organizations are stuck in one of three failure modes.

AI-Powered Consulting founder Matt Almassian has audited over 75 companies. The same three patterns appear every time. Recognizing which one you are in is the first step to getting out.

Failure Mode 01

Tools without behavior change

ChatGPT licenses purchased. A few people use it occasionally. No one can explain what changed about how work gets done. Adoption measured by login counts, not output quality.

Cost: Subscription spend with zero workflow ROI. Competitive position eroding.
Failure Mode 02

Training without workflow redesign

A workshop was run. Everyone attended. Scores on the knowledge check were fine. People returned to their desks and did exactly what they were doing before. Completion rate: 100%. Behavior change: zero.

Cost: Training budget spent. Leadership confidence in AI eroding. Repeat spend likely.
Failure Mode 03

Strategy delivered, execution absent

A consultant produced a roadmap. It was thorough. It was delivered in a 60-page deck. The project was marked complete. Six months later, nothing has been implemented and no one owns the plan.

Cost: Five to six figures in consulting fees. Zero operational change. Team cynicism about AI is now structural.
The Offer

Strategy, implementation, and adoption. All three. In one engagement.

Most consultants deliver one layer and call it done. The AI Transformation Retainer delivers all three simultaneously, because removing any one of them is exactly why other approaches fail.

Layer 01: Strategy

Behavior Gap Assessment and AI Roadmap

APC maps every repeatable workflow, scores your team's AI behavior across five signals, and identifies the highest-value opportunities specific to your company. You leave Week 2 with a Behavior Gap Score, a Workflow Opportunity Map, and a ranked 90-day plan.

No roadmap. No prioritization. Random tool adoption.
Layer 02: Implementation

Workflow Redesign and AI Integration

APC rebuilds the priority workflows your team uses every day, with AI embedded at the specific decision and task points where it creates the most leverage. Each redesigned workflow is documented as a Golden Path: the proven, standardized way to do that work with AI.

Shiny new tools installed into broken old workflows.
Layer 03: Adoption

Role-Specific Training and Behavior Shift

Training built around your actual workflows and roles, not a generic curriculum. The Five Behavior Shifts are installed through real task practice, not awareness sessions. Manager modeling, accountability structure, and the organizational conditions that make change permanent.

Great training. No infrastructure for it to stick.
What buyers evaluate Standard AI consulting AI Transformation Retainer
Engagement depthStrategy deck delivered remotelyEmbedded in your business, hands-on
Who does the workJunior analysts after kickoffMatt Almassian, directly, on every engagement
What you receiveRecommendations and a roadmapRedesigned workflows, trained team, documented Golden Paths
How success is measuredDeliverables completedBehavior Gap Score drops 50%+. Measured at Day 90.
What if it does not workProject closes as scopedEngagement extends at no additional cost
Who you call with questionsAccount managerMatt. Direct. Async access included.
Week 2 Deliverable

The Behavior Gap Assessment: your baseline before anything else is built.

AI-Powered Consulting's proprietary diagnostic scores your organization across five behavioral signals that research (KPMG, UT Austin, 1.4 million AI interactions) identifies as the actual predictors of AI adoption success. Not skill. Not tool selection. Behavior.

The Assessment produces a Behavior Gap Score from 1 to 10. It defines the starting line. The engagement closes when that score drops by 50% or more.

Delivered in Week 2 of every engagement
Behavior Gap Assessment
3.8
/ 10.0
Perception
2.8
Critical
Context
3.5
Developing
Iteration
2.2
Critical
Delegation
4.8
Developing
Architecture
6.2
Strong
3.8
Behavior Gap Score High Adoption Risk
Interpretation High risk of tool adoption without behavior change. Teams are using AI reactively, not strategically. Recommended engagement: AI Transformation Retainer. Target score at Day 90: 7.5+.

Sample output. Your actual Behavior Gap Score is produced in Week 2.

The Roadmap

What 90 days looks like inside your business.

Three phases. Twelve weeks. Named deliverables at every milestone. Hover over a phase to see the weekly breakdown.

