About the firm
Built on one conviction.
Fulkerson Advisors exists to close the gap between AI’s promise and what survives contact with production. The conviction behind it is that the people who scope an initiative should be the ones who ship it.
What we are
Fulkerson Advisors is a partner-led AI consulting firm founded in 2023 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, working with substantial operating companies across the United States. Three ways to engage (a three-week Diagnosis, a twelve-week Build, and a Standing Partner on a monthly cadence) under one rule, that a founding partner writes the plan, stays through production, and answers for the result. When a question exceeds our bench, we draw on a network of twenty-plus subject-matter specialists rather than improvising.
Who leads the work
The partners’ backgrounds span forward-deployed data science at Booz Allen Hamilton and the Boston Consulting Group, quantitative research on a $2B hedge-fund book, MIT Leaders for Global Operations (Sloan MBA and Engineering MS), Columbia engineering, and systems engineering turned operations leadership. That is the translation layer between technical capability and business operations. Engagements are deliberately few, and every one is led end to end by the people described here.
How we hold ourselves to it
Every claim on this site is anchored to an engagement on our case file list or a published source, and our research method, confidentiality policy, and AI-use disclosure are written down where clients and procurement teams can audit them.
At a glance
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, working with companies across the United States
- Clients
- Operating companies. Past clients include a US pension fund, a major US law firm, a medical-device company, a Caribbean conglomerate and funded startups.
- What we build
- Custom AI systems that go into daily use, such as voice agents, forecasting models, document automation and data pipelines, each measured against a number the business already tracks.
- How to engage
- The Diagnosis (three weeks), the Build (twelve weeks, one system into daily use) and the Standing Partner (a fractional Chief AI Officer, two to four days a month)
- Who does the work
- A founding partner leads every engagement, from the plan to production.
- Fees
- Fixed and agreed before work starts. What AI consulting costs across the market is in our cost guide.
- Results on record
- A voice agent handles roughly 60% of a medical-device company’s inbound patient calls on its own. A pension fund’s strategy testing moved from quarterly to daily. A software company’s three proposed AI pilots became one, tied to renewal economics. The case files
- Research
- Open-data studies of AI at 97 of the world’s largest law firms, in 1,054 outside-counsel guidelines and on the websites of 1,115 private equity firms
The rest is on the record.
Ten engagements, three outcomes on the ledger, and a thirty-minute call if the problem sounds like yours.