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HOW WE ENGAGE · FIXED FEES, NAMED MILESTONES

Two ways to start, with one accountable team.

Start with Workflow Discovery or the 90-Day AI Foundation. Each engagement has a fixed fee, a named deliverable, and decision points where you can stop. Here is what happens after kickoff.

Most clients start with one of two scopes.

Workflow Discovery

Over two to three weeks, we shadow your teams, map the workflows, and rank them by expected AI payback. The fixed-fee engagement gives you a ranked opportunity map and one architecture-and-cost sketch before you decide whether to fund a build. You keep both deliverables.
For you if: you want to see how we think before funding a build
FIXED FEE · QUOTED UPFRONT
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The 90-Day AI Foundation

One accountable team runs assessment through deployment. The scope covers a governed knowledge system, controlled workflow execution, and your first supervised AI employee in a working channel. Go/no-go gates at weeks 2, 4, and 10 keep the engagement tied to one measurable workflow result.
For you if: you are ready to move one workflow into production
FIXED FEE · QUOTED UPFRONT
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CHOOSE THE RIGHT STARTING SCOPE

Frame one waiting workflow before you choose an engagement.

A working session identifies the accountable owner, source systems, human decision, and evidence needed to recommend a starting scope. The recommendation can be Workflow Discovery, the 90-Day Foundation, or a decision to wait.

PLAN ONE WORKFLOW

What happens across the 90-day Foundation.

  1. DISCOVER

    WEEKS 1-2 · LEARN THE WORK

    We shadow the people who do the job today, map the workflows, inventory knowledge sources, and document key-person risks. Technology choices come after this work.

    PLANNED DELIVERABLEWORKFLOW MAP + OPPORTUNITY RANKING
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 2
    Choose whether to fund a proof around the highest-ranked workflow, refine the scope, or stop with the map.
    WHAT YOU RETAIN
    The workflow map, source inventory, and opportunity ranking produced to date.
  2. VALIDATE

    WEEKS 3-4 · PROVE THE VALUE

    We build a working proof with your data and questions, then measure retrieval quality against an agreed baseline. If the result does not clear the bar at the week 4 go/no-go gate, we stop and you keep the map.

    PLANNED DELIVERABLEPROOF OF VALUE + GO/NO-GO
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 4
    Continue only if the working proof clears the agreed retrieval-quality baseline.
    WHAT YOU RETAIN
    The working proof, evaluation questions, baseline definition, and results produced to date.
  3. BUILD

    WEEKS 5-10 · BUILD THE FOUNDATION

    We build the knowledge system first, followed by controlled workflow execution and then the AI employee. The first deployment runs in one channel with human approval for consequential actions.

    PLANNED DELIVERABLEPRODUCTION FOUNDATION + FIRST AI EMPLOYEE
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 10
    Approve the first supervised production workflow only when ownership, controls, and human approval boundaries are agreed.
    WHAT YOU RETAIN
    Knowledge-system and workflow-control artifacts, deployment configuration, and documentation produced to date.
  4. HAND OVER

    WEEKS 11-12 · HAND OVER THE KEYS

    Your team learns to direct, correct, and audit the system. We deliver playbooks and dashboards, then your IT team takes over or uses managed operations until it is ready.

    PLANNED DELIVERABLETRAINING + PLAYBOOKS + OPS DECISION
    OPERATING DECISION
    Choose client-operated ownership or managed operations after the training and handover review.
    WHAT YOU RETAIN
    Training playbooks, dashboards, code, pipelines, skills, and operating documentation in your repositories.

WHAT YOU GET

A single accountable team led by the founder. Weekly written status you can forward to your board. Every artifact (code, pipelines, skills, docs) in your repositories from day one, not handed over at the end.

WHAT WE ASK

We ask for a workflow owner for about two hours a week, a decision-maker at the three milestone gates, and scoped, revocable read access to the systems the workflow touches.

Fixed fees and three decision points.

01
Fixed fee, in writing.
Workflow Discovery, the 90-Day Foundation (scoped to one measurable workflow result), and managed operations. Quoted before we start. No surprise invoices, ever.
02
Go/no-go gates.
Weeks 2, 4, and 10. If the value isn't proving out, either of us can stop, and you keep everything produced to that point.
03
The walk-away clause.
If we conclude AI won't pay in your workflow, we say so in writing and recommend you spend your money elsewhere. It has happened. It will happen again.

We take a maximum of two Foundation engagements at a time. Currently: TAKING TWO NEW ENGAGEMENTS FOR Q4 2026.

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