Solutions

Where strategy becomes operating architecture.

Four partner-led Practices. Nine senior-led solutions. Built for companies that need AI, software, platforms and operations to move from ambition to defensible execution.

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Four Practices

Four partner-led Practices. Nine solutions. One operating standard.

Every solution sits inside a Practice. Every Practice is signed by a named partner who remains accountable through delivery, run and exit.

01 · Engineering Practice

Xavier de Maillard

AI operating layer. Production software platforms. Legacy modernization. SecDevOps for AI workloads.

02 · Strategy Practice

Franck Ohrel

Operational intelligence programs. Board-grade transformation. Cross-border governance.

03 · Talent Practice

Rémi Claverie

Senior operator augmentation. Executive search for AI and platform roles. Adoption and customer experience.

04 · Run Practice

Gilles Mischler

Sovereign run operations. 24/7 SRE for AI workloads. Cost optimization. Incident response.

What we solve

Most digital initiatives fail in the space between strategy and execution.

  1. The roadmap is approved.
  2. The deck is convincing.
  3. The ambition is real.
  4. Then execution breaks.

Ownership is unclear. Vendors fragment the architecture. Adoption slows. Legacy constraints return. Teams lose speed because risk was never designed into the system.

Hikari Blue was built for that gap. Diagnose what is breaking

We turn strategic intent into working systems: platforms, products, workflows, teams and operating models that can actually run.

Start with the problem

What is breaking?

Pick the pattern that matches your reality. We surface the solutions designed for that exact failure mode. Pick another to recompose the view. Pick none to see all nine.

Nine solutions. One operating standard.

Each solution is led by a named senior partner.

Each solution mobilizes a senior partner and the relevant Practices. Each delivery is a working system, not a slide deck. Entry is deliberately accessible: a one-week express assessment at $18k, a two-week build sprint at $26k. Programs scale from there, without a ceiling.

Engagement discipline

We are not the right partner for every brief.
That is the point.

Saying yes to the wrong engagement costs trust and time. We qualify every brief before we quote, calibrate the team, or sign.

We accept

  • Board-level mandates with a named executive sponsor. Decisions move at executive pace. Otherwise the program runs out of altitude.
  • Outcomes that are measurable and signable. If success cannot be defined, it cannot be delivered.
  • Programs where senior operators have decision rights from week one. No proxy seniority. Decisions stay where accountability lives.
  • Cross-border programs that require one operating standard. Multiple jurisdictions, one architecture, one playbook.
  • Modernization paths with reversibility and observability engineered in. Every cutover has a rollback. Every state change leaves a trail.

We decline

  • Pure body-shop arrangements. We are not staffing. We are operators.
  • Layer 3+ contracting chains. Distance from the decision-maker breaks accountability.
  • Programs without an accountable executive sponsor. Without a decision owner, execution becomes theatre.
  • Mandates priced below the seniority they require. Senior work cannot be subsidized by junior delivery.
  • Briefs framed as decks to deliver, not systems to run. A deck is not a deliverable. A system that runs is.

When another model fits better, we say so. See how Hikari Blue compares to Big Four, internal build, and staffing →

How we work

Diagnostic. Design. Build. Run.

The sequence is simple because the work is not. We define the real problem, design the operating architecture, build the system, then stay accountable through run. Ownership transfer is engineered from day one.

  1. 01

    Diagnostic

    Define the real problem before building anything.

    Objective

    Define the real problem before building anything.

    Outputs

    Problem map, constraints, dependencies, decision log, target architecture.

    Exit criteria

    The work is measurable, signable and worth building.

  2. 02

    Design

    Architecture, governance, delivery model, before code.

    Objective

    Translate the diagnostic into operating architecture and delivery contract.

    Outputs

    Target architecture, experience standards, delivery model, operating governance, named accountability map.

    Exit criteria

    Every decision required to build is owned by a named person.

  3. 03

    Build

    Senior engineering execution. Production, not slideware.

    Objective

    Ship the system designed, with senior partner accountability through cutover.

    Outputs

    Working systems in production, observability baseline, runbooks, named on-call rotation, behavior validated against design.

    Exit criteria

    The system runs. Your team can operate it on their own.

  4. 04

    Run

    Operate, optimize, transfer ownership under clear SLAs.

    Objective

    Operate the system with cost, reliability and audit posture maintained between cycles.

    Outputs

    SLO scoreboard, incident learning loop, cost optimization roadmap, audit-ready evidence, ownership transfer milestones.

    Exit criteria

    You own the system and we are no longer required.

Careers

Want to help us build the future?

We are hiring senior operators across AI, engineering, talent, and run. Send us a note. One of the partners will read it.

Join the team

Bring the real problem

Four lines.
A named partner reads them.

Within one business day, we come back with either a working session, or a clear reason not to take the brief. We do not waste your time. We do not waste ours.

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