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AI Consulting in Berlin: Strategy You Can Actually Build
AI consulting in Berlin, the way we do it: we work out with you where AI creates real value in your business – in a workshop, a readiness assessment and a roadmap of prioritised use cases. The advice comes directly from the founder of an AI-native development studio that builds AI systems itself, and it is technically validated.
Workshops from €1,500 netVendor-neutral technology adviceGDPR & EU AI Act in viewBerlin-Charlottenburg
- Workshop
- Setup
- Sprint
- Build & Support
Fixed price after scoping · proposal within 48 h
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What does AI consulting deliver?
Service
AI consulting helps companies decide which AI applications are worth pursuing, which data and prerequisites they need and in what order to tackle them. From Berlin-Charlottenburg, Context Studios advises in three formats – workshop, AI readiness assessment and AI roadmap – and checks every recommendation for technical feasibility.
- Formats
- Workshop, readiness assessment, roadmap
- Outcome
- Prioritised use cases, roadmap, decision paper
- Contact
- Michael Kerkhoff, founder
- Framework
- GDPR and the EU AI Act as review framework
- Location
- Berlin-Charlottenburg, remote or on-site
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Our consulting services at a glance
From the first workshop to a decision paper for management and IT.
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AI readiness assessment
We review your data, system landscape, processes and team skills. The result is a sober picture of where you stand and what is still missing before the first project.
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Use-case workshop
In half a day or a full day, we collect and rate AI ideas with your team by value, effort, data availability and risk.
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Feasibility check
Before budget is committed, we test the critical assumptions. Is the data good enough? Does a model deliver reliable results? Where are the legal limits?
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AI roadmap
Prioritised initiatives with milestones, dependencies, effort classes and clear ownership, as a basis for budgeting and planning.
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Technology and vendor selection
Cloud API or self-hosting, open or proprietary model, RAG or fine-tuning: we guide the decision with vendor-neutral reasoning.
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Governance and the EU AI Act
We classify planned applications by risk level and clarify data protection, documentation duties and internal rules for using AI.
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How we back up our recommendations
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Model families we compare
ClaudeGPTGeminiLlamaMistralQwenDeepSeek
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Evaluation and prototyping
PythonEvaluation sets built from real casesClickable prototypesCost and latency measurement
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Operating models
Cloud APIs in EU regionsSelf-hostingLocal inference
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Governance
EU AI Act risk classificationData protection impact assessmentAI usage policies
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How does AI consulting work?
Every step ends with a tangible result.
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Intro call
A free video call: we clarify your starting point, your goals and which format fits.
30 minutes - (02)
Workshop
Light Discovery, Strategy Day or Prototyping Sprint, remote or at your premises, with business and IT together.
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Assessment
We check data, systems and the prioritised use cases for feasibility and effort.
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Roadmap and handover
You receive the roadmap and a decision paper. You can deliver it in-house, with a partner of your choice or with us.
Wrap-up
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Where AI consulting often starts
Financial services
Document review, KYC preparation and compliance research, with supervision and traceability in mind.
Healthcare
Reduce documentation load and pre-sort requests under strict data protection requirements.
Retail and e-commerce
Maintain product data, improve search, bundle customer requests.
Law firms and consultancies
Research, contract review and knowledge management with source references.
Associations and public bodies
Structure enquiries and make information accessible, transparently and verifiably.
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Examples of consulting projects
Examples we can deliver with you. Stated results are targets, not references.
SME
From idea pool to roadmap
A Strategy Day with management and business units: twenty to thirty ideas are collected, rated and narrowed down to a few initiatives with the best balance of value and effort.
Target: 3 prioritised use cases · Roadmap with milestones
Finance
Readiness assessment before the first AI project
An inventory of data sources, permissions and processes before building a document assistant. The outcome is a list of prerequisites with a realistic timeframe.
Target: a clear go/no-go decision
Retail
Model selection for a service assistant
Several model families and operating models compared on real, anonymised customer requests, with evaluation criteria your team can keep using.
Target: a well-founded technology decision
Frequently asked questions about AI consulting
(01)What does AI consulting at Context Studios cost?
Our workshops have fixed prices: Light Discovery €1,500, Strategy Day €2,500, Prototyping Sprint €4,500, all net. Which format fits depends on how concrete your ideas already are and whether you want to see a first prototype at the end. For assessments and anything beyond that: fixed price after scoping, proposal within 48 hours.
(02)Do I need AI consulting at all?
If you know AI matters for your business but it is unclear where to start: yes. A short, structured assessment keeps budget away from initiatives that would fail on data quality or effort. If, on the other hand, you already have a clearly defined use case with available data, a proof of concept is often the more direct route.
(03)How do I recognise good AI consulting in Berlin?
Ask about systems that were actually built, not slides. Whoever advises you should master the technical delivery and be able to explain where an idea could fail on data, cost or legal constraints. Also look for vendor neutrality and a tangible result at every step. At Context Studios you speak directly with the founder, Michael Kerkhoff, who is also technically accountable for the recommendations.
(04)How are you different from a traditional management consultancy?
Traditional consultancies often deliver strategy papers whose feasibility is only checked later. We deliver a roadmap in which every recommendation has already been checked for feasibility, data and effort. If you wish, we implement it as an AI-native development studio. You are under no obligation to do so: the roadmap is built so that your own team or another partner can work with it.
(05)How long does AI consulting take?
A workshop takes half a day to two days, with about a week of follow-up. For a full assessment with roadmap we typically plan two to four weeks. The exact scope depends on the size of the task and the availability of your team. We agree the schedule together after the initial call so that business units and IT can plan their time.
(06)Is it a good fit for mid-sized companies?
Yes. Mid-sized companies often have well-structured processes and data but little automation. That makes it easier to prioritise AI initiatives with manageable effort, for example unlocking knowledge from manuals and tickets or preparing quotes. The formats are deliberately compact, so management, business units and IT can decide together without blocking day-to-day operations for long.
(07)Is the consulting on-site or remote?
Both. Light Discovery runs remotely, the Strategy Day remotely or on-site. We recommend running the Prototyping Sprint on-site, in Berlin or at your premises, because joint work on the prototype with business units and IT works best in the same room. Our office is in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 6; we arrange appointments outside Berlin individually with you.
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AI consulting on-site in Berlin-Charlottenburg
- Founder AI-native since
- 2024
- Address
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 6, 10585 Berlin
- Phone
- +49 30 96610664
- info [at] contextstudios [dot] ai
Which AI initiatives are worth it for you?
In a free 30-minute call we clarify your starting point and the right format. No sales pitch, just an honest first assessment.
- First call: 30 minutes by video
- Directly with the founder, Michael Kerkhoff
- Free of charge, no obligation
Context Studios · Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 6 · 10585 Berlin