Yannick Hofmeister

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

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.