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AI Consulting

Strategic AI guidance, one real conversation at a time.

No decks full of buzzwords. We sit with your actual roadmap, your actual constraints, and tell you where AI genuinely moves the needle, and where it doesn't.

Who it's for

Built for the people making the call.

Consulting engagements work best when the right decision-maker is in the room.

Founders & executives

Deciding where AI belongs on the roadmap this quarter, and where it's a distraction.

Product & ops leaders

Evaluating tools, vendors, or build-vs-buy decisions and want an outside, technical read.

Teams stuck mid-pilot

Somewhere between "we tried ChatGPT once" and a real production workflow, and need a path through.

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Format

A conversation, structured to end in a decision.

Engagements range from a single working session to an ongoing Fractional AI Lead retainer, depending on what your organization needs.

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Step 1

Discovery call (free)

A 15-minute call to understand your context, constraints, and what a good outcome looks like.

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Step 2

Working session(s)

Focused sessions with your team, working through the actual decision live.

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Step 3

Recommendation brief

A short, concrete write-up: what to do, what to avoid, and what to revisit later.

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Step 4

Ongoing leadership, if you need it

Some teams need a single decision made. Others need steady AI leadership over several months, that's Fractional AI Lead.

Outcomes

You leave with a decision, not homework.

A clear AI roadmap

Prioritized, sequenced, and sized to your team's actual capacity.

A risk-aware adoption plan

Data, security, and change-management considerations addressed up front, not after rollout.

A vetted shortlist

Tools or vendors worth a pilot, and the ones not worth your team's time.

Fractional AI Lead

Ongoing AI leadership without a full-time hire: strategy, rollout, and adoption support on a monthly retainer, for organizations that need steady hands, not a one-off session.

Ask about Fractional AI Lead
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Still unsure about something? Reach out and we'll walk you through it.

Most consulting engagements run from a single working session to a short series over two to three weeks. Ongoing Fractional AI Lead support runs as a monthly retainer. We scope this together on the discovery call.

Let's build

Bring us the decision you're stuck on.

Book a free discovery call and we'll tell you honestly whether a consulting engagement is the right next step.