Executive Advisory

Make AI & Automation
Work for the Business

We align business objectives with technical capabilities to maximize outcomes

80.3%
of AI projects fail to deliver their intended business value — twice the failure rate of comparable IT projects
RAND Corporation, 2025
<5%
of generative AI pilots reach scaled, profit-relevant production
MIT Project NANDA, 2025
42%
of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025 — up sharply from 17% the year before
S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025
"The most expensive mistake in technology, is solving the wrong problem brilliantly."
The Challenge

Most organisations don't lack AI ambition.
They lack the clarity to drive successful execution.

The decisions being made right now about AI and automation will define the next decade.

Yet most decisions are being made without independent, experienced counsel — with pressure from vendors, internal and external expectations, timelines and more.

The gap between what is promised and what is delivered has never been wider.

The line between success and failure has never been finer.

IAAI Partners exists to solve this.

Explore Why Us
Why Us

A trusted partnership
for real outcomes

What you get when you engage IAAI Partners
and what makes us the right people to deliver it.

Getting Clarity

Uncover answers that will drive real
business outcomes through AI and automation.

Where is the value — now and in the future?
What outcomes are expected — and what's realistic?
What is the actual status quo, and how do you move the needle?
Where do you direct investment, and where do you pull the plug?
What's the real risk versus the benefit?
How We Work

More than advisory — a partnership.

Ideation & Insight
Inspire
A window into what is possible — so you understand what the market is doing, where technology is heading, and how it relates specifically to your business and your opportunities.
Sparring Partner
Think Together
A trusted partner to think alongside — whether the challenge is strategic or operational, big or small. Someone who has seen it before and will be straight with you.
Technology Selection
Select
Real independent advice so you choose the right vendors and platforms — based on fit for your business, not the strength of someone's sales pitch.
Investment Outcomes
Deliver
Experienced oversight so every AI and automation investment is managed with rigour — mitigating the risk of wasted budgets and stalled initiatives.
Risk & Safeguard
Protect
A critical senior lens so your organisation avoids decisions, directions and costs that look promising on paper but quietly undermine your business goals.
What Sets Us Apart

How we are different,
so we can make a difference.

Unparalleled Experience
Close to 50 years inside the exact organisations you run — tier 1 banks, ministries, multinationals.
Deliberate Focus
We work with a small number of clients at any time. You get us — not a team you've never met.
Absolute Independence
No vendor relationships. No referral fees. No preferred outcomes. Our only interest is yours.
Unconflicted Advice
We don't implement. We don't benefit from complexity. We benefit when you do.
Unique Constellation
US frontier AI expertise. European operational rigour. Asian market presence. Nowhere else.
Grounded Perspective
We have sat on both sides of the table — as buyers and sellers of technology promises.

A background in experience,
not theory

Two partners. No associates, no juniors. Advice is only as good as the experience behind it. Find out why ours is different.

Meet the Partners
About Us

Built on experience,
not theory

Close to 50 years of combined experience with the world's most demanding organisations. Two practitioners who have built, run and streamlined automation and AI programs where the stakes were real.

IAAI Partners is a boutique, highly specialised advisory firm built around two of the most experienced practitioners in intelligent automation and AI. We are not consultants who merely study this space — we are leaders who have lived it. Across tier-1 financial institutions, state ministries, local governments, and multinational enterprises, we have sat exactly where our clients sit.

We operate on a retainer basis with a deliberately small number of clients at any time, across Southeast Asia and beyond — ensuring every engagement receives the full attention of both partners. We bring field-tested clarity to leadership teams who want straight, independent advice on validating the purpose, execution, and economic impact of their technology investments.

The Partners
Tim Mosholt
Tim Mosholt
Partner & Executive Advisor · Automation Veteran

Tim is an international executive with twenty-five years of operational depth inside the world's most demanding environments — including tier-1 financial institutions, state ministries, defense agencies, and multinational enterprises. Throughout his career, he has built the exact strategic acumen required to turn high-stakes technology investments into measurable business outcomes.

He is a recognized Ambassador and Wall of Fame inductee for the global Intelligent Automation Congress, serving as a trusted community voice alongside the industry's top minds. Tim specializes in optimizing Center of Excellence frameworks, eliminating technical debt, and clearing production bottlenecks.

He serves as Fractional Chief Strategy Officer for SmartRPA, and holds a Master's degree in International Business from the Copenhagen Business School.

