The Advisor Model
Built differently.
Crown & Core is built to behave like the one main advisor and deliver like a full team - without the overhead, layers, or theory of a classic consulting firm.
A Word, Chosen Carefully
Advisor, not consultant.
"Consultant" has come to mean that a partner selling the engagement, and a bench of juniors delivering it - fluent in frameworks, rarely in the room long enough to see a strategy through to execution.
Crown & Core is an advisor firm with direct, hands-on experience implementing IT strategy inside real organizations - including at 500+ person scale - supported by AI agents rather than junior staff. The judgment is never delegated. The grunt work is.
How the Capacity Works
A virtual team, built on AI agents.
A team of AI agents takes on the standard, repeatable workstreams behind every engagement - so the advisor's own hours go entirely to the parts that require judgment.
Where the agents work
- Research and evidence-gathering ahead of workshops
- Survey and interview synthesis
- First drafts of documentation and roadmap materials
- Meeting and workshop preparation
Where the advisor works
- Workshops and facilitated leadership sessions
- Strategy conversations with the CIO or IT lead
- Board and executive presentations
- Judgment calls that determine the roadmap
The result: the delivery capacity of a three- to four-person team, at one advisor's day rate.
Transparent by Design
Capacity of a team. Price of one advisor.
Day Rate
A senior rate, without the usual corporate markup and overhead cost.
Rates are based on packages and discussed directly to fit the desired outcome.
Traditional strategy consulting prices in the layers behind the partner you meet - associates, managers, overhead. Crown & Core prices in an AI-augmented team instead, and passes the difference on directly.
The price-to-capacity ratio is the point: senior, hands-on judgment, delivered with the throughput of a small team, without the small team's cost.