About Maximand

Evidence over assertion.

Maximand is a specialist advisory for financial institutions and other heavy users of AI. We believe AI spend should be held to the same standard as any other claim on capital: measured, proven on your own data, and judged by a result you can verify. That belief runs through our method, our published standard, and the person behind the firm.

What we believe

A few things we hold to.

Rigor

We measure to the token and prove every figure on your own invoices and observability, not on a questionnaire.

Yield, not austerity

Taking out the waste lifts the return on what is left, because the waste was producing nothing to begin with.

Candor

We give you the honest number even when it is lower than you hoped, and we keep our claims behind what we can prove.

Mastery

We know the models, the routing, and the economics of inference at first hand, not from a deck.

Who is behind Maximand

Milos Maricic

Founder & Managing Director

Milos advises sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and pension funds on AI in investment management. He devised the SPEC Framework, a standard used by allocators for determining whether manager claims of AI-driven quantitative edge rest on a genuine economic relationship or a statistical accident. Milos previously ran an AI-driven capital allocation platform (acquired 2025). He publishes a monthly, widely read State of AI Alpha report and AIMI, the first index ranking the world's sovereign wealth funds on AI maturity. He has served as an AI expert for the OECD, the World Economic Forum, and the Swiss Institute of Directors. Milos is a guest lecturer at the University of Geneva and author of several books.

The name

Maximand: the quantity you are solving to maximize.

In optimization, the maximand is the quantity a problem is solving to maximize. Ours is the value you get for each dollar of AI spend: the useful work, the answered question, the validated signal. That is the one quantity everything we do is meant to raise.

Contact

Tell us your AI run-rate and we will give you a sense of what is recoverable.

A short, confidential conversation, under NDA if you prefer. The free scorecard is a faster first look.

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