FTI Consulting · AI & Digital Accelerator Practice
Turning AI into measurable enterprise value.
Carl Jones advises private equity investors, boards, and executive teams across the full investment lifecycle — commercial and technology due diligence, value creation, and post-transaction transformation.
Writing
All writingThe Financial Architecture of the AI Operating Model
How gross margin can fall while gross-profit dollars, EBITDA, and free cash flow all rise as delivery cost migrates from people into inference — and the financial signals operators and investors should actually track.
The Four Operating Models of the AI Era
A diagnostic framework — Hierarchical, AI-Augmented, AI-Native, Outcome-Native — for locating which operating model your enterprise actually runs, and why redesign, not tooling, is where AI value is captured.
The Enterprise Architecture of the AI Operating Model
The move from AI-Augmented to AI-Native is a break in kind — from a descriptive semantic layer that instruments the hierarchy to an operational semantic layer that dissolves it. Why you cannot buy your way across the gap.