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  • About Company

    IRM Strategic Group is a boutique AI advisory firm that helps consumer brands get decision-ready answers from the consumer research they've already paid for.


    Most brands are sitting on six and seven figures worth of consumer intelligence that stopped informing decisions the moment it was presented. We call it Institutional Amnesia — and it silently erodes brand equity, inflates acquisition costs, and hollows out loyalty programs that should be the brand's most valuable asset.


    IRM fixes that by building the Core Custodian — a curated AI agent deployed inside Microsoft Teams and Copilot that answers your team's most important consumer questions on demand, grounded in your best existing research. This is not a knowledge management tool or a document repository. It's decision support — your team asks a question, the agent synthesizes an answer from the research that matters most. No new platform. No vendor contracts. No data leaving your approved environment.


    We work with VP-level Insights and Marketing leaders at consumer brands who are ready to stop making decisions that contradict what they already know about their customers.

    What We Do

  • About Me

    Ian Menchen is the Founder and Principal of IRM Strategic Group, a boutique AI advisory firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio.


    Ian spent 15 years building and leading strategic insights functions at some of the world's most recognized brands — including Disney, Adobe, Walmart, and Bath & Body Works. In that time he developed a deep expertise in translating consumer intelligence into decisions that protect loyalty, improve innovation hit rates, and strengthen retailer partnerships.


    He founded IRM Strategic Group after seeing the same expensive problem repeat itself across every organization he worked with — brilliant consumer research that gets produced, presented, and forgotten. IRM exists to fix that permanently.

    Ian works with a selective number of mid-market CPG and retail clients on 90-day pilot engagements and ongoing strategic advisory relationships.


    📧 [email protected] 🌐 irmstrategic.com