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.

6×

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.

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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.

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Every day

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

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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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