Independent AI & Data Advisory
I help COOs, CIOs, and data or AI leaders in regulated and operationally complex organizations assess opportunities, unblock promising pilots, and make build, buy, or stop decisions—grounded in how the work actually happens.
A small number of focused engagements at a time.
Prior operator experience
The perspective behind Aun was earned in prior in-house roles—not through Aun client engagements. It comes from making technology choices, building internal capability, navigating governance, and remaining accountable afterward.
Services
Aun works on a bounded question with a decision at the end. The engagement is shaped around the situation—not a generic transformation program.
For leaders with an AI mandate, an important workflow, or too many possible starting points. We examine the work, decisions, data, value, feasibility, and risk behind the strongest opportunities.
For a pilot that demonstrates technical promise but has stalled around ownership, workflow, data, governance, integration, or adoption. We find what is keeping it from becoming part of real operations.
For leaders evaluating an AI product, vendor, or internal build. We clarify the actual requirement, pressure-test the claims, and surface the operational costs and tradeoffs that demonstrations tend to hide.
Typical shape: one consequential decision over two to four weeks. Ongoing advisory relationships are available selectively when the decisions keep coming.
Bring the decisionHow Aun works
The lens stays stable even when the engagement changes. It connects the ambition to the actual work, and the evidence to a decision someone can act on.
Connecting the dots does not require pretending they are the same thing. That is alignment without sameness.
Selected thoughts
Short field notes, comics, and interactives about AI, data, work, and the assumptions hiding underneath them.
About Aun
I’m Jimmy DeBlasio, and Aun Collective is my independent advisory practice. My perspective comes from leading data, analytics, and AI from inside a regulated benefits organization.
I work between strategy, data, technology, and operations—especially where a promising idea has to survive organizational reality.
The aim is not to import another framework or produce more AI activity. It is to understand what is happening, make the consequential decision clearer, and leave the organization more capable than it was before.
Aun is a-un, 阿吽: the open sound and the closed one, and the root of a Japanese phrase for two people who understand each other without needing to speak.
Contact
Send the situation in whatever shape it is currently in. A useful place to begin is simple:
What are you deciding? What is stuck? What happens if nothing changes?
