# Sapionic

> Human intelligence, applied to artificial intelligence.

Sapionic is a decision-centric AI transformation consultancy. We help
enterprise technology leaders and private-equity investors find the AI value
that reaches the P&L, then build it. Vendor-neutral and partner-led.

## What decision-centric AI transformation means

A workflow is made of decisions; the tasks in between exist only to feed them.
For thirty years the only decisions you could automate were those you could
reduce to a rule. That constraint has been removed, and those are precisely the
decisions where the cost, the delay and the variance sit. Automate the decision
itself and the economics move: from a person deciding slowly a few times a day,
to a system deciding consistently, hundreds of times, at near-zero marginal cost.

## Method

Four phases, each producing something you keep: Find, Codify, Build, Compound.

## Who it is for

- Enterprise technology leaders (CIO, CTO, CAIO)
- Private-equity investors and operating partners

## Services

All prices are minimums ("from"), exclude VAT, and are published rather than
quoted on request.

### Workshops
Fixed sessions, an artifact you keep.

- **Decision Discovery** — From £7,500 (1 day + intake)
  Map your priority workflows, expose the decisions inside them, and rank them by P&L impact × readiness.
- **Executive AI Working Session** — From £4,500 (½ day, hands-on)
  Your leaders learn AI by building their own working setup on their own data, not watching a demo.
- **AI Value-Creation Roadmap** — From £15,000 (2 sessions)
  Turn the decision map into a sequenced, board-ready roadmap tied to a transformation P&L.
- **Pilot Red-Team** — From £5,000 (½–1 day)
  Stress-test a stalled pilot against decision design, benefit realisation and change. Leave with a go/no-go verdict and a fix list.
- **Decision Architecture Sprint** — From £12,000 (2–3 days)
  Design one high-value decision end to end: data → context → reasoning → confidence thresholds → human review, plus the agent architecture.

### Training
Build the capability in your team.

- **Creating Value from AI**
  Where value really sits (decisions, not tasks), and what moves EBITDA versus what doesn’t.
- **Building an AI Roadmap / Value-Creation Plan**
  How to build a sequenced, P&L-tied plan yourselves.
- **Change Management for AI**
  Leading people through AI-driven change; what teams do differently on Monday.
- **Leading an AI Programme**
  Running it without repeating the digital-era failures: ownership, benefit realisation, governance, cadence.
- **Building Agentic AI Systems**
  Hands-on agent and decision-automation design for technical and digital teams.

### Consulting
Senior, fixed-scope engagements.

- **Decision Architecture design & build**
  Build the decision automation for one high-value workflow.
- **AI Value Second Opinion / Health Check**
  A senior review of a stalled pilot or an AI roadmap; verdict and fixes.
- **Pilot Rescue / Build Remediation**
  Fix a stalled or failing AI build.
- **Data Readiness / Foundations Assessment**
  Audit data quality, access and governance for AI.
- **Agentic AI / Workflow Automation build**
  Build internal workflow automations and agents.
- **AI Training Programme (org-wide)**
  Multi-session, role-based rollout of the training courses across the organisation.
- **Audit of current set-ups**
  Review your existing AI tools, pilots and spend: what’s working, what to cut, what to fix.

### Larger engagements

- **AI Due Diligence (PE)**
  Assess a target’s AI exposure, capability and value potential before you commit.
- **AI Value-Creation Plan / 100-Day AI Plan**
  A sequenced plan tied to the investment thesis and owned by named business leaders.
- **Fractional CAIO / AI leadership-on-tap**
  Senior AI leadership inside the business, without a permanent hire.

## How we price

- Fixed "from £" pricing, published.
- "From" means the real minimum-scope version: one workflow, standard scope.
- 50% of a workshop fee is credited against a larger engagement commissioned
  within 90 days.
- A free 30-minute scoping call returns a written recommendation and an
  indicative price.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.sapionic.io/)
- [Services](https://www.sapionic.io/services)
- [Approach](https://www.sapionic.io/approach)
- [Insights](https://www.sapionic.io/insights)
- [About](https://www.sapionic.io/about)
- [Machine-readable pricing](https://www.sapionic.io/pricing.md)

## Selected writing

- [The watermark doesn’t know who wrote it](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_ai-act-service-desk-article-50-transparency-activity-7493664579089199104-lF-z) — 2026-08-13
- [The economics move when the decision moves](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/inspired-business-media_speaker-announcement-cio-inspired-summit-ugcPost-7491433712220487681-lGG2) — 2026-08-07
- [The EU AI Act just moved](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_there-is-a-lot-of-noise-about-new-ai-rulebooks-activity-7486359528096256000-1zxd) — 2026-07-24
- [The one paragraph most people skim past](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_vcpe-valuecreation-ai-activity-7485974491748294657-Ch2z) — 2026-07-23
- [Twenty-nine countries just signed a different rulebook](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_something-quietly-significant-happened-in-activity-7485683826002833408-EUpJ) — 2026-07-22
- [Cheaper intelligence isn’t created value](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_ai-transformation-activity-7485315851236249601-A4XJ) — 2026-07-21
- [Why AI initiatives fail to deliver returns](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/value-creation-private-equity_vcpe-valuecreation-ai-activity-7482781269647372288-pmXM) — 2026-07-14
- [Interesting isn’t investable](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_vcpe-valuecreation-ai-activity-7480257196816068609-F0Pl) — 2026-07-07
- [It’s about decisions, not workflows](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_most-ai-initiatives-improve-a-single-step-activity-7476572280710492160-M3Sg) — 2026-06-27
- [Where the value actually sits](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_where-is-the-value-in-ai-activity-7474841406881267712-olaM) — 2026-06-22
- [Operationalising the prototype](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_cxoinstitute-artificialintelligence-agenticai-activity-7463269298774552576-xKtl) — 2026-05-21
- [Foundations, leadership, and what stalls a pilot](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xaviervallee_cioinspired-ai-digitaltransformation-activity-7454857647725662208-kAZb) — 2026-04-28

## Contact

xavier@sapionic.io — https://www.linkedin.com/in/xaviervallee