
88% of enterprises have deployed AI somewhere. Only 10% have scaled real value from it enterprise-wide. 56% of CEOs captured zero revenue or cost savings from their AI investments. 42% have abandoned significant AI initiatives entirely.
This is not a technology problem.
This is the AI Build Gap: the capability chasm between organizations that use AI tools and organizations that build, deploy, and maintain AI solutions themselves. When the vendor leaves, the capability leaves with them. That is why $3.4M in average enterprise AI spend produces no measurable output.
Portfolio Leverage Co. closes the AI Build Gap.
We are an AI enablement and transformation firm that embeds inside organizations to identify, design, and build custom AI agents and workflows — specific to your data, your team, your systems, and your compliance requirements. We build with your people, not for them. When we leave, the capability stays.
The engagement model:
? Build Gap Diagnostic: identify your failure mode (License Trap, Strategy Shelf, Demo Graveyard, Workshop Certificate, or CAO Trap)
? Custom AI build scoped to your highest-ROI workflow: $5K–$50K, 2–3 weeks
? Fractional CHRO/CLO: full AI-era people operations transformation, $15K/month
Research that backs the practice:
? AIBuildGap.com — original research and the three-level AI Maturity Model
? AIWageGap.com — quarterly research on AI’s impact on executive compensation
? LeverageBrief.com — 5,000+ subscribers, weekly intelligence for Portfolio Executives
AI products built and shipped:
AIHRPilot · ChaiRaise · DueDrill · CareerBeastMode · CommanderInChief.AI · BookToCourse.AI
Led by Yuri Kruman — 3x CHRO, AI Trainer: Meta · Microsoft · OpenAI, Top 5 Global HR Thought Leader (Thinkers360), 2,300+ executives coached.
PortLev.com | AIBuildGap.com | AIWageGap.com
Services Provided
AI Builds (web apps, agents, workflows), AI Enablement, AI Training, Learning and Development, HR Consulting