Accessibility tip: Swarm behavior
The modern enterprise is built around functional silos, designed for accountability and expertise. AI needs teams, data, and decisions to work across those boundaries. Most firms treat this as a technology problem or a training initiative. We treat it as an organizational transformation, drawing on how natural systems coordinate and adapt in complex environments.
RBD Co. is short for Rare Bird Company. We operate ahead of consensus, challenge inherited assumptions, and deliver work that sets the standard. In an industry of echoes, we named the firm after what we are: uncommon and unmistakable.
CEO & Principal Consultant of RBD Co. and the author of The Intelligence Organization: Nature’s Operating Model for the AI Era (RBD. Press, 2026). Twenty years inside the Fortune 500 as a consultant and organizational leader, building the systems that determine whether AI investments create value.
Harvard Business School, Executive Education
Fixed-fee statements of work under a master services agreement. Senior advisors lead every engagement. No engagement is junior staffed.
Briefings, sessions and workshops at a fixed price. #BUILD mentorship, billed monthly, contracted directly.
Prime on advisory and assessment scopes; subcontractor or named specialist on larger programs. The specialist who finds the problems does not bid the fix.
Stone Arch Collective members can join an engagement as subcontractors. Claude Partner Network, Services Track; no compensation from any AI vendor.
RBD. brings specialists into an engagement by name, sourced from a small set of practices it works with, and the client approves each person before work starts.
A Minneapolis collective of independent consultantsEvery engagement begins with a focused conversation about the problem you're trying to solve, and an honest assessment of where we can help.