What makes Applied AI different

Start anywhere
Strategy, Enablement, or Deployment—engage where you need help most.

Scale as you grow
From a single expert to a full delivery team, the model evolves with your needs.

Backed by enterprise innovation
Every engagement is supported by Eliassen's Innovation Office—bringing proven methodologies, tools, insights, and capability development to every client.

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AI expertise that embeds and scales.

AI is moving fast. The organizations pulling ahead aren't just deploying it — they're embedding it, measuring it, and evolving it. Whether you're defining a strategy, enabling your teams, or accelerating deployment, we provide the expertise and delivery model to help you move forward.

HOW WE ENGAGE
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Three stages. One connected journey.

Progress comes from execution—not intention.
The pressure to move faster, prove value, and scale AI is universal. What separates the organizations pulling ahead is how intentionally they're turning strategy into action. 

Applied AI combines senior expertise, team enablement, and scalable delivery so organizations can move confidently from opportunity to outcome. Organizations don't all start in the same place. Some need a strategy. Others need enablement. Many are ready to deploy immediately.

 


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AI Strategy

PRINCIPAL AI STRATEGIST (EMBEDDED)
A senior AI expert embedded at the executive level — connecting all the pieces, charting the path forward, and building the foundation everything else builds on. The lowest-risk, highest-access opportunity point for most engagements.

  • Use case identification & business case

  • Prioritized AI roadmap

  • Governance & sequencing framework

  • Executive-level engagement


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AI Enablement

AI ENABLEMENT ARCHITECT
Where organizational capability gets built. Embedded alongside your teams — coaching developers, analysts, and product professionals through real work so the knowledge transfers and stays.

  • Hands-on coaching on live deliverables
  • Upskilling developers, analysts & PMs
  • AI adoption & change management
  • Capability your team will own


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AI Deployment

AI DEPLOYMENT POD / AI ENGINEER
Where delivery scales to meet the work. The POD builds, integrates, and operationalizes AI solutions — whether Eliassen owns the engagement end-to-end, bulks up an existing team, or accelerates delivery until the client can sustain independently.

  • Full POD staffed to scope
  • End-to-end build, integration & delivery
  • Scales from focused pod to managed service
  • U.S.-based, nearshore & offshore options

BUILT AROUND YOUR NEEDS
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The right expertise for the challenge in front of you.

"The difference is that Eliassen's people are in the room. They're not handing us a playbook — they're running plays with us."

— Enterprise Client, Financial Services

Not every engagement starts with strategy. Every engagement gets the expertise it requires.

Some organizations need an embedded senior advisor helping leadership shape an AI roadmap. Others already know where they're headed and need enablement specialists, engineers, or deployment teams.

Applied AI provides the flexibility to bring the right expertise at the right point in the journey—without forcing a predefined path.

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
Need a senior AI expert to guide and define the work?

An Principal AI Strategist (Embedded) embedded in your leadership team — operating as your senior AI expert and field engineer, driving strategy and adoption from the inside.

Typical entry point for organizations beginning their AI journey or tackling a high-priority initiative with strategic complexity. 

TARGETED DEPLOYMENT
Ready to move on a specific function or business unit?

A focused delivery pod — architect, manager, and engineers — embedded alongside your team to deploy AI inside a specific domain. Fast to stand up, high-impact, directly integrated with your people.

Common for organizations with an aligned strategy that need a specialized team to execute a defined scope.

ENTERPRISE SCALE
Need AI across teams, geographies, or the full enterprise

A full AI Deployment POD owning end-to-end delivery at scale — while your organization builds its own long-term capability in parallel. U.S.-based, nearshore, and offshore options available.

The model where Eliassen has the deepest track record and the greatest revenue impact for clients ready to move at scale.

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Embedded expertise
Principal AI Strategist (Embedded) inside your team from day one

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Scalable delivery
Sized to your need, timeline, and goals

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Vendor-agnostic
Optimized for your outcomes, not a platform sale

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Outcome-oriented
Every engagement tied to measurable business results

WHO THIS IS FOR
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Wherever you are in your AI journey.

Applied AI is built for any organization that needs to move — whether deploying for the first time, recovering from a setback, or scaling what's partially working.

 

DEPLOYING

You have a strategy. You need builders.

Leadership has aligned on AI priorities. Now you need an experienced team to execute — without the overhead of building one from scratch.

UPSKILLING

Your team is capable. They need a catalyst.

Developers, analysts, and product professionals ready to work in AI — but without structured exposure. We sit alongside them on real work.

RECOVERING

An initiative stalled. You can't afford to wait.

A key leader left. A vendor fell short. You need experienced hands to step in and get delivery moving again — quickly.

BRIDGING

You're hiring. You need continuity now.

The right permanent AI hires take months to find. We provide embedded expertise to keep your roadmap on track while you build your long-term team.

SCALING

AI is working somewhere. You need it everywhere.

Extending a successful implementation across the enterprise requires navigating organizational complexity, not just technical complexity.

ACCELERATING

You need senior expertise you can't easily hire.

True AI field experts are rare. You need someone who can lead credibly at the executive level — embedded, without a 6-month recruiting cycle.

PROVEN DELIVERY
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Applied AI is already delivering results.

Applied AI formalizes a delivery approach we've been executing across industries for organizations that needed more than recommendations—they needed execution, adoption, and measurable outcomes.

MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

Global Management Consulting Firm

Embedded senior AI expertise building next-generation AI tools — the Principal AI Strategist (Embedded) model at its clearest, inside one of the world's leading consulting organizations.

AVIATION

Major US Airline

20+ embedded AI practitioners running structured delivery programs with outcome-linked performance metrics, driving measurable AI adoption enterprise-wide.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Top 10 US Bank

Managed team scaled from 3 to 20+ consultants inside the CDO organization, accelerating AI-enabled delivery across the full enterprise portfolio.

Applied AI is backed by the
Eliassen Center of AI Innovation

Our enterprise-wide AI capability engine housing the AI Evolution Suite methodology, the AI ROI Calculator, and our cross-firm human development program.

Center of AI Innovation

Ready to move forward with intention?

Tell us where you are — scaling what's working, proving value, or accelerating what's stalled. We'll size the right engagement to match.

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