I make stalled work move again.

Erin Geoghan, founder of Open Set Consulting — **Erin Geoghan**Founder · Open Set Consulting

AI is changing how your company builds, and most of the business is still running the way it did before. I help you find exactly where that's costing you, then make the small, specific changes that turn experiments into results, without an overhaul you can't afford to run.

Book a one-hour call ↗ or write to me

A decade building software in regulated industries, from engineering to product to delivery
~30% delivery throughput improvement from AI adoption built to last
Known for asking the question everyone was circling

Why an
advisor

AI moved faster than anyone could change the business around it. That's normal.

ClarityAlignmentMomentum

I start wherever AI has actually picked up speed. It's never just one group. Some teams work differently now, while planning, tracking, quality, and reporting run the way they always have. One part moved, the rest held still, and that gap is where the money sits.

Choosing an advisor to close it means small, iterative changes that add up to real transformation over time. We pick one outcome and pull it all the way through the engagement. I find where it's stuck, and we build the fix with the people you already have. Your team owns the change; I make it move faster. The business changes with the technology, and you'll see inside the engagement what improved and why.

If you're here,
you've felt it

01You're paying for AI across every team and you can't say plainly what it bought.
02Technical decisions keep piling up (which tools, which vendors, what to build, what's safe to automate) and nobody's job is to make them well.
03Your engineering teams have the AI tools, and the results and adoption are fuzzy and uneven.
04Roadmaps, estimates, and quality checks still assume how your teams worked a year ago.

Four different chairs, one problem. None of it is a tooling problem. AI changed one part of how work gets done, and everything around it stayed the same: how you plan, how you track, how you check the work, how you decide what's worth funding. Most companies stop right there, and that's exactly where the investment stalls. Closing that gap is the work I do, whether your teams are already moving faster or still trying to get started.

What grows
when we
work together

Decisions that actually get made

Which tools, which vendors, what to build and what to buy, what's safe to automate. You get clear calls with the reasoning written down, so the next round of decisions is easier instead of heavier.

Speed the business can see

Faster people don't automatically make a faster company. Planning, tracking, and quality have to move with them. When they do, the gains show up in what you ship and what it costs, not just in one team's day.

Quality and spend you can stand behind

Guardrails that hold at the new speed, checks that fit AI-assisted work, and a clear line from what you're spending to what the business gets back. The version that holds up when someone asks hard questions.

How the
work moves

Start with a real conversation

A free one-hour call. We talk through what's actually going on: what you're spending, what's stuck, which decisions are waiting on someone. You'll leave with a clearer read even if we never work together.

Run a 90-day Activation Cycle

I work alongside you and your team, advisory plus hands-on creation. We build the shared practices and the artifacts your people actually use, inside the flow of real work. Not a slide deck.

See measurable movement by week 12

A new way of working your team owns, with numbers that show it moved. The point isn't my recommendations. It's your business running differently, and staying that way after I'm gone.

Who you'd
be working
with

Regulated-industry delivery~10 yrs

Throughput lift, AI program~30%

On-time deliveryConsistent

Client account revenue, 12 months~2×

Spoke atAgile on the Beach · Agile & Beyond · JConf.dev · Devnexus

A decade of making delivery hold.

I've spent a decade building cloud-native products in regulated industries: banking, payments, and health insurance. Most recently I led an AI adoption program that lifted delivery throughput by roughly 30%, and restructured a key account that roughly doubled in revenue within twelve months.

I don't treat AI as an engineering problem, because I haven't only worked in engineering. I've worn a lot of hats across product, delivery, and operations, so when the way work gets built shifts, I can think through what that does to everyone around it and bring each part of the business the practices and improvements it needs.

In their
words

You ask the best questions to help us see how this product should come to life.

Client feedback

Thank you for surfacing and magnifying the things that really matter.

Client feedback

Start with a conversation

Let's see what's possible.

Book a free one-hour call and we'll figure out whether there's a way I can help. Either way, you'll leave with a clearer read on your problems and goals. The method starts working in the first conversation.

Book a one-hour call ↗

Or email me directly:
erin@opensetconsulting.com