You cannot delegate to AI what you cannot articulate.

who we are

Explicit Protocol is a counsel practice for AI-age decisions.

You're moving fast, the stakes are real, and the gap between what you know and what your organisation can execute has never felt wider. AI is definitely a forcing function. We shape decisions you can act on, with the required understanding to defend them.

Think of this as part advisory, part coaching, part experiencing what is possible with AI, not just reading about it. The goal is, always, allowing you to move through this transition with speed and confidence.

Cutlery on a steel tray, phone face-down on a café table.

Two practitioners, one practice.

Isa Sonnenfeld

Isa Sonnenfeld

Inside perspective. Fifteen years at the intersection of global technology, media and European institutions: Twitter's first hire in Germany, lead of Google News Lab across the continent, lead of the EU AI Champions Initiative at General Catalyst. She watched implicit knowledge evaporate at every leadership and project transition. She is now building what keeps it.

Igor Schwarzmann

Igor Schwarzmann

Outside perspective. Twenty years as the person organisations called when thinking needed to get done. A hundred engagements across corporate, public, and NGO sectors on three continents. The most valuable thing he built walked out the door with him each time, as the method had never been made explicit. That learning became Explicit Protocol.

the practice

Articulation is the work.
Decision quality, team alignment, AI adoption all follow from it.

Counsel

We cut through the noise, ground the conversation in your workflows, articulate the implicit decision logic, prune what's unnecessary.

Build

We design the knowledge layer, map where agents fit, stand up working prototypes, so you work with something real. Model and tool neutral by design.

email hello@explicitprotocol.com based in Berlin