Private Alpha · Beta Q1 2027
For the people carrying AI across the organization

Fund the AI your organization can carry.

Aptavo shows how far each project can go today, what would make it safer to scale, and whose commitment is still missing.

Built for AI champions who need to make a defensible call without owning every decision.

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What Aptavo returns

Customer Support Copilot

Exploreready
One teamready, with one warning
Wider rolloutwait

One team can proceed now.

Wider rollout needs one ownership decision.

A real alpha answer, condensed. See the reasoning
Why Aptavo

The pilot is not the hard part. Getting the organization to carry it is.

The technology can work while ownership, incentives, capacity and decision rights do not.

1
The pilot proves the technology.

It does not prove that the organization can scale it.

2
Scaling changes work, and who answers for what.

People must agree what changes, who decides and where the released capacity goes.

3
The champion carries the gap.

They are expected to deliver commitments they do not have the authority to make.

Aptavo makes that gap visible and actionable before the funding decision.

900
AI projects inside a single enterprise. One person is supposed to keep order in that.Johnson & Johnson · WSJ · 2025
10–15%
of those projects drove about 80% of the value. The rest burned people, time, and budget.Johnson & Johnson · WSJ · 2025
4 in 10
of firms making significant AI investments report no business gains. The difference is organizational, not technical.MIT SMR & BCG · 3,000+ managers
One worked example

See the decision, not another score.

A company wants to roll out a customer-support copilot across several teams. Here is what Aptavo tells the champion.

The project

Customer Support Copilot

Decision requested: fund a rollout across several support teams.

Aptavo’s answer

Start with one team.

Do not fund the wider rollout yet.

How far can it go today?
Exploreready
One teamready, with one warning
Wider rolloutwait for an ownership decision
Why

The technology is ready, but nobody has agreed who owns the capacity the copilot is expected to release.

What changes the decision

Before wider rollout, the Head of Support must commit where the released capacity will go and how success will be measured.

Evidence status

This is the champion’s current view. Invite team members and leadership to confirm or challenge it.

Next action

Run the pilot with one team. Resolve the ownership decision before requesting rollout funding.

How it works

From project to defensible decision.

01

Add the project and organization context.

Describe what the project should achieve, how far it is expected to go, and how the organization currently works.

02

Compare what the project needs with what the organization can carry.

Aptavo identifies strengths, warnings and the few structural gaps that affect the decision.

03

Validate it and act.

Invite team and leadership evidence, resolve conflicting views, and turn the result into owned actions and a decision package.

Not a maturity score. Aptavo compares one project against how this organization actually runs, at the size you are asking about.

Where it sits

Portfolio tools show what exists. Aptavo shows what your organization can carry.

Champion-led

Start with one real project without waiting for a transformation office.

Fit, not generic readiness

The same organization may be ready for one kind or size of AI and unready for another.

Commitments, not recommendations alone

Aptavo identifies whose agreement is missing, what they need to commit to, and what that changes.

Who is behind it

Built from inside the work, not from a framework.

Aptavo is a product of Lead2Coach GmbH, Zürich, founded 2019. It comes out of 15+ years of operating-model and governance work inside organizations.

Bar Schwartz
Co-founder & Managing Director

Redesigns how organizations decide and deliver: scaled Signavio’s engineering organization, ran organizational diagnostics across global pharma R&D, and coaches the leaders who carry the change. Wrote a book on leading through continuous technological change.

BSc Software Engineering · MSc Management (ESMT Berlin) · MSc Psychology · PCC-ICF · SPC · ICAgile certified instructor
Previously Capgemini InventMcKinseySignavio/SAPmedneo
Filipe Saldanha
Co-founder & Managing Director

Operating-model and governance redesign at enterprise scale. Right now leading AI transformation inside one of the world’s largest insurers, sitting in the exact champion seat this product is built for. Earlier, rebuilt the operating model of a large, enterprise-scale IT organization.

MSc Systems Engineering (RWTH Aachen) · ICAgile certified coach (ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT) · Delivery in 7 languages
Previously Capgemini Invent

Grounded in research. Bar’s MSc dissertation studied communication clarity and psychological safety during organizational change: 86 survey responses and 10 interviews, where more clarity went with more safety and more uncertainty with less. Associations, not causation. The dissertation did not test Aptavo; it shaped what Aptavo asks about: unresolved expectations, authority and consequences.

Read the 4-page research brief (PDF) →

Bar Schwartz, A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Communication Clarity, Cultural Alignment, and Psychological Safety During Organizational Change, MSc Psychology dissertation, Arden University, submitted 13 April 2025.

The Private Alpha

Bring one project you are tired of carrying alone.

Use Aptavo to see how far it can go, what is holding it back, and which commitment changes the decision.

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