Strategic Advisor. AI Strategy & Executive Advisory.
I help executives make technology decisions without depending on the people selling them something.
Most technology decisions fail for reasons no vendor will ever tell you. It's not the technology. It's internal politics, lack of clarity about the real problem, and the pressure to buy before thinking.
You've probably lived this before: a major technology initiative that started with ambitious promises and ended with results well below expectations. The problem wasn't the technology you chose. It was everything that happened before — and around — that choice.
Two types of work
AI Strategy
I help executives separate what actually solves a business problem from what's well-packaged marketing. Before hiring vendors, before building teams, before approving budgets.
Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a clarity problem about what AI can and can't solve. My job is to create that clarity — and make sure the investment goes where it generates results, not where it generates slides.
Executive Advisory
I'm the thinking partner a CxO uses to reason out loud before a decision they can't afford to get wrong. I have no team or platform to sell. Just perspective — and a willingness to say what no one else will say to your face.
The decisions that keep an executive up at night are rarely technical decisions. They're decisions with technical consequences — and the people around the table usually understand one side or the other, but not both. I understand both. I tell the CTO what the CEO needs to hear, and the CEO what the CTO can't explain.
Both types of work share one thing: the problem is rarely what it looks like in the first conversation.
Engagement formats
Diagnostic
The best place to start is here. A structured conversation where I understand your context and you understand how I work. I talk to the people who matter and deliver an honest reading of the situation — with recommendations you can execute with or without me. If it makes sense to continue, we continue. If not, you leave with clarity about the problem.
Sprint
A short project with a clear objective. AI roadmap, vendor evaluation, organizational design — whatever the moment demands. Defined scope, defined timeline, tangible outcome.
Retainer
Ongoing advisory. A permanent sparring partner for decisions that can't wait for the next board meeting. Regular sessions, direct access, close follow-up.
Workshop
An intensive session to align your team around a critical topic. Works well when the challenge isn't lack of competence, but lack of alignment.
Over the past ten years, I've worked with CTOs, CEOs and VPs at mid-to-large companies across Latin America — on decisions that ranged from "we need an AI strategy and don't know where to start" to "we spent millions on a transformation and something went wrong, but no one can tell me what."
The industries vary — telecom, retail, financial services, technology, consumer goods. What doesn't vary is the profile: executives who prefer an honest opinion to a polished report.
Alexandre Klaser
I spent over ten years at ThoughtWorks, leading large-scale transformations across Latin America. I learned firsthand what works and what doesn't when an organization tries to truly change — and why most transformations deliver less than they promise.
Today, as founder of KCS and core partner at Luminous Group — a technology company focused on human-AI collaboration — I do exactly the same thing. Independently, without an institutional agenda. No team to staff, no platform to sell, no incentive to recommend something you don't need.
What I offer is judgment. And the willingness to say what needs to be said, even when no one else will.
Let's talk
If you're about to make a major technology decision and want to talk it through first — send me a message.