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Commercial model

Price the decision first. Fund production only when the case is defensible.

Every engagement has a defined decision, scope, timeline, and payment structure. The diagnostic establishes whether to build, buy, configure, or simplify before a larger production commitment.

01The starting point

Published fee

$7,500 introductory fee

$12,500 after the first two clients

10 business days

AI Workflow Value Diagnostic

A fixed-scope decision package for one high-friction workflow - before anyone buys another tool or starts another pilot.

Current-state workflow and exception map

Baseline economics and measurable success criteria

Use-case, data, integration, and risk scorecard

Build, buy, configure, or simplify recommendation

Human controls, evaluation, logging, and accountability plan

Executive ROI model and six-week implementation plan

Terms: 50% at signing and 50% at the executive readout. $5,000 is credited toward a sprint signed within 30 days.

Discuss the diagnostic

Expansion paths

Larger commitments follow a successful decision or controlled launch.

02After the diagnostic

AI Value-to-Production Sprint

$30,000-$45,000

Approximately 6 weeks

One narrowly scoped workflow taken into controlled production for one team, with delivery leadership and measurement included.

Production workflow and required integrations

Human approvals and exception handling

Evaluation, monitoring, and audit logging

Team enablement and operating runbook

Baseline-to-result measurement and executive readout

40% at signing, 30% at approved design, and 30% at controlled launch.

03After a successful launch

Fractional Head of AI Delivery

$12,000-$18,000 per month

3-month minimum

Limited-scope leadership for the roadmap, executive steering, vendors, governance, adoption, cost control, and value realization.

Prioritized AI portfolio and roadmap

Business cases, baselines, and value reporting

Build-versus-buy and vendor decisions

Governance, cost controls, and human-control patterns

Adoption, training, and executive steering

Monthly in advance with explicit days, decision rights, and a one-to-two-day-per-week cap.

04For deal teams and investors

AI and Technical Due Diligence

$10,000-$20,000

Fixed scope

A private, referral-led assessment of architecture, product, cloud economics, AI claims, security exposure, technical debt, and post-close priorities.

Architecture and scale assessment

AI-claim and product-roadmap validation

Cloud cost and engineering-capacity review

Security, key-person, and technical-debt exposure

Prioritized post-close actions

Scoped to the transaction and decision timeline.

Commercial fit

Designed for a company that can fund a successful initiative.

B2B software or technology-enabled services

Approximately 75-750 employees and $10M-$150M in revenue

Founder-led, private-equity-backed, or recently acquired

An existing product, IT, data, engineering, or operations team

AI activity exists, but no single delivery owner owns the result

Capacity to invest at least $25,000 in a successful initiative

Deliberately out of scope

This is not open-ended AI consulting.

A free multi-hour AI assessment

An enterprise-wide transformation program

An hourly developer or generic chatbot build

A small-business automation project below the investment threshold

A fully autonomous process with no accountable human owner

First decision

A 20-minute fit call determines whether a paid diagnostic is warranted.

Bring the workflow, the operating pressure, the likely owner, and the decision that leadership needs to make.