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Building Paths to AI & Digital Success

Driving Transformation Through Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Our Mission and Vision

Our mission is to provide executive leaders with the strategy, governance, and trust they require to invest in AI with confidence. We combine over two decades of worldwide enterprise technology experience to assist organizations in identifying meaningful AI outcomes, manage unforeseen risks, and earn the trust of the people they serve.

We envision a future in which artificial intelligence strengthens the relationship between business leaders, employees, customers and communities — because it was deployed with clear strategy, sound governance, and earned trust from the start. We aim to be the trusted advisor our customers turn to at every stage of their AI transformation journey.

Solutions

Discover our AI-first IT solutions designed to transform your enterprise when confronting uncertainty & disruption in a competitive AI-first world.

AI Strategy Design 
AI Implementation
AI Readiness: Data Infrastructure

Leverage our AI and data domain expertise to identify digital strategies with meaningful & measurable ROI for your organization. Executive leaders can struggle to set a clear course of action when deploying new and hard to understand AI technologies. Moreover, the pace of new AI innovations is occurring at a rate that is often difficult to keep up with. We can lead your organization through these discussions using thoughtful AI strategy design before implementation.

Organizations of all sizes can find it difficult to identify how to take advantage of new and emerging AI technologies. Questions we often hear when planning for AI implementation include:

  • Where should we start first?

  • How much should we budget?

  • Can you build us a reliable roadmap and timeline?

  • Is there a guarantee this will work?

These are thoughtful questions that deserve careful consideration before the decision to invest in deploying AI across the enterprise. 

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Successful organizations with the best AI outcomes have clear implementation plans -  and they communicate that roadmap at the right time, and in the right place, to ensure transparent and trustworthy outcomes. 

​Not all enterprise AI deployment projects have similar outcomes. Organizations with the best possible outcomes invest early, often and assess their organization’s data readiness to compete in an AI-first world.

Industries of all kinds are being disrupted by AI-native startups operating similar or adjacent services. 

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To avoid this risk, competitive organizations begin with understanding the AI data readiness posture of their own organization.

 

Sophisticated organizations understand that building advanced AI data strategies create competitive advantage against rivals and a defensive moat around their business.  

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Leadership

Founder 

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Christopher Sullivan

Chris is the founder of Advanced Digital Strategies, an AI-native startup focused on advising business leaders, boards, and C-suite executives on how to design, adopt and deploy successful AI-first business strategies across the enterprise.  

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Advanced Digital Strategies provides proven methodologies to achieve greater AI productivity and ROI through a trusted, integrated data environment built for AI readiness, backed by 25 years of proven expertise.

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Prior to creating Advanced Digital Strategies, Chris was most recently a senior executive for the global license advisory organization at Oracle Corporation. In this role, ​​Chris was a AI-domain & deployment expert providing guidance to public & private companies and universities.  He also specializes in the transformation of enterprise cloud computing and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

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​​​​Chris is certified in AI and Digital Strategy (ADS) by the University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Chris received his MBA from Boston University and a BSBA undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston. 

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Industries

We strive to provide selective expert guidance in the following specialized industries. 

Private Equity 

Higher Education

Healthcare

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