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 knowledge system, an agentic harness, 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
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What happens across the 90-day Foundation.

  1. 01
    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.
    WORKFLOW MAP + OPPORTUNITY RANKING
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 2
  2. 02
    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 first go/no-go gate, we stop and you keep the map.
    PROOF OF VALUE + GO/NO-GO
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 4
  3. 03
    WEEKS 5-10 · BUILD THE FOUNDATION
    We build the knowledge system first, followed by the harness and then the AI employee. The first deployment runs in one channel with human approval for consequential actions.
    PRODUCTION FOUNDATION + FIRST AI EMPLOYEE
    GO/NO-GO · END OF WEEK 10
  4. 04
    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.
    TRAINING + PLAYBOOKS + OPS DECISION
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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