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Istvan BujdosoIB

Istvan Bujdoso

AI Consultant | Strategy, Adoption, Transformation

€868/day
Luton, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Istvan

Artificial Intelligence consultant with 18+ years of web, digital, and technical consulting experience. Over the past two and a half years, heavily focused on AI strategy, solutions, transformation, adoption, workflow automation, conversational AI, and agents.

Commercially aware and practical in approach. Experienced in identifying opportunities where AI can deliver measurable business outcomes, identifying practical applications of AI, and determining the most effective AI approaches for different business needs and contexts.

Strong at understanding requirements and challenges, and identifying AI use cases and opportunities. Experienced in defining and implementing AI strategy and defining the vision, scope, and roadmap for AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives.

Hands-on in using generative AI and LLM tools. Experienced in designing, testing and evaluating AI tools, building simple, tactical no-code AI solutions to demonstrate capabilities, and implementing AI solutions using modern platforms and techniques.

Experienced in advising on digital and AI adoption within enterprise and corporate environments, helping teams move from awareness and experimentation to practical implementation, user adoption, and quantifiable business outcomes.

Able to bridge business strategy and technical implementation. Comfortable advising executive leadership and stakeholders, and translating technical concepts into clear business value. Combines strategic thinking with a bias for delivery and measurable outcomes.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Hungarian

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Luton (up to 50km)

Experience

  • 47AIx
    AI Consultant | Strategy, Solutions, & Automation
    EDUCATION AND E-LEARNING
    June 2024 - May 2026 (1 year and 11 months)
    Built and launched an AI-focused consulting and productization project helping coaching, consulting, and expert-led businesses turn expertise into AI-powered tools, automations, and Micro-SaaS-style recurring-income opportunities.

    Key contributions:

    • Defined and implemented AI strategy around a core business use case focused on turning expert knowledge into AI-powered tools and offers.
    • Identified and validated AI use cases, gathered requirements, and shaped solution design around business needs.
    • Developed a practical framework for turning expert knowledge into AI-assisted tools and SaaS-style offers.
    • Designed and built 19+ AI tools and related solution concepts supporting one core business use case.
    • Designed AI solutions using 3rd party tools and AI platforms and built no-code AI solutions to demonstrate capabilities.
    • Set up 16 AI automations for content creation and repurposing, with projected savings of 88 workdays and $17,000+ over 12 months.
    • Created RAG-style knowledge-based AI chatbots / conversational AI tools retrieving answers from knowledge-base documents.
    • Applied multimodal AI across text, image, audio, and video workflows.
    • Used AI across coding, automation, research, analysis, content creation, and strategy work.
    • Reviewed hundreds of AI tools and models to identify best-fit solutions and business applications.
    • Built AI-assisted lead-generation and sales-funnel assets.
    • Launched a paid membership and broader AI offer ecosystem while validating market needs and messaging.

    Focus areas:

    Generative AI; AI productization; AI SaaS advisory; AI automation; prompt engineering; structured AI instructions / system prompts; LLM-enabled workflows; RAG-style knowledge-based AI chatbots / conversational AI; multimodal AI; workflow transformation; product strategy; business and marketing strategy; ROI thinking.
    artificial intelligence AI Automation AI Strategy
  • Campari Group
    Digital & AI Consultant | Strategy, Transformation, & Adoption
    July 2023 - June 2024 (11 months)
    Advised a global beverage company on strategy, transformation, adoption, enablement, and AI innovation across a complex digital ecosystem including 50+ multilingual brand websites and multiple e-commerce sites.

    Key contributions:

    • Conducted structured discovery and deep-dive sessions across executive, business, technology, marketing, engineering, delivery, and operational stakeholders to understand goals, constraints, workflows, adoption barriers, and current vs future-state gaps.
    • Conducted a detailed audit of a large global website ecosystem covering performance, security, technical SEO, UX/UI, architecture, code quality, scalability, infrastructure, release management, deployment, documentation, and operating-model issues.
    • Synthesized findings into practical strategy and recommendations for global directors, including risks, priorities, quick wins, trade-offs, business value, and short, medium, and long-term direction.
    • Consulted 3rd party suppliers on translating business needs into technical solutions and advised the business on implementation strategy and roadmap.
    • Helped define and shape AI innovation opportunities.
    • Advised on pilot and adoption frameworks covering business goals, value potential, feasibility, risk, adoption practicality, success metrics, and measurable outcomes.
    • Drove digital and AI adoption through workshops, training, interactive guides, feedback collection, and optimization.
    • Helped teams move from awareness to practical usage and measurable behavior change.
    • Supported greater local team independence with fewer requests to global IT.
    • Consulted on conversational AI strategy and adoption.

    Focus areas:

    AI consulting; AI strategy; AI adoption; AI transformation; conversational AI; digital consulting; digital strategy; digital transformation; use-case discovery; deep-dive analysis; pilot strategy; adoption and enablement; roadmap development; stakeholder management; executive advisory.
    artificial intelligence AI Strategy AI Adoption Digital Transformation
  • CogX Festival
    Technical Consultant
    February 2021 - June 2021 (4 months)
    Joined CogX ahead of a major event planned for 100,000+ attendees, 1,000 speakers, and 18 virtual and live stages, with responsibility for helping the web platform cope with anticipated traffic and operational demands.

    Key contributions:

    • Assessed the existing platform and identified major technical risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
    • Helped frame problems and explore solutions.
    • Recommended and carried out major optimisation work across hosting, PHP, WordPress, caching, images, and plugin rationalisation.
    • Improved measured website performance by 6,000%+.
    • Extended support beyond the initial turnaround, including automation, UX/UI improvements, code reviews, deployment support, and log-tracking improvements.
    • Worked directly with stakeholders, engineers, and marketing teams in an agile environment.
    • Combined strong analytical and problem-solving skills with hands-on delivery from diagnosis through implementation.
    Technical Strategy Digital Strategy Consultancy

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