The space between what AI can do and what organizations can absorb.
Yannick Hofmeister is COO of OWT, a strategy and technology consulting firm in Geneva.
He works on AI adoption — and the organizational architecture that decides whether it lasts.
Whitepapers
- APR 2026·39 min readThe intelligence transition
Why 80% of AI projects fail — and the organizational architecture that fixes it.
Articles
- JUL 2026·14 min readThe executable institution
You cannot trust AI agents, and it has stopped mattering. The structures civilization built around untrustworthy people — audits, checklists, appeals — became software this year, and they change what one accountable person can safely run.
- JUN 2026·14 min readThe accountability deficit
When AI moves from answering questions to doing work, the scarce thing is no longer a better model. It is a person willing to answer for what the work becomes.
- MAR 2025·13 min readThe Context Deficit
On what the first generation of deployed AI agents reveals about the gap between capability and understanding.
- MAR 2025·11 min readOn the Migration of Scarcity
What happens when the thing every organization optimized for becomes cheap — and the thing nobody invested in becomes the constraint.
Evidence
“More than 80 percent of AI projects fail — twice the rate of conventional IT projects.” — RAND, 2024.
“About 95 percent of enterprise GenAI pilots show no measurable P&L impact.” — MIT NANDA, 2025.
“78 percent of organizations reported using AI in 2024, up from 55 percent the year before.” — Stanford HAI, 2025.
“Only 25 percent of AI initiatives deliver expected ROI; only 16 percent scale enterprise-wide.” — IBM CEO Study, 2025.
FAQ
- Who is Yannick Hofmeister?
- Yannick Hofmeister is COO of OWT, a strategy and technology consulting firm in Geneva. He works on AI adoption and the organizational change that makes it stick.
- What is OWT?
- OWT is a Geneva-based strategy and technology consulting firm. Yannick Hofmeister is its COO.
- What does Yannick Hofmeister write about?
- The gap between what AI can do and what organizations can absorb — AI adoption, agent architectures, and the institutional change that turns capability into outcomes.
- How can I work with Yannick Hofmeister?
- Through OWT's strategy and technology consulting, or by reaching out on LinkedIn.
- What is “The intelligence transition”?
- A whitepaper published in April 2026. It examines why more than 80 percent of AI projects fail, per RAND. Its answer is organizational architecture, not model capability.