AI Deployment Practice

Deploy AI where revenue lives.

Your revenue engine is losing millions to friction nobody has named yet.

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The GTM engine as it operates today, with all frictions present.

What we believe

Four principles that shape every engagement.

A diagnostic-led practice for B2B companies deploying AI across sales, marketing, and customer success.

We diagnose before we deploy.

AI without foundation is theater. Our diagnostic identifies where AI can actually move the revenue needle and where the foundation has to come first, so deployments drive real ROI.

AI is the outcome, not the engine.

We help B2B companies deploy AI across sales, marketing, and customer success. We don't sell AI as a product. The output is shipped systems, not strategy decks.

License Buyers stall. Operators compound.

AI is splitting GTM teams into two camps: License Buyers (ChatGPT seats, Copilot subscriptions, point tools that stall) and Operators (those that re-architect workflows around AI and compound). The cost and outcome curves are diverging fast.

Diagnostic-led, deployment-bound.

Our practice spans diagnostic AND deployment. We don't hand off a report and disappear. We map the friction, scope the AI plays, and stay through implementation.

What we do

Three ways to engage.

Scoped to where you are in your AI journey. Light when you need a read. Full when you need a roadmap. Deployment when you need execution.

Starting point

Light Diagnostic

A fast read of your revenue engine. We map friction across the buyer journey and surface the highest-leverage AI opportunities.

  • DurationAbout 3 weeks
  • OutputFriction map and AI readiness assessment
  • Best forTeams scoping where AI fits before committing

From map to motion

AI Deployment

Shipped systems, not advice. We deploy AI directly into your sales, marketing, or customer success workflows and stay through production.

  • Duration12+ weeks per workflow
  • OutputWorking AI systems in production
  • Best forCompanies with mapped friction needing execution

How we work

Diagnose. Map. Deploy.

No 200-slide strategy decks. No 12-month diagnostic phases. We work in compressed cycles with revenue leaders, not around them.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We work with your revenue leaders to map friction across the buyer journey, from prospect to expansion. Where leads stall, where handoffs break, where retention erodes.

  2. 02

    Map

    We translate friction into AI opportunity: where AI moves the needle, where foundation work has to come first, and where the ROI math actually clears.

  3. 03

    Deploy

    We ship working systems into your existing stack, not slide decks. You see compounding outcomes within the engagement, not at the end of it.

Working cadence

  • Weekly working sessions with your revenue leaders.
  • Async check-ins via shared Slack or your existing tracker.
  • Fixed-scope deliverables, not hourly billing or open-ended retainers.
  • Both Principals on every engagement, from diagnostic through deployment.

Who we are

Operators who've sat in the seat.

We help others deploy AI without the consulting theater because we ran revenue motions ourselves before we built the practice.

Ernesto Humpierres

Principal

Over a decade across PE-backed B2B SaaS, in both operating and advisory roles. Background spans revenue operations, go-to-market motion, and AI deployment. Works directly with PE operating teams to translate diagnostic findings into deployed AI systems across portfolio companies.

Beth Yehaskel

Principal

Two decades across enterprise revenue operations, customer success, and go-to-market diagnostics. Built the frameworks that power Cognitive Edge's deployment practice, specializing in post-sale activation, retention, and expansion mechanics for B2B SaaS scaling through the $10M to $250M revenue band.

Stop buying licenses. Start operating.

If AI is in your budget but not in your workflows, the diagnostic decides which side you end up on.

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