Strategy & Advisory

The honest read on AI, for the people making the decisions.

For leadership teams who’ve heard the pitches, read the headlines, and need a sober conversation about where AI actually fits in their business. We don’t sell transformation programmes. We sell clarity.

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Why it works

Most AI strategy decks are written by people who’ve never deployed AI.

The market is full of beautiful PDFs telling executives that AI will transform their industry. They’re long, expensive, and useless, because the people who wrote them have never actually shipped a workflow into a real business. They don’t know what the models can do today, what they’ll do in six months, or what an actual implementation looks like inside a 200-person company.

Nomad’s advisory work is different because we deliver the work too. When we tell you what’s worth doing, we’re telling you what we’d build for you next month if you asked, through training or an Iris build. When we tell you what to ignore, it’s because we’ve seen people waste budget on it.

The output is short. The conversation is honest. The next step is yours.

If you need to understand how your operations actually run before deciding on direction, an Operational Audit is the diagnostic that sits before this conversation. paid, fixed-fee, written deliverable.

The formats

Two ways to bring Nomad into the strategy conversation.

Executive Briefing

A 90-minute to half-day session with your leadership team. We pre-read your materials, build a sector-specific briefing, and deliver a sharp conversation about where AI fits in your strategy. You walk away with a written AI position statement and a recommended next-step roadmap, not a 100-slide deck.

Length
90 minutes to half-day
Pricing
From €2,500
Format
In-person at your site or live online; small group (5–15 senior people)
Best for
Boards, C-suites, and senior leadership teams planning AI investment

Advisory Engagement

For a specific decision or programme: a defined-scope advisory engagement over 4–8 weeks. Stakeholder interviews, options analysis, recommended path with implementation feasibility. The deliverable is short, a position document and a 1-pager you can take to the board, backed by the full working out.

Length
4–8 weeks
Pricing
From €8,000
Format
Mostly remote, with one or two in-person sessions
Best for
Companies facing a specific AI investment decision (build vs buy, platform selection, vendor evaluation, programme design)
What you get

Three deliverables, every engagement.

Position statement

A short written document capturing the decision, the rationale, the trade-offs, and the recommended action. Designed to be read by your board.

One-pager for the leadership team

The same content compressed to a single page that an executive can read in three minutes and act on.

AI policy and governance position

Where you need one: an acceptable-use policy your staff will actually follow, a register of where AI touches personal data, and a written read on your obligations under the EU AI Act and GDPR.

Implementation roadmap

If we recommend doing something, you get a written sense of what doing it would actually look like, phases, dependencies, what could go wrong, what success looks like.

What we don’t do

The things you might expect from a strategy firm that we won’t do.

  • 100-slide decks
  • Year-long retainers that never end
  • Transformation theatre
  • Implementation in someone else's name
  • Sell you an engagement, then sell you the build that follows from a different team

We deliver advice we’d be willing to act on ourselves. If we wouldn’t build it, we won’t recommend it.

Getting the tools in

We help you get the right tools into the right hands.

Acting on the advice usually means getting the right AI tools into your team’s hands. We’ll help you work out which ones fit — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, whichever suits your stack and your data — and get your people set up and using them properly. Everything stays in your own accounts, on your own billing.

We’ll set it up with you as part of an engagement, configured, governed, and ready for your team to use well.

Governance

The EU AI Act, without the scaremongering.

Most of what is written about the EU AI Act is sold by people who benefit from you being frightened of it. The useful version is narrower. The Act is risk-tiered, and the overwhelming majority of what an Irish business does with AI — drafting, summarising, extracting data, internal search — sits in the minimal-risk tier, where the obligations are light. What changes the picture is a narrow set of uses: anything touching recruitment and worker management, credit and access to services, or the handling of biometric data.

So the first question is not how to comply. It is which of the things you already do actually fall in scope, and the honest answer for a lot of companies is fewer than they feared. Where something does fall in scope, that is worth knowing before a system is built rather than after.

For larger organisations the harder problem is usually not the Act at all. It is that AI use has already spread informally — staff pasting client material into consumer accounts, tools bought on departmental cards, nobody able to say which systems touch personal data. A register of where AI actually touches your business, an acceptable-use policy people will follow, and a clear line on what never goes into a public model do more for your risk position than a compliance programme aimed at obligations you may not have.

We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice. What we give is a written read of where you stand, what is in scope, what to fix first, and what your counsel should look at. Our own posture is on the trust page, including EU hosting and the certifications behind it.

Ready to make the call?

A 30-minute call about the decision you're trying to make, and whether a Briefing or an Advisory engagement fits. No commitment.

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