Rooms you can't book yourself
Introductions that come with a recommendation attached, not a cold email. The difference between a meeting and a meeting that goes somewhere is who made the call.
Business development & growth
We get you
in the room.taken seriously.over the line.
AI Battle Group is a business development consultancy led by entertainment executive Ikkee Battle. Two things move a company, and neither is a deck: access to the people who can say yes, and the discipline to deliver once they do.
The premise
Most companies don't have a strategy problem.
They have an access problem and a follow-through problem. The plan is usually fine. What's missing is a name on the other end of an introduction, and someone who will stay in the room until the work is actually finished.
That's the whole practice. We open the door, we make sure you're ready to walk through it, and we manage the thing you promised until it exists. Four disciplines, one thread.
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What we do
Four capabilities. Engaged individually or as one retained relationship — most work starts with one and grows into two.
The story you tell the market has to survive contact with the people writing cheques. We build the narrative, prepare the people who deliver it, and open the relationships that give it somewhere to land.
Access is wasted on a team that can't convert it. We work with the people actually in front of customers — what they say, how they handle the hard part of the conversation, and what happens after the sale.
Three decades inside the entertainment business is not a line on a CV — it's a phone book. We connect brands to talent, properties and platforms, and structure the deal so both sides still like each other at the end.
Someone has to own the calendar, the budget and the awkward conversation. We take the thing that was promised and run it to delivery — on the date, at the number, without surprises in week nine.
Start small, prove it works, then scale the thing that worked.
Why engage us
You don't need another full-time executive on the payroll. You need the relationships and the operating discipline, for exactly as long as the problem lasts.
A story that survives diligence
Positioning that holds up when a sophisticated buyer starts pulling at it. We pressure-test the narrative before the market does it for free.
Senior attention, not a bench
You work with the principal. No account layer, no junior team learning your business on your budget, no handover three weeks in.
Work that actually ships
Advice is cheap and everywhere. We stay through delivery, own the schedule, and are still there when the difficult week arrives.
The founder
Ikkee Battle
Entertainment executive. Founder and principal, AI Battle Group.
Ikkee has spent his career inside the entertainment business, on the side of the table where projects get greenlit, budgets get defended and deals get closed. He founded AI Battle Group to bring that same combination — relationships plus operating discipline — to companies outside the industry who need both.
He works with a small number of clients at a time, personally. The values on this page are not decoration; they are the reason clients introduce him to the next one.
- Based
- Canada
- Sector
- Entertainment & media
- Engagement
- Retained or project
- Works with
- Founders & operators
Our fundamentals
These were the values on the first version of this company and they haven't changed. They decide which work we take.
- Honesty.
- Integrity.
- Caring.
- Respect.
- Humility.
A passion for excellence, honest and ethical conduct, and uncompromising integrity. It is how we get the best result, and it is why we are still working with the people we started with.
Contact
Let's build something.
Tell us the project or the goal you need the most help with. If we're not the right people for it we'll say so, and where we can, point you at who is.