Automation Doesn't Fail Because Models Are Wrong.
It Fails Because Authority Is Undefined.
Mesa Point identifies where AI creates value in your organization—then works with your team to automate the right decisions while protecting what matters.
Automation changes how quickly decisions are acted on. Without explicit authority, that speed creates risk. Mesa Point ensures execution remains aligned with leadership intent.
Schedule 30-Minute Discovery CallWhy Automation and AI Efforts Break Down
When execution outpaces leadership clarity, organizations risk outcomes they never intended.
Most automation and AI initiatives do not fail because the technology is flawed. They fail because the organization never made authority explicit before execution began.
As systems move from analysis to continuous action, decisions that once relied on informal alignment are executed at machine speed. When ownership, escalation, and limits are unclear, accountability arrives after impact — not before it.
Mesa Point exists to address this failure mode directly.
What Mesa Point Does
Mesa Point identifies every automation opportunity in your organization, defines decision authority for each, then works with your builders to ensure AI executes correctly.
Mesa Point focuses on:
- Complete opportunity discovery across your organization
- Decision ownership and authority boundaries
- Escalation and stop conditions
- Thresholds that govern execution
- Authority that can be validated in operation
We make explicit:
- Who owns critical decisions
- Where thresholds and limits apply
- When escalation or pause is required
- How irreversible commitments are governed
Mesa Point governs authority constructs including:
- Decision Authority Definition: clear ownership and decision boundaries
- Escalation and Stop Conditions: when action must pause, advance, or elevate
- Finality and Commitment Controls: constraints on irreversible decisions
- Authority Validation in Practice: confirmation that execution matches approved authority
This work happens before automation or scaled execution begins—and continues through deployment to ensure systems operate within approved boundaries.
Who This Is For
Mesa Point works with organizations where automation and AI make decisions that commit capital, affect customers, or create risk exposure.
We specialize in mid-market companies ($50M-$400M revenue) where AI mistakes cost $1-3M but you can't afford Big 4 consulting overhead, cross-department automation creates coordination risk, and boards demand governance frameworks with speed to value.
Mid-Market ($50M-$400M revenue)
You're past experimentation. You need AI to work correctly the first time without enterprise consulting overhead.
What you gain:
- Prevent multi-million dollar automation failures. At your scale, unclear decision authority doesn't just slow you down—it creates $1-3M mistakes when AI acts outside approved boundaries.
- Identify $5-15M in annual automation opportunities. We map your entire decision landscape and quantify where AI creates measurable value—so you invest in the right opportunities first.
- Get AI right the first time without Big 4 overhead. You're too large to experiment, too small for enterprise consultancies. We deliver strategic rigor without the 18-month timeline and $2M price tag.
- Work WITH your teams, not around them. We embed with your IT and operations teams during implementation—building internal capability, not creating dependency.
Typical engagement: 8-12 weeks, 40-80 decisions mapped, $250-350K investment.
We also serve: Emerging Growth ($5M-$50M), Large Enterprise ($400M-$2B), and Enterprise+ ($2B+) organizations.
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Case Study: $280M Manufacturing Company
The Challenge
VP Operations wanted to automate production scheduling but unclear decision authority created risk. Who approves overtime decisions? Who expedites orders? Who overrides AI recommendations? Without defined authority, the organization couldn't move forward confidently.
What Mesa Point Did
- Mapped 52 production decisions across operations, finance, and quality control
- Identified $4.2M in annual value from automating 18 critical decisions
- Defined escalation triggers for 8 high-risk scenarios requiring human oversight
- Created technical specifications their engineering team implemented in 9 weeks
The Outcome
- Reduced production scheduling time from 6 hours to 45 minutes daily
- Saved $4.2M annually in labor costs and capacity optimization
- Zero unauthorized AI decisions in first 6 months post-deployment
- Passed ISO audit with zero findings on decision authority governance
Timeline: 10 weeks | Investment: $320K | ROI: 13x in year one
"Mesa Point identified decisions we didn't even know we were making. The authority frameworks prevented what could have been a $2M failure."
— VP Operations, $280M Food Manufacturing
Industry Experience: We've completed engagements across discrete and process manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and SaaS platforms.
What You'll Receive
Every Mesa Point engagement delivers concrete, actionable outputs designed for two audiences: executives who need to approve automation strategy, and engineers who need to build it correctly.
Complete Opportunity Assessment
Every automation candidate across your organization, scored by ROI and risk. In a $400M organization, we typically identify 40-60 automation opportunities worth $5-15M in annual impact—plus the 20-30% of decisions that should NOT be automated.
Decision Authority Matrix
Maps all critical decisions, ownership, approval thresholds, and escalation paths in a governance tool your team can operationalize. Includes cross-department dependencies and authority conflict resolution.
Board-Ready Executive Summary
Shows what will be automated, what requires human oversight, financial impact projections, risk assessment, and clear approval requests. Executives understand the business case and can make informed decisions.
Engineer-Ready Technical Specifications
Decision logic, integration requirements, test criteria, and monitoring frameworks your developers can implement directly. Includes pseudocode, API requirements, data schemas, and validation procedures—not consultant garbage your team can't use.
