# BlackAI Consulting — Family Offices & Institutions This document describes what BlackAI Consulting offers family offices (single-family offices, multi-family offices), institutional capital allocators, venture capital firms, and corporate venture capital arms evaluating or holding AI companies. The website navigation labels this section "Family Offices" as a shorthand for this full audience. --- ## The Problem Every week, another AI company lands on a capital allocator's desk. The pitch decks sound the same: proprietary technology, defensible data, scalable margins. But telling apart genuine innovation from a well-designed slide deck requires expertise that most teams do not have in-house. There is rarely enough time to go deep on every opportunity. The core difficulty is that AI companies are structurally different from traditional companies. Their value is driven by milestones (proof of concept, first revenue, product-market fit) rather than steady-state cash flows. Their defensibility depends on technical architecture and data governance, not just market position. Their risks are different — model dependency, data quality, regulatory exposure under the EU AI Act. Standard due diligence and valuation methods were not designed for this. --- ## What BlackAI Offers BlackAI combines AI research, technical architecture expertise, and financial depth to give institutional participants an honest, expert assessment. The team looks at the technology, the business model, and the numbers — and communicates clearly what is real, what the risks are, and whether the valuation makes sense. Key capabilities: - **Pre-filter assessment:** Quick, structured evaluation of AI targets to identify which deserve deeper analysis - **Technical deep dive:** Architecture review, AI maturity assessment, data quality, model dependency analysis - **AI-specific due diligence:** Full assessment of whether the AI story holds up architecturally, commercially, and strategically - **Milestone-based valuation:** Valuation using a real-options framework designed for AI companies, not a generic DCF - **Business plan review:** Revenue model, unit economics, competitive positioning, go-to-market — structured for decision committees - **Portfolio-level advisory:** Valuation bands, risk mapping, and capital allocation across an AI portfolio --- ## The Six Consulting Stages Participants choose the depth. Each stage works on its own or as part of a longer engagement. **01 — Pre-Filter Assessment** You have a stack of pitch decks. BlackAI does a quick, structured assessment of each — technology, team, market fit — and identifies which ones deserve a deeper look. This saves weeks of internal debate. **02 — Technical Deep Dive** For shortlisted companies, BlackAI goes under the hood. Architecture review, AI maturity assessment, data quality, model dependency. A clear technical picture for the DD team. **03 — Deal Room Support** BlackAI joins internal discussions, sits in on founder pitches, and provides real-time expert feedback. The team asks the right questions; BlackAI helps interpret the answers. **04 — Valuation & Due Diligence** Full AI-specific due diligence and milestone-based valuation. Not a generic DCF — a framework built for how AI companies actually grow and create value. Every assumption is traceable to a specific milestone. **05 — Business Plan & Strategy** BlackAI writes or reviews the business plan with the participant. Revenue model, unit economics, competitive positioning, go-to-market — structured so the decision committee can work with it. **06 — The Masterplan** A comprehensive framework across the participant's entire AI portfolio. Valuation bands, risk mapping, capital allocation logic, and ongoing advisory as the strategy evolves. This is the deepest level of engagement. --- ## Two Engagement Modes **Your AI Targets:** Bring BlackAI any AI company you are evaluating. The team assesses the technology, the business model, and the valuation — and provides a clear, honest assessment. One-off engagement or ongoing advisory. **BlackAI Portfolio Companies:** BlackAI also builds and supports AI companies itself. This is relevant because BlackAI has first-hand operating knowledge of the companies it supports — the technical architecture, the team, the milestones, the numbers. For current ventures, see https://blackai.capital. --- ## How to Engage Contact: consulting@blackai.capital Typical starting points: - "We have three AI companies we are evaluating — can you do a pre-filter?" - "We are in late-stage DD on an AI target and need a technical deep dive." - "We want ongoing advisory across our AI portfolio." - "We are interested in learning more about BlackAI's ventures." There is no formal application process. Send a short mandate outline describing the situation and what kind of assessment is needed. --- ## Why