Start with the Audit
Operator-Led AI Value Creation

I run AI and digital transformation from inside the business. I can do the same across your portfolio.

I run AI transformation from inside the business. I can do the same across your portfolio.

An $800M transformation at Standard Chartered, 120 million users at Reliance Jio, portfolio work for CVC — and a core banking build under way right now. The audit takes three weeks and gives your board a financial case it can act on.

Talk to Martijn Track Record

Standard Chartered

$3.7B digitised

60 markets · 1,500 people

TDB Bank

First Deputy CEO

Core banking build · Current

Reliance Jio

120M users in 160 days

India’s 4G network launch

CVC Capital Partners

PE Portfolio Diligence

Financial services

AI Value & Defensibility Audit

Duration 3 weeks. Fixed scope. Deliverable A financial case quantifying EBITDA/efficiency upside and governance risk. Decision-ready for your IC or board. Who it’s for PE Ops Partners, bank CIOs/COOs, sovereign fund tech leads. What’s next If the audit earns it, I stay on as Fractional CAIO to deploy the top two or three opportunities. If not, you keep the financial case and we part ways. Led by Me — Martijn de Jong. Specialist partners join under my governance when the work requires it.

The Reality

Most AI initiatives still produce pilots, not financial results.

The gap between AI ambition and AI economics is where value gets destroyed: strategy decks multiply while nothing ships, and regulators start asking questions in month eight that nobody prepared for.

Most firms have enough AI ideas. What they are missing is someone accountable for the economics.

They need someone who will kill the weak initiatives in week one, write the model-risk policy the regulator will ask for, and tie every AI use case to a line item the board can track.

Track Record

Built on work done in real operating environments, with real capital at stake.

Standard Chartered

Global CIB Digital Transformation

Led a global transformation across 60 markets and 1,500 people. Built the bank's Data, API and DLT functions from scratch. A leading global management consultancy subsequently ranked Standard Chartered a top-3 digital open bank globally.

$3.7Btransaction banking revenue digitised
12%revenue uplift

TDB Bank Mongolia

Enterprise Digital & AI Transformation — Current

First Deputy CEO, leading enterprise digital, AI, technology, product and data transformation with 250+ staff. Overseeing one of the most complex active Temenos core banking implementations globally — building a cloud- and API-native platform.

One of the most complex active Temenos core banking implementations globally
1M+clients on new platform

CVC Capital Partners

PE Portfolio Value & Diligence

Supported portfolio value optimisation and acquisition diligence in financial services for one of the world's largest private equity firms. Institutional-grade analysis on both sides of the table.

PE Advisory
Same operator perspective advising buyers and running the transformation inside the portfolio company.

The Audit

Three ways AI changes your P&L.

01

Fixed Scope · 3 Weeks

AI Value & Defensibility Audit

A decision-ready assessment for boards, investors and executive teams. Identifies where AI creates measurable value, where the business is exposed to disruption, and what to prioritise. The output is a financial case your board can act on.

Three weeks, fixed fee. If it doesn't earn the next engagement, it ends there.
02

Retained Engagement

AI Value Creation Partner / Fractional CAIO

Senior AI leadership without a full-time hire, a lengthy search, or a steep learning curve. Joins the leadership team to prioritise, shape the operating model, challenge weak initiatives, and keep the programme tied to value.

Embedded in your leadership team
03

Programme Phase

AI Deployment Governance & Value Realisation

Strategy into controlled execution. I lead architecture, governance and oversight; specialist engineering partners execute the build under a single governance model. Compliance signs off before anything goes live.

Built to pass regulatory review

Audit → Leadership → Deployment  ·  One partner across the full value cycle

For Private Equity

One relationship, portfolio-wide impact.

Ops Partners need AI-driven EBITDA uplift across eight to fifteen portfolio companies, without pilots that burn budget inside the hold period. That is the work I am built for.

Per target The AI Value & Defensibility Audit — three weeks, fixed scope, feeding directly into the IC memo. Fund level AI Operating Partner across the portfolio: architecture, governance and vendor management through one relationship. Beyond PE Banks and sovereign institutions engage me for the same work, where decisions must stand up to boards, control functions and regulators.

Why Digit-AI

Martijn de Jong, Founder and Managing Director of Digit-AI
MdJ
Martijn de Jong Founder & Managing Director
Technology Advisory Board · Northern Data Group

Every engagement led personally, start to finish.

25+ years. Standard Chartered. Reliance Jio. TDB Bank. CVC Capital Partners.

Investment Committee · MoreThan Capital (AI & Tech VC)

You work with me directly.

I lead every Digit-AI engagement myself, start to finish. I ran a 60-market global transformation at Standard Chartered, I am currently First Deputy CEO at TDB Bank, and I sit on the Investment Committee at MoreThan Capital and the Technology Advisory Board at Northern Data Group.

When specialist execution is needed, I bring in senior professionals I have worked with before, under my direct governance — not an associate running your workstream while a partner checks in quarterly.

What you are buying is a track record that is still being written.

How We Compare

vs. Big Four / MBB You get the principal. Consultancies send teams supervised by partners with advisory experience. You get the person who has sat in the C-suite chair, managed the regulator, and signed off on the P&L.
vs. Specialist AI Built for regulated environments. Most specialists focus on model building. I bring first-hand experience of bank risk committees, PE value creation plans, and regulatory expectations.
vs. In-house CAIO Senior leadership from day one. Hiring a CAIO means a long search and a steep learning curve. I provide the same leadership now, with broader cross-sector exposure.
vs. Integrators Technology has to change the economics. Integrators deploy systems; my job is making sure the systems change the P&L.

Let's Talk

Your board will ask about AI at the next meeting. Have a number ready.

Start with the AI Value & Defensibility Audit — three weeks, fixed scope,
a financial case your board can act on.

Talk to Martijn

Or reach me directly at hello@digit-ai.ai

Case Notes

Analysis written for the people who own the outcome.

AI strategy, governance, and value creation, written from the operator's chair.

Contact

Start the conversation.

Whether you're assessing an acquisition, building an AI strategy, or navigating regulatory exposure — I would like to understand your situation before proposing anything.

Or email directly: hello@digit-ai.ai

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