Twenty years in emerging technology. Four years shipping production AI at Lucasfilm and Digital Domain. Now helping executives make confident AI decisions — without creating dependency on consultants.
The questions that keep coming up in every boardroom.
The pressure is real. The noise is louder. And most AI consultants are making it worse — not better.
"The tidal wave is coming. I'm not here to sell you a life raft. I'm here to teach you how to build your own boat."
Most consultants arrive with a solution. I arrive with questions.
Before I tell you what I think you need, I want to understand what's actually going on — where the pressure is coming from, where your team's fluency really is, and what the cost of inaction looks like for your specific business.
That diagnosis shapes everything that follows: the strategy, the roadmap, and the way I work with your team.
A structured engagement that gives you clarity, confidence, and a concrete path forward.
From a focused assessment to embedded advisory support — scope is tailored to where you are and what you actually need. We figure that out together on the first call.
Book a Call to Discuss Scope →I've spent twenty years at the intersection of emerging technology and the people who have to make it work.
I started as a software engineer and artist at Lucasfilm — building early cloud-render infrastructure, shipping compositing systems remotely onto Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean, and leading VFX teams on Star Wars and Avengers. I became a supervisor. Then a product manager. Then the person the C-suite called when AI started arriving in the pipeline faster than anyone knew what to do with.
At Digital Domain, I owned the AI product roadmap — shipping neural deformation, facial capture, and motion diffusion systems into live productions. I sat with the artists, the engineers, and the executives. I learned what actually works, and what just sounds good in a pitch deck.
That's the experience I bring to this work. Not theory. Not frameworks borrowed from someone else. Twenty years of shipping things — and knowing what it takes to bring people along.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. I'll ask you a few questions about your AI situation — and you'll leave with at least one thing that's useful, regardless of whether we work together.
Book a 30-Minute Call → Or reach me directly: mark@pivot-ai.site