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Boutique consulting · Strategy, technology and AI

Advice you can build on.

Conde Ventures is a boutique consulting practice for founders and leadership teams. We help you make the decisions that shape the company, then build the software, AI and automation that carry them out.

Senior-ledStrategy through deliveryChicago, Illinois

Conde Ventures LLC · Est. 2026

Senior attention

The people you meet in the first conversation are the people who do the work.

Strategy through delivery

The plan and the build stay with one team, so nothing gets lost in a handoff.

AI where it pays

Applied to real workflows, and measured like any other investment.

Plain language

Clear recommendations, honest timelines, and no surprises.

Practice

Five practices. One accountable team.

Most engagements touch more than one. That is the point: the thinking and the building happen in the same room.

  • Strategy & planning

    Where should the next dollar go?

    Growth and market strategy, prioritization, budget and headcount plans, and the operating rhythm that keeps them honest.

    • Annual planning
    • Investment cases
    • Operating reviews
  • Revenue & pricing

    Are we priced for the customers we want?

    Pricing strategy and discount policy, pipeline and sales analytics, and the commercial reviews leadership relies on.

    • Pricing reviews
    • Pipeline analytics
    • Sales planning
  • Product & software

    What should we build first?

    Product strategy and roadmaps, then the web and mobile applications, internal tools, and integrations that deliver them.

    • Roadmaps
    • Web and mobile apps
    • Internal tools
  • AI & automation

    Where does AI actually pay off?

    Opportunity assessments, AI built into existing workflows and products, and automation that retires manual work.

    • AI assessments
    • Workflow automation
    • AI features
  • Measurement

    Which numbers tell us the truth?

    Metric definitions, product and revenue instrumentation, and live dashboards leadership can act on every week.

    • KPI design
    • Instrumentation
    • Dashboards

Approach

From first conversation to working system.

Four stages, one team throughout. Every stage ends with something you can use.

  1. Diagnose

    We start with the business, not the brief: the numbers, the customers, the systems, and the constraint that actually limits growth.

  2. Decide

    A clear recommendation with owners, costs, and sequencing. One document leadership can act on.

  3. Build

    We deliver the software, AI, or automation ourselves, in short cycles you can see and test.

  4. Hand over

    Documentation, dashboards, and training, so the work keeps paying off after the engagement ends.

Engagements

Three ways to work together.

Every engagement starts with a written scope, so you know exactly what you are getting before the work begins.

Strategy sprint

For a decision with a deadline.

A focused engagement around one question. It ends with a recommendation and a plan your team can carry out.

You leave with
  • A decision memo
  • A sequenced plan
  • The model behind both

Build engagement

For a clear need and no team to build it.

We design and deliver a defined system: an application, an AI workflow, an integration, or a dashboard.

You leave with
  • Working software
  • Documentation
  • A handover session

Advisory retainer

For leaders who want a thinking partner.

Senior counsel while you execute: planning reviews, vendor and hiring decisions, and a second opinion when it counts.

You leave with
  • Regular working sessions
  • Review on request
  • Quarterly planning
Most advice ends with a slide deck. Ours ends when the thing works.

We build and operate products of our own, so every recommendation is tested against practice, not theory.

Contact

Start a conversation.

Tell us what you are working on. A few sentences is enough, and we read every note ourselves.

  1. A reply within two business days.
  2. A short call to understand the problem.
  3. A written proposal, or an honest referral if we are not the right fit.
Or write directlyhello@condeventures.com

We reply within two business days.