Protiviti opens its first AI studio in Chicago
Protiviti, a global consulting firm, has launched its first AI Studio in Chicago to help organizations use artificial intelligence to address business challenges. The studio, which opened April 7, 2025, expands Protiviti’s AI Center of Excellence, offering space and expert resources for co-creation and exploration of AI’s potential.
“Protiviti AI Studio focuses on accelerating AI innovation by addressing key challenges we have seen organizations encounter,” said Christine Livingston, global leader, AI practice at Protiviti. “Our studio uniquely centralizes key resources to enable organizations’ ability to rapidly envision, engage and unlock the transformative power of AI.”
The Protiviti AI Studio offers resources and experience to accelerate AI adoption‘s initial phases while exploring the latest AI capabilities from technology vendors. The studio helps organizations with:
- Envision the possibilities: Using ideation techniques, proprietary assets, dynamic assessments and interactive workshops to help spark new ideas, refine the best concepts, and explore the full potential of AI.
- Experiment with technology: Using interactive demonstrations and functional prototypes to bring AI concepts to life, showcasing the latest technologies and rapidly prototyping to see AI capabilities in action.
- Enable your people: Establishing a foundational understanding of AI and creating a shared vision through hands-on training and enablement sessions to familiarize organizations with the capabilities through active learning and focusing the long-term vision on human-centered AI principles and solution designs.
Chicago was selected for its central U.S. positioning, its large Protiviti office, its tech ecosystem, and its innovation landscape. The city was also already home to one of Protiviti’s three global innovation centers, called “iNNs”.
Protiviti has over 90 offices in over 25 countries, provides consulting and managed solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, digital, legal, HR, risk and internal audit. Protiviti Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Half (NYSE: RHI).
Protiviti has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for the 11th consecutive year, and has served more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 and nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies.