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Navigating the human side of the AI transition

The code is rarely the hardest part

A mind overwhelmed by the noise of the AI transition A mind that has made sense of the AI transition

The AI transition has a technical side everyone is managing. It also has a human side that's much harder to tackle: roles blur, people stop trusting decisions, and teams can't realign as fast as the tools change. What's slowing you down won't show up in a code review.

That's our work with you: staying in the technical argument, surfacing what's driving it, and moving your team forward.

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The tools change in weeks. People realign over months. That gap is where the real work is.

Our approach

Both halves of the problem

Both halves means two capabilities in the same conversation: technical credibility and organizational insight. We teach more than we pitch and lead with questions, because what you're buying is our judgment in the room — working the problem with you in real time.

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About us

Two careers, one practice

We're Philipson Abadi, a partnership built on shared clients, shared judgment, and decisions made together. We each bring 25+ years of hands-on engineering leadership and architecture, and we still write code ourselves — across distributed systems, ML, storage, and embedded software. We've led teams through the kind of transition you're currently facing.

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Moria Abadi and Gavrie Philipson
Moria Abadi and Gavrie Philipson

Companies

Decades inside the tech industry

  • IBM
  • Redis
  • Ultima Genomics
  • Elbit Systems
  • Sunbit
  • Line5
  • Band
  • Airobotics
  • Elastifile
  • ICAP
  • Expand Networks
  • Enigma MPC (now SCRT Labs)
The stories behind these logos

Client stories

The situations we help with

When adoption splits the team

A team adopts AI aggressively and splits into camps — the change is winning, but the trust isn't.

To the full situation

When judgment looks like resistance

Senior engineers resist an AI rollout; leadership calls it obstruction, the engineers call it professional judgment.

To the full situation

When roles lag the process

Process is changing faster than roles are, and the people most uncertain about their place are the ones you most need to keep.

To the full situation

Services

Ways to work together

Diagnostic engagement

A two-week outside read before you commit to more

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Targeted intervention

Named problem. Named timeline. Resolved cleanly in weeks.

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Embedded advisor retainer

Trusted outside voice, continuously present in how you lead.

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If you want your team realigned, your senior engineers on board, and the technical arguments actually settled — that starts with a conversation.

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