Shift·Method
AI Operating Method

Turning companies into AI-native organizations.

Where strategy, people and agents compound business outcomes. We don't sell software adoption. We change how the whole company decides, works and grows — and we leave behind a platform that holds the firm's accumulated AI judgment.

Strategy + People + Agents
3 mindsets
Strategy + People + Agents
In one method, one engagement
1 day
SCOPE to size your impact
Before committing to SIGNAL
Multi-model
Agentic layer · vendor-agnostic
Claude · GPT · open-source
Founder-led
Angel Bou · ex-Adsmurai
Stanford · Inveready network
AI transformation isn't software adoption.
It's a shift in how the company decides, works and grows.

The market is full of AI tools, toggles and plug-ins. Buying them is the easy part. Most companies still get nothing out of them because no one captured what their senior people actually know, no one rewired the team's day-to-day, and no one built a layer where the firm's AI judgment lives forever.

Shift Method is the operating method that does all three: strategic judgment captured into agents, adoption sustained across the whole organisation, and a unified agentic platform that holds your firm's accumulated decisions, processes and automations as compounding intellectual property.

Big4 firms have business and change methodology but no platform. Tech consultancies have platform but no operating method. We're the only place where all three live in one engagement.

One method. Three disciplines.

AI transformation fails when it lives in one department. We deploy the three mindsets your company actually needs — at the same time, on the same engagement, owned by the same partner.

01
Strategy
Business judgment captured
We sit with your founders and senior leaders. We capture how value is composed in your firm — which decisions matter, which KPIs move the needle, which processes actually generate margin. That judgment then calibrates every agent and automation we build.
02
People
Change management & adoption
Identification of champions. Mitigation of resistance. Training built around your team's actual pains and processes — not generic AI literacy. Weekly orchestration of priorities. Your people don't end up with new tools they ignore. They grow personally as the company grows through them.
03
Agents
Your AI knowledge layer
Vertical agents and automations calibrated to your firm, running on our agentic platform. Multi-model under the hood — Claude, GPT and selected open-source, orchestrated per use case for accuracy and cost economics. One unified AI fabric across the whole organisation, where your accumulated knowledge compounds.
Strategy People Agents · platform
Big4 firms
Cultural transformation boutiques
AI / tech consultancies
Generic AI tools & toggles
Shift Method™

Big4 firms cover similar disciplines at enterprise pricing and 6–12 month timelines. We operate at mid-market scale with measured ROI in 2–3 weeks — and the platform compounds as IP you own.

Four phases.
One direction.

Each phase is a complete deliverable on its own — and a deliberate step toward the next. We don't sell hours. We sell closing.

SCOPE
Pre-diagnostic · 1 day
Size the problem in a single day.
One intensive day with the heads of department who shape your business. You leave with an informed SIGNAL quote calibrated to your reality — no strings attached.
SIGNAL
Diagnostic · 2–3 weeks
The criterion map for your firm.
We enter with founders and team. We capture how your firm decides. We ship the first quick-wins live and leave behind a quantified roadmap to the next phases.
SHIFT
Implementation · 2–5 months
The shift in how your team works.
We make AI part of how your team works. Training, champions, weekly orchestration. Duration calibrated to your company's size and complexity.
AGENTS
Product · continuous
One AI fabric. Secure. No silos.
Data security and governance built in from day one. Vertical autonomous agents unifying the whole organisation under one AI fabric — no silos between departments, every team aligned on the same ground truth. Multi-model under the hood.

Shifts delivered.
Identities under NDA.

These two engagements are live or in pending publication. Numbers and outcomes are real — identities are published under formal client authorisation.

Anonymous case · identity pending publication
Horizontal shift across the whole organisation
Mid-market multi-vertical company · ~400 people · international operation
~400
People in scope
Mid-market
International scale
Horizontal
Whole-firm transformation
The shift was deliberately horizontal — every team, every layer, simultaneously. We didn't automate a corner of the business. We changed how the whole company thinks, decides and ships. Cultural and operational change at the same time, across the entire organisation.
Anonymous case · delivery in progress
Senior partner judgment captured into operating agents
Spanish mid-sized professional services firm · multi-office
~30%
Recurring partner hours reclaimed
3 wks
First quick-wins live in production
Criterion-led
Partner judgment encoded into agents
We captured the criterion of senior partners and calibrated vertical agents to maintain that judgment 24/7 over the firm's real systems. The team adopted the new way of working through training built on their own pains. Partner hours moved from repetitive review to strategic client work.

One AI fabric for the whole company.

Most companies end up with AI tools scattered across departments — marketing on one model, finance on another, legal on a third. The result is fragmentation, silos and zero institutional learning. We do the opposite.

Unified. Multi-model. Vendor-agnostic.

One agentic layer that every team across the company works through. Every use case is routed to the best-suited model — Claude for complex reasoning, GPT for breadth and ecosystem, selected open-source for cost-sensitive or latency-critical workloads. The orchestration is yours, not the vendor's.

What you get is a company where every department speaks the same operational language. No silos. No fragmented tool usage. Your accumulated processes, judgments, agents and automations compound as intellectual property that lives with you.

The model vendors are engines. Our platform is the cockpit you run the company from.

