Cohort Consulting Group
Cohort Consulting Group

Put AI to work. Start with a pilot, a discovery, or a strategy.

We put AI into your team's everyday work, modernize the systems underneath, and build the solutions you can't buy off the shelf. Fixed prices. Weeks, not quarters.

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The AI divide

Most AI programs stall. The winners start differently.

MIT's GenAI Divide research found a sharp divide. It is not about the model. The companies getting real returns start narrow, prove value fast, and build on systems that can carry it. That is the side of the divide we put you on.

Source: MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide, July 2025, preliminary findings.

95%

of enterprise GenAI pilots produced zero measurable return.

2x

Pilots run with an external partner reach deployment about twice as often as internal builds. Correlation, not causation, but the gap is sharp.

50%+

of GenAI budgets go to sales and marketing tools, while the strongest returns show up in back-office operations.

~90

Days to deployment for mid-market companies working with a partner. Building alone takes 9 months or more.

Why do most AI projects fail?

Get our short, plain-English briefing on what the successful few do differently, and what it means for your next 90 days. Tell us where to send it.

Three ways to start

Start where you're ready.

01 / OPERATIONALIZING AI

AI in your team's everyday work. Paying its way in weeks.

We put AI to work where your people already work: everyday productivity, trusted knowledge, AI-enabled operations. Start with a 4-week pilot for one team and measure the difference.

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Stage path: Everyday AI Productivity → Trusted AI Knowledge → AI-Enabled Operations → Intelligent AI Business.

IDC benchmark: companies average $3.70 back for every $1 invested in generative AI.

AI Coach Agent · Microsoft 365 Copilot
AI Coach Agent adoption summary: active users, onboarding progress, and time saved per user
02 / APPLICATION MODERNIZATION

Your existing apps, made AI-ready, secure, and cheaper to run.

Fixed-price modernization of the systems you already have. Start with a 4-week AI Discovery & Assessment and get a fixed-price roadmap.

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Assessment first: your existing systems are the requirement. Fixed-price modernization follows.

IBM benchmark: structured modernization frees 15 to 35% of infrastructure cost, year over year.

Discovery & Assessment Tool (DAT)
Discovery & Assessment Tool (DAT) Engagement Dashboard STATUS In Progress EVIDENCE 78% READINESS Blocked: 3 NEXT ACTION Review gaps Component Triage (18 of 20) A: MODERNIZE NOW B: WATCH C: LEAVE ALONE SAVINGS & PAYBACK Payback highest: billing-api, order-sync evidence-linked
03 / SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT

The capability you can't buy off the shelf, proven in weeks, not months.

Scoped by day, built overnight: a working solution demoed against your real data, closing with a build roadmap and a fixed-price estimate.

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Solution work is scoped to your business, data, and operating context after qualification.

McKinsey benchmark: coding tasks run up to twice as fast with generative AI.

Solution Development · Requirements to working solution
A solution requirements form on the left becoming a working customer portal on the right

We operationalize AI, modernize for AI, and build with AI.

Starting engagements

Start with a defined four-week engagement.

Begin with a focused pilot, discovery, or strategy engagement. Each is designed to produce the evidence and decisions required before a larger investment is made.

Recommended starting point

Everyday AI Productivity Pilot

Fixed fee4 weeks

Put approved AI into the everyday work of one team, measure where it creates value, and establish the foundation for broader adoption.

AI Discovery & Assessment

Fixed fee4 weeks

Identify where cloud cost, legacy architecture, security, data, or application constraints are blocking business and AI priorities.

AI Strategy Sprint

Fixed fee4 weeks

Align leadership on the highest-value AI opportunities and establish a prioritized roadmap for investment and execution.
Choose where to start
Customers

Trusted by industry leaders.

Led by Cohort's founders while at Microsoft: modernization and AI programs for organizations from the Danish Defense to Energizer. The same playbook, sized for a company your size, at a fixed price.

Microsoft IT

Azure compute costs down 22%, $8M+ in annual cloud waste eliminated.

