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Expert AI
Advisors & Builders

Expert AI
Advisors & Builders

Founded and led by ex-Google, Atlassian & Goldman Sachs engineers.


Helping you spend more time on the things that matter most to you.

Founded and led by ex-Google, Atlassian & Goldman Sachs engineers.


How can we help today?

Founded and led by ex-Google, Atlassian & Goldman Sachs engineers.

How can we help today?

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MillwaterConsulting
№ 03 · ANCHORED · 26

People Led,AI First.

The pressure to act, the fear of acting wrong, the vendors promising the world. We've sat in those rooms. So we built a firm that hands the repetitive work to agents, and hands you back the only thing that compounds.

  • 01Time to think.
  • 02Time to decide.
  • 03Time to do.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
MillwaterConsulting
№ 03 · ANCHORED · 26

People Led,AI First.

The pressure to act, the fear of acting wrong, the vendors promising the world. We've sat in those rooms. So we built a firm that hands the repetitive work to agents, and hands you back the only thing that compounds.

  • 01Time to think.
  • 02Time to decide.
  • 03Time to do.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
Start here

Audit your AI readiness - and define your strategy.

A clear, honest read on where you stand. 30 minutes, no pitch - just clarity. Pick the path that sounds like you.

Start here

Audit your AI readiness - and define your strategy.

Start here

Audit your AI readiness - and define your strategy.

A clear, honest read on where you stand. 30 minutes, no pitch - just clarity. Pick the path that sounds like you.

MillwaterConsulting
№ 04 · MODEL-AGNOSTIC · 26

AI Models Come & GoYour System Stays

We're AI vendor agnostic. No forward-deployed engineer to lock you into one AI vendor forever. We design systems that work with any AI model — the tooling, the security and your company's unique DNA are what we build around. Models drop in and out.

  • 01Your Tooling.
  • 02Your Security.
  • 03Your Company's DNA.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
MillwaterConsulting
№ 04 · MODEL-AGNOSTIC · 26

AI Models Come & GoYour System Stays

We're AI vendor agnostic. No forward-deployed engineer to lock you into one AI vendor forever. We design systems that work with any AI model — the tooling, the security and your company's unique DNA are what we build around. Models drop in and out.

  • 01Your Tooling.
  • 02Your Security.
  • 03Your Company's DNA.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
MillwaterConsulting
№ 03 · ANCHORED · 26

People Led,AI First.

The pressure to act, the fear of acting wrong, the vendors promising the world. We've sat in those rooms. So we built a firm that hands the repetitive work to agents, and hands you back the only thing that compounds.

  • 01Time to think.
  • 02Time to decide.
  • 03Time to do.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
Start here

Audit your AI readiness — and define your strategy.

MillwaterConsulting
№ 04 · MODEL-AGNOSTIC · 26

AI Models Come & GoYour System Stays

We're AI vendor agnostic. No forward-deployed engineer to lock you into one AI vendor forever. We design systems that work with any AI model — the tooling, the security and your company's unique DNA are what we build around. Models drop in and out.

  • 01Your Tooling.
  • 02Your Security.
  • 03Your Company's DNA.
New Zealand · Australia · United States
Services

Our Services

MillwaterConsulting
№ 04 · REINVENTED · 26

Consulting: reinventedfor the AI era

Relationships and people, leading. With our expertise as software: a team of agents that work continuously, integrate with your stack, and with our guidance, deliver senior-grade outcomes in hours, not weeks. The future of the firm isn't more consultants. It's a highly-experienced few with a workforce of agents behind us.

New Zealand · Australia · United States
From the founders
The future of professional services isn’t more consultants. It’s a few people who’ve done the work, with a workforce of agents behind them. We bill outcomes, not hours.
Andriy Kidanov
Andriy Kidanov
Founder, Millwater Consulting
From the founders
The future of professional services isn’t more consultants. It’s a few people who’ve done the work, with a workforce of agents behind them. We bill outcomes, not hours.
Andriy Kidanov
Andriy Kidanov
Founder, Millwater Consulting
From the founders
The future of professional services isn’t more consultants. It’s a few people who’ve done the work, with a workforce of agents behind them. We bill outcomes, not hours.
Andriy Kidanov
Andriy Kidanov
Founder, Millwater Consulting
Engage
Engage
Engage

How We Engage

How We Engage

01

Discover

We understand your objectives, culture, risk appetite, and the constraints in front of you.

