Kiantara Group Consulting · AI & Data
AI strategy, data engineering and governance for leadership teams in emerging markets. We start from the business question, build what the answer needs, and train your people to run it.
Capabilities
Most AI programs stall between the pilot and the P&L. We tie each use case to a business case, build the data foundation it needs, and put guardrails around it before it scales.
Best when you need to
Find the AI use cases worth funding, then build the first one.
Best when you need to
Put one trusted version of the numbers in front of leadership.
Best when you need to
Scale AI safely, and give your people the skills to run it.
AI value framework
We score each candidate use case on the same four dimensions, with evidence from your data, your people and your market. Only the ideas that clear all four go to build.
What is it worth if it works? We size the revenue, cost or risk impact with finance, not with the vendor’s demo.
Evidence we use
P&L baselines, process timings, market sizing
Can it be built and adopted here? We check skills, systems and whether the people who must use it actually want it.
Evidence we use
Tech review, user interviews by Pinnacle
Is the data there, clean and allowed to be used? Most stalled pilots fail here, so we test it before anything is built.
Evidence we use
Data audit, lineage map, consent review
What happens when it is wrong? We rate harm to customers, compliance exposure and reputational risk, and set guardrails.
Evidence we use
Risk register, PDP law check, red-team tests
Testimonials
Kiantara Group brings the expertise and strategic insight, particularly in the rapidly evolving sectors of AI technology and governance.
“Rio Kiantara’s and Associates has been helpful, prompt and always provide their best in supporting our needs.”
“The market intelligence collected and recommendations produced were relevant, high-quality, and aligned with our goals.”
“Our collaboration on executive workshops, research, and strategic discussions has consistently been insightful and impactful.”
Consulting case studies
How institutions have used our AI, data and governance work to turn evidence into decisions.
100+
member banks reached by the Data & AI Readiness survey
Banking · Indonesia
A readiness survey, an executive FGD and a governance playbook that gave Indonesian banking its first industry-wide AI governance baseline.
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target respondents across two respondent streams
Government · Tourism · Indonesia and 15 source countries
Multilingual collection, live quota supervision and analyst-ready outputs for a survey spanning 15 source countries and all 38 provinces.
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stakeholders in focus groups across six countries
Technology and policy · Six ASEAN countries
Multi-country FGDs with AI professionals, government officials and educators, 30 per country, with 80% of participants at manager level or above.
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