Most organizations are deploying AI. Fewer than 20% are unlocking significant value. The non-technical barriers that are preventing it are what nobody is saying out loud.
Candid surfaces those barriers — and helps you remove them so you can move forward quickly.
Senior leaders are making critical decisions without the full picture.
The gap between what employees know and what reaches leadership is often where companies fail. What shows up in status reports is only the surface. The real story is underneath.
Most Organizations Are Deploying AI. Few Are Seeing Significant Value.
McKinsey finds that 88% of organizations are deploying AI, yet fewer than 20% see significant bottom-line impact. Organizations are investing heavily in AI technology — but most are unprepared for the day-to-day realities of making it work. Read the research →
The barriers are on the operating side — the non-technical issues preventing you from unlocking the value of AI. Candid surfaces them and helps you solve them.
A scored diagnostic across three dimensions — Process & Operations, Alignment & Governance, and People & Culture — measuring your organization's readiness to deliver real value from AI on a ten-point scale for each factor, giving you a total score out of 100.
Delivered as part of Candid's full engagement report — giving you a clear, actionable benchmark for where your organization stands and what needs to change.
- Processes are ready for AI automation
- Data cleanliness and pipelines
- Integration with existing systems and workflows
- Clear and measurable AI outcomes
- Controls and standards to prevent costly errors
- Organizational clarity and alignment on AI priorities
- Governance for effective AI decisions
- Employee openness to AI
- AI knowledge and skills
- AI-ready org design and job roles
AI consultants tell you what tools to buy and how to implement them. Candid tells you whether your organization is actually ready to unlock value from AI — and what's standing in the way. Our focus is not on the technology. It's on the operating side barriers that no one is saying out loud.
We don't just tell you what's wrong. We help you fix it.
Traditional consulting means months of discovery, thick reports, and a team of analysts who have never run anything. Candid is different — fast diagnosis, senior judgment, and a clear path forward.
How Candid Gets Key Initiatives Moving Quickly
A focused, time-bound engagement designed to get you answers fast — and get your initiative moving. For AI engagements, includes Candid's proprietary AI Readiness Assessment.
Where Candid Has the Greatest Impact
Candid works best when a high-stakes initiative is stalling and leadership can sense it — even if they can't pinpoint why.
Why Candid — and Who's Behind It
Founded by Adam Steinmetz — 26 years in progressively senior leadership roles at Fidelity Investments.
Adam saved Fidelity over $1B by driving digital adoption from 5% to 60% through cross-functional issue diagnosis and leadership of technology solutions. He led the insight-driven product response that saved a critical Fortune 125 client that Fidelity had a 90% chance of losing. He built a 230-person product group serving 3.5 million employees at the nation's largest employers.
These weren't consulting engagements. Adam was in the room, leading the team, and was accountable for the outcome. That's what Candid brings to every engagement — not just an outside perspective, but the experience of someone who has delivered for clients.
Wharton undergrad. Duke MBA. Publisher of a weekly AI-assisted digital publication, giving him hands-on experience with the AI tools his clients are navigating.
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If you're trying to unlock value from AI — or a critical initiative isn't moving as planned and you sense something is off — let's have a conversation. No pitch. Just a conversation about what's standing in the way.
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