Engagements
Four ways in. One operating model.
The same operating model every time. Set the AI strategy with your executives, own the architecture that answers it, and stay accountable for what reaches production. Whatever works gets packaged so your engineers can build the next one themselves.
How engagements work
A clear read of where you are, an architecture you can fund, then someone on the hook for delivery.
The organizations I work with usually run from 500 to 5,000-plus people, in regulated or publicly accountable settings, where AI has to clear a security review, an audit, and a budget conversation before it ships. Every engagement starts the same way: a read of where your AI really is, not where the pilot deck says it is. From there comes an architecture and a roadmap your board can approve. And when the work is big enough to need it, an experienced AI leader in the room every week, answerable for what ships.
AI Maturity Assessment
A baseline, in about five minutes.
No cost
Self-serve, no call required. It places you on the five-stage path from experimenting with AI to running on it, names the constraint holding you up — data, architecture, governance, or delivery — and tells you the one move worth making next.
- Where you sit on the five-stage path
- The real constraint: data, architecture, governance, or delivery
- The next move worth funding
- A one-page read you can forward to leadership
Architecture & Transformation
The architecture, and the build that proves it.
From $30K · fixed-fee
I own the technical design and stay on it through delivery. You get an architecture your security team can review and your CFO can cost, agentic systems grounded in your own data, evaluations and observability that catch a bad answer before a customer does, and controls that hold up under scrutiny. Your engineers build it with me on the hard parts — agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, the infrastructure underneath. $30K is where a diagnostic starts; a full production build runs from $125K.
- The AI architecture, owned end to end
- Agentic systems and retrieval grounded in your data
- Evaluations, observability, and controls that survive review
- A costed roadmap your board can approve
Thirty minutes, one on one.
Projects are fixed-fee against a written scope, agreed before any work starts; fractional leadership is a monthly retainer with a short initial term. You keep the architecture, the code, the evaluations, and the decision record — including anything reusable we build along the way.
The full menu
The building blocks behind the three tiers.
Prefer to engage à la carte? Each tier is assembled from these — from a single working session to an ongoing fractional retainer.
Scope and investment
Scoped in writing before anything starts.
Every engagement is a fixed fee against a written scope, or a monthly retainer with a short initial term. No hourly billing and no change-order surprises. These are the starting figures; the assessment tells you which line you’re on.
You’re buying senior judgement and the systems that come out of it. Nobody bills you by the hour. Final numbers are scoped per engagement, and everything built — architecture, code, evaluations, documentation — is yours to keep. Advisory and Embedded run well under the all-in cost of a full-time AI executive. Lead is priced like one, because at three days a week you have one, without the search, the ramp, or the permanence.
The assessment takes about five minutes and gives you your stage, your real constraint, and the next move worth funding. If you’d rather talk it through, take thirty minutes with me. You’ll get a real answer either way, whether or not we end up working together.