How we work
Engagement shapes.
Most engagements start with a fixed-scope first month and continue as an ongoing partnership if it's working. Some engagements skip the sprint and start as an initiative partnership when there's a specific high-stakes bet already on the calendar.
First month
Operating-change sprint.
Thirty days, fixed scope. The first month is designed to stand on its own. You leave with a useful map of the organization and where AI will be a force multiplier, a sharper roadmap, and at least one working example — whether or not we keep working together after.
What you get
- Operating map of one business area, value stream, or initiative.
- A ranked roadmap of agent and AI workflow opportunities for the next ninety days.
- At least one workflow shipped or prototyped during the month.
- A clean mutual decision point at the end.
What we usually also produce
- A measurement plan for the workflow that shipped.
- Coaching for an internal champion.
- A short list of vendor and tooling calls to stop making.
- Possibly a second prototype.
How we work together
- Weekly working sessions with leadership or operators.
- Async review of specs, workflows, and tooling.
- Hands-on build alongside your team.
Ongoing
AI operating partner.
If the first month works, we usually continue with a committed roadmap to execute against, either as a scoped engagement or month to month depending on how ambitious you want to be. The work shifts from finding where AI moves the needle to keeping that motion going. We expand from the first workflow into adjacent ones, keep improving the systems already in place, coach internal champions, and maintain a practical AI roadmap as tools and models change.
What an ongoing month usually looks like
- A working session each week with leadership or operators.
- Async review of in-progress workflows, specs, and tooling decisions.
- Hands-on build support on selected workflows.
- Coaching for the people inside the company who will own this after we're done.
- Roadmap, measurement, and adoption review.
What the team owns at the end
- Reusable workflows and agents.
- Better internal judgment about where AI helps and where it creates chaos.
- Internal champions who have seen the pattern.
- Momentum without committing to a giant transformation program.
- Support retainers available after initial engagement.
Initiative partner
A bet, not a workflow.
Sometimes the work isn't a workflow — it's a bet. A launch, a critical delivery, a transformation with a real deadline and real money behind it. In those cases we work as an outside execution partner alongside your team for the duration. Eight to sixteen weeks, scoped to the initiative.
When this fits
- The work is bigger than a single workflow.
- The buyer needs senior outside judgment alongside the team for the duration, not just a monthly slice.
- The cost of getting the bet wrong is materially higher than the cost of the engagement.
How we sit alongside the team
- Not as another engineer, not as ownership of delivery.
- As an outside execution partner who can help leadership and the team make better calls while things are moving quickly.
Workshops — a different shape of engagement.
Some teams aren't ready for a month-long engagement, or they want to see how AI agents actually work in their own context first. Workshops are a fast, hands-on way to bring a real project into a small group session, work on it together, and leave with patterns you can use immediately. They're priced per seat (workshops keep their explicit pricing), and they're a perfectly good entry point — many engagements start as a workshop.
Pricing.
Operating-change engagements are priced based on scope, fit, and shape of the work. We'll talk through it on the first call and you'll have a written proposal before anything starts. Workshops have explicit per-seat pricing on the workshop pages. Earlier-stage engagements have their own pricing on that page.