From intent to measured value
We are called when failure is no longer an option.
We finish what strategy starts.
No engagement outlives its gate.
90 days to a decision. Scale or stop.
The number you set is the one we are held to.
The problem
Business owns the goal. Technology owns the capability. Nobody owns the line between them.
That is a boardroom problem, not a delivery problem. Time to market is never one function’s problem: it runs from sales to supply chain, across owners who each hold part of the input and none of the outcome. Nobody is accountable for the whole line, so it does not move. That line is the unit of work.
The system
Six disciplines, governed as one.
A boutique can hand you a working system. We hand you the working system, the measured result against baseline, the business case with cost of ownership, and a team who can run it without us. Not a better version of the same offer. A different one.
The 90 day thread
COREV. Nothing advances on a meeting. It advances on evidence.
Five stages, an evidence gate at every transition, ownership passed from a named person to a named person, and a binary Demo Day at day 90.How the 90 day sprint works
01
Capture
The one problem worth solving in 90 days, the business case for it, and the evidence that the fundamentals can carry AI on top.
02
Orchestrate
The make or buy decision, the architecture, and the sprint backlog. Ownership passed by name.
03
Realise
A working system built on real data with real users, examined at a midpoint review with the executive sponsor.
04
Evaluate
Controlled rollout, training and enablement, and the KPI evidence that the outcome is real.
05
Value
Demo Day. A binary decision on the evidence: scale or stop, and the next sprint priority.
Day 0
Kickoff
Day 45
Midpoint review
Day 90
Demo Day
Amplified Engineering
How humans and agents build, without giving up the wheel.
Humans own Direct, Verify and Evolve. Agents own Implement. The boundary of autonomy is set by a person at Route and enforced as machine readable policy, not as convention.See the DRIVE loop
- Human owned
Direct
A human sets the intent and the definition of done.
- Human sets the boundary
Route
The client's named owner sets the boundary of autonomy, enforced as machine readable policy.
- Agent owned
Implement
Agents build inside the boundary.
- Human owned
Verify
A human verifies the output against the definition of done.
- Human owned
Evolve
A human folds what was learned back into the system.
Make or Buy
Bartholdi Labs holds no software licence revenue, so we can tell you to buy.
Most firms recommend building, because building is what they invoice. That is not our incentive, and our ventures arm gives us a route to what already exists. Total cost of ownership and return decide the question. Where owning the intellectual property is not the point, we tell you.How make or buy is decided
Prompt
Learn the shape of the problem with what is already available before committing to anything.
Buy
Deploy a validated solution from the curated ecosystem where the capability is already commoditised.
Build
Purpose build only where the solution becomes the client's own advantage.
What it leaves behind
A standing AI Centre of Excellence, after we withdraw.
The pipeline that finds the next use case, the governance that keeps it safe, and the people who can now run it without us.What the centre installs
Who does the work
The person who has already run it, inside the team.
A boutique staffs engineers. We embed an operator who has run the function you are fixing, inside the delivery team while the work happens, not reviewing it from a steering committee. The method is built on the strongest independent research available, disagreements left intact.Read the research Meet the mentors See measured outcomes
Delivered outcome
Support cost down 32 percent
Customer service · Health and fitness · More than 180 clubs
12 weeks to production
Client identities withheld under mutual confidentiality. Executive references provided on request. Every indicator below was baselined before the work started.
Part of Letztec
One company behind the platform.
Bartholdi Labs is the advisory practice of Letztec S.à r.l., a company registered in Luxembourg, alongside its other activities and Bartholdi Tech.How the group is built
Events
Where we convene the people who decide.
Small, senior gatherings rather than a conference circuit. By invitation, and by email.See upcoming events
Upcoming
An exclusive C level gathering
Vienna
15 September 2026
Start with the number you need to move.
One conversation, no obligation, and an honest read on whether the goal you have in mind is the one worth moving first.
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