Customer Experience · AI · Advisory

We've run the companies
building CX AI.
Now we help you
decide what works.

Independent advisory from executives who held the CEO, CTO, and CRO roles at Genesys, Avaya, Cisco, and Servion. No products to sell. No vendor on retainer.

Founding advisors
LP
Laurent Philonenko
CEO · Genesys GM/CTO · Cisco Collaboration SVP/CTO · Avaya CEO · Servion 3 exits as an advisor First CX AI launch · 2018
KH
Karl Holzthum
President & CRO · CX Cloud (×2 exits) Worldwide Partners & Alliances · Genesys $500M+ channel revenue

Technology Lifecycle Advisory

We work on both sides of the CX AI equation — with enterprises making technology decisions, and startups finding the right path to market.

01 — Enterprise

AI Technology Evaluation

Independent assessment of CX AI vendors and platforms. We pressure-test vendor claims against production reality — no financial incentive to steer you toward any particular solution.

02 — Enterprise

Deployment Advisory

We stay with you through the full lifecycle — not just the purchase. From use case selection through month-six production reality, we help you avoid the failure patterns we've seen repeat across the industry.

03 — Startup

Go-to-Market Strategy

We open the enterprise doors that take years to find alone. Channel strategy, alliance relationships, and the commercial playbook for selling differentiated CX technology to large organizations.

04 — Startup

Technology Vetting

We evaluate emerging CX AI solutions for capability and business sustainability — connecting vetted startups with the enterprise buyers who matter.

What we see in the field

After reviewing dozens of CX AI deployments across industries, the same patterns repeat.

73%
of deployments we review optimize for deflection, not resolution
6 mo
median time before "successful" pilots quietly stall
1 in 8
enterprise AI CX investments deliver measurable CSAT lift
01

You bought automation. You needed augmentation.

Containment rate looks great on a dashboard. The customers who got "contained" are churning at twice the rate of those who reached a human.

02

The agents knew it wasn't working. Nobody asked them.

Frontline agents identified the failure points within weeks. They logged it, worked around it, and said nothing — because nobody asked.

03

The vendor demo and production are different planets.

Every demo runs on curated data and scripted scenarios. Your production environment has legacy data from three acquisitions and customers who don't speak like the training set.

04

Month six is when you find out if it worked.

Launch metrics are almost always positive. Month six is different — the novelty is gone, the champion has moved on, and the model hasn't been retrained.

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