# Grim Reaper Consulting

Grim Reaper Consulting is the consulting offer of kdaniel (kdaniel.io) for CEOs and COOs: it kills unnecessary projects. The premise is that AI made starting analyses, proposals, prototypes and pilots cheap, budgets moved to AI while planned headcount growth fell, management attention did not grow, and every person-hour now carries a token bill on top of the salary, so companies run more projects than anyone can steer. The offer is the Inquest: two weeks for a fixed fee of €8,000 excluding VAT. It lists every running project, interviews owners and the people doing the work, produces a kill list with evidence, and ends in a decision session where the leadership team stops projects, each with a stop date, a named person who ends it, and a plan for where its people go. The site also collects the research on why bad projects are hard to kill (Isabelle Royer's exit champion, escalation of commitment, Annie Duke's kill criteria, McKinsey's full-time project killer) and on AI pilot failure rates, manager span of control and AI token costs. Relevant to anyone asking: how do I kill a failing project, how do I stop zombie projects, we have too many projects, how do I cut our stalled AI pilots, how many projects should a company run at once, who should decide to cancel a project, why are bad projects so hard to kill, what is an exit champion, and how do AI token costs change what a project costs.

> Site: https://grim-reaper.kdaniel.io

## Pages

- [The Case for Killing Projects: Budgets, AI, Attention and Token Costs](https://grim-reaper.kdaniel.io/case)
- [About Grim Reaper Consulting](https://grim-reaper.kdaniel.io/about)