05

Operate

We see it through to a stable handover. Report on the IC desk, agents in production, team trained. Stable before we step back.

06

Support

Engagements end. The relationship doesn't. Quarterly check-ins, follow-up questions, the long tail — we stay engaged.

02

Align

We present our findings, agree on priorities, and lock-in the way forward. Engagements drift here. Ours don't.

04

Execute

We deliver against the plan. Reports, code, agents, coaching — whatever the engagement requires.

03

Plan

We design the approach. Methodology, architecture, milestones — and the risks we've already spotted.

02

Align

We present our findings, agree on priorities, and lock-in the way forward. Engagements drift here. Ours don't.

05

Operate

We see it through to a stable handover. Report on the IC desk, agents in production, team trained. Stable before we step back.

06

Support

Engagements end. The relationship doesn't. Quarterly check-ins, follow-up questions, the long tail — we stay engaged.

01

Discover

We understand your objectives, culture, risk appetite, and the constraints in front of you.

04

Execute

We deliver against the plan. Reports, code, agents, coaching — whatever the engagement requires.

03

Plan

We design the approach. Methodology, architecture, milestones — and the risks we've already spotted.

01

Discover

We understand your objectives, culture, risk appetite, and the constraints in front of you.

03

Plan

We design the approach. Methodology, architecture, milestones — and the risks we've already spotted.

05

Operate

We see it through to a stable handover. Report on the IC desk, agents in production, team trained. Stable before we step back.

02

Align

We present our findings, agree on priorities, and lock-in the way forward. Engagements drift here. Ours don't.

04

Execute

We deliver against the plan. Reports, code, agents, coaching — whatever the engagement requires.

06

Support

Engagements end. The relationship doesn't. Quarterly check-ins, follow-up questions, the long tail — we stay engaged.

01
Discover

We understand your objectives, culture, risk appetite, and the constraints in front of you.

03
Plan

We design the approach. Methodology, architecture, milestones — and the risks we've already spotted.

05
Operate

We see it through to a stable handover. Report on the IC desk, agents in production, team trained. Stable before we step back.

02
Align

We present our findings, agree on priorities, and lock-in the way forward. Engagements drift here. Ours don't.

04
Execute

We deliver against the plan. Reports, code, agents, coaching — whatever the engagement requires.

06
Support

Engagements end. The relationship doesn't. Quarterly check-ins, follow-up questions, the long tail — we stay engaged.

About Us
About Us

Experienced

Experienced

We've refined our craft across some of the world's biggest tech and financial services firms — building the platforms they run on, hardening them under real load, and shipping AI in production long before it had a name. That's the benchmark every engagement starts with.

We've refined our craft across some of the world's biggest tech and financial services firms — building the platforms they run on, hardening them under real load, and shipping AI in production long before it had a name. That's the benchmark every engagement starts with.

We've refined our craft across some of the world's biggest tech and financial services firms — building the platforms they run on, hardening them under real load, and shipping AI in production long before it had a name. That's the benchmark every engagement starts with.

100's

Successful Projects

100%

Senior Partner led Delivery

100yrs+

Combined Experience

3

Founders ex-FAANG

100's

Successful Projects

100%

Senior Partner led Delivery

100yrs+

Combined Experience

3

Founders ex-FAANG

100's

Successful Projects

100%

Senior Partner led Delivery

100yrs+

Combined Experience

3

Founders ex-FAANG

Our team come from:
Our team come from:
Our team come from:
Proof, not promises

Why clients choose us.

Testimonials tell you we're good. These tell you what changed — situation, what we did, and the number that matters.

