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I've been in the room
when AI went wrong.
That's exactly why I know how to get it right.
Hary
$
1
Mil
in cost savings delivered through AI automations from 2023–2025.
10
+
AI platforms and tools worked with across strategy, automation, and transformation engagements.
10
+
Years across data, AI, and enterprise transformation
50
%
Project completion rate across all AI engagements.
Not estimated. Delivered!
1 // The short version /The facts. The rest is context.
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Based in
Toronto, Canada. Serving North America and Europe.
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Experience
15 years across enterprise AI, data engineering, and organizational transformation.
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Focus Areas
Enterprise AI Strategy, AI Agentic Automation, and People Transformation.
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Approach
People first. Technology second. Direction always before deployment.
2 // Who I am /I started asking hard questions
before AI was a trend.
My background is in data engineering, organizational transformation, and the messy space between human behavior and technology systems. I have spent fifteen years watching organizations build sophisticated AI capabilities and then fail to use them, not because the technology was wrong, but because the human and leadership side of the change was never addressed.
I work independently, which means every engagement gets my full attention. I do not subcontract the thinking. I do not send a junior team once the contract is signed. You work with me directly from the first conversation to the last deliverable.
3 // What I do /Three areas. One connecting thread.
The connecting thread across everything I do is the belief that AI creates value only when leadership, systems, and people move in the same direction at the same time. My three areas of expertise are each designed to address one layer of that challenge.
Enterprise AI Strategy
For leaders who need a clear, governed direction before committing more budget to AI. I help organizations decide where AI belongs, how to govern it, and how to build a roadmap everyone can act on.
AI Agentic Automation
For organizations ready to move high-volume, repetitive work off human desks. I design and build autonomous AI agent systems that handle what your people should not have to, so they can focus on what only they can do.
AI Transformation
For organizations that have deployed AI and are still waiting for real adoption. I build the training, change support, and enablement that turns a tool into a genuine capability people use daily and actually trust.
4 // What I Cover /Where I do my best work

Leaders who tell the truth about where they are
If you can say "we tried and it's harder than we thought," we're already in the right place to start.

Executives who want a real thinking partner
Not someone to agree with you. Someone to work alongside you, and say what others won't.

Organizations building for something that lasts
Real change takes longer than a quarter. I work with people who know that and are okay with it.

Organizations looking for a quick fix
Organizations looking for a quick fix If the goal is to skip the harder work underneath the AI problem, I'm probably not the right fit.

Briefs that want validation, not evaluation
If the decision's already made and you need someone to sign off on it, that's not what I do.

Clients who want someone to agree with them
I'd rather be useful than comfortable to be around. Those are sometimes very different things.
5 // What I Don't Cover /Where I step back
5 // What I Don't Cover /Where I step back

Organizations looking for a quick fix
Organizations looking for a quick fix If the goal is to skip the harder work underneath the AI problem, I'm probably not the right fit.

Briefs that want validation, not evaluation
If the decision's already made and you need someone to sign off on it, that's not what I do.

