Strategy and AI Consulting in New York
We work in New York with finance, professional services, luxury and retail, and media organisations. We build your strategy, deploy it, and steer the results alongside your teams.
The local economy
New York brings together an unusual concentration of banks, asset managers, law, audit and advisory firms, luxury houses, retail brands and media groups. These worlds overlap, draw on the same talent and hold each other to high standards of execution. Decisions are made quickly, and a partner is expected to deliver measurable results rather than general recommendations.
The questions we meet most often are practical: balancing growth and profitability, simplifying organisations that have grown in layers, making data reliable when it sits across several tools, and deciding where AI delivers real value. For a Swiss or European company entering the US market, it also means setting up a local presence without adding weight to the structure. We use AI where it helps, and common sense and organisation everywhere else.
The regulatory context
The US regulatory framework has several layers, and New York State and New York City add their own. Depending on your activity, this may involve SEC and FINRA requirements, the cybersecurity rules of the New York State Department of Financial Services, or local obligations on automated tools used in hiring. For Swiss and European groups, there is also the question of data transfers between the Swiss FADP, the GDPR and US law. We do not replace your legal advisers. We build these constraints into the strategy and into AI use cases from the start, so that deployment holds up over time.
How we work here
For each mission we compose a senior team: a dedicated contact, the WALVIS core team (strategy, finance, operations, data, AI) and sector experts from our network, selected by expertise profile. We work on site in New York when the mission calls for it, in particular for leadership workshops and deployment phases, and remotely the rest of the time. We work in English and French, and we plan around the time difference in advance so that decision-making keeps a steady rhythm. We sell no software and work with the tools you already use. Each mission moves in short steps, with clear steering points and results followed through to implementation.