Global Gauntlet / Independent Advisory
AI is now a capital allocation decision.
GLOBAL GAUNTLET advises CEOs, PE operating partners, and corporate-development leaders across AI Strategy, M&A, and Applied AI — then translates the recommendation into a 90-day operating agenda.
Senior-led. Independent. For decisions that require senior judgment.
Experience metrics reflect prior operating roles and publicly announced transactions and partnerships.
The mandate
Not another AI plan. A defensible move.
The work begins at the point where a broad AI conversation has to become a clear strategic choice. Each mandate joins business judgment, transaction experience, and hands-on systems fluency.
AI Strategy
Set the investment thesis, prioritize the few use cases that matter, and establish the operating model, governance, and 90-day moves to execute.
Explore strategyM&A
Evaluate AI targets, categories, and partnerships through strategic fit, capability depth, commercial logic, and the realities of integration.
Explore M&A advisoryApplied AI
Use real operating systems, intelligence tools, and workflow design to prove a thesis, create leverage, or turn the decision into measurable action.
Explore applied AI
How the work moves
From signal to an executable answer.
A process should reflect the work it is doing. This one progresses from market and operating evidence to a decision, then stays connected to the constraints that determine whether it works.
Frame the decision
Find the question beneath the noise.
Clarify the decision owner, stakes, timing, alternatives, and evidence required before activity starts masquerading as progress.
Build the thesis
Pressure-test the path to value.
Assess the market, economics, technology, and operating reality until there is a clear recommendation with visible tradeoffs.
Carry it forward
Make the decision survive contact with the business.
Translate the recommendation into an execution path, a decision memo, a diligence view, or a system that changes the work itself.
Selected experience
Advice that has lived with the consequences.
The most useful strategic work is informed by having made the handoff, run the workstream, and carried the responsibility after the decision is announced.
Supported post-close integration for the Google–Fitbit acquisition across a complex enterprise operating model.
What it provesTransaction logic only becomes value when it is translated into operating coordination.
Helped shape an Intuit–Square payments partnership around the QuickBooks customer workflow.
What it provesPartnership strategy works when product, distribution, and commercial incentives line up.
Evaluated technology, diagnostics, and scientific-product opportunities through a capital and strategic lens.
What it provesHigh-stakes opportunities require market, technical, and integration judgment at the same table.
Built around the standards of GLOBAL GAUNTLET. Directly accountable to the quality of the answer.
Engagement model
Structured around a decision. Not a staffing plan.
Engagements are selective, confidential, and built to create a decision-grade outcome without adding another layer of management overhead.
Strategic advisory mandate
Ongoing senior counsel for leadership teams and investors navigating AI strategy, capital allocation, transactions, or market entry.
Decision or diligence sprint
Focused work around an acquisition target, market category, partnership decision, investment thesis, or high-stakes operating choice.
Workflow design & validation
Selective systems design and implementation support when a real workflow is needed to validate or operationalize the strategy.
Next step
Bring the decision. Not a polished brief.
Start with a direct conversation about the choice in front of you, the evidence it needs, and whether GLOBAL GAUNTLET is the right partner for the work.