Phase 01
Weeks 1 to 4
Foundation
Establish the baseline. Map the opportunity. Design the Golden Path for the first priority workflow.
Hover to see weekly deliverables
W1
Onboarding and DiscoveryStakeholder interviews, workflow observation sessions, tool audit, and organizational readiness assessment.
W2
Behavior Gap Assessment DeliveredBehavior Gap Score (1 to 10), Workflow Opportunity Map, and ranked 90-day AI Roadmap delivered to leadership.
W3
Priority Workflow SelectionLeadership alignment session. First priority workflow confirmed. Golden Path design sprint begins.
W4
Golden Path v1 CompleteDocumented AI-enabled workflow ready for team training. First role-specific training sessions scheduled.
Phase 02
Weeks 5 to 8
Redesign
Deploy the first redesigned workflow. Train the team. Measure early adoption signals and deliver the 30-day progress report.
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W5
First Workflow DeployedAI-enabled workflow live. First team members trained on the Golden Path. Output quality baseline established.
W6
Role-Specific Training SessionsFive Behavior Shifts training for priority roles. Sessions built around real tasks, not hypothetical scenarios.
W7
Adoption Measurement BeginsSophistication Scale set per role. Early adoption rates, output quality scores, and time-to-task metrics captured.
W8
30-Day Report DeliveredDocumented progress report: what changed, what is measured, what is next. Second priority workflow design begins.
Phase 03
Weeks 9 to 12
Sustain
Re-score the Behavior Gap. Iterate the second workflow. Install the organizational infrastructure that makes every gain permanent after the engagement ends.
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W9
Behavior Gap Re-ScoreFull re-assessment of all five behavioral signals. Score compared to Week 2 baseline. Target: 50% gap reduction.
W10
Second Workflow IterationSecond priority workflow refined based on team feedback and adoption data. Manager training and modeling sessions.
W11
Change Management AuditLeadership alignment review. Incentive and accountability structures assessed. Internal champion identified.
W12
Final 90-Day ROI ReportComplete ROI documentation: time saved, output quality improvement, Behavior Gap Score delta, and next engagement recommendation.
Client Results

Realized results from active engagements.

These are not projections. They are documented outcomes from companies currently in or recently completing their AI Transformation Retainer.

The Mullings Group (TMG)
MedTech executive search firm. 55 employees. 5 countries.
Engagement: October 2025 to present. AI Transformation Retainer.
CDS Creation Time
Before
After
~10 min
Was: 8 to 10 hours per candidate
Intake to First Slate
Before
After
8 hrs
Was: 3 to 4 days
Placement Cycle
Before
After
40 days
Was: 75-day average
Annual Placement Cycles
Before
After
9.1x
Was: 4.8 cycles per AE
Admin Time per AE
Before
After
80%
Reduction in non-revenue tasks (target)
Team AI Adoption
Before
After
25+
Personalized AI setups deployed (was: 0)
M.T. Maritime (MTM)
Global chemical tanker company. 130 employees. 24-vessel fleet. 3 countries.
Engagement: July 2025 to March 2026. AI Transformation Retainer. 8 months.
Weekly Hours Saved
Before
After
47+ hrs
Per week across exec team
Executives Onboarded
Before
After
8 of 8
CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CLO, VP, Chairman, BD
Employees Onboarded
Before
After
40
100% of Southport office. Personalized per role.
Daily Research Time
Before
After
Eliminated
Was: 30 to 45 min daily manual FX/market research
AI Tools Deployed
Before
After
4 tools
Per person: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Granola
Custom AI Skills Built
Before
After
5 for COO
Voyage optimizer, demurrage analyzer, board pack synthesizer + 2 more
The 90-Day ROI Guarantee Risk is on APC. Not on you.

If you do not see measurable ROI in 90 days, the engagement extends at no additional cost until the agreed metrics are met.

ROI is defined in writing before the engagement begins. Not estimated. Not implied. Defined, specific, and agreed on before a single hour is spent.

Read the full guarantee policy
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30-minute call. No commitment required.
Fit and Eligibility

This engagement is designed for a specific kind of company.

AI-Powered Consulting takes a maximum of 5 active Transformation Retainer clients at any time. This is not a capacity constraint. It is a quality constraint. Every client gets Matt, directly.

Built for you if

You are ready to change how your business operates, not just aware that you should.

SMB or mid-market company, 5 to 500 employees, revenue above $5 million
Executive buy-in secured. The leader who signs the contract is also the one who will model the behavior change.
You have tried AI tools and the results have been shallow, inconsistent, or unmeasured
You want measurable ROI, not just training activity and a completion certificate
Professional services, executive search, logistics, operations, or financial advisory industries
You can allocate protected time for the team during the engagement. APC works in your workflow, not outside it.
Not the right fit if

This is not the right engagement for every company.