L0 · your firm
Your people, your decisions, your processes
Partner-level judgment, KPIs, real systems, customers
L1 · platform
Knowledge · agents · automations · panel
One agentic layer across the whole org · your accumulated AI IP
L2 · engines
Claude · GPT · open-source models
Routed per use case for accuracy + cost economics

Companies that have outgrown tribal knowledge.

Complex operations. Multiple departments. People who need to change how they think and work — not just what software they open. The shift is horizontal — every team, simultaneously.

Companies in growth
Past the founder bottleneck
You've grown past the founder. Your operating model is still held together by tribal knowledge and senior dependencies. You don't need another tool. You need an operating system upgrade that aligns every team and decision under one AI fabric.
Partner-led firms
Where judgment is the product
Senior people make complex decisions every day that AI tools alone cannot replicate. Your value depends on partner criterion that has to be captured into agents before automation makes business sense — and on a team that adopts the new way of working alongside the senior layer.

Answers, not pitches.

Are you an AI consultancy?
No. AI consultancies sell you the technology. We're the AI Operating Method — we change how your whole company decides, works and grows. The technology comes second. The shift in business, people and operations comes first, and lives in our agentic platform afterwards as your firm's compounding IP.
Which AI model do you use?
All the ones that make sense for each use case. Our agentic platform is multi-model and vendor-agnostic: Claude for complex reasoning and long context, GPT for breadth and ecosystem, selected open-source models for cost-sensitive or latency-critical workloads. We route per use case for accuracy and cost economics — you don't lock into a single vendor.
How are you different from PwC × Anthropic or a Big4 firm?
Big4 and major consultancies are enterprise implementation at premium pricing with generic transformation frameworks. Shift Method is mid-market boutique with a proprietary AI Operating Method: SIGNAL with measured ROI in 2–3 weeks, SHIFT in 2–5 months calibrated to scale, AGENTS as a continuous product on our agentic platform. Different price point, different speed, different fit to your operating context.
Is this only for professional firms?
No. We operate in professional firms and in mid-market multi-sector companies. What our clients share is operational complexity that benefits from a horizontal shift across every team — not vertical automation in one department.
What happens to my data?
We operate on top of your systems — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, drives, ERPs, CRMs, whatever you use. Our platform runs on Azure EU with zero data retention on the model APIs. Each client in an isolated tenant. Data security and governance built in from day one. ISO 27001 in roadmap for Q4 2026. Your firm's knowledge — captured judgments, processes, agents — is your IP, hosted in your tenant, exportable.
How fast does the change become visible?
SIGNAL ships the first quick-wins in production during the first 2–3 weeks, with measured ROI documented in writing. SHIFT delivers a trained team and an operational panel in 2–5 months calibrated to your scale. AGENTS is continuous from there.

Operators before consultants.

Senior team. All ex-founders and ex-executives from tech, SaaS, financial services and global mid-market. Hands-on, not PowerPoint. We step into your operation and push the shift from the inside with you — ready to take on your challenge.

Angel Bou · Founder & Lead Consultant.

15+ years redesigning operating models in tech, SaaS and financial services. The Shift Method methodology was born from operating inside the companies he later learned to transform from the outside.

As VP Corporate Strategy & AI Transformation at a mid-market digital company, recently led a horizontal shift toward an AI-native operating model — the inside experience that shaped the method.

Previously, CEO & Co-Founder of Simplr (B2B/B2B2C sustainability SaaS scaled across Europe from zero, 2020-2025). Operating Partner at Inveready Technology Investment Group (VC/PE, 2017-2020) supporting portfolio strategic transformations and M&A. Board Member at Zinklar, Photoslurp (merged with Flowbox) and Revelock (acquired by Feedzai).

Global tech stage: Head of Demand Generation at Zuora (IPO preparation, San Francisco). Product Manager at Google Workspace (Mountain View). Marketing leadership at ForeScout Technologies (SF Bay Area) and INBENTA (early semantic AI search).

The extended team

Senior operators joining each engagement by phase and vertical: ex-CEOs, ex-COOs, ex-VPs of Strategy & Transformation, ex-Heads of Change & People, ex-CTOs and ex-AI engineers. No junior teams. No PowerPoint frameworks. Each engagement staffs the seniors your specific challenge requires — not consultancy templates. Full bios and squad composition shared under NDA, in 1-on-1 conversation.

Every engagement is led by Angel from SCOPE onwards and combines the senior operators the challenge requires. Hands-on from start to finish.

LEAD TRACK RECORD
Shift Method · Founder
VP Corp Strategy & AI
Simplr · CEO & Co-founder
Inveready · Operating Partner
Zuora · Demand Gen (IPO)
Google · PM Workspace
Inbenta · Marketing Director

TEAM PROFILE
Senior operators only
All ex-founders
All ex-executives
Hands-on, no slides
Staffed per engagement

LEAD EDUCATION
Stanford GSB

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

LinkedIn · /in/angelbou →

Let's talk in 30 minutes.

No pitch deck. Just a quick conversation to understand whether your firm is where Shift Method works best — and to decide together what the right first step looks like (1-day Scoping, SIGNAL diagnostic, or something else).