AI Advisory · Sönke Busch

Take your business to the next level with AI.

Working AI solutions — from idea to implementation in 2–6 weeks.

  • Working code, not slides
  • No 200-page deliverable
  • Measurable results your teams can use

45 minutes

Initial time invest

Up to 80%

Of admin work automated

2–6 weeks

To first working pilot

30+

Companies worked with

The situation

AI will be the dominant force of change in the coming years.

What Marc Andreessen said a decade ago — "software is eating the world" — has a sequel: AI is eating software. Every workflow running on software today will be reshaped by AI tomorrow.

The gap between plan and practice

80%

of companies

Plan significant AI investments in the next 24 months.

20%

actually ship

Have working AI solutions in production that move measurable metrics.

gap widens

Between "we have 50 AI ideas" and "we have one running in production."

Most AI initiatives stall in the pilot-to-production gap — not because the technology fails, but because clarity on the right use case and the right sequence is missing.

The complication

AI gives companies superpowers — including your competitors.

Companies already investing heavily in AI are building advantages that compound. Five shifts are already live in the market:

Speed

Processes that took weeks now finish in hours.

Analysis

Patterns in millions of data points at 95%+ accuracy — vs. 70–80% manual.

Capacity

24/7 processing — no fatigue, no quality loss.

Scaling

Address every customer individually — across millions of contacts.

Efficiency

80% less effort for routine work. Prototype to million-scale in months.

The AI advantage grows exponentially

T

Today

You can still catch up — and even surpass competitors who started earlier but without the right focus.

Every day

Without AI, the gap widens. Competitors who ship are compounding learning every week.

12

In 12 months

Competitors starting today will have built learning advantages that are hard — sometimes impossible — to close.

The approach

While others discuss, I implement.

My approach isn't built on hype or panic, but on proven methodology. I show you what works in practice — with measurable results in 2–6 weeks. Three action areas, one through-line: from strategy to working solution.

01 Strategy

Strategy & Roadmap

Where can AI achieve the greatest impact?

  • AI Opportunity Audit
  • Use-case portfolio
  • 3 / 6 / 12-month roadmap
1–2 weeks
02 Enablement

Training & Enablement

How do we empower employees?

  • Kickstart workshops
  • Role-specific playbooks
  • Prompt library
2 sessions
Direct results
03 Build

Pilots — develop & implement

What really works — in your reality?

  • Pilot sprint (4–6 weeks)
  • Working prototype on your data
  • Clear scale / stop decision
2–6 weeks
Sönke Busch

What I bring

Three complementary areas of expertise.

I'm Sönke Busch — I help leadership teams not just understand AI, but actually put it to work.

Strategy without implementation becomes theater. Implementation without strategy becomes rework. Change without enablement becomes shelfware. I work at the seam of all three — because that's where AI initiatives actually succeed.

01

Oracle · 30+ companies

Business analysis & strategy

Systematic use-case prioritization, solution architecture, ROI modeling. From discovery interviews to business case and technical design — proven across 30+ companies as Director of Strategy & Industry Insights at Oracle.

Relevance for AI: Proven processes for identifying the use cases that actually move the needle — instead of the ones that merely look good in a deck.

02

BLX · 15,000 customers

Technical implementation

Full-stack product development — backend, mobile app, integrations, website. Co-founder and CPO at BLX: built a mobile-first bouldering gym from 0 to 15,000 customers in two years, data-driven and profitable.

Relevance for AI: Hands-on implementation from architecture to production — including the messy middle where most AI projects quietly die.

03

Neon Labs · 60 employees

Change & enablement

From tool training to pilot rollout with sustainable anchoring in the organization. At Neon Labs: developed the AI strategy and rolled out solutions to 60 employees with measurable productivity gains inside six weeks.

Relevance for AI: Organization-wide adoption is where the ROI lives — not in the prototype, but in the Monday morning after it goes live.

Strategy, implementation, enablement — as separate disciplines, each has a ceiling. Together, they become multiplicative.

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The process

Success in four steps.

How we get to working results in 2–6 weeks. Fast, measurable, practically implementable — each stage ends in a decision, not a deliverable that sits in a drive.

Start here
01 45–60 min

AI-Quick-Check

You leave knowing which three AI levers carry the most value for your business — and which ones don't.

Free
02 1–2 weeks

AI Opportunity Audit

Concrete implementation plan with ROI figures, risk assessment and resource needs — defensible to your board.

Fixed scope
Ships code
03 4–6 weeks

Pilot Sprint

Working prototype your employees can test — plus a clear scale / stop recommendation you can act on.

Working prototype
04 Parallel / after

Enablement & Build

Your teams can operate the solution themselves — with playbooks, training and clear ownership.

In-house

Core principles

Fast. Measurable. Practically implementable.
Concrete. Personal. No-strings.

Ready to take your business to the next level?

A free 45-minute AI-Quick-Check. You leave with a concrete assessment of your three strongest AI levers. No sales pitch — just an honest read on your situation.

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