Work · Tom Thaung Su Nyein

I take on a small number of consulting engagements each quarter, working with founders and product teams who are putting AI into production for the first time. Most of my clients are at Series A through C. I work in person across DACH and remote elsewhere.

Three modes. Pick the one that fits, or talk to me about a hybrid.

CHF 8,000–20,000 · 1–4 weeks

Diagnose

You have a question. Maybe it's "should we build this with an LLM or a classifier?" or "is our team set up to ship the AI roadmap?" or "what's the actual path from prototype to production?". I spend a focused stretch with your team, look at your code and your context, and write you a plan you can act on the week after.

What you walk away with:

A written diagnostic
A recommended path
An honest read on what your team can ship in the next six months

Pencil sketch illustration of the Diagnose phase

CHF 25,000–80,000 · 4–12 weeks

Prototype

You know what you want to build. I build the first working version, alone or with one or two of your engineers. By the end you have software running in production, evals you trust, and a hand-off plan your team can own.

What you walk away with:

A working product surface, deployed
The code
The evals
A written runbook for the team taking it over

Pencil sketch illustration of the Prototype phase

CHF 15,000–25,000 / month · 2–3 days a week · one to two quarters

Embed

You need a senior AI product lead but you're not ready to hire one yet. I sit inside your product team, run the AI roadmap, do the technical hiring, and help you find the permanent person who takes over from me.

What you walk away with:

A working AI product practice
A hired team
A successor in the seat before I leave

Pencil sketch illustration of the Embed phase

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Rita

rita.thitsa.io · AI consultant and product lead · 2026

ThitsaWorks had spent six-plus years building deep expertise in Inclusive Instant Payment Systems across more than ten countries. The brief was to make that knowledge accessible at scale: central banks, regulators, and payment operators needed reliable answers without routing every question through a senior consultant. I built a production assistant on a verified knowledge base, with a citation layer that eliminates hallucination and a bilingual English/French interface their clients could use directly. What previously took hours of desk research and expert consultation can now be answered in minutes, with every response sourced to the underlying documents.

Who I work well with

Founders building their first AI product surface. Heads of product who need a partner more than a vendor. Mid-market companies adding AI to a product that already has paying users. Teams that prefer working software over working documents.

Who I'm not the right fit for

Companies looking for a generic AI strategy deck. Projects that won't reach real users in the next six months. Anyone who wants to be told what they already think.

We'd spent six years building deep IIPS expertise across ten-plus countries. The constraint was always consultant bandwidth, not knowledge. Tom built Rita on top of that knowledge base, and now our clients get sourced answers in English and French without a senior consultant in the loop for every question.
Nyi Nyein Aye, CEO, ThitsaWorks

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