Strategic AI Consulting

At CommenceAI, our mission is to help organizations confidently adopt artificial intelligence by delivering practical, tailored strategies that turn emerging technology into real business advantage. We partner with leadership teams to demystify AI and apply it across core operations—streamlining workflows, improving decision-making, enhancing customer and employee experiences, and driving scalable, sustainable growth in an increasingly competitive market. 

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Our Mission

At CommenceAI, we provide personalized AI consulting services for enterprise organizations, bridging the gap between complex artificial intelligence technologies and real-world business operations. We guide leadership teams through the evolving AI landscape with strategies grounded in operational efficiency, data governance, security, and regulatory considerations—ensuring organizations remain competitive, agile, and well-positioned in an increasingly data-driven economy. 

Commence

verb

: to enter upon : begin

Origin

Middle English: from Old French commencier, comencier, based on Latin com- (expressing intensive force) + initiare ‘begin’.

Core Values

Be Smart

“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”


Daniel Kahneman

Thinking Fast and Slow

Be Thorough

“A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.”


Alan Turing

known as the Father of AI

Never Stop Questioning

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”


Voltaire

How We Bring Value

What We Offer

Strategic AI Consulting

At CommenceAI, our mission is to equip organizations with the clarity, strategy, and tools needed to confidently adopt artificial intelligence. We deliver tailored guidance that demystifies AI and translate its capabilities into real-world business outcomes—streamlining operations, accelerating analysis and decision-making, enhancing strategic execution, and driving enterprise-wide operational excellence. Our goal is to help organizations unlock AI’s full potential to improve profitability, strengthen competitive advantage, and deliver superior value to customers and stakeholders.

Vendor Selection 

At CommenceAI, we guide organizations through the often complex process of AI vendor selection—cutting through market noise to identify solutions that align with each company’s operational needs, budget, and long-term strategy. We challenge the assumption that meaningful AI impact requires expensive, specialized platforms. Instead, we help enterprises unlock powerful capabilities using cost-efficient technologies—often leveraging tools they already license, such as Microsoft Copilot—while maintaining strong governance, security, and scalability. Our goal is to enable smart, strategic AI investments that deliver measurable value without unnecessary cost or complexity. 

Prompt Engineering Training 

At CommenceAI, we deliver specialized prompt engineering training designed for enterprise organizations. Our program teaches leaders, managers, and frontline teams how to craft precise, effective prompts to optimize interactions with AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. From strategic analysis and reporting to document drafting, data synthesis, and operational workflows, we help organizations unlock the full potential of AI by ensuring outputs are accurate, relevant, and reliable. This training drives productivity gains, reduces time spent on routine work, and elevates the quality and consistency of outcomes across the enterprise.

About

Commence AI

Thomas Fellows has eleven years of experience working in the software sales arena working with companies that have specialized in SaaS, PaaS, bolt on solutions, as well as ERP and CRM. In 2014, while working for SAP Partner Libelle, a company that automated SAP system refreshes, Fellows became aware of the power of automated tasks that were normally done by human effort and labor.


Years later, soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT in November of 2022, Fellows published a general report on how he thought it would affect the workforce in the coming years. From February 2023 to January 2024, Fellows appeared in 48 TV interviews in 19 states including South Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Hawaii, Texas, Wyoming, Indiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, North Dakota, Minnesota and Georgia. You can view the interviews below the two paragraphs below.

After doing graduate work at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in Prompt Engineering under Dr. Andrew Maynard, he gained new skills/insight and published another report. This one honed in on Marketing, Law, Medicine, and Engineering. The report went into depth on divergent/convergent thinking, integrative complexity which leading psychometrics say is much more valuable to workforce related activities than IQ, and how AI was starting to encompass the Big Five Personality Traits of conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness, extroversion, openness to experience.


Fellows founded CommenceAI with the objective of helping organizations navigate the complexity of artificial intelligence and operationalize it as a strategic, enterprise-wide capability. The firm’s focus extends beyond automation or incremental efficiency gains; it is centered on enabling businesses to deploy AI in ways that strengthen decision-making, improve execution, and create durable competitive advantage.


Fellows’ vision positions AI as a core business asset—one that can modernize workflows, enhance productivity, expand access to services, and deliver measurable value to customers, stakeholders, and society. Through disciplined strategy, governance, and implementation, CommenceAI helps organizations lead in the next phase of enterprise transformation: more intelligent, more agile, and fundamentally more customer-centric.


He also interviews in the media on his education reform proposal that rejects the traditionally held view of how psychometrics relates to workforce readiness, how the recent Trump tariffs will affect business/consumers and on labor unions.

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