95% of enterprise AI pilots fail. We build the 5% that don't.
We find the handful of AI bets that build a real moat in your business — and kill the ones that just burn budget. The kind of edge that compounds while your competitors are still running pilots. The AI is the tool. We're the edge.
Enterprises are pouring hundreds of billions into AI. Almost none of it becomes advantage — the gap between the few who win and everyone else is now the whole game.
Hire AI strategists — senior judgment, not a platform.
An AI strategy consultancy bridges the gap between your business challenges and what AI can actually do: identifying the inefficiencies worth attacking, selecting or building the right tools, and guiding your team through the technical and organizational transition — all while protecting the return on investment.
That's the work, and at Isla Tech Consulting it's done by senior hands — people steer the strategy; the AI is a tool we put to work, never the product. You get senior judgment first and technology second, straight answers either way, and a partner genuinely accountable to your P&L.
If you're deciding where to point AI budget — or whether to at all — that's exactly the call we help you make. Start with the AI Value Diagnostic, or .
You didn't buy an edge. You rented one — and so did they.
Most AI budgets get sprayed across use-cases that look busy and defend nothing. The models are rented — your rival plugs in the same IQ at the same price by Friday — so every dollar of value you can't fence off gets competed to zero and leaks straight to the customer. What's left is a graveyard of pilots that pop the P&L for a quarter, then flatline the second everyone else catches up. That's not strategy. That's rent — and you're paying it.
Moat & Meter — The AI Value Matrix
AI split value from advantage — and almost nobody prices it in. The framework forces the distinction onto two axes. The Meter: how far your P&L actually moves if AI nails this. The Moat: your advantage half-life — how many quarters the edge survives once rivals rent the same models. Plot every bet and four quadrants appear.
The signature move is to Enclose the Commons — close a proprietary feedback loop around a commodity use-case until it compounds on data only you hold, and the Commons hardens into a Fortress.
The framework stands on the Harvard canon — Iansiti & Lakhani's AI factory, Porter's forces under generative AI. Download the one-page Strategy Canon (PDF) →
We set the strategy — then build the systems that hold the line.
AI Value Diagnostic
A senior-led workshop that plots your entire AI portfolio on Moat & Meter and leaves you a single board-ready slide of where to build, adopt, hold, and kill.
Fortress Build — Manufacturing
Turn proprietary production, sensor, and yield data into a compounding AI advantage on the plant floor that competitors can't rent their way past.
Enclose the Commons — Enterprise
Wrap a proprietary feedback loop around a commodity AI use-case so the value stops leaking to customers and starts compounding into a moat only you own.
Custom AI Assistant
A domain-trained conversational AI that answers, books, and sells, 24/7.
Booking & Payments
Quote-to-cash automation: Stripe checkout, deposits, balance auto-charge, and no-show handling.
CRM & Live Chat
Unified customer inbox with AI triage, full history, and lead tracking.
Analytics & BI
First-party dashboards, revenue and cohort charts, and a morning digest.
Back-Office Accounting
Automated ledger, P&L, depreciation, and Stripe/Airbnb ingest — the books close themselves.
Inventory Tracking
Real-time asset assignment, checkout/return, and maintenance flags.
Delivery & Logistics
Batch scheduling, distance-based pricing, and live driver tracking.
Standards & Compliance
PII lockdown, audit trails, access rules, and consent capture — audit-ready by default.
AI Token-Spend Tracking
Per-model usage and cost monitoring, cache savings, and budget alerts.
Demand Signals & SEO
Trending-search intelligence, indexable guides, and auto sitemap/IndexNow.
On rented genius
Foundation models are the first strategic input in history that arrives pre-commoditized. The model is never the moat — it's the great equalizer. The firms that win aren't the ones with the best AI. They're the ones who own the thing the AI has nothing without.
Every competitor rents the same intelligence at the same list price on the same afternoon. The edge was never the model — it's the scarce thing the model plugs into: your proprietary data, your embedded workflow, your distribution, your regulated or physical asset. Rented genius throws off enormous value and keeps almost none of it. Owning the complement is the whole game — and that's what we build.
A boutique built senior-only. No pyramid, no theater.
Isla Tech Consulting is founder-led. The strategy is steered personally by senior hands; the AI is a tool we put to work — never the product you're buying. You get senior judgment first and technology second, straight answers either way, and a partner genuinely accountable to your P&L.
And we don't just advise on AI — we run a business with it. We built and operate Todo Culebra — a real island-tourism company in Culebra, Puerto Rico, where an AI concierge answers guests, quotes prices, books rentals, charges cards, and manages delivery end-to-end — the whole operation runs on essentially one person's time, because the AI carries the load. It's our lab: every recommendation we make has already survived contact with real customers and a real P&L — ours. Read the case study, or go try it live.
Frequently asked
What is Isla Tech Consulting?
A boutique, founder-led AI strategy firm led by Logen Johnson that helps manufacturing and enterprise leaders decide where AI creates durable competitive advantage versus where it burns budget.
What is the Moat & Meter AI Value Matrix?
Our signature framework. It plots each AI initiative on two axes — the Meter (P&L impact) and the Moat (how long your edge survives once rivals rent the same models) — sorting your portfolio into Fortress, Commons, Vault, and AI Theater. Read the full framework →
Why doesn't adopting AI create lasting advantage on its own?
Foundation models are rented genius — every rival rents the same IQ at the same price, so unfenced value gets competed to zero. Advantage comes from owning the scarce complement the AI plugs into: proprietary data, embedded workflow, distribution, or a regulated asset.
What is the AI Value Diagnostic?
Our lead engagement: a paid workshop that plots your entire AI portfolio on Moat & Meter and leaves you a one-slide, board-ready readout showing which bets to build, enclose, hold, or kill.
What does the AI Value Diagnostic cost?
$2,500 flat for the half-day working session — remote or on-site. You bring every AI initiative, running or planned; every bet gets plotted live on Moat & Meter; you leave with the one-slide, board-ready readout. And it's guaranteed: board-ready readout or you don't pay.
Have you actually done this yourselves?
Yes — we built and operate Todo Culebra, a real island-tourism business where an AI concierge answers guests, quotes prices, books rentals, charges cards, and manages delivery end-to-end — the whole operation runs on essentially one person's time, because the AI carries the load. Every recommendation we make has already survived contact with real customers and a real P&L — ours. Read the case study →
Why hire you instead of a big consulting firm?
The people who scope the work do the work — no associate pyramid, no junior deck factory, and no incentive to stretch the engagement. Big firms sell teams; we sell judgment, and we've shipped the systems most consultants only put on a slide.
Why can't our team just use ChatGPT?
They should — for Commons work, rented AI is exactly right. The strategy question is different: which of your AI bets still holds value when every competitor rents the same models? That's what Moat & Meter answers, and it's the difference between spend that compounds and spend that leaks.
Where are you based?
Puerto Rico. We work with PR manufacturers and mainland US enterprise — remote or on-site.
Bring your AI bets. Leave knowing which to fund — and which to shoot.
The AI Value Diagnostic is a working session, not a sales call. Put your current and planned AI initiatives on the table; every one comes back plotted on Moat & Meter — the Fortress bets to fund hard, the AI Theater to shut down — on a single slide your board gets in ninety seconds.
- Bring every AI initiative — running or planned
- Every bet plotted live on Moat & Meter
- You leave with the one-slide, board-ready readout