How we work
Engagement shapes.
Most engagements start with the first ninety days — a quarter to find and ship the work that just became feasible — and continue as an ongoing partnership if it's working. Some engagements skip straight to an initiative partnership when there's a specific high-stakes bet already on the calendar.
The starter engagement
The first ninety days.
A quarter to find the work that just became feasible in your business — and ship some of it. Thirty days is enough to automate a task list; ninety is enough to map real workflows, put the first systems into production, learn from what shipped, and leave your team able to keep going.
The shape of the quarter
- Weeks 1–4: map one business area, rank what just became worth doing, ship the first workflow.
- Weeks 5–8: expand into adjacent workflows, add measurement, settle tooling calls.
- Weeks 9–12: coach internal champions, hand over the patterns, set the next quarter's roadmap.
What you leave with
- A map of how the work actually gets done in the area we picked.
- Working agents and AI workflows running in your business.
- An internal champion who has seen the pattern and can carry it.
- A checkpoint at the end of each month — if it's not working, we stop.
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 ninety days 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.
A useful comparison.
If you’ve seen how the AI platform companies embed forward-deployed engineers with their enterprise customers, this is that shape of work — with two differences. A vendor’s forward-deployed engineer works for the vendor; the job is to make the platform indispensable. We do the same embedded, ship-real-things work on your side of the table, with whatever tools actually fit.
The other difference is access: that model has typically only been available on enterprise-scale contracts. This is a version sized for founder-led companies — and the success condition is that your team keeps going without us.
Workshops — a different shape of engagement.
Some teams aren't ready for a quarter-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.