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Four engagements.
Fixed price. Defined scope.

It starts with a free phone call. Everything below is real consulting work: fixed price, defined scope, a written deliverable at the end. Pick a starting point, or tell us what is going on and we will help you choose.

AI Readiness Assessment

Where you actually are, where you think you are, and the shortest credible path between them. Most clients start here, and many leave with a roadmap they execute themselves.

What we look at

  • Current AI use, sanctioned and otherwise
  • Data posture, lineage, and exposure
  • Engineering capacity and tooling maturity
  • Vendor commitments and contractual obligations
  • Executive understanding and risk tolerance

What you leave with

  • Written assessment, no slideware
  • Prioritized roadmap with cost estimates
  • List of the things you do not need to do
  • Two-hour readout with leadership and engineering
  • Honest answer on whether you need us again
Best forFirst-time AI strategyMid-market & PE portfolioPost-pilot reset

Leadership AI Foundations

A working vocabulary for your executive team. By the end of the session your CEO can tell the difference between fine-tuning, RAG, and an agent, and can ask a vendor a question that the vendor cannot deflect.

Format

  • Workshop, not lecture
  • Run with your real org context, not a generic case study
  • Off the record. No recording. No deck shipped externally.
  • Limited to 12 attendees so it stays a conversation

Topics covered

  • What is and is not actually AI
  • Reading a vendor pitch with skepticism
  • Where AI quietly creates legal and reputational risk
  • How to ask your CTO and CISO the right questions
Best forExecutive teamsBoardsPE operating partners

Dev Team Enablement

Get your engineers productive with tools they will still be using next month. We run this with your codebase, your CI, and your review process. Not a generic Copilot demo.

What we cover

  • Realistic productivity patterns for assistants in your stack
  • Code review, testing, and what stays human
  • Prompt and context discipline that survives onboarding
  • Internal guidelines you can publish on day one

Tools we are fluent in

  • Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, JetBrains AI
  • Claude Code, Copilot, Codeium
  • Self-hosted and air-gapped options
  • The trade-offs between all of the above
Best forEngineering orgs of 20 to 300Platform teamsRegulated industries

Product AI Integration

Embedded with your product and engineering teams to ship a real AI feature into a real product. We pair with your engineers, write code, and leave behind a system your team owns and understands.

How it works

  • One sprint minimum, no long-term lock-in
  • We pair with your engineers, not replace them
  • You own the IP and the running system
  • Exit when your team is self-sufficient. We push for that.

What we ship

  • Production AI features, not prototypes
  • Evaluation harness so quality is measurable
  • Cost and latency budgets your team can defend
  • Runbook for the on-call engineer at 3am
Best forB2B SaaSInternal platformsSeries B and later

How we start

Small steps first.
No big commitment up front.

You should not have to sign a large engagement to find out whether we are a good fit. Here is how most relationships begin.

01

A free phone call

Tell us what is going on. We will tell you honestly whether you need any of this, and what we would do first.

02

A small first project

A short, fixed-price piece of work scoped to one question or one team, so we both get a feel for the work before anything larger.

03

A larger engagement, if it makes sense

One of the four engagements above, with a defined scope and a number on the invoice before we start. Plenty of clients stop at step two.

How we are different

What you are
actually buying.

The market is crowded. Here is the honest comparison between us and the two kinds of firms most clients consider before they call.

ThinkLikeACTO.aiLarge consultanciesGeneralist AI agencies
Pricing modelFixed price, written before kickoffTime and materials, plus expensesMonthly retainer that quietly renews
Vendor relationshipsNone. Zero referral fees from anyone.Formal partnerships with hyperscalersReseller margin on tools they recommend
Who shows upThe practitioners you met on the sales callSenior partner at pitch, juniors thereafterAccount manager and an offshore team
DeliverablesWritten reports, working code, runbooksHundred-page slide decksPilot projects that do not reach production
Will tell you that you do not need AIRoutinely, and in writingNoNo
Will walk from an engagementIf the goal is to cut headcount, yesIf the budget shrinks, occasionallyAlmost never

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