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Ballista is a specialist AI advisory firm combining frontier research credentials, deep technical experience, and hands-on commercial delivery.

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Designed around your actual challenge.

We do not offer a standard menu. Every engagement starts with a genuine understanding of where you are and what you need to achieve.

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Small, deliberate, credentialled.

Every partner brings specific, verifiable depth. Collectively we cover a range most advisory firms cannot match — and none of it is borrowed from a previous employer's reputation.

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Due diligence that tells you what you actually need to know.

Independent, rigorous, dual-track assessment covering both technical architecture and commercial fundamentals. Designed for investors, acquirers, and boards who need real confidence.

CTO-on-Demand

Your CTO. On demand. Backed by AI.

Senior technical leadership for AI companies whose founders have everything except a technologist at the table.

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Our team publishes regularly on AI, energy, retail technology, investment, and the practical business of building and deploying AI systems. These are the perspectives of people active in these fields every day.

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Last updated: June 2026

Insights

From the frontier.

Our team publishes regularly on AI, energy, retail technology, investment, and the practical business of building and deploying AI systems. These are the perspectives of people active in these fields every day.

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AI StrategyJune 2026 · 3 min read

Why most enterprise AI strategies fail at the implementation stage - and what to do differently

The gap between a compelling AI strategy deck and working deployed systems is where most programmes lose their way. It is rarely a technology problem. It is almost always a governance, incentives or organisational capability problem.

Piers Corfield · Managing Partner - Strategy & Commercial

CTOMay 2026 · 3 min read

The non-technical founder's guide to not hiring a CTO too early

Hiring a full-time CTO at seed stage is one of the most common and costly mistakes in the AI startup playbook. The right technical leadership model changes as the company matures.

Piers Corfield · Managing Partner - Strategy & Commercial