Bring your company into the AI era.
Board-level advisory and hands-on transformation from Ari Salmi and the SnowGrains team. We help you pick the right bets, ship pilots that work, and scale them responsibly.
Why us
An advisor who has shipped — not just slides.
Ari Salmi is a serial entrepreneur, full-stack architect, and a board-level AI advisor. You get 20+ years of product instinct combined with a team that can actually build the thing.
Strategy, not jargon
Plain language, sharp questions, ruthless prioritisation.
Board-level advisory
Ari takes formal AI advisor seats — with fiduciary seriousness.
A team behind the advice
Pilots get built by senior engineers, not handed off to juniors.
How it works
Workshop → Pilot → Rollout.
A simple three-phase path from curiosity to measurable impact. You can stop after any phase — we earn the next one.
- 01
Discover
1–2 weeks
Half-day workshop with leadership + a short audit of your data, tools and workflows. We leave with a prioritised list of AI use-cases, scored on impact and feasibility.
- Executive AI workshop
- Data & tooling snapshot
- Use-case backlog (scored)
- 02
Pilot
4–8 weeks
We pick one or two high-impact use-cases and ship a working pilot with your team. Real users, real data, real numbers — no demoware.
- Working pilot in production
- Measured impact (time / €)
- Team upskilling along the way
- 03
Rollout
ongoing
Scale what worked. Kill what didn’t. Ari stays on as your board-level AI advisor while the platform hardens around governance, cost and compliance.
- Rollout plan & ownership
- Governance & EU AI Act posture
- Board-level advisory cadence
Where AI pays off
Use-cases we’ve seen return fast.
Not every problem needs AI. These are the shapes of work where it usually does.
Customer-facing copilots
Support, sales and onboarding assistants grounded in your own content.
Document intelligence
Contracts, tenders, reports — searched, summarised, extracted.
Internal AI workflows
Meeting notes, drafting, coding, QA and ops — hands back hours per week.
Forecasting & decision support
Demand, pricing, risk — ML where it beats the spreadsheet.
Data & RAG platforms
The boring plumbing that makes every later AI project 5× cheaper.
Responsible AI
Policies, red-teaming, evals, EU AI Act readiness.
Engagements
Three ways to start.
Fixed-scope engagements so you know what you’re buying. Everything is optional — pick what fits.
Spark
Best first stepA half-day executive workshop plus a 10-page AI opportunity map tailored to your business.
- Leadership workshop (½ day)
- Use-case discovery & scoring
- Written AI opportunity map
- Follow-up Q&A session
Pilot
Most popularOne flagship AI pilot, built hand-in-hand with your team and shipped to real users.
- Everything in Spark
- One production pilot
- Team upskilling & pairing
- Impact measurement (time / €)
Advisor
Board-levelAri on your board or leadership team as AI advisor, with monthly cadence and on-call access.
- Monthly advisory session
- Async review & intros
- Board-meeting attendance
- Roadmap & vendor reviews
Prices exclude VAT. Travel billed at cost. Longer rollouts quoted separately.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do you actually build things, or just advise?
Both. Ari advises at board level; the SnowGrains team ships the pilots. You never get stuck between strategy and execution.
We’re not sure if our data is ready.
That’s normal. A big part of the Spark and Pilot phases is telling you — honestly — what’s ready, what isn’t, and what to fix first.
What about EU AI Act and data protection?
Baked in. We design pilots around your legal posture from day one, and Ari can help your board understand the obligations.
Can you work in English / Finnish?
Yes — English or Finnish, in person in Oulu or remote across Europe.
Got an idea? Let’s make it real.
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll reply within one working day with honest advice, a plan, or a polite no.