AI strategy consulting

The last time this happened,
it was electricity.

Electricity did not make the old economy faster. It changed which businesses were possible, and it did it in a single generation. AI is doing the same thing now, and it is starting with marketing — the function built almost entirely out of language, images and judgment.

Two founders, two disciplines 25+ years combined Ex-AWS engineering
The briefing

One email a month. Where AI is measurably changing cost, margin and market position — with the arithmetic attached, and nothing to buy.

01 — The shift

A utility arrives, and then everything reorganizes around it.

We went from horses to cars, and from workshops to factories. Power stopped being something a business had to own and generate, and became something it drew from a wall. Then it entered the house: the washing machine, the television, the computer, the water pump. Work that had always required a person's hands stopped requiring them.

1880 — 1920

The grid

Central generation replaces the steam engine on the shop floor. Factory layout, labor and geography are all redrawn.

1920 — 1960

Into the house

Appliances absorb domestic labor. An entire category of work disappears, and an entire consumer market appears in its place.

2023 — now

The second utility

Reasoning, writing and analysis become metered capacity you draw on demand. Marketing is the first function to be repriced by it.

Next

Your market

Someone in your category is about to operate at a fraction of your cost per campaign. The only question is whether it is you.

02 — The stakes

The same change is a crisis for one company and a market opening for the one next door.

If nothing changes
  • A cost structure priced for the old ratio of people to output.
  • Teams whose main deliverable has quietly become a commodity.
  • Tools adopted one by one, with no measurement of what they actually moved.
  • A competitor matching your output with a fraction of the spend.
If you move first
  • Cost per campaign, per lead and per contract falls before your competitors reprice.
  • Your people move up the value chain instead of out the door.
  • Speed to market becomes a structural advantage, not a quarterly push.
  • You set the new standard in your category, and everyone else answers to it.
03 — The engagement

Analyze, evaluate, strategize.

We start with the business you are running today, not with a technology roadmap. Every recommendation is tied to a number you already track.

01

Analyze the current business

Interviews with the people doing the work, a walk through the actual funnel, and a map of where time and money go by function.

Process map, cost-per-output baseline, ranked list of exposure points.
2 — 3 weeks
02

Evaluate what AI actually changes

Each candidate process is tested against real capability, not vendor claims — what holds up in production, what needs a human, what is not ready.

Feasibility scoring, projected margin effect, build-versus-buy call per process.
2 weeks
03

Build the strategy you can execute

A sequenced plan with owners, budget, and the metric each phase has to move — written to be run by your team, with us on call while it lands.

12-month roadmap, org and skills plan, measurement framework, executive briefing.
3 weeks + support
04 — Our products

Four products. Take them in order, or take the one you need.

Each one stands alone and each one feeds the next. Most companies start with the diagnosis, because it tells you which of the other three is urgent.

01

Company diagnosis

Strategy consulting. We establish what the business actually does today — structure, flows, bottlenecks — and where it is exposed, before anyone proposes a solution.

Diagnosis Strategy consulting
02

Company metrics

Staff management, HR and the orgboard. Every function gets a named owner and a statistic, so performance stops being a matter of opinion.

Metrics HR Orgboard
03

Money management

Balance sheet, key ratios, P&L, cash flow and financial planning — assembled so the owner can read the position of the company in a few minutes.

Balance P&L & cash flow Financial planning
04

New Age Company

AI agents in production, with cost control, productivity and efficiency measured against the baseline we set in the diagnosis. Mixed staff: humans and agents on the same orgboard, each with a defined post.

AI agents Cost control Human / agent staff
05 — Who you work with

Two founders who have taken businesses apart and put them back together.

newAIway was started in Clearwater, Florida by two long-time friends who spent their careers on opposite sides of the same problem: the structure of a business, and the systems that actually run it.

Alexander Mikhaylets, co-founder of newAIway

Alexander Mikhaylets

Co-founder · Business diagnostics

A corporate lawyer by training with more than a decade inside investment and legal firms in Kyiv — mergers and acquisitions, legal and financial due diligence, debt restructuring and insolvency. A licensed WISE consultant, he leads the diagnostic work: org structure, statistics, financial planning and staff evaluation.

Business diagnostics M&A & restructuring Licensed WISE consultant
Anton Batalin, co-founder of newAIway

Anton Batalin

Co-founder · Technology

More than 15 years as a chief executive, and 12 years in software development including a term as a software development engineer at AWS. He judges what a system can actually do in production, which is where most AI plans fail.

15+ yrs CEO Ex-AWS SDE 12 yrs software

Read the arithmetic before your market does.

Once a month we publish what we are seeing in real engagements: which processes moved, by how much, and what it cost. No case-study theater, no pitch.