Your AI needs more than good tools. It needs a shared direction.

No. The 45-minute Compass Call focuses on how you currently use AI and what you want to achieve with it. The conversation covers four topics: Where are you today? What is missing? What matters most? And what does your team need? The focus is on your workflows, experience and open questions, not a product presentation. AI THUNDER is vendor-independent: the tools that make sense depend on your situation. We only discuss implementation with BRAINRISE after reviewing the findings and developing the plan together. You do not have to make that decision during the Compass Call. If confidential documents are needed, we agree the terms of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with you beforehand.

If you are only looking to buy a software licence or get a quick tool recommendation, AI THUNDER is not the right fit. The focus is on how AI can be used effectively in your business and integrated into existing workflows. That means looking beyond the technology to your goals, existing knowledge, responsibilities and the people who will use it. This may involve a single application or bringing several initiatives together. What matters is that the solution works in everyday use, not just in a demonstration.

You do not need a presentation or a complete overview of every AI application in your business. One or two concrete examples are helpful: What is already being used, what works well and where do difficulties arise? Bring along the goals or initiatives you would like to discuss as well. You don't need to provide system access or export any data for the Compass Call. To begin with, your description of the situation is enough.

Yes. You keep the AI Performance Plan whether or not you continue working with us. It takes shape during the strategy session: together, we review the assessments in the Readiness Mirror, compare them with your experience and agree the next steps. The plan sets out priorities, actions, responsibilities and the order of implementation. Your team can use it to continue independently or involve other partners. Whether BRAINRISE takes on implementation or works alongside your team to move it forward is a separate decision you make afterwards.

The Compass Call, Readiness Mirror and strategy session are free of charge. This also applies if you decide not to continue working with us and choose to implement the resulting AI Performance Plan independently. You only incur fees when you explicitly engage BRAINRISE for implementation. ROOKIE, PRO and CHAMP provide different levels of monthly implementation capacity. The package prices are EUR 3,900 for ROOKIE, EUR 6,500 for PRO and EUR 12,000 for CHAMP, per month excluding VAT. The right package depends on the work you want to get done and how much capacity you need each month. The initial engagement runs for 90 days. The agreed package fee is billed monthly in advance.