Two practices, one firm. We develop and fund large projects — and we bring AI fluency to the work that wins them.
Finance and capital strategy first, backed by twenty years of hands-on project development — site selection through commercial operation. We know which capital programs offset the structure, and we see around corners because we've built the projects.
Explore the practice Howard's practiceStrategic technology advisory with AI fluency where it earns its keep — built on the discipline that wins our clients' federal grants.
Explore the practiceCharles "Bob" Brettell leads Capital Strategy & Project Development — finance and capital-strategy advisory backed by twenty years and more than $20 billion of hands-on project development across ports, energy, infrastructure, and operating assets. The development experience is what makes the capital work: knowing which programs offset the structure, and seeing around corners because he has built the projects.
Howard Blazzard leads Strategic Technology Advisory — 25 years of senior digital and technology leadership, most recently as capability lead for the Technology practice at Digitas across Boston and Detroit. Howard runs Prosody Labs, the firm's AI fluency sub-brand.
Do most firms run two practices this different? No. Do ours reinforce each other? Yes — the grant writing that funds our clients' projects runs on the same AI-fluency discipline we'd build for you.
20 years moving large projects from idea to capital to close. $20B in project value across ports, energy, infrastructure, and operating assets.
25 years of senior digital and technology leadership. Most recently capability lead for the Technology practice at Digitas across Boston and Detroit; previously led Digitas AI.
Charles Brettell is the best consultant I have worked with — period. I have recommended him to many of my business contacts and will continue to do so without reservation.
An independent, rubric-anchored review — three weeks from the deadline — that found seven scoring gaps, including the one-point shortfall that decided automatic advancement. The county filed complete, on time, and knew exactly what it was signing its name to.
How we rebuilt a federal PIDP port application in three weeks, from debrief to submission — anchored by persistent project memory, primary-source research, and verified math, with AI fluency solving the quantitative safety case these awards turn on.
A $17M terminal modernization grant for a Midwest river-logistics operator — won on speed and rigor with AI fluency parsing the rubric, reconciling the data, and running the math. Same discipline, different proving ground.
How Prosody Labs built a self-updating intelligence dashboard for Opportunity Zone 2.0 — and what it shows about working fluently with AI. Live, public, operating today.
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