Commercial relevance
AI and data choices should change a decision, customer outcome, operating constraint, or economic result.
About EKNE Consulting
Independent judgment where strategy, operations, data and AI intersect.
Founded by Hans Christian Ekne in 2018, EKNE Consulting advises leaders making consequential choices about AI, data, and commercial transformation.
Founder and principal
Since 2012, Hans has held both employee and independent roles with consultancies including EY-Parthenon, Simon-Kucher, PwC, and Capgemini—selling, scoping, and shaping data- and AI-enabled transformations across energy, telecommunications, and financial services.
He works closely with C-level executives and engineering teams, maintaining a strategic outlook while ensuring technical execution remains feasible, scalable, and aligned with business outcomes.
He is a co-founder of floThink, the app that unifies your apps and data, turns them into structured knowledge, and empowers AI work and workflows that drive results.
He is also the creator of AnaxiGraph, an open source architecture tool for agentic coding.
View LinkedIn profileWorking principles
What the work should preserve.
Accountable ownership
Technology does not remove the need for clear mandates, decision rights, and people who own the consequences.
Evidence over theatre
Prefer working mechanisms, visible trade-offs, and honest constraints to generic transformation language.