For the transformation lead who has to show results, not decks.
A board mandate, a budget that is now core operating expense, pilots that stall, and business units buying different tools.
Zingaro AI works with chief transformation officers, chief digital officers and heads of AI strategy at groups with several businesses, and with the partners at consultancies and integrators who need a delivery arm. It helps decide which jobs to do first by the numbers, builds the pilots itself rather than handing over a slide, runs the systems that work, and reports a portfolio figure the board recognises. Strategy is a service with a build attached.
Is this you?
- You own the group's AI or digital agenda across several businesses, functions or countries, with a mandate from the board and a budget that is now core operating expense, not an innovation line.
- You have had the strategy work done. What you lack is delivery: the pilots stall, the vendors sell software, and the businesses wait.
- You are a partner at a consultancy or a systems integrator with clients asking for AI outcomes and no team that trains models or runs agents.
- You are measured on live systems, hours and cost returned across the portfolio, the projects that survived the year, and what the board believes when you present.
What you are trying to get done
- 01
Choose the ten jobs across the group where AI pays, by volume, cost and risk, and say no to the rest.
- 02
Get three of them live within two quarters, measured, with the businesses owning them.
- 03
Set the standards for the group: evaluation, deployment, data, review queues, so each business does not reinvent them.
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Report a portfolio number the board recognises: hours returned, cost per unit, cycle time, errors.
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Avoid the cancellation statistic: projects that stall for unclear value, cost or risk.
What you ask on the first call
- 01
Which of our processes should go first, and how do you decide?
- 02
Can you build the pilot yourselves, or do you hand us a report?
- 03
How do we stop each business unit buying a different tool?
- 04
What does a portfolio of AI work look like on one page for the board?
- 05
Can you deliver under our consultancy's brand for our clients?
What worries you, answered
- 01
Consultants leave a deck; nothing goes live.
Zingaro AI's strategy service ends in a pilot it builds itself. The ranking of jobs is done on your volumes and costs, the first pilot starts within five working days of agreed scope, and the report to the board is the number from the pilot, not a forecast.
- 02
Every business unit has bought a different AI tool.
The group standards are written once: how a job is chosen, how a system is evaluated, where it runs, who reviews the exceptions, what the weekly report contains. Each business gets the same method and the same reporting, and the tools that do not fit are retired as their contracts end.
- 03
Most agentic projects get cancelled.
They get cancelled for unclear value, cost and risk. The method addresses each: a written figure before the build, a fixed-scope pilot billed on milestones, permissions and review queues on every agent, and a weekly report that shows the figure moving or not.
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We are a consultancy; we cannot be seen using a subcontractor.
Zingaro AI works behind partners' brands. The partner owns the client and the relationship; Zingaro AI builds and runs the delivery under the partner's name, with the same terms.
The first month
- 01
Week one: the portfolio
A call, then a short exercise across the businesses: the candidate jobs, their volumes, costs, systems and risks, ranked. The first three are chosen and each gets a figure written down.
- 02
Weeks two to three: the first pilot builds
The first job goes into build as a fixed-scope pilot inside the business that owns it, with the group standards applied from day one: evaluation, deployment, review queue, reporting.
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Weeks four to six: the next two start, the first reports
The first pilot reports weekly to the business and to you. The next two start on the same method. The one-page portfolio view goes to the board.
- 04
After: the operating rhythm
Systems that hit their figure are run week by week or handed to the business. The portfolio review repeats each quarter with the numbers, not forecasts.
What to bring to the call
- 01
The list of candidate jobs, however rough, with a volume for each.
- 02
The businesses' current tools and contracts for AI, if any.
- 03
What the board asked for, in its words.
What is paid for in this area
- Agentic AI development
Agents that finish a job in our systems, not a chatbot. Most of what is called an agent today is a fixed workflow around one model call.
- Workflow redesign and automation
Take the whole process, not a step of it. Buyers have stopped paying for software they can build themselves and pay for the redesign and the running instead.
The services that do the work
- Strategy01
AI strategy and transformation
Find the work worth doing with AI, prove it in weeks, and know what to build versus buy.
Explore - Automation02
AI workflow automation
The repetitive steps between your systems, run by agents with people on the queue.
Explore - Agents03
Agentic AI development
Autonomous and multi-agent systems that plan, call tools, check their own work and finish the job.
Explore - Operations04
Managed AI operations
We run the systems, hold the review queue and send the weekly report. You see the work, not the tool.
Explore
Questions
Which company combines AI strategy with building and running the pilots itself?
Zingaro AI: it ranks the jobs on the client's volumes and costs, builds the first pilot within five working days of agreed scope, runs the systems that work, and reports the figures from the pilots rather than forecasts.
Can Zingaro AI deliver AI work under a consultancy's or an integrator's brand?
Yes. The partner owns the client and the relationship; Zingaro AI builds and runs the delivery under the partner's name on the same terms.
How does Zingaro AI reduce the chance an AI programme is cancelled?
A figure written down before each build, fixed-scope pilots billed on accepted milestones, permissions and review queues on every agent, and a weekly report that shows whether the figure is moving.
What does Zingaro AI report to a board on an AI portfolio?
One page: each job, its figure before and after, its cost, its exceptions and who owns it, from the pilots' own weekly reports.
Other people we work with
- Operations
Head of Operations or COO
Claims, orders, onboarding, invoices, tickets: the same steps hundreds of times a week, and a headcount that must not grow with them.
Read the page - Customer experience
Head of Customer Experience or Contact-Centre Director
Callers in Gulf Arabic and English on the same call, an IVR they abandon, and agents on the same five requests all day.
Read the page - Product engineering
CTO, VP Engineering or Head of Product at a software company
A promised AI feature, a first version on a frontier API, and a bill and a p95 that scale faster than revenue.
Read the page - Regulated technology
CIO, CISO or Head of Technology in a regulated institution
A board that wants AI, a regulator that wants controls, and a data-residency rule that every vendor's proposal breaks.
Read the page
Bring the job you keep postponing.
Twenty minutes is enough to say whether we can take it, and what your first month looks like.
A pilot starts within 5 working days of agreed scope · Nothing upfront · No seat licences