Doug Shannon
Doug Shannon
Partner & Executive Advisor · AI Top Peer

Doug is an international executive and globally recognized authority in enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and intelligent automation systems. Operating at the highest level of technical governance, he has spent over two decades navigating complex, high-stakes IT architectures for multinational corporations, including Cisco and Chevron.

He is an active member of the Forbes Technology Council, a Gartner Peer Community Ambassador, and an advisory council member for the Theia Institute — a Washington, D.C.-based cybersecurity and AI ethics think tank. A leading voice in the autonomous enterprise movement and premier expert on multi-agent frameworks and enterprise orchestrators.

Thrice recognized as a top global automation leader. Doug holds a postgraduate certificate in Artificial Intelligence for Leaders from the Texas McCombs School of Business.

Our Commitment
Confidential
by Design
Every engagement with IAAI Partners operates under strict client-advisor confidentiality. The nature of our work requires access to strategy, budgets, internal challenges and sensitive decisions. What we discuss, what we review, and what we advise stays between us — always.

No case studies without explicit consent. No references without permission. No exceptions.
"We don't arrive with a methodology. We arrive with 50 years of knowing what works, what doesn't, and what questions to ask before the wrong decisions get made."

The complexities
we navigate

From AI strategy to automation excellence. Whether strategic, operational, or somewhere in between — we help organisations solve a wide set of challenges in AI and automation.

Explore Our Expertise
Expertise

The complexities
we navigate.

From basic automation estates to frontier agentic systems — we operate across the full spectrum of AI and automation, backed by decades of real delivery — solving real challenges, driving real scale, and achieving tangible outcomes.

Our Domains

Six areas of focus,
one connected practice.

AI
From Gen AI, LLMs, Agents, to fully autonomous multi-agentic systems — we advise on practical application, case selection, data readiness, hallucination risk, governance and total cost of ownership.
"Only 19.7% of AI projects achieve or exceed their stated objectives." — RAND Corporation, 2025
RPA & Intelligent Automation
Deep hands-on experience across the full RPA and intelligent automation landscape — from basic bot deployment to complex, judgement-based process automation. We know where estates silently fail and how to fix them.
"30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities by 2026 — yet intelligent automation remains in Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment.'" — Gartner, 2024
Processes
Process discovery, continuous improvement, task mining and operational diagnostics — finding where the real work happens versus where the process map says it should.
"37% of decision-makers report process gaps and manual routing problems that delay digital transformation." — Forrester
Orchestration
Managing the interplay between RPA, AI and human workflows at enterprise scale — ensuring every tool, model and team operates as a coherent system.
"Spending on business orchestration technologies is projected to triple — from nearly $7B in 2025 to over $21B by 2029." — Gartner, 2025
Governance
Regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, model auditability and board-level risk frameworks — the difference between AI your board can defend and AI that becomes a liability.
"Only 36% of organisations have a formal AI governance framework in place." — MIT Sloan / BCG, 2024
ROI & Value Realisation
Proving that AI and automation investments deliver measurable business value — not just adoption, but real, defensible returns that hold up in the boardroom.
"Investor pressure to demonstrate ROI on AI investments jumped from 68% to 90% in a single quarter." — KPMG, 2025
Connected to the Frontier

Our expertise is live,
not archived

Both partners are active members of exclusive global communities — ensuring what we bring to clients reflects where the market is heading, not where it has been.

Horizon Scanning
Early sight of where technology and market thinking is heading.
Peer Insight
Real-world experience from practitioners operating at the same level globally.
Knowledge Depth
Specialist perspectives that go beyond what any two people accumulate alone.
Relevant Solutions
Where a tool genuinely serves a client's goals, we say so — independently.

Facing challenges
in any of these areas?

Experienced, independent guidance is at hand.
It all starts with a conversation.

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Let's start a
conversation

We work with a small number of clients at any time. If you are navigating a significant AI or automation decision, we would welcome the conversation.

Marina Bay, Singapore
Our Details

IAAI Partners
Pte. Ltd.

Registered Address
68 Circular Road, #02-01
Singapore 049422
ACRA Registration
202627128H
Email
contact@iaaipartners.com
Doug Shannon
Partner & Executive Advisor · AI Top Peer
Tim Mosholt
Partner & Executive Advisor · Automation Veteran
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