The AI Expert practice was born from the observation that most Italian C-level executives — CEOs, CFOs, M&A directors, advisory partners — have superficial familiarity with generative artificial intelligence but have not yet integrated AI tools into daily processes of analysis, valuation and decision-making. Saverio Canepa Advisory delivers three types of intervention on this ground: AI Strategy Advisory, AI × M&A Due Diligence, Executive Training.

AI Strategy Advisory is high-level strategic consulting on how a specific company — manufacturing SME, family group in transition, investment fund — can integrate AI into its core processes without falling into the two typical traps: pilot implementations that remain isolated from the business, or excessive enterprise investments that produce no measurable ROI. The output is a 12-18 month roadmap with technological priorities, make-or-buy choices, KPIs and realistic budget.

AI × M&A Due Diligence applies the proprietary O.D.E.S.S.A. framework — Origination, Due Diligence, Evaluation, Strategy, Stakeholder, Audit — to specific M&A transactions. On a sell-side mandate, for example, AI accelerates information memorandum preparation, automates internal document analysis, simulates valuation scenarios, optimizes communication with multiple buyers. On a buy-side, it accelerates buyer-list scouting and seller-side document analysis.

Executive Training, finally, is the intensive course for boards, partners and top management who must make AI decisions without being technologists. Typical format: 1-2 day full-immersion workshops, real cases from the Italian mid-market, decision frameworks for investment committee and operating committee. The aim is not to train technologists but to make executives autonomous in evaluating technology proposals and governing implementations.