WHAT WE DO - Advisory & Consulting

Strategic guidance to transform your analytics and AI capabilities — in weeks, not quarters.

Burtch Works helps organizations design the workforce structures, operating models, and transformation foundations required to scale confidently in the age of AI — connecting strategy to execution with practical, measurable next steps. From private equity operating teams managing portfolio-wide capability gaps to enterprise transformation leaders answering to boards on AI program ROI, we meet organizations where they are and build from there.

THE PROBLEM: 
Most analytics transformations stall before they start.

You have executive buy-in for AI, but no clear roadmap to execution

Your analytics org is fragmented across business units with no control strategy

You've hired data scientists, but they're not aligned to business priorities

Previous consultants delivered a deck — not a working capability

Your AI initiatives generate activity but not measurable outcomes

You're rebuilding the same analytics function across multiple portfolio companies
THE SOLUTION: 
An advisory team that delivers a working capability, not a strategy document.
We embed with your team to build the capability — not just advise from the outside
Our advisors have led analytics organizations — they know what actually works, not just what the framework recommends
We align stakeholders, define the roadmap, and stay through execution — not just through the strategy phase
Deliverables are measured in capabilities built, not slides produced
We design for repeatability — so your operating model scales as the business grows
Portfolio-ready frameworks that can be deployed consistently across business units

HOW WE WORK

Four advisory capabilities.
One transformation foundation.

Workforce Enablement
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AI WORKFORCE MODERNIZATION

Define jobs-to-be-done, role clarity, compensation bands, and organizational design aligned to business outcomes.

AI transformation doesn't just change what technology does — it changes what people do.

We work with leadership to define jobs-to-be-done in the context of current AI capabilities, clarify where AI and human work intersect, establish compensation bands that reflect current market requirements for AI-adjacent roles, and design organizational structures that can absorb transformation without sacrificing performance.

The result is a workforce architecture built for what comes next — not what worked before.










Start with a Workforce Assessment →
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Transformation Execution
2

INTEROPERABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

Architect data, cloud, and LLM foundations required to enable agentic and AI-driven operating models.

AI systems don't create value in isolation. They create value when they can communicate with each other, access the right data at the right moment, and operate within a cloud and LLM architecture designed to support how AI-driven organizations actually work. Most enterprise AI infrastructure isn't built with that in mind.

Burtch Works designs the data, cloud, and LLM foundations your org needs to move from isolated AI pilots to coordinated AI operations.

We assess current architecture, identify integration gaps and interoperability barriers, and design the infrastructure blueprint required to support AI systems that communicate, coordinate, and compound value business-wide.

The result is an infrastructure blueprint your organization can build toward — not a vendor recommendation delivered without an implementation path

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Analytics & AI Delivery
3

AGENTIC HARMONIZATION

Orchestrate human and AI agents into a coordinated system that improves speed, productivity, and decision-making.
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Agentic AI — systems capable of taking actions, making decisions, and coordinating with other AI systems autonomously — is moving from pilot to production across organizations. Deploying AI agents alongside human teams without a coordination layer between them creates friction, duplication, and accountability gaps that erode the value both generate.

Agentic Harmonization is a Burtch Works capability that helps design the operating system for coordinating human and AI agents. We define how work is divided, how decisions are escalated between autonomous and human judgment, how performance is measured across a blended workforce, and governance frameworks that ensure actions remain aligned with business outcomes.

The result is a coordinated system — not a set of AI tools running alongside a team designed for a pre-agentic world.

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Operational Scaling
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CAIO ASSESSMENT & ALIGNMENT

Evaluate leadership responsibilities, governance, and readiness to ensure AI initiatives translate into enterprise value.

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The Chief AI Officer role is one of the fastest-growing and most inconsistently defined leadership positions in organizations. Some CAIOs own an AI strategy and governance. Some own technical AI infrastructure. Some own both. Most are unclear. In organizations where the CAIO role is poorly defined, AI initiatives move forward without clear ownership — and its true value is lost.
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CAIO Assessment & Alignment evaluates the current state of AI leadership in your organization —  how responsibilities are defined, how governance is structured, how the CAIO function relates to adjacent roles, and whether the current leadership architecture is capable of translating AI initiatives into value.

For PE firms conducting pre-acquisition diligence or post-acquisition integration planning, CAIO Assessment & Alignment is the governance input that determines whether AI initiatives are set up to create or destroy value.
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is analytics advisory consulting?

Analytics advisory consulting helps organizations design, build, and operationalize high-performing analytics and AI capabilities. This includes capability assessments that diagnose current-state maturity, operating model design that defines team structures and governance, transformation roadmaps that prioritize investments against business outcomes, and embedded advisory support that stays through execution—not just strategy. BurtchWorks advisory engagements are designed to deliver working capabilities, not strategy documents. 

How do you build an analytics Center of Excellence?

Building an analytics Center of Excellence typically involves four stages: assessment of current capabilities, talent, and technology; operating model design that defines the COE structure, governance, and decision rights; talent activation through executive search and practitioner deployment; and capability transfer that ensures the function operates independently after the engagement. Burtch Works has built analytics Centers of Excellence across industries, including financial services, healthcare, CPG, and private equity portfolio companies — typically from assessment to operations in seven weeks.

What does a CAIO advisory engagement look like?

A Chief AI Officer advisory engagement with BurtchWorks typically begins with an AI readiness assessment that evaluates leadership alignment, technology infrastructure, talent capability, and strategic clarity. From there, we design the organizational and governance model for the AI function, identify the right internal or external leader for the CAIO role, and support the onboarding and alignment process. We work with both organizations, hiring their first CAIO and those looking to optimize an existing AI leadership structure.

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30 minutes. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where your organization is, what it's trying to build, and whether Burtch Works is the right partner to help get there.