42%
of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives in 2025 — up from 17% the year before. The average organization scrapped 46% of AI proof-of-concepts.
S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025 · ciodive.com
an engineering practice for companies whose AI stalled
AI that ships. And survives the audit.
You already paid for AI. A pilot that impressed everyone in the demo, then quietly died. We are the senior engineers who ship it to production — with the EU compliance evidence built in, at a fixed price.
the pattern — every figure sourced, links live
Your stalled pilot is the industry default.
>40%
of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027, Gartner predicts — escalating costs, unclear business value, inadequate risk controls.
Gartner, June 2025 · rcrwireless.com
70.9%
of EU enterprises that considered AI but did not adopt it name lack of expertise as the blocker. Not budget. Not interest. Expertise.
Eurostat, ICT usage in enterprises · ec.europa.eu/eurostat
2–3×
external partnerships reached deployment more often than internal builds in MIT's 2025 State of AI in Business report.
MIT NANDA via Fortune, Aug 2025 · fortune.com · methodology criticized — we cite it with that flag, see Evidence page
the offer — fixed fees, staged payments, client-owned stack
Three rungs. You can stop at any of them.
01 · entry
Stalled Pilot Autopsy
€2,500–5,000 fixed
- 6–8 working days, read-only access
- Technical archaeology: code, prompts, logs
- Eval baseline on a golden test set
- Three user interviews
- Verdict to the budget holder: KILL / FIX / REBUILD
20–30% credited toward a Build. You keep every artifact regardless of verdict.
02 · core
Compliant First-Workflow Build
€20,000–45,000 fixed
- One back-office workflow to production, 22–30 delivery days
- Eval harness first — accuracy gates before deploy
- DPIA-lite, human-oversight design, AI-system inventory included
- Your infrastructure, your keys, your data — EU-resident
- Payment 40 / 30 / 30, staged on written deliverables
Handover test: your engineer redeploys it without us in the room.
03 · recurring
Operations & Compliance Retainer
€2,500–8,000/month
- Weekly eval regression runs
- Monthly ops & compliance report
- Regulatory-watch memo — AI Act obligations as they land
- Drift and incident response, SLA on response time
Only offered after a Build. We do not maintain systems we have not verified.
method — the autopsy, day by day
Eight days from corpse to verdict.
- day 1Kickoff. Read-only access granted. Scope frozen in writing.
- days 2–3Technical archaeology — repository, prompts, retrieval pipeline, logs, spend.
- days 3–4Eval baseline. We build a golden test set with your subject-matter expert (two hours of their time) and measure what the pilot actually does.
- day 5Three user interviews, thirty minutes each. The org chart kills more pilots than the code does.
- day 6Synthesis. Verdict drafted with the numbers attached.
- day 7We red-team our own verdict — steelman the opposite conclusion before you see either.
- day 8Sixty-minute readout to the budget holder. KILL / FIX / REBUILD, costed.
Not sure it's worth €2,500 to find out? Run the ten-question self-diagnostic first. It's free and it will tell you if the answer is obvious.
why believe us
Trust is the product. These are the mechanics.
Every claim carries a source
Marketing included. If a statistic has no live URL, it does not ship. Our evidence page lists every figure on this site.
Our objections are published
We paid a red team to attack this business. Their case is on the site, unedited: reasons not to hire us.
The person on the call builds it
No account managers, no bait-and-switch to juniors. One senior infrastructure engineer, twenty years in production systems, EU-based.
Fixed fees, staged on deliverables
Hourly billing rewards slowness. Every engagement is a fixed price against named, written artifacts you keep.
Your stack, your keys
We build on your infrastructure with your accounts. Self-hosted options available when data cannot leave your premises. The handover test is that you deploy without us.
An EU entity since 2016
Coherent Perspective Unipessoal Lda, Portugal — VAT-registered for intra-EU services. A contract your DPO can approve and a jurisdiction your lawyer recognizes.
the founder
Nikola Jevtic
Senior infrastructure and AI engineer. Twenty years running production systems — telecom platforms, virtualized datacenters, Kubernetes fleets, and the LLM systems that now sit on top of them. Founded Coherent Perspective in 2016 as an IT consultancy; it has been delivering for EU clients since.
I do the autopsies myself. I write the eval harness myself. If that does not scale, good — the point of the autopsy is that it does not need to.
ai@coherentperspective.eu · Algarve, Portugal · remote across EU