AI Strategy and Executive Advisory

Helping leaders turn AI ambition into operational reality.

Stayton Kirke is the advisory practice of Jae Hahn: AI strategy, value engineering, modernization guidance, and executive translation for organizations making consequential technical decisions.

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About

Serious advisory work for organizations under real pressure.

Jae Hahn works at the intersection of value engineering, analytics, software architecture, and go-to-market strategy. His work is aimed at a practical question: how do leaders translate technical possibility into measurable business value without getting lost in hype, internal noise, or operational blind spots?

That work includes business-needs assessment, technology audit, gap analysis, solution architecture, capability planning, and implementation advisory. It also includes the executive layer: helping organizations make sense of AI, modernization, and adoption without pretending that tools alone solve institutional problems.

Selected Work

Case studies grounded in adoption, not theater.

AI Adoption That Actually Changed Behavior

A large enterprise organization was pursuing AI and digital transformation without a clear picture of its technical debt, application sprawl, or operational misalignment. Working as an AI leader within a small team, Jae helped shape a roadmap centered on augmentation, human-in-the-loop design, and innovation readiness.

The result was a major change in adoption, moving from the low 20 percent range to nearly 80 percent.

Open Technologies With Business Traction

Helped organizations evaluate and apply open technologies from both the technical and operational side, connecting architecture choices, adoption realities, and business process needs so new capabilities could produce practical ROI instead of isolated experimentation.

Data Strategy for Growth-Stage Media

Helped a large media company define a more data-driven path from roughly 30 million daily active users toward 100 million, combining strategy, capability planning, analytics thinking, and technology direction without losing operational focus.

Services

Where the advisory work is most useful.

AI Opportunity Framing

Clarify where AI can create real value, where it cannot, and how to prioritize initiatives without chasing vendor pressure or internal wishful thinking.

AI Strategy and Adoption

Guidance on generative AI, machine learning, agentic systems, and data strategy grounded in actual customer problems, training realities, and operational readiness.

Value Engineering and Modernization

Connect architecture, adoption planning, and modernization choices to ROI, executive confidence, and sound decision-making across hybrid enterprise environments.

AI Enablement and Skills Growth

Help teams use AI more effectively through practical enablement, stronger habits, and realistic adoption patterns rather than abstract evangelism.

Executive Translation

Bridge the gap between technical teams and leadership so AI, analytics, and modernization efforts can be understood, funded, and operationalized responsibly.

Certified AI Practitioner

AI certification work and continued investment in staying current as the field evolves.

Contact

Available for thoughtful AI and modernization work.

Based in El Granada, California, Jae works across enterprise technology, customer insight, and advisory engagements. This is the site for serious consulting inquiries.

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