Become an AI-first company, and own what you build.
Thane Alaric installs the AI systems that make your growth predictable, and architects them so you own the engine instead of renting it. The models stay cheap and swappable. The advantage stays yours.
Most companies rent
their intelligence. Then
it stops being theirs.
of enterprise AI pilots delivered no measurable return, not because the models were weak, but because they were never integrated into how the company works, or owned.
MIT, State of AI in Business 2025
Most companies use AI the way they rented software in 2010, a tool here, a subscription there, the real intelligence sitting on someone else’s server. It works until the bill, the model, or the vendor changes. Then the thing you built your operations on belongs to someone else.
The leaders pulling ahead are doing the opposite. They are building AI systems they own, portable across models, open to inspection, and an advantage that grows over time instead of one a competitor can simply subscribe to.
The distance between the two compounds every month. Falling behind is not a flat cost, the leader’s head start and your own entanglement both grow.
We take care of everything AI, so you stay great at your thing.
Thane Alaric is an AI-transformation firm. A vendor sells you deliverables and leaves. We hold the architecture, strategy, and governance of your AI operations and own the outcome with you, so you keep only the decisions that are actually yours.
We build the AI systems that run your business, designed to be yours: model-portable, documented, rebuildable. No black box you can’t open.
We decide what to build and what to rent, which model, which workflow, so every euro of AI spend buys advantage, not lock-in.
We keep your AI auditable, compliant with the EU AI Act, and under your control: one source of truth for the decisions that matter.
Work led by our Managing Partner, Daniel Förster.
Own the blueprint.
Rent the factory.
The models are the factory: rent them cheap, and swap them the moment a better one ships. The blueprint is the part that makes you money: the systems, the context, the workflows, the accumulated judgment of how your company actually works. That part you own.
A new model, a price hike, a vendor you’ve outgrown: none of it forces a rebuild. The buyer’s power stays on your side of the table.
The models, agents and tools: best-in-class, deliberately cheap, and switchable. Rented capacity, never the source of your advantage.
The relationship,
not a transaction.
We meet you where you are and own the outcome from there. Every engagement is the first cycle of a longer relationship: you own what we build, and the work compounds across the business. We start with whichever door fits.
A working, owned engine for winning clients, built with your team in ninety days, then yours to run.
A scoped read of what you own, what you rent, and where the next advantage is.
The positioning and brand layer your growth runs on, clarified and owned.
Senior judgment leading your AI, on retainer, without the eighteen-month hire.
A website, content, ads, and social, run as one coordinated team instead of five different vendors.
Why not just hire a
Head of AI?
Because the math doesn’t work. Find the right person (six months), train them (six months), absorb the first failed builds (three months), replace them when they leave (three months): eighteen months gone, the budget spent, your competitors further ahead. And a single internal hire still falls behind a field that moves this fast.
A fractional Head of AI removes the eighteen months on day one. You get senior judgment leading your AI now, and you are not betting the company on one CV.
Senior people, on your
side of the table.
Daniel Förster is the Managing Partner of Thane Alaric. For over a decade he has built and run companies, served over 2,000 founders, and worked as the embedded operator (COO, CFO and CMO in function) inside founder-led businesses. He now leads Thane Alaric, where companies become AI-native the right way: own the engine, rent the models, keep the judgment that’s yours.
- 2,000+ founders served
- Integrated CXO (COO, CFO, CMO)
- 15+ years building companies
“Execution is not the bottleneck anymore. It’s how fast you can review, assess, decide well.”
Stop renting your advantage.
Start owning it.
In one working session we map how your company uses AI today, what you own, what you rent, where it breaks, and show you the single highest-value move to make next. No pitch deck. You leave with a plan either way.