Advient Advisors

We turn AI ambition into advantage.

For companies that think big and have no patience for slideware. Twenty-five years turning bold ideas into systems that run.

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MIT Media Lab PhD25+ Years in AIFounder & CEO3 AI Companies
Dr. Cory Kidd
Dr. Cory Kidd
Founder & CEO
The difference

Most AI advisors hand you a strategy and step back. Advient is led by an operator who has founded and run three AI companies, so the person who assesses where you're ready is the same one who architects and ships the system. Senior judgment from boardroom to production, in the industries where the stakes are highest and compliance is hardest, from pharma and maritime to healthcare and beyond.

The deliverable isn't a deck. It's a working capability your competitors don't have.

MIT MEDIA LAB

PhD in AI & Psychology (2007)

AI ENTREPRENEUR

3 AI companies founded & led $10M+ in venture funding raised

25 YEARS COMMERCIALIZING AI

From research to enterprise deployment

RESEARCHER & INVENTOR

3 US Patents in AI systems Published AI researcher in top journals

Our approach

What We Do Differently

Most AI consultants are either strategists who can't implement, or developers who don't understand business. We bridge both worlds.

AI Strategy

Not decks that gather dust. A clear roadmap you can act on — then the system built to match. We've run companies and know what works in the real world.

Proof of Concept

Validate AI use cases before committing to full deployment. Real prototypes, real data, real results. Reduce risk and prove it works before you scale.

Enterprise Integration

Make AI work in your existing tech stack and workflows. Integration, deployment, training. We understand both the technology and the organizational change required.

Recent work

Recent Projects

Results-driven AI implementation across regulated industries

PHARMACEUTICAL AI STRATEGY

From Readiness Assessment to Shipped Forecasting Engine

Mid-Size Pharma — Commercial

A mid-size pharma commercial team had executive appetite for AI but no path from experimentation to production.

Deliverables:

  • Benchmarked readiness
  • Facilitated a leadership workshop to prioritize use cases
  • Delivered a phased roadmap
  • Architected and shipped the top-priority system: a market-optimization and demand-forecasting engine integrating structured and unstructured data
  • Interactive geographic dashboard and automated alerts — surfacing demand shifts weeks earlier than traditional market signals
Assessment converted into a build engagement, then ongoing operational support.
MARITIME ENTERPRISE AI

Executive Training & Organization-Wide AI Adoption

~$1.5B Maritime Shipping

A ~$1.5B maritime shipping company (roughly 1,800 employees, most at sea) wanted to stay lean by using AI instead of adding headcount — but no one in leadership had used it.

Deliverables:

  • Trained the senior leadership team directly
  • Ran a workshop to surface high-value use cases
  • Deployed an enterprise-grade AI platform for a security-sensitive industry
  • Stood up the governance layer and built the adoption engine
  • ~165 shore-based employees onboarded at 100% voluntary participation
The fixed-fee program converted into an ongoing advisory retainer and a materially expanded mandate the following year.
PHARMA AI GO-TO-MARKET

Scaling an Early AI Head Start into Commercial Growth

Pharma Market Research

A pharma market research firm was an early mover on AI, with a proprietary, differentiated capability in daily use ahead of its peers. The priority was converting that head start into commercial scale.

Deliverables:

  • Ran a focused six-week assessment across the leadership team
  • Delivered a prioritized plan to scale adoption
  • Sharpened the go-to-market model for its AI-enabled products
  • Put a shared measurement framework in place tied to the company's own targets
  • Packaged the work as a 30/60/90-day roadmap the CEO could act on immediately
The CEO extended the work into an ongoing monthly advisory engagement.
HEALTHCARE AI COMMERCIALIZATION

Catalia Health - AI-Powered Chronic Disease Management

Founded & Scaled Patient Engagement Platform (2014-2024)

Built hardware/software system (social robots + AI conversation engine) for patient engagement deployed by pharmaceutical leaders.

Achievements:

  • Pharma customers: Pfizer, Novartis
  • 3 US patents in AI conversation systems
  • Secured $10M+ in VC/PE funding
  • Managed full product lifecycle: R&D → clinical validation → commercial deployment
  • Integrated with major pharmacy chains (Walgreens, CVS)
10-year track record commercializing AI in regulated healthcare environments
Where we focus

Industry Focus

Pharmaceutical & Biotech

AI strategy for regulated environments. Clinical trials, commercial operations, patient engagement.

Maritime & Industrial

Operational AI for shipping, energy, and manufacturing. Safety, efficiency, automation.

Healthcare Technology

Product innovation and go-to-market strategy for health tech companies.

Why it works

Why This Works Differently

Traditional Consulting

  • Strategy firms hand over a deck and leave
  • Junior analysts research best practices
  • "Digital transformation" frameworks
  • You implement (or it dies)

Advient Approach

  • I've been a CEO, built products at scale, and understand both the boardroom and the codebase
  • Direct engagement with your team - no intermediaries
  • Working AI systems, built and measured against your own targets
  • Partnership through deployment
“I don't hand clients a strategy and walk away. I've spent 25 years building and shipping AI in the industries where it's hardest to get right, and I stay in it until the system is running.”
— Cory Kidd, Ph.D.

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Let's talk about what to build first — your specific challenges and the systems that would move the needle for your organization.

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