Strategy for the frontier.
Your board is asking about AI. Your competitors are deploying it. The gap between ambition and execution is where value is created - or destroyed.
Strategy firms understand the boardroom but not the technology. Technology firms understand the models but not the business.
Lion Strategy exists in the gap. We combine two decades of top-tier consulting rigour - FTSE 100, Fortune 500, PE and sovereign wealth clients - with genuine, practitioner-level expertise in artificial intelligence and digital assets. We don't just advise on these technologies. We invest in them, build with them, and deploy them in production.
Forward Deployed Strategy. We don't stop at the recommendation. We stay until it's working.
The window between AI understanding and AI deployment is closing. Organisations that move thoughtfully now will define their industries. Those that wait - or move carelessly - will be defined by competitors who didn't.
What We Do
AI Strategy & Deployment
We don't just advise. We deploy.
Board-level AI readiness. Use case prioritisation. Adoption roadmaps that connect to reality. Grounded in hands-on experience - we built and operate autonomous AI systems as part of our own practice.
Digital Assets & Blockchain Advisory
Skin in the game, not analysis from a distance.
Strategic advisory for organisations navigating digital assets, DeFi, tokenisation and blockchain infrastructure. Our advice is grounded in active market participation - we are investors, builders and participants, not observers.
Strategy Consulting
The foundation everything else is built on.
Growth strategy, M&A advisory, market entry, commercial due diligence, value creation. The core disciplines of top-tier strategy consulting - delivered with senior attention and without the overhead. This is the proven foundation.
Same calibre thinking. Radically more firepower.
Lion Strategy operates a hybrid model: senior strategy consultants and investment professionals working alongside purpose-built AI agents.
Our people bring experience, judgement, and curation - the taste that only comes from decades in the room where decisions are made. They set the strategic frame, interrogate assumptions, and apply the rigorous quality assurance that clients expect from top-tier advisory.
Our AI agents handle the deep-dive data collection, research synthesis, and quantitative analysis - working at a speed and depth no traditional team can match.
The result: clients get the sweet spot of senior human expertise and quality control with 10x the analytical leverage of a conventional consultancy.
The Founder
Elliot Ronald has spent two decades advising boards and investors on strategic decisions - growth strategy, M&A, market entry, commercial due diligence, value creation - across technology, financial services, consumer, energy, real estate.
His clients have included FTSE 100 corporates, Fortune 500 multinationals, sovereign wealth funds and mid-market private equity houses. He has worked at OC&C Strategy Consultants and EY, and founded two independent strategy firms. Engagements have ranged from a $50bn sovereign city masterplan to PE-backed platform roll-ups.
In parallel, he built a private investment portfolio across frontier technology - taking early conviction positions in Ethereum and the digital asset ecosystem, and backing seed-stage AI and infrastructure companies. He is a participant in the markets he advises on, not an observer.
Lion Strategy reflects a gap he saw from both sides. Strategy firms understood the boardroom but not the technology. Technology firms understood the models but not the business. Lion Strategy - senior strategic advisory grounded in genuine, practitioner-level expertise in AI and digital assets.
He has been thinking about how neural networks learn since the late 1990s, when he studied experimental psychology at Oxford and researched cognitive rule-learning in artificial and biological systems.
Also offering: The Mind Behind the Machine - a distinctive programme exploring the intersection of human cognition and AI for senior leaders.