AI implementation for owners and operators
Make your business more valuable with AI.
Find the opportunities worth pursuing. Turn them into measurable results, software you own, and a team that can maintain and extend it.
Start with the free Finder or a complimentary 30-minute conversation.
How value takes shape
A first result. A capability you keep.
Start with one valuable outcome. Build the software and the skills to make it last.
Groundwork
Find the best next move
Identify the opportunities to grow revenue, reduce cost, or address risk. You keep a prioritized roadmap with evidence, value assumptions, and a clear first decision.
Explore GroundworkQuick Win in a Box
Prove a focused result
Choose one outcome, agree how to measure it, and build with your operator. Your stakeholder verifies success. Half of the Quick Win fee depends on that result.
Explore Quick WinsOwned capability
Keep building on what works
Your company owns the software. Your people learn to use, maintain, and extend it. The result becomes a foundation for the next improvement, with wider rollout guided by evidence.
What leaders say
From the people we've shipped outcomes with
Featured · Portfolio CEO
"Most AI discussions feel like brainstorming with no finish line. This has been the opposite. Every session turns ideas into action. The focus on outcomes, not just options, has made it easy for our leadership team to embrace AI with confidence and purpose."
As featured in
Case studies
Real results, real impact
Four engagements with measurable outcomes: aerospace, travel-tech, industrial services, and consumer wellness.
Aerospace
Jet Parts Engineering
Aerospace parts distribution leader
- Less BERP Time
- 50%
- BERPs Processed
- 3 at once
- Sprint Duration
- 8 wks
“I did three BERPs at once... and the amount of changes I had to do was very minimal.”
by Inside Sales Manager, JPE
Travel & Tech
Fora
Travel platform following a $60M Series C
- Less Analysis Time
- 95%
- Lightbulb Moments
- 46%
“From an investment perspective, it's a 5/5.”
by Georgia Flaum, Head of People Ops
Industrial Services
Integrated Global Services
Global industrial services leader
- AI Initiatives
- 15
- Resolved Success Rate
- 100%
- First Dashboard
- Rapid
“Every session turns ideas into action.”
by Rich Crawford, CEO
Wellness
Othership
Rapidly growing social bathhouse
- Reported Class Writing Speed
- 2×
- Reported Dictation Gain
- 4×
“Hugely instrumental... It feels more enjoyable.”
by Harrison, Co-founder
- Est. value identified
- $11.3M+
- Criteria success
- 91%
- Verified outcomes
- 42
- Client organizations
- 15
From our engagement ledger, since December 2025. Success rate measures verification of agreed outcome criteria across resolved engagements. Value figures are initial sponsor-visible estimates recorded on the ledger, summed across every successful engagement and rounded down.
Engagement levels
We do the groundwork, then we underwrite the outcome
Start with a prioritized roadmap through paid Groundwork. Choose a first outcome to pursue as a value-based Quick Win, then build on the results. Each Quick Win delivers a verified outcome and a capability your team can own and extend.
All prices in USD. Quick Win in a Box is value-based: a share of the outcome's value, starting at $10,000, billed 50% on activation and 50% on verified success.
What it takes
Three roles and one system
Every Quick Win needs all four before the build begins. Groundwork confirms them and names any gap before we commit.
- Sponsor
- Owns the budget and the goal.
- Expert
- Knows what good looks like and verifies the result.
- Operator
- Often a curious junior who builds with us and owns the result after we leave.
- Data
- A system of record we can reach, even if it starts as an export.
Not sure where to start?
Our free four-minute Finder narrows down the workflow where AI could create the most value and tests whether your team can act now.
Featured resource
The 2026 AI Tooling & Budget Report
How to equip your team for quick wins and right-sized steps toward long-term transformation. Cost estimates, budgeting frameworks by company size, and an interactive calculator to plan your AI investment.
7-minute read · Updated for 2026
For leaders responsible for AI strategy and implementation
- Cost estimates for every major AI tool category
- Budgeting frameworks for SMBs through enterprise
- Interactive calculator to size your AI investment
About
Christian Ulstrup, AI Implementation Expert
Founder, Caritas Venture Co.
Former MIT AI Conference Co-Chair and startup executive. Translates AI possibilities into concrete business results across regulated industries: 30–40% cost reduction on target processes, 100% to 2,000% productivity gains on transformed workflows. Quick wins that build momentum for the larger transformation.
- MIT Sloan MBA
- Graduate
- MIT AI
- Former Co-Chair
- 100–2,000%
- Productivity Gains Delivered
- Patent Holder
- Medical Imaging AI
The associate network
Trained operators delivering the same Quick Win in a Box methodology
As demand outpaces founder-led capacity, we've built an associate network of operators hand-picked by Christian and certified in the Caritas methodology. Their Quick Wins carry the same terms: 50% on activation, and 50% when your expert confirms the agreed success criteria are met.