AI platform, not AI theatre.
Most consultancies that claim to use AI mean "we have a ChatGPT subscription." We built an actual implementation platform — proprietary tooling, not wrappers — designed to deliver real work on short timelines.
MarS by Mercury · est. 2021
Strategy work,
shipped in days.
MbM is a strategic AI consultancy founded in Germany in 2021, now partnered with Thoth Intelligence and delivering engagements through the ARK platform. Days, not quarters. Real deliverables. No month-long discovery phases.
Who this is for
Mid-market companies with strategic questions that won't wait.
You have a specific question.
Market entry. Product pivot. Competitive response. A vendor decision with a board deadline. Not "help us with strategy" — a thing you need an answer to.
You can't wait four months.
The traditional consulting cycle — scoping, discovery, analysis, report — is too slow for the speed at which your market moves. You need defensible conclusions in days, not quarters.
You want rigour without the overhead.
Not a strategy deck with pretty charts and hedged claims. A short, honest document that says: here is what we found, here is what we recommend, here is what we're not sure about.
The engagement
Four steps. Clear deliverables at each one.
- 01
Scoping call
We walk through your question together. We tell you honestly whether MarS is the right fit, and if so, what a scoped engagement would look like. No pitch deck.
- 02
Sprint
We run the engagement on the ARK platform. Specialist expertise, purpose-built AI tooling, and a tight feedback loop. You see the work as it develops.
- 03
Delivery
A structured memo with findings, recommendations, and — crucially — what we're uncertain about and why. No 60-slide decks. No filler.
- 04
Follow-through
If the work earns it, we continue. Implementation support, weekly working sessions, or a second sprint on an adjacent question. Custom per engagement.
Why MarS
Three things that make us different.
Expertise that compounds.
Every engagement captures specialist knowledge as structured, reusable capability on the ARK platform. The next customer benefits from the work we did for you. You benefit from the work we did before you.
Honest about uncertainty.
Every MarS deliverable names what we don't know. Consultancies sell confidence because confidence is what clients ask for. We'd rather be right than confident.
Pricing
Custom per engagement. Contact us and we'll scope it together.
We don't publish day rates or flat packages because every question is different. The scoping call is free and takes 30 minutes. You'll leave it with a concrete proposal — what we'd do, how long it would take, what it would cost, and whether we think it's the right fit.
All prices quoted are final.