Lithuania
AI consultant and fractional AI officer in Lithuania
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Justas Butkus is based in Vilnius and works with Lithuanian companies in Lithuanian, English or Russian. He designs and deploys company brains, owns AI strategy and governance as a fractional AI officer for a limited number of companies, and builds the production systems that follow.
Short answer
For a Lithuanian company, an AI consultant who also builds means one person who decides what is worth automating, builds it on the company's own documents and tools, and stays accountable for it afterwards. The EU AI Act applies in Lithuania directly, with the Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) as the national market surveillance authority, so governance is part of the work from the first conversation.
What does an AI consultant in Lithuania do for a company?
Two kinds of work, usually in this order. First, deciding what is worth building: which questions people ask each other every week, which procedures live in a few people's heads, which jobs get repeated by hand. Second, building it, most often as a company brain: one shared system that holds what the company knows, answers staff in the chat tool they already use, enforces access rights per person and cites where every answer came from.
Where a company also needs someone to own AI direction without a full-time hire, the same work runs as a fractional AI officer engagement at two to four days a month. The difference from a strategy-only consultant is that every recommendation is one I can implement and audit myself.
Which Lithuanian companies is this a fit for?
- Teams where the same questions keep coming up: enough people that new hires ask the same things, and the answers sit in documents, old email threads and a few colleagues' heads.
- Companies running several separate tools where nobody is sure where to look first.
- Firms that sell into the wider EU and are starting to get AI questions in customer procurement and due diligence.
Work runs in Lithuanian, English or Russian, so mixed teams and foreign owners can sit in the same sessions. Below roughly twenty people the role is usually premature: walking over to a colleague is still faster.
How does the EU AI Act apply in Lithuania?
The AI Act is an EU regulation, so it applies in Lithuania directly, without a separate national law restating it. Lithuania designated the Communications Regulatory Authority (Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba, RRT) as the market surveillance authority and single point of contact for the Act, and the Innovation Agency oversees the bodies that assess high-risk systems (Morrison Foerster, Lithuania).
The dates moved this year. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, the Digital Omnibus on AI, in force since 27 July 2026, pushed the main obligations for stand-alone high-risk systems to 2 December 2027 and for high-risk systems inside regulated products to 2 August 2028 (Hunton). The AI literacy duty in Article 4 already applies, now as a duty to take measures that support it rather than to guarantee a level.
For most Lithuanian companies building internal tools, the practical work is an inventory of where AI is used, a short internal policy, literacy measures for the people using it, and clear disclosure wherever a customer talks to an AI. That is a bounded piece of work, not a programme.
How does an engagement start?
With a fixed-scope diagnostic: what the company already has, which two or three jobs would pay back first, what the system should deliberately not touch, and who inside will own it. The written result is a roadmap you can act on with or without me. If a build follows, it is scoped from that document.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an AI consultant in Lithuania who builds the system, not just the strategy?
Yes. Justas Butkus, based in Vilnius, designs and deploys company brains and other production AI systems himself, and takes a limited number of fractional AI officer engagements. He is the founder of AINORA, MB, which builds and operates AI systems for companies.
Can the work be done in Lithuanian?
Yes. Sessions, documents and the system itself can be in Lithuanian, English or Russian, and a company brain can answer staff in the language they ask in.
Who enforces the EU AI Act in Lithuania?
The Communications Regulatory Authority (RRT) is the designated market surveillance authority and single point of contact. The Innovation Agency oversees the conformity assessment bodies for high-risk systems.
When do the EU AI Act high-risk rules apply after the Digital Omnibus?
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved the main obligations for stand-alone high-risk systems to 2 December 2027 and for high-risk systems in regulated products to 2 August 2028. The Article 4 AI literacy duty already applies.
Working with Lithuanian companies
If you are weighing whether this fits, the fastest way to find out is a short conversation about the actual problem, in Lithuanian or English.