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 CEOs reimagine how their companies operate for the AI era—and turn that transformation into measurable enterprise value.
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
One integrated journey, from evidence to sustained value.
Discover
Evidence, not opinion.
Define
The company you would build today.
Transform
One program, prioritized initiatives.
Build
Capability that stays in-house.
Operate
Measure. Learn. Improve.
Cost harvesting
Deploy AI tools to immediately identify direct cost savings that can be reinvested to fund the AI transformation program.
Each stage produces a decision, not a document.
Explore our methodologyHow 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
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 executive now, not another report.
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
Executive AI-Readiness Diagnostic.
Five minutes. An executive readout on where your operating model stands—and where value is currently invisible.
Assess Your Enterprise
Executive profile
Reza Firouzbakht
Founder, F1 Consulting. Former IBM Partner and Chicago Booth MBA; 25+ years advising Fortune 500 CEOs at IBM and Accenture on strategy, AI adoption and operating-model transformation. Executive at Amazon and Microsoft leading product development, partnerships and AI adoption.
Speak With RezaContact 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@f1ventures.net