Governance Framework
Audit-ready documentation for regulatory compliance (EU AI Act, SOX, SEC requirements) and ongoing decision monitoring. Includes authority change logs, decision logging specifications, and quarterly review processes your team can operate independently.
"This is where many organizations say: 'We knew something was missing. We just didn't have language for it.'"
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The Mesa Point Platform
Mesa Point engagements are powered by our proprietary Decision Authority Platform—the same system we use to capture, analyze, and document every decision in your organization.
During your engagement:
- We capture decisions in real-time during stakeholder interviews
- You see progress through live dashboards as we map your decision architecture
- All data feeds directly into your deliverables—no manual transcription, no delays
What this means for you:
- Complete transparency: You see what we're capturing as we work
- Faster delivery: Board presentations and technical specs generate automatically from validated data
- Higher accuracy: Single source of truth eliminates transcription errors and inconsistencies
- Systematic approach: Not ad-hoc consulting—every engagement follows the same proven methodology
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What We Typically Find
In a $400M organization, we typically identify:
- 40-60 automation opportunities across operations, finance, customer experience, and risk management
- 15-20 high-value opportunities worth $5-15M in annual impact
- 8-12 critical decisions that should NOT be automated—protecting strategic judgment, customer relationships, or regulatory compliance
- 5-8 cross-department dependencies that create execution risk if authority isn't clarified
Our analysis reveals both where AI creates value and where it creates risk—so you invest in the right opportunities and avoid expensive mistakes.
Before and After Mesa Point
Before Mesa Point
- ❌ Decisions made by gut and experience
- ❌ IT picks use cases that sound interesting
- ❌ Authority and ownership undefined
- ❌ Engineers guess at requirements
- ❌ Risk discovered after deployment
- ❌ 50-60% of executive time on routine decisions
After Mesa Point
- ✅ 40-80 decisions mapped with ROI quantified
- ✅ ROI-ranked automation roadmap
- ✅ Clear ownership and approval thresholds
- ✅ Executable technical specifications
- ✅ Risk assessed before build begins
- ✅ 20-30% of executive time on routine decisions
Result: $5-15M in automation value + 40% executive time freed for strategy
How We Engage
Start with Discovery Sprint ($5,000)
Not sure if Mesa Point is right for your organization? Start with a 1-week Discovery Sprint.
We'll deliver a scoping report that shows:
- Estimated complexity of your decision architecture
- High-risk automation areas requiring governance
- Recommended engagement scope and timeline
- Fixed-fee proposal for full engagement
Investment: $5,000 | Timeline: 1 week | Outcome: Clear go/no-go decision with defined scope
If you proceed to full engagement, the $5K is credited toward the total investment.
Mesa Point engagements are intentionally focused and bounded.
We do not redesign organizations, build systems, or own delivery. We work with leadership to define authority clearly enough that execution can proceed without ambiguity.
Engagement Flow
Every engagement produces board-ready documentation and engineer-ready specifications — not recommendations that require interpretation.
The outcome is authority that can be trusted, governed, and executed — with board oversight and engineering precision.
Architects Working with Builders
Mesa Point works alongside your engineering teams and implementation partners—we don't compete with them.
We identify opportunities, define requirements, provide technical specifications, then collaborate during implementation to ensure automation executes within approved authority.
Your team builds capability. We ensure it's built correctly.
Mesa Point does not:
- Sell software or platforms
- Build automation or AI systems
- Replace your implementation partners
- Own ongoing system delivery
Mesa Point provides:
- Complete automation opportunity discovery
- Decision authority frameworks and governance
- Technical specifications your teams can build from
- Implementation oversight during deployment
- Validation that systems operate within approved authority
The work we deliver sits between executive strategy and technical execution—bridging the gap that causes most automation initiatives to fail.
What Changes After Mesa Point
For Leadership:
- Clarity on which decisions to automate, which to protect, and which require new governance
- Confidence that automation reflects approved authority—not just technical capability
- Board-ready documentation showing oversight and compliance
- 40-60% reduction in time spent on routine decision-making
For Engineering Teams:
- Executable specifications—not vague requirements
- Clear authority boundaries for every automated decision
- Test criteria and validation procedures
- Confidence they're building what leadership actually approved
For the Organization:
- $5-50M in quantified automation opportunities (depending on scale)
- Prevention of $1-10M in avoided mistakes
- Audit-ready governance for regulatory compliance
- Faster, safer automation deployment
- Internal capability—not consultant dependency
From Discovery Through Deployment
Mesa Point engagements span three phases:
1. Discovery (Weeks 1-3): Identify all automation opportunities across your organization
2. Authority Definition (Weeks 4-6): Define decision governance for each opportunity
3. Implementation Oversight (Weeks 7-12): Work with your builders to deploy correctly
We validate systems work as intended, then provide ongoing governance frameworks your team can operate independently.
Our role ends when authority is proven in operation—when execution matches what leadership approved, when teams know how to maintain governance, and when the organization can operate the frameworks we built.
This is not a recurring engagement. It is a transfer of capability.
Schedule a 30-Minute Discovery Call
We'll discuss your automation plans, identify where authority clarity would reduce risk, and outline a focused engagement if there's a fit.
First conversation is diagnostic, not a sales pitch.
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