The pilots landed
Every business has now seen an AI demo, run a pilot, sat through a roadmap. The technology showed up.
Tillo Consulting LLC
We build the operating layer.
Not the deck.
AI and data systems that keep running after the engagement ends — margin analytics, billing, pipelines, agents. Shipped to production, on your infrastructure, owned by you.
The gap we keep seeing
The systems didn't
Most of it never reached the P&L — the pilot got presented, then quietly shelved. Day-to-day operations didn't change.
Building is the moat
The winners aren't the ones with the best strategy document. They're the ones whose operations actually run on this stuff.
Standing proof
A PE-backed consulting platform runs its operations on a layer we built: live margin dashboards tied out to the penny against finance's own exports, revenue-recognition tooling, a client billing portal, and AI triage across sales and delivery — all in production, all still running. Happy to share the name and walk through it on a call; the sponsor's own diligence team has been through the codebase.
A deck expires the day it's presented. Systems compound.
Engagement shapes
01 · Diagnostic Sprint
Two weeks inside your workflows. Out: where the leverage actually is, what to build first, and what not to build at all.
Fixed fee
02 · Build Engagement
The system itself — scoped, shipped, documented, handed over running. Your infra, your data, your keys.
Fixed-fee project
03 · Operating Retainer
The layer keeps evolving after it ships. We stay on the hook for it — measured on outcomes, not hours.
Monthly retainer
How we work
Engagements are led personally by the principal, end to end — the person you scope with is the person who builds. Behind that sits a trusted bench of specialists — data engineering, design, ML, integrations — pulled in as scope demands, so the work scales without turning into a staffing pyramid.
Everything lands on your infrastructure with your keys. When we leave, you own a running system and the knowledge to operate it — not a dependency on us. (The retainer exists for teams who want us to stay on the hook; it's an option, never a hostage situation.)
Who this fits
Founder-led and PE-backed services businesses that want working systems more than strategy documents. If what you need is the big-firm transformation program, we're happy to point you to good people — and if you're not sure what you need yet, that's exactly what the two-week sprint is for.
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