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FRACTIONAL CHIEF AI OFFICER · AI STRATEGY · OPERATING MODEL DESIGN · AI TRANSFORMATION

What happens to your business when your competitors operate like AI-natives—and you don’t?

F1 Consulting helps C-suite leaders reimagine how their companies operate for the AI era—and turn that transformation into measurable enterprise value.

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The problem

AI is changing the basis of competition. Is your company changing fast enough?

AI can improve individual productivity without improving enterprise value. The central question is whether AI is changing how your company competes, serves customers, and creates economic value. Are you asking the right questions?

Methodology

We help leadership teams answer five hard questions.

  1. 01Where will AI change our competitive advantage?
  2. 02Where can AI create measurable enterprise value?
  3. 03How must our operating model and workforce change?
  4. 04What technology and capabilities should we build or buy?
  5. 05How do we govern, measure and continuously improve it?

Each stage produces a decision, not a document.

01

Discover

Understand the current reality and organizational readiness.

02

Define + Prioritize

Design the company you want to build.

03

Transform

One program, many initiatives.

04

Build

Capability that stays.

05

Operate

Measure value. Learn. Improve.

PARALLEL TRACK

Cost harvesting

Deploy AI tools to immediately identify direct cost savings that can be reinvested to fund the AI transformation program.

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Why F1 Consulting

Clarity to move with conviction. Discipline to capture the value.

The clarity to see where you're going and commit at speed — and the discipline to execute and turn it into value.

Most leadership teams are surrounded by AI activity and short on answers. F1 brings the clarity and the discipline to change that:

  • Why you're transforming — the case built on your economics, not the hype.
  • What you're transforming into — the company you'd design if you were building it today in context of AI.
  • How to capture and realize the value — centralized where it compounds, decentralized where it moves, with someone accountable for the result.

Because we answer to your value, we'll give you the honest answer — including where AI doesn't belong:

  • Use AI here.
  • Do not use AI here.
  • Conventional technology is better here.
  • The economics do not justify this investment.
  • This process should disappear.
  • This capability should remain human.
  • This organizational structure should change.
  • This part of the company works well and should remain intact.

How to work with F1 Consulting

Two ways to engage us.  One methodology.

Whether embedded as your Chief AI Officer or brought in for a defined project, the work is guided by the same methodology — strategy first, outcomes measured — and it’s delivered with a trusted network of specialist partners when the work calls for it.

FRACTIONAL CHIEF AI OFFICER · ONGOING

Fractional Chief AI Officer

Senior AI leadership without a full-time hire. Reza embeds with your leadership team to set the AI strategy, own the transformation roadmap, govern the investment, and stay accountable for results — month over month.

For enterprises that need an accountable AI leader now, not another report.

PROJECT-BASED ENGAGEMENTS · DEFINED SCOPE

Project-based engagements

A focused mandate with a clear deliverable and an end date — an AI strategy and roadmap, an operating-model or cost-transformation program, a readiness or portfolio assessment, or a targeted build. Delivered by Reza with specialist partners across AI engineering, cost harvesting and customer experience.

For a specific decision, program, or milestone you need moved.

Most engagements begin with the AI-Readiness Diagnostic — then continue as a fractional mandate, a project, or both.

Diagnostic

Leadership AI-Readiness Diagnostic.

Five minutes. A leadership readout on where your operating model stands—and where value is currently invisible.

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Reza Firouzbakht, founder of F1 Consulting

Leadership profile

Reza Firouzbakht

Founder, F1 Consulting. Former IBM Partner and Chicago Booth MBA; 25+ years advising Fortune 500 C-suite leaders at IBM and Accenture on strategy, AI adoption and operating-model transformation. Executive at Amazon and Microsoft leading product development, partnerships and AI adoption.

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Contact us

Start with the question your leadership team needs to answer.

How different would you build your company if you were starting it today?

reza@f1consulting.tech

Or email reza@f1consulting.tech.