Decide your company's AI future on evidence, not assumption.
We listen to everyone who does the work, understand how the company really operates, and define the few things that will actually move the business. If the evidence says don't build, we say so.
Think big, start simple.
The question isn't which model to use. It's what deserves budget.
Every large company now has more AI ideas than budget to run them. The committee has to choose which to fund, on what success criteria, and with what right to stop what doesn't pay back.
That decision almost never fails because of the model. It fails for lack of evidence: nobody listened to the people who do the work, nobody wrote the success criteria before building, and nobody holds the signature to switch off what doesn't return. That is where we work.
Three to five initiatives with investment, savings, timeline, and owner.
A success metric tied to a business KPI, written before anything is built.
A monthly gate and kill criteria per case. Closing in time is also an outcome.
Listen to everyone. Understand the real operation. Decide a few things.
We listen to the people who do the work
An interviewer agent talks with the whole operation, not only the committee. That is how a single engagement can gather hundreds of interviews, every finding traced to its quote.
We understand how it really operates
We map the AS-IS process in real steps and times, and design the TO-BE stating which step disappears and which stays under human oversight.
We define the few things that move the business
We return a short portfolio with a business case the CFO can audit, a named owner, and kill criteria. And we leave it running in a product your team uses without us.
Four services. Each leaves a product your team operates.
Every service runs in four layers: Entry, Scoped, Recurring, and Product. Every layer is a legitimate endpoint, and the module is activated by contract, not by project.
Decide on evidence, not assumption.
We interview the whole operation, map the AS-IS process, design the TO-BE, and return three to five initiatives with business cases and sequence. The deliverable is fixed regardless of the surface examined.
Named owners before the program gets cancelled.
We produce and deliver policies, CoE, RACI, guardrails, ethics, and kill criteria. Then we keep a live record per initiative, a weekly rollup, and a monthly gate that decides continue, adjust, or stop.
Your team learns on material from your own engagement.
Training built on the client's own processes: one day to start, four weeks by role on the redesigned processes, and an eight-week cohort course, assessed and certified.
We implement what already exists. We do not build custom software.
We take the frontier platform the client already holds and make it produce work: skills, APIs, and managed agents, stood up and connected to the systems the work runs on.
How ready is your company?
Five questions, two minutes. You'll see your level and a concrete next step. Your answers are processed in your browser and are not sent unless you attach them to a request.
Where is AI in your company today?
Why Criterium AI exists.
Large enterprises are spending on AI and systematically failing to turn that spend into measurable, defensible results. We founded Criterium AI to close that gap.
The failure is almost never the model. It is the absence of evidence standards, clear success criteria, continuous measurement, and the willingness to stop what isn't producing a return. Another tool or another deck doesn't fix that.
If our revenue depended on building, we could not tell a client not to build.
Adrián Villaseñor
Co-founder · CEOMiguel Gómez Santa María
Co-founder · CAIOLet's start with a conversation.
Ninety minutes with your leadership team. You leave with a first opportunity map and the recommended next step.
- Response
- within one business day
- First session
- 90 minutes with your leadership team
- Output
- a first opportunity map and the recommended next step
- Format
- in person or remote
- Language
- Spanish or English
A 12-minute conversation with ARIA, our agent. When you finish, you receive a preliminary proposal for discussion by email.
With confidence.