Find where AI can actually create value in your business.

Structure before software. We start with an audit to find what's worth building. Then we build it, integrate it with your tools, and monitor and improve it in production. Sometimes the answer is that you don't need AI. We'll tell you that too.

30 minutes, no demo, no slides.

Figures in the film: RAND, analysis of 2,400+ AI initiatives, per 100 projects, rounded. The scoring rows are an illustrative example.

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Most AI projects don't fail on the model. They fail on the process nobody mapped.

Out of a hundred AI projects, a third never reach production. More than a quarter ship without delivering value. One in five pays back: 80.3% of AI projects miss their intended value.

So we start where they fail. Diagnosis first. Build second.

Every use case is scored on impact, feasibility, cost and risk. The verdict follows the score, not the sales pitch.

Every diagnosis has four possible endings: process change, automation, an AI system, or build nothing. Only one of them is AI. Sometimes the right answer is to build nothing.

When we do build, agreed tests decide when it ships. Not a demo.

Book a free thirty-minute review. If you don't need us, you'll hear it on the call.

What we build. AI is one of four, and only where it pays back.

Three patterns we build, step by step

Permission-aware retrieval

Answers only from documents the person asking is allowed to open.

Asked in plain words Question
Top passages from the index Retrieve
Drop what they cannot open Check access
Or a refusal, never a guess Cited answer

Dropped: no access

Use whenPeople need answers from documents with different access rights.

Agent with human approval

The agent prepares the action. A person decides whether it runs.

Prepares the action Agent drafts
Reads it, says yes or no Person approves
Send, pay, update Action runs

If no: it stops

Use whenThe action touches money, customers, or records.

Evaluation gate before release

Agreed test cases decide when a system is ready, not a demo.

Real cases, agreed upfront Test set
The system answers each case Run
Accuracy, leakage, refusals Score
Only a pass goes through Release gate
Into production It ships

Fail: fix and run again

Use whenBefore anything reaches production.

Three AI engineering patterns. Permission-aware retrieval: a question retrieves passages, the ones the person cannot open are dropped, and the answer is cited or refused. Agent with human approval: the agent prepares an action and a person approves it, or it stops. Evaluation gate: an agreed test set is run and scored, and the system ships only when it passes, otherwise it is fixed and run again.

How we work: the audit decides what gets built.

Five phases. The second one can conclude that you should build nothing. That is a valid result, and the cheapest one to reach.

  1. Understand How the work really runs, with the people who do it. Process map, costed
  2. Assess The audit scores every opportunity and decides what gets built. Build, automate, or nothing
  3. Build A proof on your real data, with a pass threshold agreed first. A tested system
  4. Integrate Into the ERP, CRM, file shares and sign-on you already use. Inside your tools
  5. Maintain Accuracy, cost and usage monitored, then improved. Running in production

Work, written down.

Client missions appear here once the client agrees to publication. Until then, what you see is our own work, labelled as such.

Sales manager asks

Who approved the 2026 commission changes?

Retrieved 3 passages · checked against your access

  1. 1Commission policy 2026 · §2Allowed
  2. 2Leadership minutes, March · p.4Allowed
  3. –HR · Salary review 2026No access, withheld

Approved by the leadership team in March, effective from Q2. 12

1 document withheld: outside your access.
Reference architecture · internal

A knowledge assistant that checks every retrieved passage against the asker's live permissions before the model sees it. No citation, no answer.

Designed for
10k–20k live documents
Permission leakage
Zero, release blocker
Answer path
Cite or refuse
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Who you will work with.

Ilyas Van Laer
“I would rather tell you in week three that you don't need AI than bill you for finding it out in month nine.”
Ilyas Van Laer, founder of Strukora
  • The diagnosis is done by the people who stay on the project. Nobody hands your audit to a delivery team that never met you.
  • Specialists come in where the work calls for them. A retrieval problem and a data pipeline are different jobs, and you always know who is doing which.
  • If we cannot do it, we say so. When a project needs capability we cannot assemble, we point you elsewhere.

Start with the diagnosis, not the build.

Pick a time. You leave the call with an honest answer, even if that answer is "not yet".

  • Where the repetitive time actually goes in your team
  • Which opportunity would pay back first, and roughly how much
  • Whether an audit is worth it for you, or not
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What people ask before the first call.

What if the audit concludes we should not build anything?

Then that is the deliverable, and it is worth what you paid for it. Chasing technology instead of an outcome is the most cited cause of AI project failure. We would rather tell you early.

What does the audit cost?

It depends on how many processes are in scope and how scattered your data is, so we price it after the first call rather than guessing in public. Scope, duration and deliverable are fixed before anything starts.

Is the first call a sales call?

It is thirty minutes on where you actually are and whether we are useful to you. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, you will hear it on the call.

We already have an IT team. Why would we need you?

You probably do not need us for the build. You may need us for the diagnosis: your team is close to the systems and far from the comparison set.