Clients who want someone to agree with them
I'd rather be useful than comfortable to be around. Those are sometimes very different things.
5 // What I Don't Cover /Where I step back
The root problem is almost never technical.It is always organizational
6 // The context I work in /The numbers that make this work urgent.
This is not just a market opportunity. It is an organizational crisis in slow motion. These four numbers are why I built my practice around strategy, automation, and people, and why organizations that wait are paying a growing cost for it.
of organizations use AI in at least one function. Only 6% are seeing real enterprise-wide value.
0
%
McKinsey State of AI, 2025
average cost per abandoned enterprise AI initiative in North America. Up from previous years.
$
0
M
S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025
US workers will have their roles fundamentally transformed by agentic AI by 2030. Most are unprepared.
0
M+
ServiceNow Workforce Skills Forecast, 2025
of businesses now cite reskilling existing employees as their primary workforce response to AI adoption.
0
%
World Economic Forum, 2025
7 // What experience has taught me /The same four patterns keep showing up.
Failed AI is almost never a technology failure.
In every organization where I have seen AI stall or collapse, the technology was working fine. What was missing was ownership, governance, and the willingness to make a decision before momentum demanded one. I help organizations claim that clarity before the cost of waiting becomes undeniable.
The automation gap is opening faster than most leaders realize.
Organizations that have already deployed autonomous AI agents are not running pilots anymore. They are running functions. The difference in efficiency, cost, and competitive response time between those organizations and the ones still deciding is growing every quarter. Early advantage in agentic AI compounds fast.
You cannot manage what you have not decided to measure.
Most organizations deploy AI and then measure activity, not impact. Dashboards fill up with usage numbers and completion rates while the business question, did this actually help, goes unanswered. I build measurement into the work from the start so value is visible before anyone asks for a report.
The people problem does not resolve itself with time.
Employees who feel uncertain about their role in an AI-enabled organization do not become more confident as AI becomes more capable. They become more anxious. Confidence requires intervention, specific, role-based, human-centered intervention, not more tool access and a hope that they figure it out.
8 // What I believe /Three beliefs that shape everything I do.
This isn’t generic training. It’s practical, role-based enablement built around the real work your people do every day, with change support that makes new behaviors stick.
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Honesty before comfort.
If your strategy has a gap, I'll name it. If the problem you think you have isn't the real one, I'll say so. Kindly, but clearly. That's the only version of help I know how to give.
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People before technology.
I've seen companies spend millions on technology and nothing on their people. I always start with people and let technology follow from there.
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Focus over volume.
I'd rather do one thing properly for an organization than ten things loosely for organizations that aren't. That's not a business model. It's the standard I hold.
Enough experience to know what works
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Enough honesty to say it probably won't.
9 // How to approach me /Four steps from first contact to real work.
There is no lengthy RFP process. No proposal theater. Just a direct path from an honest conversation to a focused engagement that starts with where you actually are.
Email hello@haryperiya.io or book a call directly. Tell me what is happening in plain language. No deck required. No prepared brief needed. Just the honest version of where your organization is.
Thirty minutes. I listen more than I speak. I ask questions about what is actually going on, not what looks good on a brief. If I can help, I will tell you exactly how. If I cannot, I will tell you that too.
Based on what I have heard, I identify the highest-leverage entry point for your organization and describe what working together would look like — scope, focus, pace, and what you would actually walk away with.
Not where a framework says you should be. Not where a competitor is. Where you are today. The engagement is shaped entirely around that reality. I stay with it until the work is done and the results are visible.
10 // How I work with you /Four modes. One standard throughout.
Every engagement is different. The starting point, the duration, and the depth all depend on what your organization needs. What stays constant is the quality of attention you get and the standard I hold the work to.
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Interim and fractional AI leadership
For organizations that need senior AI leadership before a permanent hire is in place, or alongside one. I step in to shape the function, build the team capability, and set the trajectory before the wrong habits form at the top.
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Consulting and transformation advisory
For organizations navigating a specific AI challenge: a stalled transformation, a governance gap, a strategy that needs rebuilding, or an adoption program that is not landing. I bring a stabilizing framework grounded in what is actually happening.
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Executive coaching and senior counsel
For leaders who need a thinking partner who understands both the technology and the organizational complexity around it. I provide ongoing access and a consistent, honest perspective as decisions evolve over time.
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Board and cross-functional guidance
For boards and leadership committees that need structured clarity on AI readiness, risk, and investment direction. I translate between technical capability and business accountability so the right questions get asked at the right level.
If this feels like
what you've been
looking for, let's talk.
what you've been
looking for, let's talk.
I work with a small number of organizations at a time. If the timing feels right, reach out. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
If this feels like
what you've been
looking for, let's talk.
what you've been
looking for, let's talk.
I work with a small number of organizations at a time. If the timing feels right, reach out. No pitch. Just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
