Independent consultant
I take AI projects from pilot to production.
Most AI initiatives stall somewhere between a convincing demo and daily operations. I build the delivery structure that closes that gap — scope, governance, and a team that can run the thing after I leave.
- Running delivery
- 10 years+
- Projects delivered
- 100+
- Budget managed
- $50M+
Certified
- PMPPMI
- SAFe 6.0Scaled Agile
- PSMScrum.org
- AI Solution Product ManagementAI Product Institute
- Google Project ManagementGoogle
Start where the risk is lowest.
Five engagements, from a two-week assessment to a multi-year programme. Each one is designed to be worth buying on its own.
Discovery & Roadmap
Find out where AI actually pays off in your organisation before committing budget to it.
Pilot & Rollout
Turn one or two of those use cases into working software your team can operate.
From $35,0002–6 monthsEnterprise AI Programme
A multi-year programme when AI has to work across departments, not in one corner.
From $200,0006–12 monthsISO 9001 from zero
A quality management system that passes audit without turning the company into a paperwork factory.
From $25,00012–16 weeksDelivery & PMO
The programme management underneath all of the above — available on its own.
CustomProject-based
How working together looks.
No long discovery phase before anything useful happens. The first deliverable lands in weeks, not quarters.
Call
30 minutesThirty minutes to understand what you are trying to do and whether I am the right person for it. No deck.
→ A straight answer on whether it is worth doing at all.
Assessment
2–4 weeksI look at your processes, data and team, and come back with the use cases that are worth the money.
→ The use cases worth the money, ranked by return.
Build
We implement in short cycles against agreed metrics, so progress is visible rather than reported.
→ Working increments, measured against the agreed metrics.
Handover
Your team takes ownership. The engagement ends when they no longer need me, which is the point.
→ A team that runs the thing without me.
Recent work.
ISO 9001 from nothing to certified in 12 weeks
A certified quality management system built from a blank page at a remote-first software company, carried by six people at under a third of their time.
- From blank page to certification
- 12 weeks
- From blank page to certification
- QMS artefacts written and approved
- 37
- QMS artefacts written and approved
- Peak load per person — no dedicated hire
- 0.3 FTE
- Peak load per person — no dedicated hire
- Health tech
The estimate that covered a third of what the client thought they were buying
Two documents described two different products and both carried our logo. I stopped the contract, wrote the discrepancy register, and split the release into a fundraising build and a regulated one.
30–40%How much of the client's version one the estimate actually covered
- Insurance
Sequencing the data foundation before anyone bought an AI agent
A financial group wanted AI scoring across five affiliates. I proposed one affiliate, eighteen weeks, and a data readiness report before a single model — because the alternative is an agent trained on data nobody has reconciled.
18 weeksOne affiliate, one funded phase, one go/no-go
I am Yury Chernik.
Independent consultant, ten years of running delivery on complex programmes. I work on the unglamorous half of AI projects — scope, governance, adoption — because that is the half where they usually die.
I take a small number of engagements at a time and finish them before starting the next.
- PMP
- SAFe 6.0
- PSM
- AI Solution Product Management
- Google Project Management
Tell me what is stuck.
Thirty minutes, no deck, no pitch. You describe the problem, I tell you whether it is worth solving and roughly what it takes. If I am not the right person, I will say so.