AI is the easy part.
We rebuild the work around it.

The models are ready. The work isn't — the handoffs, the roles and the approval chains were built for a world before any of this.

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The pattern

Exponential AI capability, incremental value.

The same shape as every earlier technology — but the AI capability curve is climbing exponentially faster, so the gap is wider.

THE GAP between expectations and realized value 201820192020202120222023202420252026 AI capabilityAdoptionRealized business value

Schematic, not measured data. The shape is the argument: the technology arrives first, the value arrives when the work is redesigned.

Every wave: the technology arrived first. The value arrived when the work was redesigned.

1900Electric motor1965Mainframe & PC1995Internet2000Search engines2007Mobile2010Cloud & SaaS2023Generative AI
6%Attribute EBIT to AI

of organizations attribute a meaningful share of EBIT to AI — and 73% of those had redesigned their workflows.

McKinsey, The State of AI, August 2026 (6% attribute ≥5% of EBIT to AI; 73% of them report fundamentally redesigning workflows, vs 25% of others).
95%No measurable return

of organizations report no measurable P&L return on generative AI, on $30–40bn of enterprise spend.

MIT Project NANDA, The GenAI Divide, 2025.
70 / 20 / 10Where the obstacles are

Of the obstacles to AI value: 70% are people and process, 20% technology, 10% the algorithms.

BCG, Where's the Value in AI?, October 2024.

The solve

AI is necessary but not sufficient to unlock business value.

Technology expertise has to be paired with operating-model redesign and change management to make it stick.

Expand what's possible with AI tech and data

Only tech: automates the old way

Redesign the work with operating model and process

Only op model: a plan that doesn't work

Make it stick with change management and talent

Only change: improves the old model

Business value

New ways of working that deliver measurable outcomes.

What we do

Human judgment, amplified by AI.

An AI-native services firm that focuses on generating business outcomes, not slides.

Our view

Expand what your people can do. Don't replace them.

Most AI programs are scoped as substitution exercises, and that is much of why they stall — people can tell, and they are right. We say the opposite out loud in every interview we run. It is written into our protocol, not our marketing.

Ways to start

Three entry points, depending on where you already are.

Ignite

Right when

Leadership isn't convinced on the value of AI. One narrow, real prototype your leaders can touch.

Assess and prioritize

Right when

Many ideas in flight and no defensible way to rank them. Everyone heard, a prioritized portfolio, a roadmap.

Transform a function

Right when

You are convinced and want to go. HR or Finance rebuilt end to end, one workflow at a time.

Who we are

Leaders with deep consulting and operating experience.

Alejandro Mayer

Alejandro Mayer

Co-Founder & CEO

Twenty-five years running strategy and operations, in consulting and inside enterprise software. Most recently Chief Strategy & Business Operations Officer at Workday, where he owned corporate strategy, enterprise planning, business technology and enterprise data — the machinery of a 20,000-person company. Before that, Managing Director & Partner at BCG, leading the Software practice worldwide.

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Rohit Nalgirkar

Rohit Nalgirkar

Co-Founder & President

Two and a half decades taking technology and data from strategy to business value. Most recently Senior Partner & Managing Director at BCG, where he led its global business serving CIOs — the front door to AI and digital transformations. Ran AI and digital programs for enterprises across technology, energy, insurance, banking and healthcare.

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Experience from Tata Consultancy Services BCG Workday Tenaris

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Two ways to use it. Either way something real comes back within a day or two.

Option one · Try ValX Scout

Tell us what you're trying to achieve and where the energy is in your organization. Scout comes back configured for you — run its diagnostic on a few of your people and see what it surfaces.

Option two · Give us a process

Put us in front of one person who runs one process — the steps, the workarounds, the waiting. You get back a first cut of what it could become, checked against our pattern library.

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