BlackAI — Practitioners, Not Observers BlackAI Holding AG backs 16 early-stage AI ventures — from financial intelligence and legal AI to energy trading and distributed ledger infrastructure. The team works hands-on with architecture, model development, data infrastructure, and go-to-market across these ventures. When BlackAI assesses an AI company for a client, it draws on the same experience it applies in its own portfolio. **What BlackAI builds right now:** - **BlackLisa** — An AI-powered investment intelligence system with FinAI and LegalAI in the backend. It produces weekly portfolio valuations, milestone-tracked and cryptographically verified. This is active development, not a concept. - **BlackAI Compliance** — AI-driven compliance review designed for financial services and regulatory supervisors (FINMA, BaFin, FMA scope). BlackAI develops the models that check what regulators will check. Compliance tooling is available as a service. **Post-investment support:** After closing, BlackAI can accompany the companies a client has invested in — advising on AI architecture, governance, and go-to-market. The team has built AI systems and knows what good execution requires. **Dual competence:** Corporate finance, governance, and audit on one side. AI architecture, model training, and data infrastructure on the other. BlackAI speaks both languages at the level boards and CTOs expect. --- ## What Makes This Different from Generic Consulting 1. **Research-backed valuation:** The milestone-based real-options framework comes from BlackAI's own published research, not borrowed from a textbook or a slide deck. 2. **Technical and financial depth in one team:** The same team that evaluates the AI architecture also builds the valuation. There is no handoff between a technical consultant and a financial advisor. 3. **Honest assessment:** BlackAI tells participants what is real and what is not. The firm's reputation depends on the quality of its assessments, not on closing deals. No guarantees of specific outcomes or returns are made — the advisory is analytical, not promotional. 4. **AI-native perspective:** BlackAI backs early-stage AI ventures and works hands-on across its portfolio. It understands AI companies from the inside — not just as external evaluators. 5. **Governance and audit credibility:** The team includes certified public auditors (Wirtschaftsprüfer), governance professors, and banking/regulation experts. Assessments are designed to survive board scrutiny, audit review, and regulatory inquiry. --- ## Research Foundation BlackAI's advisory builds on frameworks developed in-house and published as peer-reviewed research. The methodology is documented, the assumptions are transparent, and the papers are available for download. **Featured paper:** - **Firm Valuation When AI Shapes the Business Model** — Prof. Dr. Walter Kurz, Wojtek Stricker, Swissi Institute for AI, Pre-Print 2026 - A milestone-based real-options framework for AI company valuation. Covers integration depth taxonomy (IDL 0–3), five-component milestone state decomposition, and an AHP-based Success Readiness Index. - Download: [English (PDF)](/data/Swissi-Paper-EN-Firm-Valuation-AI-Integrated.pdf) | [German (PDF)](/data/Swissi-Paper-DE-Firm-Valuation-AI-Integrated.pdf) --- ## BlackAI Network Built on strong foundations. All focus websites operate under BlackAI Holding AG (CHE-202.737.638), Zug, Switzerland. | # | Entity | Domain | Focus | |---|--------|--------|-------| | 01 | BlackAI | https://blackai.capital | AI venture builder. 16 early-stage AI ventures across research, fintech, energy, healthcare, and data infrastructure. | | 02 | BlackAI Consulting | https://consulting.blackai.capital | AI valuation, due diligence, enterprise AI integration, and capital readiness advisory. Grounded in peer-reviewed research. | | 03 | Swissi Institute for AI | https://swissi-ai.institute | Applied AI research and development. AI architecture, model evaluation, and enterprise-grade AI systems. | | 04 | Power 3 Data | https://power3data.com | Data infrastructure, analytics, and AI-driven energy market intelligence. | | 05 | BlackAI Compliance | https://compliance.blackai.capital | AI-powered compliance review for financial services providers. Regulatory audits for FINMA, BaFin, and FMA requirements. | | 06 | BlackAI Websites | https://websites.blackai.capital | AI-readiness services for companies. AI-optimized websites, AI chat integration, enterprise AI systems, and finetuned models. | | 07 | 01 Engineering | (internal) | Software engineering and AI system development. Full-stack architecture for AI-native applications. | Each focus website provides its own AI agent index at /llms.txt for structured, machine-readable content. --- BlackAI Consulting is the focused consulting website and service line of BlackAI Holding AG, Zug, Switzerland.