About Andreas Duess
About Duess Strategies:two things make me useful.
I can read a room and read a codebase. Most consultants do one or the other.
Duess Strategies is an AI consulting practice for established organizations. My work spans technology, financial services and medical technology, with deep roots in food, agriculture and export.
Thirty years in technology
Part of the team that launched Cisco Systems’ global marketing campaigns in Europe, as Creative Director. On the teams that launched Google Ads in Europe and Autonomy, one of the first AI software companies. Earlier brand and digital work in London for Adobe and HP.
Fifteen years in food and export
Built and sold one of North America’s most successful food and agriculture marketing agencies. Duess Strategies is a USAEDC member. I know the reporting burden, the funding cycles, and the politics from the inside.
Builds every week
Visiting lecturer on AI implementation at the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship. Writes The Field Report and the Future Bites column for Food in Canada. Co-founded FishDog, a synthetic research platform.
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What I do
AI consulting services from Duess Strategies
AI automation audit
I find where your team’s hours go, then automate one workflow on your own data. You keep it, plus a plan for what comes next.
Learn moreAI search visibility (GEO)
Do ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI name you when buyers ask? I check, find who they name instead, and hand you a fix list.
Learn moreAI sales audit
Inbound is shrinking. I trace where your pipeline comes from, fix the email setup that gets outreach blocked, and build one outbound workflow a person approves.
Learn moreFractional Chief AI Officer
AI leadership two to four days a month, for organizations that need direction but not a $300,000 to $400,000 hire. I direct the build with your people and hand over when it runs without me.
Learn moreReporting automation for grant-funded programs
The numbers you already track, assembled into the formats FAS asks for. Your staff reviews and signs off.
Learn moreAI policy and adoption
A usable AI policy, data-residency guidance, and the change management that gets people to use what gets built.
Learn moreTrack record
30 Years bringing new technology to market
15 Years in food, agriculture and CPG
7 Languages covered by the market-intelligence work in the field
90 Days to a first system your team uses
Working together
How working with Duess Strategies works
Who you work with
Andreas Duess, directly, for the whole engagement.
Communication
Email, plus a shared Slack or Teams channel. Two to four days a month on site or on call.
Response time
Same business day on email. Booking-link inquiries get a reply within 48 hours.
Onboarding
A 20-minute call first. Then a scoping period and a written outline before anything is signed.
Turnaround
First working system inside the first 90 days, in your team’s normal week.
Handover
Documentation, credentials and ownership transfer to your team at the end.
Who hires Duess Strategies
FAQ
About Duess Strategies: frequently asked questions
What does Duess Strategies do?
Duess Strategies is an AI consulting practice for established organizations, with deep roots in food, agriculture and export. Four services: a two-week AI automation audit, AI search visibility (GEO), a two-week AI sales audit, and fractional Chief AI Officer work. Each one ends with a working system your team owns.
What makes Duess Strategies different?
I scope the work and I build it. Engagements are measured by what is running at the end. I spent fifteen years in food, agriculture, and CPG, and Duess Strategies is a USAEDC member. Your team learns the system as it is built, and ownership transfers at the end. Three-month minimum; most engagements run six to twelve months.
What is a fractional Chief AI Officer?
Embedded AI leadership on a part-time retainer instead of a full-time executive hire. The role sets direction, directs the build alongside your existing team, manages adoption, and transfers ownership when the work is done.
How much does an engagement cost?
The AI automation audit is US$5,000 to $7,500 and the AI search visibility audit US$3,500 to $5,000, both fixed before we start. Fractional CAIO retainers start at $10,000 per month, against a full-time Chief AI Officer at $300,000 to $400,000 a year. Prices as of November 2026.
How long is a typical engagement?
Three months is the minimum. Most run six to twelve. Engagements are designed to end with your team running the system.
Do you work with organizations outside agriculture?
Yes. The same problems show up anywhere a small team carries a large reporting and data burden. Andreas has worked in technology, financial services, and medical technology as well. Food, agriculture, and CPG are where the deepest sector knowledge sits.
How is the practice structured?
Duess Strategies is owner-operated. Engagements are delivered by Andreas directly, with specialist contractors brought in only where a project needs them and always disclosed in advance. That caps how many clients the practice can carry at once.
Does this replace staff?
No. It removes the busywork that buries your staff. The same people spend more time on the parts that need judgment.
Who owns what gets built?
You do. Systems are built on your data, in your environment, alongside your people. Documentation, credentials and ownership transfer at the end of the engagement.
How is the work delivered?
Remotely by default, on site where the engagement needs it, across the United States, Canada and Europe.
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Key facts
- Company name
- Duess Strategies Inc.
- Type
- Independent AI consulting practice, owner-operated
- Founded
- 2023
- Founder
- Andreas Duess (Andreas Düss)
- Website
- duess.com
- Services
- AI automation audit, AI search visibility (GEO), AI sales audit, fractional CAIO, market intelligence systems, grant-program reporting automation, AI policy and adoption
- Pricing
- Fixed-price audits from US$3,500; fractional CAIO retainers from $10,000 per month (as of November 2026)
- Contract terms
- Audits: two weeks, fixed price. Retainers: three-month minimum, most run six to twelve months, no long-term lock-in
- Engagement model
- Embedded two to four days per month, with handover of ownership at the end
- Sectors served
- Technology, financial services, medical technology, food and agriculture, agricultural export, CPG, trade associations
- Regions served
- Canada, United States, Europe
- Memberships
- USAEDC (United States Agricultural Export Development Council)
- Teaching
- Visiting lecturer, AI implementation, Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship
- Publications
- The Field Report; Future Bites column, Food in Canada
- Communication
- Email, Slack or Teams; same-business-day response
- Contact
- [email protected]
- Social
- LinkedIn, X
Get in touch
It starts with a conversation.
Twenty minutes. Whether you need a fractional CAIO, help getting more out of your team, or a keynote speaker.