About
Ten years in Prague. Twenty years explaining technology to people who didn't ask for it to arrive in their lives. One consistent skill.
The Short Version
I'm Alan Lohoff. I started Vizion AI Advisors because the people who need AI the most are almost never the ones it's being marketed to.
I work with small businesses, independent professionals, and individuals who are curious about what AI can do for them but haven't found anyone willing to give them a straight answer.
I don't have a package for everyone. I don't promise transformation. I tell people what I'd do if it were my business, my time, and my money.
I've been translating technology for twenty years. I've been in Prague for ten.
The first conversation is always free.
Where This Comes From
I spent several years at Verizon Wireless during the years when smartphones were genuinely new. Most people had never held a computer in their pocket before, and my job — technically sales, practically translation — was to explain what this thing actually was, whether it was worth it, and what it could do for someone like them specifically.
I was good at that. I built a client base that came back not because I'd sold them the most, but because I'd told them the truth. In a system built to do the opposite — hidden upgrade dates, undisclosed trials, commission structures that rewarded volume over honesty — that approach had a cost. I was eventually let go for exactly the way I chose to work.
I don't regret it.
What I understood then, and still believe now: people aren't confused by technology because they're not smart enough. They're confused because the people explaining it usually have other priorities.
After Verizon I spent time chasing other things, eventually made it to Europe, and found my way to Prague. That was ten years ago next month. I came planning to stay a few weeks. I'm still here because this city — more than anywhere I'd lived before — felt like a place where you could build something without constantly justifying why you weren't building something bigger.
In the years since I've worked hospitality, managed a bar, and eventually found my way back into technology through a stint at Productboard — and found, time and again, that I work best when given the room to guide people as an expert, but also as an equal.
Same skill as Verizon, different setting: understand what the person in front of you actually needs to know, and explain it in a way that maps onto what they already understand.
My father ran his own IT consulting business when I was growing up. Building Vizion feels, in some ways, like finishing a conversation we started a long time ago.
Why This,
Why Now
We're at another one of those moments. AI is arriving faster than most people can process it. The language around it is dense and often deliberately so.
The consultants selling it are mostly selling something that requires you to believe in it first. The companies adopting it at scale are largely doing so to reduce headcount and call it transformation.
Meanwhile the small business owner, the freelancer, the office professional, the person who just wants to know if there's a tool that could handle their booking confirmation emails — they're reading content written by and for people with completely different contexts and completely different stakes.
I know that gap. I've spent my working life standing in it.
The Methodology
How I Work
I start by listening.
Before I suggest anything, I want to understand what you're actually dealing with. Not the theoretical version of your problem — the specific thing that cost you time last week. That's where useful AI applications live.
I tell you what isn't worth trying.
There's no shortage of tools being marketed to businesses right now. Most of them aren't relevant to your situation. Some will make your life harder, not easier. I'd rather tell you that upfront than have you find it out later.
I stay honest about the ceiling.
AI is genuinely useful for specific, well-defined things. It is not going to run your business for you. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. I'd rather give you an accurate picture now than an impressive one that doesn't hold up.
I don't take on more than I can attend to.
The alternative — more clients, more delegation, more account management — produces a different kind of consulting practice. One where the thing you were paying for gradually disappears. I'm not interested in building that.
Logistics
I work in English. I'm based in Prague and available for in-person meetings locally — I find the best conversations happen somewhere comfortable, without a timer running.
For clients outside Prague, everything works remotely. I work with a small number of clients at any time. That's intentional.
The first conversation is always free, always 30–60 minutes, and there's no pitch at the end of it. If there's a fit, we'll both know. If there isn't, I'll tell you that too.
One More Thing
I am genuinely fascinated by what these tools can do. I want to be clear about that, because the skepticism I bring to how AI is being sold can give the wrong impression.
I've built things using AI that I couldn't have built alone — not without months of additional learning and practice. I've watched it give people real hours back in their week. The technology, when it's applied honestly to a real problem, is remarkable.
I'm not anti-AI. I'm anti-hype. Those are different positions, and the difference matters for how I work.