Torque AI | Executive AI Strategy & Implementation for Mid-Market Companies

Growth is a machine
we build into
your business.

We embed inside your executive team and install the Torque Operating System — the people, the mindsets, and the experiments that make growth a permanent, compounding machine. Right now, that means AI, because AI is where the leverage is. But it starts with the formula, not the tools. Torque is the catalyst.

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90-Day
From engagement to measurable ROI
25+
Years as an operator, not a consultant
$1B
Acquisition — Buddy Media → Salesforce
2×
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The operator who will tell you the truth your board needs to hear
The Distinction

You've had moments of growth.
That's not the same as adding
Torque to a growth engine.

A campaign that crushed. A quarter that surprised everyone. A product that took off. Impressive — and nearly impossible to repeat without a system behind it. Always-On Growth is what happens when the system is permanent, the team is built for it, and every small win compounds into the next.

Offense is the only viable strategy now.

In an AI-powered world, defense is a losing position. We install the growth operating system that puts your team on offense — moving first, experimenting fast, compounding every win.

Momentum is built in increments.

Not one big initiative. Not a transformation launch. Growth compounds from small wins stacked deliberately — each one building the confidence and the muscle for the next.

We make it safe to take risks.

The teams that grow fastest aren't reckless — they're systematic. We build the culture and the structure where experimentation is expected, and every shot on goal teaches you something.

We embed. We build. We hand off.

Not a vendor. Not a consultant. We live inside your team, install the Torque OS — people, mindset, AI — and leave behind a machine that compounds long after we're gone.

The Approach

Chris doesn't show up
with answers.
Answers are the problem.

Past precedent is not a predictor of your future success. The game changed. The playbook that got you here is the ceiling you are now bumping against.

01 — The Detox

End the addiction to being right.

Your leadership team is addicted to arriving with answers. It feels like confidence. It is actually a cage. When you show up with conclusions, you close off the learning before it starts. Chris runs you through a detox that breaks the habit — and reopens the aperture.

02 — Eliminate, Don't Add

His job is to cut, not to pile on.

Most consultants give your team more to do. Chris does the opposite. He hunts for the froth — the performance, the noise, the meetings that produce nothing — and eliminates it, so your people can pour everything into what only your company can do.

03 — The Proprietary Gift

Every company has one. Most can't see it.

You're too close. Too busy. Too focused on what competitors are doing. Chris helps you find your proprietary gift — the thing that makes your company categorically different. If you don't have optics into it yet, that is the first thing you'll find together. Then you invest in it. Everything else gets cut.

04 — Build the System

Clarity first. Then the machine.

Once you know the real problem you solve — not the one on your website, the one your best clients actually pay for — you build AI systems that create your proprietary offering at scale. That offering doesn't compete on price or features. It wins by default.

05 — More Shots on Goal

Stop optimizing for zero failures. Take more attempts.

The teams that win aren't the ones with the best strategy — they're the ones that attempted the most and learned fastest. Most organizations accidentally optimize for not failing. That means fewer shots. Fewer shots means you lose.

06 — Asymmetric Investment

Find the one thing. Then bet everything on it.

You don't need twenty initiatives. You need the one asset that is impossible to replicate — built from the inside out. Not technology imposed from outside in. If someone who already has it will beat you soundly, that is not your gift. Stop building it. Find what is.

07 — Extreme Ownership + Permission

Both. At the same time. Non-negotiable.

People don't take risks inside organizations because the personal cost of failure is too high. Fix that. Extreme ownership means your team owns the outcome fully. Extreme permission means they're actually allowed to chase it. One without the other produces paralysis.

08 — Commercial Truth

What problem do you actually solve?

Not the one on your website. Not the one in your pitch deck. The absolute, commercial-truth version — the one your best client actually pays for. If you can't say it in one sentence, you don't have clarity on what to build. And if you don't know what to build, you can't build it.

"Chris will push you to experiment, discover, and learn. This is radically different from what you're used to — because the world is changing radically. The rate of change is high. Past precedent is not your best compass. More experiments. More partners. More shots on goal. That is the path."

Chris Dessi — Founder, Torque AI
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Why Chris Dessi

He is the catalyst.
The formula is his.
The machine is yours.

Chris discovered the formula. Others theorize about it. He installs it. A seasoned founder who has started companies, sold companies, closed $100M+ in revenue, and stood in front of boardrooms on five continents — he embeds with your leadership, dismantles what is slowing you down, and rebuilds a growth machine that runs from the tip of the spear.

"It does not have to be perfect. It never had to be — but now it's life or death.
That is not hyperbole."

If your team is ready to be shoved out of their own way, get in touch. If they're not, that's fine too — but your competitors already are.

