Who you would actually be working with.
Abstraction Advisors is principal-led. The person who scopes your engagement is the person accountable when it goes live, and he is named on this page.
The delivery discipline behind this firm came from running enterprise technology programs, not from an AI course. That is the whole proposition: AI projects fail for the reasons every large technology program fails, and those failures have known controls.
- Before this
- VP of Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management, running technology delivery for token services and fraud management.
- Education
- MBA. M.S. in Management Information Systems.
- Teaching
- Adjunct faculty in Information Systems at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
- Certification
- Anthropic Certified Partner.
- Delivery
- 10+ years taking CRM, ERP, and fintech systems into production.
Why a delivery background matters here.
AI projects fail for the reasons every large technology program fails. The success criteria were never written down. The data was not ready and nobody checked until late. Nobody changed how the work actually gets done. The thing shipped and then nobody watched it.
Those are not AI problems. They are delivery problems, and they have known controls, which is why this firm leads with a delivery record rather than a model catalogue.
The practical version: we run the assessment before the architecture, we write down what counts as success before the phase starts, and we measure in the numbers your operation already reports. None of that is novel. It is the part most AI programmes skip.
Where we work.
Based in Midwest, USA, working with clients across the United States, the Gulf, Egypt and Jordan. Sectors so far: manufacturing, professional services, logistics, financial services, and healthcare administration.
Ebrahim was an invaluable asset as we transitioned from a legacy system to a complex cloud-based ERP. His willingness to understand our business allowed us to get up and running more quickly and efficiently than expected.
Abstraction Advisors did an excellent job understanding our business, evaluating options, and helping put together a suite of technologies that would meet our needs.
What you are agreeing to.
Selling risk mitigation while carrying none of it would be a strange position to hold. These are the terms, stated before you ask for them.
Fixed fee on phase one
The assessment is quoted as a fixed fee before it starts. No hourly overrun on the part where the scope is least certain.
You can stop at the end of any phase
Each phase ends with a written review against criteria set at the start. Stopping there is a normal outcome, not an awkward one. If the assessment says do not build, that is what it will say.
You own what we build
Source code, model weights, prompts, infrastructure configuration and documentation transfer to you. No proprietary runtime and no licensing dependency.
MSA and NDA on request
A standard mutual NDA is available before the first conversation, and a master services agreement before any work begins.
Bring us the pilot that stalled.
You will be talking to the person whose name is on this page.
You'll leave with 2 to 3 scored use cases, an effort estimate, and an honest cost range, whether or not we work together.