AI Advisory

Your board wants an AI strategy.
Your team wants a plan that works.

Chachula Group bridges both. We help mid-market and franchise organizations move from AI curiosity to AI capability — with the discipline of an enterprise CIO and the urgency of an operator. Every engagement follows The Chachula Method™: business first, technology second, hype never.

Who this is for

CEOs & boards

Who need an independent, jargon-free view of where AI creates real enterprise value — and where it's a distraction.

Franchisors & multi-unit operators

Who must balance brand-level innovation with franchisee economics, POS realities, and rollout at scale.

PE operating partners

Who want an AI value-creation thesis for portfolio companies — pre-acquisition diligence or post-close acceleration.

Packaged engagements

Choose your starting point.

Fixed scope where it helps you decide. Flexible retainers where the work demands it.

Entry point

AI Readiness Audit

$15,000 fixed fee · 2 weeks
  • Executive interviews across your leadership team
  • Opportunity landscape: use cases ranked by ROI, risk, and readiness
  • Current-state assessment of data, systems, and skills
  • Board-ready findings deck and 12-month priority map
  • 90-minute executive readout session
Start with an audit
Most engaged

AI Strategy & Roadmap

$45,000+ scoped · 6–8 weeks
  • Everything in the Readiness Audit
  • Full AI roadmap sequenced by value and dependency
  • Vendor and platform evaluation with scored recommendations
  • Business case & financial model for board approval
  • Governance, risk, and responsible-AI framework
  • Implementation planning: teams, timeline, budget, KPIs
Scope a roadmap
Ongoing

Fractional AI Advisor

$8,500 / month · quarterly commitment
  • Standing monthly executive advisory sessions
  • On-call counsel for vendor, hiring, and investment decisions
  • Quarterly roadmap refresh and board reporting support
  • Team enablement: workshops for leaders and practitioners
  • Priority access between sessions
Discuss a retainer

Pricing shown as published starting points; final scope confirmed in a discovery call. Executive workshops and board sessions are also available as standalone engagements from $7,500/day.

The Chachula Method™ applied to AI

Four houses. One operating system for transformation.

House of Purpose

Anchor every AI initiative to a business outcome the CEO already cares about. If it doesn't move revenue, margin, risk, or experience — it doesn't make the roadmap.

House of People

Technology is only as effective as the people who use it. We design adoption, upskilling, and change management into the plan from day one — not as an afterthought.

House of Process

Map the workflow before you automate it. We find the friction, quantify it, and rebuild the process so AI amplifies a good system instead of accelerating a broken one.

House of Platform

Architecture, vendors, data, and security — selected to fit your stack and your budget, with the skepticism of someone who has sat through a thousand vendor demos.

Specialized expertise

Industries we know from the inside.

Restaurants & hospitality

Franchise scalability, POS and kitchen tech, guest experience digitization, loyalty, and labor optimization — from a leader who ran technology for global restaurant brands.

Franchise systems

Multi-brand platform strategy, franchisee ROI modeling, technology fees, and rollout playbooks that respect both the brand and the operator.

Financial & consumer services

Security-first modernization, compliance-aware AI adoption, and customer analytics grounded in experience at major consumer finance institutions.

Not sure which engagement fits?

That's exactly what the first call is for. Thirty minutes, straight talk, zero obligation.

Book a strategy call