  • Founded & sold Silverback Social. Made payroll. Fought renewals. Stared at a P&L when it didn't work. This is not advice from the outside.
  • Senior leader at Buddy Media — acquired by Salesforce for $1 billion. Knows what elite execution looks like from the inside.
  • Built $32M+ in revenue through AI-enabled systems. Not projected. Built and measured.
  • CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business, NBC, CBS, ABC. Speaks to the press the same way he speaks to your board — without flinching.
  • MIT Sloan Executive Certificate. 2× Amazon #1 bestselling authorChatGPT for Profit and Your World is Exploding. TEDx speaker. Inc. contributor.
How We Build It

Three engagements.
One outcome: Always-On Growth.

We don't hand you a playbook and walk away. We build the systems with your team — and every engagement ends with something deployed, not just decided.

01

Growth Diagnostic

We find your commercial truth — the real problem your best client pays you to solve — and map the single highest-leverage growth opportunity hiding inside your business right now. Everything else flows from this.

Executive Workshop
02

Growth Leadership Coaching

1:1 and small-group coaching for C-suite leaders who are ready to stop delegating growth and start owning it. Mindset. Experiments. Extreme ownership. The internal shifts that make everything else compound.

Ongoing Engagement
03

90-Day Torque Operating System

The flagship engagement. We embed with your team, eliminate the froth, and build the Torque OS — AI-powered workflows, experimental frameworks, and decision protocols — that makes growth a permanent, always-on machine.

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The Torque Operating System

Four phases. One outcome:
growth machine embedded in your DNA.

01
Find the Real Problem
Uncover your commercial truth — the specific, unmet problem your best clients actually pay you to solve. This is your Total Addressable Problem. Everything we build is anchored here.
Week 1–2
02
Align the Growth System
Get every executive in the same lane — including the skeptics. One growth narrative. One set of experiments. No more siloed initiatives that cancel each other out.
Week 3–4
03
Build the Capability
Construct the growth operating system — AI-powered workflows, experimental frameworks, and team decision protocols — live, with your people, so ownership transfers completely.
Week 5–10
04
Compound the Returns
Deploy. Measure what matters. Produce the ROI narrative. Then watch it compound — because it's in the DNA now, not in a deck that gets filed and forgotten.
Week 11–13
The Full Arc

We embed. We coach.
We hand off. You thrive.

This isn't a consulting engagement that ends when we leave. It's a transfer of the machine — from us to your team. The goal is that you never need us again. That's how we know it worked.

Phase 1 — Embed

We get inside.

Chris and the Torque team embed directly with your leadership. No decks handed over a conference table. We're in the room where decisions get made, learning what only insiders know.

Phase 2 — Build

We build with you.

Not for you — with you. Your team's fingerprints are on every system we deploy. That's not a courtesy. It's the point. Ownership doesn't transfer if your people didn't build it.

Phase 3 — Coach

We hand off the machine.

Every experiment generates a lesson. Every lesson lowers the cost of the next attempt. By the time we start handing off, your team already knows how to move — because they've been moving.

Phase 4 — Thrive

You own it. You scale it.

The embed ends. The machine stays. For organizations that want to keep building at speed, Torque Academy is the path that keeps your leadership at the leading edge — permanently.

The embed builds the foundation. Torque Academy is what happens when your team is ready to run independently — more experiments, more partners, more shots on goal, and the resilience to keep iterating no matter what the AI landscape throws next.

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Who We Serve

Behind but aware —
and done pretending otherwise.

We work with leaders at $50M–$2B organizations where the urgency is real, the team is non-technical, and the cost of staying stuck is compounding every quarter.

ICP #1
The Anxious Executive
CEO / COO / Managing Partner · $50M–$2B
  • Competitors are talking about AI moves I can't verify are real
  • My board is asking questions I can't answer confidently
  • I know I need to lead this — I don't know how to start
What they leave with
Executive clarity + an AI narrative they can own in front of anyone
ICP #2
The Transformation Leader
Chief Digital Officer / Head of Innovation
  • I know exactly what needs to happen — I can't get the org to move
  • Every initiative stalls in the middle of the organization
  • I need someone external to say what I've been saying for 18 months
What they leave with
Organizational momentum + an accountability structure that ships
ICP #3
The Revenue Leader
CRO / VP Sales / Head of Revenue
  • My team spends more than half their time on non-revenue work
  • Our pipeline visibility is poor and our messaging is dated
  • I need AI to be a number in Q3 — not a pilot update in Q4
What they leave with
AI workflows that compress the cycle and eliminate the busywork
What People Say

The operators who've worked with Chris
are specific about why it worked.

I had a front row seat to watch him start companies, sell companies, publish books, keynote events, and give a TEDx Talk. I also watched him take chances, work insanely hard, lead, and be transparent. Highly recommend — for pretty much everything.
John Zanzarella — Chief Revenue Officer Direct report to Chris for 7+ years
He re-energized our sales and BD operation. He's a dynamic presenter, comfortable in front of a small group or a large crowd — and his dedication to the goals of the company is matched only by his concern for his co-workers.
Rob Roe — Consultant Worked alongside Chris
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