mitch

April 2026AI StrategyMitch Dornich The Gap Between “AI Demo” and “AI in Production” Everyone has seen an impressive AI demo. A chatbot that sounds human. A document processor that extracts data. A recommendation engine that surfaces relevant results. The demo always works. Then you try to put it in production. And you learn that the … Read more

January 2026Product Deep DiveMitch Dornich The Consulting Time Tax Here’s a number most consulting firms don’t talk about: for every hour of billable client interaction, there are 3 to 5 hours of non-billable work. Research, prep, documentation, deliverable generation. The session itself is the easy part. Everything around it is the bottleneck. We know because … Read more

December 2025AI StrategyMitch Dornich Most AI Readiness Assessments Are Vendor Qualification Forms “Do you have a data warehouse?” “Is your leadership aligned on AI?” “Have you identified AI use cases?” These are the questions most AI readiness assessments ask. They sound strategic. They’re actually qualification questions designed to figure out if you’re ready to buy … Read more

November 2025Builder’s LogMitch Dornich The Question Every Business Asks “Should we build custom AI or buy an off-the-shelf solution?” We hear this in every strategy engagement. And the honest answer is: it depends on things most vendors won’t tell you about. We’ve done both. We’ve built custom AI products from scratch (our crop lending app, … Read more