Most of the studios I talk to right now are fighting two things at once: the work they were built to do, and the work they’re going to need to do twelve months from now.
Most of the playbooks they’re reading were written for one or the other. None of them were written for both.
I’m Alberto Venditti. For fifteen years I’ve worked as a creative director, product partner, and strategist on problems that don’t come with an established playbook. Digital twins and pre-demolition AI/ML pipelines at Skanska. ML-driven gameplay tracking multiple sclerosis progression for Novartis and Microsoft Research. Persistent spatial audio AR inside the Galleria Borghese. Mixed-reality tooling to design the Virgin Galactic spaceport interior. Ray-Ban Meta smart-glasses workflows at NASA. Right now I’m embedded with the product and pipeline teams of a major Indian VFX studio, using AI and a lot of UX to give artists more space — and pull weeks out of blockbuster productions.
That last bit is the part most clients want to talk about — AI, generative tooling, the sudden collapse of cost and time. Fair enough. I’ll talk about it with you. But the more useful conversation is usually the one underneath.
You don’t have a tooling problem. You have a decision problem. Tools change every six months; the way you decide what to build doesn’t have to.
I don’t run the keyboard — I help you decide what to do, in what order, with what trade-offs. Your team executes. Until now, that came one way only: a retainer, three months minimum. It filtered well, but it asked you to commit big before either of us knew enough. So the work now comes in three phases — and you only ever buy the next one.
How the work is structured
Phase 1 — Diagnose. One week, £2,500, fixed. A structured sprint to map where you actually are on strategy, product, and UX — not where the deck says you are. You get a written diagnostic and a gap analysis, and they’re yours either way. No obligation to continue.
Phase 2 — Decide. Four weeks for £5,000, or eight weeks for £8,000, fixed. The longer one is cheaper per week. That’s deliberate — deep problems shouldn’t be punished for being deep. We go after the bottleneck the Diagnose found: a strategic roadmap, the decision frameworks behind it, and the order to do things in. The report from Phase 1 tells you which duration you need. Your team executes.
Phase 3 — Direct. Ongoing advisory at £5,000 a month, three-month minimum. This is the part with the waitlist, and it’s application-only.
Phases 1 and 2 are fixed scope, fixed price. Phase 3 is the thing you apply for.
Who this is for
- Studios and agencies whose senior team can feel the next wave coming and want a sober second pair of eyes before they commit budget.
- Founders building products that don’t fit a tidy category yet and need someone willing to sit in the ambiguity with them.
- Production houses and creative shops where the margin has collapsed and “let’s adopt AI” is the wrong-shaped answer to the actual problem.
- Leaders ready to execute — not investigate.
Who this is not for
- Anyone shopping for cheap delivery — I don’t render, design, or code at the keyboard. I rebuild strategy; your team executes.
- Studios that are “curious” about AI — or anything else — but aren’t willing to change how they work.
- Founders who want a deck, a babysitter, or someone to perform expertise on a stage — I provide unfashionable honesty and a sharp plan. You execute it.
Now for the part most people skip past
This is expensive.
£2,500 buys the diagnosis — one week, and you’ll know exactly where you stand. The retainer is still £5,000 a month, three-month minimum, and you’ll be required to actually implement what we discuss — including the parts that are inconvenient. If what you want is a deck for the board, save us both the call and pay someone else.
If you want clarity on what’s actually worth building next — and the discipline to stop building everything else — we should probably talk.
Past clients & collaborators
To be precise: this track record is mine — fifteen years of it, across these teams — not VENALBE’s. VENALBE is how I package that experience so you can buy it in pieces.
How this works
One form, below. The first question asks what you’re here for. I read every submission personally — that’s why I ask the awkward questions.
If it’s a Diagnose: I run at most three sprints at a time, alongside a full-time embedded engagement. Booked sprints schedule in order — you get the next open slot. Within two business days I’ll send over the paperwork and we pick your week.
If it’s Direct: my roster is full. I’m only opening applications for the Q3 2026 cohort. Within seven days, you’ll get one of two replies from me:
- “I don’t think we’re a fit, here’s why.” You’ll get an actual reason — not a template.
- “Let’s talk.” A thirty-minute call to figure out whether this is real.
No sequencing. No nurture. No “checking in next quarter.” This is the whole funnel.
Start here
— Alberto
P.S. If your team is currently burning more than £15k a month on consultants, decks, and “alignment” — and nothing has shipped — that’s the conversation we’re going to have.