Led by Cohort's founders

 LIFX

Release cadence accelerated from twice yearly to monthly.

Led by Cohort's founders

 Bulle Consulting

AWS costs down 40%, CRM ready for AI-driven B2G expansion.

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Where it all leads

Wherever you start, you end up in the same place.

An intelligent AI business, where AI is how the business runs, not a project on the side. Every engagement builds on the last, and everything each one produces is yours to keep.

Operate AI in your team's everyday work Modernize Existing systems made AI-ready Build New solutions, proven on your data ONE DESTINATION INTELLIGENT AI BUSINESS AI is how the business runs, not a project on the side
How we deliver

One team, synchronous value creation.

A senior Forward Deployed Engineer owns your context, scopes the smallest valuable increment each day, and holds the quality bar; the AI Delivery Cell advances validated increments overnight. You see demo-ready progress every morning. Fixed prices, agreed before work starts.

Our approach →
BY DAY Forward Deployed Engineer In your business: frames the problem, scopes each increment, accepts the work. Scoped increment, every evening Working demo, every morning OVERNIGHT AI Delivery Cell Engineering lead, AI engineers, and a reviewer build and test the increment.
Who you're working with

People who have run this at enterprise scale.

You work directly with people who have run this at enterprise scale: former Microsoft, AWS, and Accenture leaders alongside hands-on infrastructure specialists, data engineers, and solution architects, carrying advanced degrees, including an MBA and a doctorate.

Cohort Consulting Group comprises former leaders and architects from AWS, Microsoft, and Accenture Consulting Services, as well as Microsoft IT and Microsoft Engineering, all with experience building and delivering complex solutions for enterprise customers worldwide. The founders led global Azure modernization and helped build the Cloud Adoption Framework and the patterns behind Azure Landing Zones.

Team members joining hands

Travis Gerber

Chief Executive Officer

Former CIO of Microsoft UK who later led Microsoft's worldwide Azure professional services business from $80M to $500M, then Chief Product Officer of ASX-listed Buddy Technologies and COO of LIFX. Now Cohort's CEO: he has run IT, run a global services P&L, and run companies. MBA. 26 years of enterprise experience.

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Nabin Khanal

President and Chief Delivery Officer

Rose from engineer to Senior Director of Program Management for Azure Cloud & AI across 25 years at Microsoft, building worldwide delivery and partner programs. Now Cohort's President and Chief Delivery Officer: he runs the global delivery organization, from the embedded FDEs to the AI Delivery Cell. Doctorate in business administration. More than 25 years of enterprise experience.

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Mark Godfrey

Principal Solution Architect

Mark is a Principal Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Architect who partners with clients through their cloud transformation and modernization initiatives, delivering solutions built on AI-ready cloud architectures. With more than 20 years spanning multiple industries, Mark has guided pre-sales engagements and delivery projects across diverse cloud and enterprise environments, from startups to Fortune 500 organizations.

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Adam Fazio

Head of Product

Adam owns product strategy, go-to-market execution, pre-sales, and partner-aligned offerings for Cohort's AI-ready cloud modernization business. He brings 20+ years of experience driving cloud, AI, SaaS, and consulting innovation across Microsoft, Nike, Siemens, governments, and Fortune 500s.

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Deaddin Edris

Product Marketing Advisor

Deaddin provides strategic leadership across messaging, go-to-market execution, and market positioning for the firm's professional services portfolios. He brings nearly two decades of experience driving growth, market adoption, and competitive differentiation for global technology organizations, including Symantec, Microsoft, and ServiceNow.

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Certifications & accreditations

Microsoft Solutions Partner, three Azure designations.

Microsoft Solutions Partner for Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Digital & App Innovation, all Azure. Our AI Discovery & Assessment is available in the Microsoft Marketplace.

Microsoft Solutions Partner: Infrastructure (Azure)
Microsoft Solutions Partner: Data & AI (Azure)
Microsoft Solutions Partner: Digital & App Innovation (Azure)
Cohort / Industries

Built for the businesses that run the real economy.

