Services - Three engagements. Each one finishes.

We do three things. Each one has a fixed scope, a fixed price, and a written artifact a non-technical executive can read in fifteen minutes. None of them ends with “we recommend further study.”

Two weeks

AI Buyer’s Brief

A short, written second opinion on a vendor shortlist you already have.

Who this is for

Heads of operations, IT directors, or CFOs evaluating two or three AI vendors who all sound the same in the pitch deck.

Five vendors pitched you this month. Their demos all look identical. Your MSP can’t tell you which one is real. The lock-in clauses are buried on page nineteen of an MSA you have not been sent yet. You need a defensible point of view before you sign anything.

The work, week by week

  1. Days 1–4

    We collect your shortlist, the use case, and any contract drafts. One forty-minute call with you, one with each vendor.

  2. Days 5–10

    Benchmark on price, lock-in, data handling, security, integration cost, and real customer references , the ones the vendor did not give you.

  3. Days 11–14

    A one-page written recommendation. We present it on a call and answer questions in writing.

What you walk away with

  • A one-page recommendation memo. Buy, walk, or negotiate.
  • A side-by-side benchmark table you can hand to procurement.
  • A list of questions to put back to each vendor in writing.

This is a fit if

You have a shortlist of two or three AI vendors and a decision to make in the next sixty days.

This is not a fit if

You want a market landscape report or a long-list of every vendor in the category. That is not this work.

Four weeks

License Audit

A utilization-and-value audit on AI seats your company already pays for.

Who this is for

CFOs, COOs, or VPs of IT staring down a renewal on Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Glean, or a comparable seat-based AI license.

You bought two hundred seats. Twenty people use them. Renewal is in ninety days. You cannot justify the line to your CFO with the data your vendor sends you. You also cannot afford to cancel if the twenty people who use it are senior.

The work, week by week

  1. Week 1

    Pull utilization. Identify the power users. Identify the silent majority. Read the contract.

  2. Week 2

    Interview ten users across roles, including the people who do not log in. Find out why.

  3. Week 3

    Identify what to cancel, what to redeploy, and what to replace. Quantify each.

  4. Week 4

    Write a renewal recommendation memo with dollar figures, presented to whoever has to sign the PO.

What you walk away with

  • A renewal recommendation memo with cancel, redeploy, and replace decisions.
  • A short list of internal champions worth retaining and supporting.
  • A negotiation brief for the conversation with your vendor.

This is a fit if

You have a seat-based AI license up for renewal in the next ninety to one hundred eighty days.

This is not a fit if

You have not bought anything yet. In that case, you want the Buyer’s Brief.

Six weeks

Portfolio Triage

A board-ready verdict on every AI pilot you have running, with one page per pilot.

Who this is for

PE-backed CFOs, public-company COOs, or CIOs with a sponsor review coming up and an AI portfolio that has not produced anything in production.

You have eleven AI pilots scattered across departments. Sponsor review is in two quarters. Nothing is in production. Three of the pilots are quietly already dead and nobody has said so. You cannot tell which ones to kill, which ones to ship, and which one to escalate to the board.

The work, week by week

  1. Weeks 1–2

    Inventory every active and dormant pilot. Interview each sponsor. Read the code, read the metrics, read the meeting notes.

  2. Weeks 3–4

    Score each pilot on three axes: evidence of value, technical risk, and sponsor-narrative fit. Identify what is killable now.

  3. Weeks 5–6

    Write the board memo. One page per pilot. Verdict on each. Optional second meeting to walk it through with the board.

What you walk away with

  • A board-ready slide deck with one page per pilot and a verdict on each.
  • A written portfolio memo a non-technical director can read in fifteen minutes.
  • A staffing recommendation for the pilots that survive.

This is a fit if

You have between five and twenty AI pilots running, a sponsor or board moment coming, and the political room to actually shut things down.

This is not a fit if

You want validation that everything you are doing is fine. We will not write that memo.

Start a conversation

Tell us where the AI work has stalled.

A thirty-minute call, founder to founder. We will say yes, no, or point you to someone better. No follow-up sequence.

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