Case study 01Professional services · Legal

An 8-person AI team, live in 4 weeks — handing ~10 full-time roles' worth of time back to the staff.

Situation

Disjointed back-office operations — research, analysis, customer service and corporate admin spread across disconnected tools and eating senior staff time.

What we did

Stood up a secure tooling layer (MCP) over their corporate data, then deployed 8 agentic AI team members across Marketing, Development and Legal.

Outcome

In 4 weeks, agents were handling enquiries, research, expense/invoice admin and CRM — work that previously consumed 12–15 hours per employee, per week.

Impact
18,000 hours
/ year reclaimed — roughly 10 full-time roles of capacity.
60%
fewer manual back-office errors
<2 hrs
first response, from ~2 days
4 wks
live, vs 6+ months to build
Case study 02Private wealth · APAC

An Investment-Committee-grade report in 2 weeks — work that takes an analyst 8–12.

Situation

Unclear which neoclouds or hyperscalers to back across the AI-infrastructure cycle — a high-stakes capital-allocation call.

What we did

Deployed our proprietary in-house research agents — trained on the team's collective investment experience — to analyse each provider's strategy.

Outcome

Delivered an IC-grade report in 2 weeks — versus the 8–12 weeks an investment analyst would have needed.

Impact
6×
faster to a decision — 2 weeks, versus 8–12.
3–5 year capital-allocation call, unblocked
a committee decision they'd been unable to make — now made with confidence.
Proof, not promises

Why clients choose us.

Outcomes not slidedecks. What partners say when the engagement is done.

Case study 01Professional services · Legal

An 8-person AI team, live in 4 weeks — handing ~10 full-time roles' worth of time back to the staff.

Situation

Disjointed back-office operations — research, analysis, customer service and corporate admin spread across disconnected tools and eating senior staff time.

What we did

Stood up a secure tooling layer (MCP) over their corporate data, then deployed 8 agentic AI team members across Marketing, Development and Legal.

Outcome

In 4 weeks, agents were handling enquiries, research, expense/invoice admin and CRM — work that previously consumed 12–15 hours per employee, per week.

Impact
18,000 hours
/ year reclaimed — roughly 10 full-time roles of capacity.
60%
fewer manual back-office errors
<2 hrs
first response, from ~2 days
4 wks
live, vs 6+ months to build
Case study 02Private wealth · APAC

An Investment-Committee-grade report in 2 weeks — work that takes an analyst 8–12.

Situation

Unclear which neoclouds or hyperscalers to back across the AI-infrastructure cycle — a high-stakes capital-allocation call.

What we did

Deployed our proprietary in-house research agents — trained on the team's collective investment experience — to analyse each provider's strategy.

Outcome

Delivered an IC-grade report in 2 weeks — versus the 8–12 weeks an investment analyst would have needed.

Impact
6×
faster to a decision — 2 weeks, versus 8–12.
3–5 year capital-allocation call, unblocked
a committee decision they'd been unable to make — now made with confidence.
In their words

In their words

Outcomes not slidedecks. What partners say when the engagement is done.

Got to a confident decision in weeks, not quarters.

Managing Partner · APAC Private Wealth

They handed our people their time back.

Chief Operating Officer · US Legal Services

Senior partners in the room — not an army of juniors.

Founder · Professional Services Firm
FAQ
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

What types of businesses do you work with?

We work with organizations across various industries, from growing startups to established companies. Our approach is flexible and tailored to each client’s specific goals and challenges.

How does your consulting process begin?

Every engagement starts with a discovery phase where we learn about your business, objectives, and current challenges. This allows us to develop a strategy that aligns with your needs.

Whereabouts are you based?

We have consultants based in the US, Australia & New Zealand. We work with companies all around the world, however.

Do you work with internal teams?

Yes. Collaboration with internal teams is a key part of our approach. We work closely with stakeholders to ensure that strategies can be effectively implemented.

What industries do you specialize in?

Our experience spans multiple industries, including technology, professional services, and growing digital businesses.

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