Most AI consultants have never owned a P&L, sat in a boardroom, or lived through an implementation that had to work. Michael Chachula has done all three — across global restaurant, retail, and financial services brands. Chachula Group turns AI from a buzzword on your board deck into measurable operating advantage.
Strategy, implementation planning, and executive enablement for organizations that need AI to produce results — not press releases. From readiness audits to fractional AI advisor retainers.
Explore advisory servicesHigh-energy, high-substance keynotes on AI, leadership, and resilience — delivered by a large-personality executive who has led teams through transformation, crisis, and everything between.
View speaking topicsThe Chachula Method™ series — including Artificial Efficiency and The Weight of the Chair — plus the Four Houses framework, online workbook, and corporate bulk programs.
Browse the library"Every executive team I meet is asking the same question: where do we even start with AI? The answer isn't a tool. It's a method — and it starts with the business, not the technology."— Michael Chachula, Founder & CEO, Chachula Group
A fixed-scope AI Readiness Audit maps your opportunity landscape, ranks use cases by ROI and risk, and gives your leadership team a shared language in two weeks.
We design the roadmap, sequence the initiatives, select the vendors, and build the business case your board will actually approve.
Ongoing advisory keeps momentum through implementation — governance, change management, and a seasoned voice in the room when decisions get hard.
Advice from a sitting Chief Information Officer who is implementing AI in a multi-brand franchise organization right now — not recycling a slide deck from 2023.
Deep, lived expertise in franchise economics, POS ecosystems, multi-unit scalability, and the realities of rolling out technology across hundreds of locations.
Engagements follow The Chachula Method™ — a documented, repeatable framework refined across a best-selling book series, not improvised project by project.
A 30-minute call. No pitch deck. You'll leave with at least one idea you can use whether or not we ever work together.
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