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Blue Cypress Consulting

Everyone's selling you AI. Almost no one's asking what you're trying to achieve.

We help associations define the business outcomes that matter, work out what has to change to get there, and find where AI earns its place. Then we build it with you.

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Our approach

We start with your business outcomes, not a product.

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Start with the result you want, then work back to the right mix. AI earns its place.

Phase 0: Strategic alignment

Three questions, in order.

1

What business outcomes are you trying to achieve?

The business result you want. Not which AI to buy.

2

What has to change to get there?

The processes, skills and workflows standing in the way.

3

Where does AI enable or accelerate those changes?

It has to earn its role against the outcome, not be assumed into it.

What you walk away with

Three to four weeks. A decision you can take to your board.

Your leadership team aligned on what to do first, and how to move with confidence. Not another report on a shelf.

See the format

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An illustrative business-outcomes synthesis built for a fictional association.

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  1. 1Outcomes and priorities
  2. 2Change readiness
  3. 3AI opportunity map
  4. 4Leadership alignment brief
  5. 5Recommended path forward

A phased path

You stay in control. Every step is your decision.

Phase 0 · You are here

Strategic alignment.

Align on the outcomes and where AI fits.

Phase 1

Discovery.

Turn outcomes into a prioritized roadmap, tested with prototypes.

Phases 2 and 3

Build and deploy.

Build the solutions, put them into production, and embed them with your team.

Why us

We don't stop at the strategy deck.

Most firms hand you a plan and leave. We build the solutions with you, and we partner with your team so they can keep building after we're gone.

Association-only focus

We know this sector. We're not learning it on your time.

Proven tools, or built to fit

Solutions already built for associations like yours, and the expertise to build something custom if you need it.

AI expertise before the wave

We've built practical AI for years, not since last quarter.

Client work

From outcome to launch.

Institute of Food Technologists

Launching the CoDeveloper AI platform.

Strategy · Positioning · Pricing

The outcome

IFT wanted to bring a first-of-its-kind AI product to food scientists and needed a go-to-market strategy and pricing to enter the market successfully.

What we did

Strategic guidance on positioning, market research and pricing. CoDeveloper launched at IFT FIRST in Chicago, featuring Sous, an AI assistant trained on IFT's scientific content.

American Geophysical Union

Revolutionizing scientific networking with rex.

Build and deploy

The outcome

Help researchers in niche fields find peers they'd never met. rex analyzes the content members produce and recommends connections, leading to new collaborations.

The moment researchers saw a connection they didn't know, their excitement was palpable.
Thad LurieSVP, Digital and Technology, AGU

Start with the outcome.

Let's define what you're really trying to achieve, and find where AI actually fits.

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