Common AI Challenges
01
No Owner
AI pilots are multiplying, but no one owns the direction, the risk or the results.
02
Slow Approvals
Legal and security review every use case from scratch, so good ideas stall.
03
Rising Spend
Tools and vendors keep piling up, and nobody can say what the money is buying.
04
No Board Answer
The board wants an AI strategy, and leadership can't give a confident one yet.
Our Advisory Services
AI Readiness Assessment (2 weeks)
A fast, independent view of where you stand on AI, your top risks, and the 3–5 actions that matter most.
Starting at $7,500
AI Operating Model Sprint (6 weeks)
Six weeks to an AI inventory, governance charter, ranked use cases and a 12-month roadmap with budget, ready for the board.
Starting at $30,000
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Ongoing senior AI leadership at three levels (Advisory, Embedded, Interim): own the roadmap, chair governance, manage vendors and report to the board.
From $8,000/month
Keynotes and Executive Workshops
Sessions for boards and leadership teams on AI strategy and governance.
Custom pricing
Our Methodology
Assess
Inventory every AI initiative, tool and dollar, and identify the risks and gaps that matter most.
Build
Design the governance, decision rights and funded roadmap that let AI scale safely.
Lead
Own the roadmap and governance on an ongoing basis so AI delivers value the board can see.
About Me
I've spent over three decades in IT, from DOS to AI, and most of that time learning the same lesson in different rooms: technology does not fail because the tool is wrong. It fails because the people, the process, and the decision around it were never lined up.
I started in 1991, when systems were simpler and the work was closer to the machine. Since then I have led teams through every shift after that, client systems, enterprise platforms, cloud, automation, and now AI. The technology kept changing. The hard part stayed the same, getting a real operation to adopt something new without breaking what already works.
I have done that work at a Fortune 100 software company, at a global cloud infrastructure company, at a DevOps automation company, at one of the largest media and entertainment companies, and at a major US bank. At the bank, I led engineering teams through multi year planning and delivery at scale.
The industries were different. The job was the same. Lead people through change. Align technology to the business. Make the new thing stick.
That is what Evolyard is.
Evolyard helps mid size companies evolve how they actually operate, not just add a new tool. AI is the current test of that, and it is a real one, with real data, real customers, and real risk on the line. A company can buy AI in a week. It takes longer to fix the data behind it, redesign the workflow around it, decide who owns the decision, and bring the team with it. That is the work I do.
I help leaders decide what is worth changing, what AI is actually worth doing, what to govern before it scales, what to stop buying, and how to get the operation, the people, and the technology moving in the same direction. No hype, no tool pitch, no slide deck that dies in a drawer. A clean decision, a clear path, and your team ready to carry it out.
I work with mid market leaders who already run a serious operation and want AI to make it stronger, not more fragile. If you are looking for someone to sell you a product, I am not your person. If you are looking for someone who has led through this kind of change before, and will tell you the truth about what it will take, we should talk.
Book a conversation. Bring the AI decision you are stuck on. We will sort out what matters, what does not, and what to do first.
New firm. Not a new operator.
Evolyard is new. I am not. I've spent years leading teams through technology change, from DOS to AI. Now I do that work for mid size companies, through Evolyard, working directly with the leaders who have to make the call. You do not get a junior team and my name on the deck. You get me.
The first Evolyard clients will be founding clients. That means a fixed fee, a written outcome, and a clear go or no go at the end of two weeks. If the work is not worth continuing, we stop there.
What I have led before
Agentic workflows, built for developers
Led the phased rollout of agentic coding tools to more than 4,000 developers across 20 engineering teams, with governance and deployment rules up front, so speed did not turn into risk.
Fewer platforms, lower spend, no lost work
Rationalized a portfolio of more than 40 platforms by sorting each one into keep, retire, or invest, then migrating teams off the duplicates through PI planning, cutting spend without breaking the work underneath.
Microsoft 365 for 60,000 people
Led enterprise collaboration for 60,000 users through the move to Microsoft 365, getting productivity tools in place at scale while the business kept running.
What colleagues say
Recommendations from LinkedIn, from people who worked with me. These are colleagues, not Evolyard clients.
Alex P
“Charles possesses an ability to understand technology while keeping perspective on business drivers to merge them both and articulate a value story.”
John C
“Charles is a great visionary and a true leader whose strategic planning abilities steer those who are privileged to report to him to absolute excellence. Charles has been instrumental in driving the mission for enterprise platform strategies for DevOps, collaboration, user experience, service automation, and many other programs.”