You need a one-time training event with no follow-through. The 7-Day Diagnostic or a Workshop is a better starting point.
Leadership is not prepared to model AI adoption themselves. Change starts at the top or it does not start.
You are looking for a technology implementation partner. APC builds behavior and workflow systems, not software.
The team has no bandwidth to change how work gets done over the next 90 days. The retainer requires real organizational participation.
Current Retainer Capacity: 2 of 5 slots available. APC caps active Transformation Retainer engagements at 5 to protect engagement quality.
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Common Questions

What most buyers want answered before they book a call.

Is this just AI training with a higher price tag?
No. AI training programs teach awareness. The Transformation Retainer redesigns how work actually gets done. APC maps the workflows your team uses daily, rebuilds them with AI embedded at the right points, trains the team on real tasks with those workflows, and installs the organizational conditions that make adoption permanent. Most AI training produces completion certificates. This produces measurable time savings and documented workflow change.
Research: only 5% of employees use AI with real sophistication regardless of training access
We tried AI tools before. Nothing changed.
That is the most common reason companies come to APC. Tools without behavior change produce exactly that result. The Retainer addresses the actual problem: 85.7% of AI effectiveness is predicted by iteration and refinement behavior, not tool selection or training hours. APC installs the Five Behavior Shifts that separate the 5% of sophisticated users from the 95%. The tools you already have are probably fine. How your team uses them is what changes.
M.T. Maritime: 47+ hours per week saved after 8-month engagement
We cannot justify the spend without seeing results first.
The 90-Day ROI Guarantee is structured specifically for this objection. ROI is defined in writing before the engagement begins. If the agreed metrics are not met, APC keeps working at no additional cost. The financial risk is on APC, not on you. The 7-Day AI Readiness Diagnostic is also available as a lower-commitment first step that produces the Behavior Gap Score and Workflow Opportunity Map before any retainer decision is made.
90-day guarantee: engagement extends at no cost if agreed metrics are not met
Our team is busy. We cannot do a big implementation project.
APC works inside your existing workflows, not alongside them. The engagement is designed around your team's real schedule. The Behavior Gap Assessment requires a structured set of interviews and workflow observation sessions, not a separate workstream. Training is built around real tasks your team is already doing. The goal is to reduce time spent on repetitive work, not add a new project on top of it. Most clients see time savings begin in Phase 2, before the engagement ends.
TMG: CDS creation from 8 to 10 hours per candidate to approximately 10 minutes
How is Matt different from other AI consultants?
Most AI consultants hand you a strategy deck and disappear. APC designs it, builds it, trains the people, and stays until it works. Every Transformation Retainer is delivered by Matt Almassian directly. There is no account manager, no junior analyst, no handoff. Matt has 20+ years of enterprise software experience at Vidyo, O.C. Tanner, and CareAR/Xerox and has trained 5,000+ professionals across 75+ companies using the AI Behavior Architecture methodology. The 90-day guarantee puts the delivery risk on APC, not on you.
Direct access to Matt included. No account managers. No handoffs.
What happens after 90 days?
The engagement closes when the Behavior Gap Score drops by 50% or more and the agreed ROI metrics are met. At that point, most clients have two redesigned workflows documented as Golden Paths, a fully trained team, and an organizational infrastructure that sustains adoption without ongoing external support. Clients who want to continue typically move into a reduced-scope advisory relationship or begin a second engagement phase targeting additional workflow opportunities. There is no automatic renewal or pressure to extend.
Engagement closes when Behavior Gap drops 50%+. You own everything that was built.
Ready to start

Not sure if this is the right fit? That is exactly what the strategy call answers.

In 30 minutes, Matt reviews your current AI situation, identifies where the Behavior Gap is costing you, and recommends the right starting point. If the Retainer is not the right move, he will tell you that too.

5,000+ professionals trained across 75+ companies
90-day ROI guarantee on every Transformation Retainer
No commitment required on the strategy call
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30 minutes. No slides. No pitch deck.

"I personally get into the trenches on every Transformation Retainer. This is not a firm. It is a partnership. Every engagement is hands-on, mine to own."

Matt Almassian
Founder, AI-Powered Consulting