AI Advisory

Know what AI is worth to you before you build it

Four ways to buy senior AI judgment, starting at $2,500 for a five-day opportunity audit. Prices are published, every exclusion is listed before you pay, and what you spend deciding credits toward what you build.

The four offers

What AI advisory actually costs

  1. AI readiness assessment

    AI Opportunity Audit

    Five business days, one working session, and a ranked list of what to automate, each opportunity scored, sequenced, and priced before you build anything.

    Operators and owners at 10–150 people who can name the pain without prompting, have a few systems with real APIs, and have budget for a follow-on build.

    $2,500

    5 business days

    Details
  2. AI strategy consulting

    AI Strategy Engagement

    A top-down answer to where AI changes how you operate, with written strategy, executive presentation, 12-month roadmap, and an investment case a CFO can defend.

    Executives at 100+ people (or smaller with a heavy operational spine) with budget authority, a real forcing function, and a decision that has to be made.

    Pricing on request

    5–6 weeks

    Details
  3. Part-time AI leadership

    Fractional AI Lead

    Enablement, builds, and roadmap ownership from a senior operator who is accountable for outcomes, without the hiring cycle or the headcount.

    Executives who want AI ownership inside the business but aren't ready to recruit for a role they can't yet write a job spec for.

    $12,000/mo 3-month minimum

    3-month minimum

    Details
  4. AI advisory retainer

    Executive Advisory

    Two sessions a month plus async access. Judgment on demand, no delivery, for teams who now own the work and want a second opinion that already knows the context.

    Post-engagement clients running AI themselves, who want someone in the room at the next budget cycle rather than starting cold.

    $4,000/mo Rolling, cancel with 30 days' notice

    Rolling, 30-day notice

    Details

If you build with us, the audit is free.

The $2,500 Opportunity Audit credits back in full against any build over $10,000. If you don't build with us, you keep a document you own outright: process maps, a scored opportunity register, and a priced menu you can hand to any other firm. Either way, you're not paying for a sales presentation.

Not sure which one

Which AI advisory service do you need?

The expensive mistake isn't the price; it's buying the wrong one. Pick the sentence closest to what you'd say in your own words.

Which AI advisory service do you need?
AI readiness assessment

AI Opportunity Audit

Start with your highest-volume process that has a real API and doesn't change every week. That is usually document handling, lead routing, or reporting. The AI Opportunity Audit scores 8–15 candidates on impact and feasibility, prices the top five against your own volumes, and hands you the order to build them in. $2,500, five business days.

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Price

$2,500

Timeline
5 business days
Working session
1, 45 minutes, recorded
Readout
1, 30 minutes
Credit
Credited in full toward any engagement over $10,000. Expires 90 days after delivery.
AI strategy consulting

AI Strategy Engagement

Usually in three places: the work your team repeats, the decisions that sit waiting on one person, and the reporting nobody trusts. The AI Strategy Engagement finds which of those actually matter here through twelve stakeholder interviews, then delivers a 12-month roadmap and an investment case built on ranges with stated confidence, the kind a CFO can defend.

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Price

Pricing on request

Timeline
5–6 weeks
Stakeholder interviews
12, 45 minutes each, recorded
Workshops
2, kickoff alignment and mid-point validation
Credit
50% credits toward implementation over $40,000, or toward the first two months of Fractional AI Lead. Expires 90 days after final delivery.
Part-time AI leadership

Fractional AI Lead

A fractional AI lead: a senior operator who owns the sequence, ships against it weekly, and makes the vendor calls, for $12,000 a month on a three-month minimum. That's roughly half the loaded cost of the equivalent hire, it starts in weeks instead of quarters, and it ends when your own team can take the roadmap over.

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Price

$12,000/mo 3-month minimum

Timeline
3-month minimum
Not for
Not a staff-augmentation contract billed by the hour
AI advisory retainer

Executive Advisory

Someone who already knows your business and has no stake in you building more. Executive Advisory is $4,000 a month for two 60-minute sessions plus async access, cancel on 30 days' notice. Architecture and vendor decisions get checked before you commit, so a bad call gets caught while it's still cheap.

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Price

$4,000/mo Rolling, cancel with 30 days' notice

Timeline
Rolling, 30-day notice
Not for
Not a delivery engagement; nothing gets built

Choosing between the first two

The Audit is not a smaller Strategy Engagement

They answer different questions for different buyers. Picking the wrong one is the most expensive mistake on this page, so here they are side by side, and if you want the longer version, we wrote up how to tell which one you need.

Dimension Opportunity Audit Strategy Engagement
Starts from Your day-to-day processes Your business model
Answers What can we automate Where does AI change how we operate
Who buys it Owner or operator Executive team or board
How long 1 week 5–6 weeks
Your time 75 minutes total 12 interviews, 2 workshops, a readout
What you get A ranked, priced list of what to automate A written strategy and an executive presentation

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