SAVANT-AI

Executive AI Advisory

Test Yourself.

What's your score on the SAVANT 5?

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Mastering
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Orchestrating
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Creating
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Exploring
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Prompting
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Our Framework

The SAVANT 5™

A proprietary maturity model for AI leadership—measuring both individual readiness and organizational capability.

Why measuring AI maturity matters to success

The SAVANT 5 exists because transformation requires measurement. Without a baseline, there is no delta. Without a delta, there is no proof of value.

Most AI training misses the unique value and experience each leader brings. Skip this step and you're delivering a generic workshop when what's needed is a personalized experience. We start by understanding who each leader is — their background, their priorities, where they stand with these tools today — so we can measure their AI maturity in that moment and build a roadmap to get them where they want to be.

Effective training meets each person where they are. Some leaders are technical; others aren't. Some are eager; others feel overwhelmed. Every leader needs to experience AI when it fails — not just when it works — to understand the partnership between person and technology that produces real results. Measurement across multiple dimensions ensures leaders develop technical understanding, hands-on experience, and the strategic insight to lead their teams and model the behavior they want to see.

What we measure

SLI: SAVANT Leadership Index

Your individual AI readiness — measured on a 1–5 scale across six dimensions: tool breadth, advanced feature use, custom building, automation, multimodal creation, and teaching. The assessment you just took is your SLI. It tells us exactly where you are and what comes next.

STI: SAVANT Transformation Index

Your organization's AI maturity — measured across seven dimensions:

  1. Leadership Commitment
  2. Tool Deployment
  3. Training & Enablement
  4. Governance & Policy
  5. Champion Development
  6. Metrics & Accountability
  7. Cultural Adoption

Organizations score 0–14 across these dimensions, revealing where investment is needed.


The Ceiling Insight

Most AI vendors stop at Level 3. Their job ends when the workshop ends. Yours doesn't. You still have an organization to transform.

Here's what happens at the ceiling:

Where organizations stall

High SLI + Low STI Frustrated champions — your best people are ready, but the organization won't support them. They leave.
Low SLI + High STI Wasted investment — you bought the tools, built the infrastructure. Nobody's using them. Write-off.
High SLI + High STI Transformation — individual mastery and organizational support moving together. This is the target.

Breaking through requires both: leaders who understand AI deeply and an organization structured to support them. SLI and STI moving together. That's not a two-day workshop. That's a 12–18 month partnership.

This is what we build. This is why clients stay.

"I wasn't sure how to meaningfully integrate AI into our memory care operations. As a COO, I needed more than just technical knowledge—I needed a strategic framework for implementation. Now I have a clear roadmap for implementing AI tools that can enhance our operational efficiency while maintaining human-centered care that's essential in memory care services."
— Lewis McCoy, COO, Anthem Memory Care

How we engage

Every engagement is tailored. Here's where most clients begin.

Led by Matt Burton — Cranfield MBA, former J.P. Morgan Private Banker, United States Marine. 173+ professionals trained across 24 cohorts. AWS, Azure, and Google AI certified.

Personal Training

$1,500 • 90-minute minimum

1:1 with Matt and Christian. Hands-on, tailored to your role, your tools, your strategic priorities. You leave with a Digital Twin, a personal roadmap, and the skills to use both immediately.

Maven Flagship Course

$1,295 • 4 weeks

Pre-recorded lessons plus live sessions. Recordings and full transcripts of every session. Progress tracking, individualized feedback, and weekly roadmaps. The most comprehensive AI leadership course available.

"An efficient survey of AI tools/applications. I walked away with at least 3 time-saving ideas to implement in the next month." — Eric, VP Research, John Burns Research & Consulting

Team Intensive

$5,000 • Up to 5 leaders

Half-day intensive for a leadership team ready to move. One 3-hour hands-on working session. SLI assessment for each participant. Digital Twins, personal roadmaps, and a 30-day action plan. For the team that can't wait for corporate budget approval.

Executive Engagement

$25,000 • Group of 10 C-Suite

Two 2-hour group sessions. 90-minute 1:1 with every executive. Personal SLI scoring and roadmaps for each leader. Organizational STI scoring and transformation roadmap. Special edition M365 Copilot handbook with roadmaps, recommendations, use cases, and templates — platform-agnostic options available.

Savant Corporate Circle

Monthly 2-hour presentation on the AI landscape — what changed, what matters, what to do about it. Monthly 1-hour AMA with Matt. Monthly journal and report covering the AI developments that affect your business.

Tier Annual (best value) Quarterly Monthly
Up to 25 members $18,000/yr $5,000/qtr $2,000/mo
Up to 50 members $30,000/yr $8,500/qtr $3,000/mo
Up to 100 members $48,000/yr $14,000/qtr $5,000/mo

Annual and quarterly plans paid upfront. All plans renew at the same rate. 100+ members? Let's talk.

Enterprise Transformation

Custom • Multi-phase partnership

For organizations ready to move AI from initiative to infrastructure. Multi-quarter engagement combining executive training, SLI/STI assessment across business units, champion development, workflow redesign, and embedded advisory. We become part of your leadership rhythm — not a vendor you check in with quarterly. Designed together, priced to the scope.

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Go deeper

The full framework behind the methodology — for those who want to see the engine.

The Four Pillars of AI Capability

The SAVANT 5 framework is built on four pillars of AI capability:

Pillar Description
AI Assistants Personalized agents that know your context, style, and priorities
AI Avatars Voice and image representations that extend your reach
AI Automations Workflows that run without constant intervention
AI Multi-Agent Systems Orchestrated teams of AI working together

Mastery means integrating all four pillars.

The Five A's of AI

Count them on one hand. The progression from first use to full command.

Stage Description
Assistance AI helps you do what you already do
Acceleration AI makes you faster at what you do
Augmentation AI extends you beyond what you could do alone
Automation You design the workflow — it follows instructions
Agentic You architect the system — it makes decisions

Automation follows your recipe. Agentic writes the recipe, goes shopping, and cooks dinner.

The Five Levels: Prompting to Agentic Mastery

From hoping for magic → creating magic. From tool reliance → self-reliance + co-existence.

Level Name Individual State Organizational State
1 Prompting Single tool, basic prompting, hoping for magic AI awareness emerging
2 Exploring Multiple tools, using pre-made features Tools deployed, experimenting
3 Creating Building custom tools, Digital Twins, GPTs Training complete, champions emerging
4 Orchestrating Workflows, automations, APIs, avatars Cross-functional, governance, integration
5 Agentic Mastery Architects agentic systems, teaches others, leads with AI Self-sustaining, competitive advantage
Digital Twin Development

The Digital Twin is your entry point to Level 3: Creating. Every engagement produces this concrete outcome: a personalized AI assistant configured for you.

This isn't a generic chatbot. It's configured for:

  • Their specific role and responsibilities
  • Their communication style and preferences
  • Their strategic priorities and recurring tasks
  • Their organization's context and terminology

The Digital Twin becomes the foundation for building more: Custom GPTs, markdown system files, and eventually the automations and workflows of Level 4.