Scheduling, quality, inventory, and the back office: more output from the operation you already run.

A sample of what we build for manufacturing:

Agents

  • Quality Watch Agent: flags inspection drift before it becomes scrap.
  • Reorder Agent: drafts the purchase order when stock and lead times call for it.
  • Quote Draft Agent: turns an RFQ and drawings into a first-pass quote.

AI Solutions

  • Smart Factory: the shop floor instrumented, connected, and optimizing itself.
  • Predictive Maintenance: machines that flag their own failures before they stop the line.
  • Digital Thread: one connected record from quote to drawing to job to shipment.

Reporting, reconciliation, and client response with AI your compliance team can live with.

A sample of what we build for financial services:

Agents

  • KYC Check Agent: runs identity and sanctions checks on every new client file.
  • Exception Watch Agent: flags out-of-policy transactions with the evidence attached.
  • Credit Memo Agent: drafts the credit memo from the application and statements.

AI Solutions

  • Intelligent Document Processing: statements, applications, and contracts read straight into your systems.
  • RegTech Compliance: compliance that runs continuously and stays audit-ready.
  • Client 360: one governed view of every client across accounts, products, and history.

Modern constituent service and document workflows on the systems you already own.

A sample of what we build for state and local government:

Agents

  • Permit Intake Agent: checks each application for completeness and routes it to the right reviewer.
  • Records Redaction Agent: redacts and packages a public-records response.
  • Grant Report Agent: drafts the compliance report from spending against grant terms.

AI Solutions

  • Digital Front Door: residents find answers and services in one place, any hour.
  • Smart Permitting: the permit lifecycle digital end to end, visible and predictable.
  • Open Data Platform: agency data published, searchable, and usable.

Lift the administrative load so staff time goes to students, not paperwork.

A sample of what we build for education:

Agents

  • Enrollment Chase Agent: chases missing applicant documents through the funnel.
  • Aid File Agent: checks each financial-aid file and flags verification issues.
  • Early Alert Agent: flags the student whose attendance and grades say reach out.

AI Solutions

  • Student Success Platform: every signal about a student in one place, with outreach built in.
  • Smart Campus: scheduling, space, and operations run on live data.
  • Personalized Learning: coursework that adapts to each student's pace and gaps.

Give billable teams their hours back and turn firm knowledge into a working asset.

A sample of what we build for professional services:

Agents

  • Proposal Draft Agent: drafts the proposal from your past wins and rate card.
  • Time Capture Agent: turns calendars and email into draft time entries.
  • Follow-Up Agent: chases open items so the partner doesn't have to.

AI Solutions

  • Firm Intelligence: every past engagement, precedent, and expert findable in seconds.
  • Smart Staffing: the right people on the right work, utilization live.
  • Client Experience Portal: status, deliverables, and requests in one governed place.

Dispatch, tracking, and exceptions handled faster, with fewer touches.

A sample of what we build for logistics and distribution:

Agents

  • Shipment Watch Agent: flags the at-risk shipment before the customer calls.
  • Freight Audit Agent: checks each carrier invoice against the contracted rate.
  • Order Status Agent: answers where-is-my-order from live tracking.

AI Solutions

  • Smart Supply Chain: demand, inventory, and movement planned as one system.
  • Logistics Control Tower: every shipment, dock, and exception in one live view.
  • Route Optimization: routes planned around real constraints and replanned as the day changes.
Resources

Latest thinking.

2026-07-16

What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer, and Why Your AI Project Needs One

 2026-06-15

Cohort AI-Ready Cloud Modernization: Discovery & Assessment Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace

 2026-04-15

Why Your Cloud Costs Keep Rising (Even After You Migrated)

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Ready when you are

Put AI to work in 30 days.

Three fixed-fee ways to start, every one ending with proof and a recommended path forward. Everything each engagement produces is yours to keep.

Put AI to work in 30 days
Prefer to talk first? Book a 25-minute fit call

We help define the business problem, confirm sponsorship, and pick the right starting engagement. If we are not the right fit, we say so quickly.