Strategy & Advisory

A structured look at three things: what's actually in your business that could be improved with AI, whether your data and tools are in good enough shape for an AI project to succeed, and whether your team has the capacity to adopt new ways of working. The output is usually a short report covering the practical opportunities and the "not yet" cases with their reasoning. It takes a week or two depending on the size of the organization. The point is to start the AI conversation from facts about your situation, not from a sales pitch.

The same things a permanent AI team member would, just for a few hours a month instead of full-time. That includes maintaining the systems we've built together, watching for things that have stopped working or started costing too much, evaluating new tools when they come up, training your team on changes, and being the person you ping when someone asks "can we use AI for this?" Most clients see us as their AI department, in the same way a small business sees an accountant as their finance department. The work is hands-on, and it's scheduled to fit a small-org budget.

A readiness assessment runs one to two weeks, depending on how many people we need to interview and how much existing documentation there is to review. A roadmap that turns the assessment into a sequenced plan adds another week or two. Training sessions are usually delivered in two-hour blocks across a few weeks rather than all at once, because adult learning sticks better with space between sessions. None of this needs to be sequential. Many clients have us doing all three in parallel once the first interviews are done. The full strategy and advisory cycle from first call to a workable plan is rarely more than six weeks.