§ 00 — Livestro Strategy

AI is the great equaliser. We help small teams use it before the big ones do*

Fig. 01 — Capability per person, 2010 – 2026

For most of the digital era, scale beat speed. Then the curves swapped places.

Illustrative. Capability per person ≈ output a single contributor can ship without further dependencies. The shape is what matters.

§ 01 — The argument

Three things have shifted in favour of the smaller team.

01 / Velocity

An idea can be ready to ship in a few days.

A small team with the right AI tools can move from idea to shipped tool in a few days. Compare that to the weeks or months a typical project takes at a multinational. The flexibility of being small really pays off.

02 / Leverage

Every team member suddenly does the work of a whole team.

AI tools sound daunting. In practice they aren't. They turn complicated coding and IT problems, the kind that used to be handed to tech-people and consultants, into ordinary conversations. Your people know your work better than anyone, which makes them the right people to have those conversations.

03 / Independence

No more tweaking software, just build exactly what you want, when you need it.

Off-the-shelf software was designed to work for all customers. But every company has its own unique needs. With AI tooling, you can build to those exact needs, quickly and at a fraction of the cost.

This is the argument the rest of the site builds on. Read the full piece

§ 02 — Who this is for

We help small teams compete with the multinationals we used to work for.

We spent years heading the innovation and digital teams at large multinationals. We know how those rooms work and where they get stuck. That's why we now work with small and mid-sized organisations instead. Their flexibility and speed of decision are, for the moment, more valuable than any multinational's budget. And to be honest, it's a lot more fun to get work done :)

We work best with teams of 2 to 20 people who know roughly where they want their business to be in two years (maybe even have strong ideas of where it could be now if only those couple of things were fixed) and who are willing to do the work to get there.

an idea ready in days done within a week every person doing a team's work build exactly what you need your people in charge we succeed when you don't need us an idea ready in days done within a week every person doing a team's work build exactly what you need your people in charge we succeed when you don't need us

§ 03 — This is how we work

We work alongside your team until they can do it without us.

Our business model is unusual, but deliberate. Most consultancies bill more because you come to depend on them. We work the other way around: our work is successful when you can run it yourself.

01 — Map

Where AI actually helps your work.

We start with team-based or role-by-role observation, separating together the AI use cases that will pay off the most. The output is a short overview of where to start.

02 — Build

The first things that pay for themselves.

We build the first workflow together with your own people. They learn how it's done by being part of building it. The real outcome is your people being able to do this without us next time.

03 — Embed

Your people take over.

We help your people set up the habits and routines to keep going on their own. By the end of this phase, your people are shipping their own improvements without us in the room.

04 — Leave

We're available, but you're running it now.

Of course we're there if you need us, but the goal is that you don't need anyone anymore.

Nine concrete examples of what your team could build for itself.

Nine standalone applications, deliberately built on dummy data. They are different shapes of software on purpose, so a visitor can find the one that sits closest to their own work: finance, operations, sales, contracts, a clinic, a client portal, plus three phone-first builds for sales reps, site supervisors and hotel GMs.

Each one is in its own stack and visual language. Click around. Then come back to us if you want a version for your own team.

Preview the builds→

§ 05 — The footnote

We are a small practice with a large background. You will always work with someone who has done this inside the multinationals you might be competing with. The kind of attention that is hard to get from a large consultancy firm is the default here.