How is this different from hiring a big consulting firm to do our AI strategy?

Large firms send a senior partner to sell the work, then hand it to a team of analysts you've never met. The thinking you're paying for gets diluted before it reaches you. This engagement is different by design — you work directly with a senior practitioner from intake to delivery, and the strategy is built around your business, not adapted from a template. You also get a fixed fee and a fixed timeline. No billable hour surprises, no scope drift, no 200-page deck that sits unread until the next planning cycle.

What do we actually walk away with at the end of 30 days?

Five concrete deliverables, all owned by you permanently: a written AI Readiness Assessment documenting your current state across five dimensions; an Outcomes-First AI Strategy aligned to your specific business priorities; a Tool & Vendor Evaluation Framework you can use independently going forward; a 90-Day Execution Blueprint with sequenced milestones, owners, and decision gates; and a Board-Ready AI Narrative you can present with confidence. Everything is written, structured, and handed over — not locked in a consultant's head or dependent on ongoing access to us.

What happens after the engagement ends — is there ongoing support?

Every engagement includes a period of async Q&A access after delivery — 30, 45, or 60 days depending on your tier — so you're not left alone the moment the blueprint lands. Beyond that, we don't push retainers or ongoing advisory as a default. Some clients continue working with us as they move into implementation; others take the strategy and execute independently. What matters is that you leave with everything you need to move without us. If continued support becomes relevant, we'll have that conversation honestly and on your terms.

What the 30-day executive AI readiness engagement includes

Q: How much of our team's time does this require?

We've designed the engagement to be light on your calendar by intention — executives don't have 10 hours a week to give a consultant. For the Solo Executive engagement, expect roughly 4–5 hours of your time across the full 30 days: the initial intake session, one or two working sessions during the strategy build, and the final delivery walkthrough. For the Leadership Trio and Full C-Suite tiers, individual executive time stays similar — the additional time is in the cross-functional alignment sessions, which are structured and facilitated so they don't sprawl.

The fixed-fee advisory engagement: the published 30-day sequence, the five deliverables you own, and the fees of $20,000, $45,000, and $75,000.

The 30 days

A structured, time-bounded engagement. No open-ended retainers. No deliverable drift.

Days 1–3 — Intake and diagnostic. Deep-dive interview with you and up to two key leadership stakeholders. The work maps your current AI posture, existing initiatives, board expectations, and where the real gaps live.
Days 4–10 — Readiness assessment. Structured evaluation across five dimensions: leadership alignment, data and infrastructure, culture and workforce readiness, governance, and use-case pipeline. Written findings delivered by day 10.
Days 11–21 — Strategy and framework build. Outcomes-first AI strategy built around your business, not a template. Tool evaluation framework, vendor criteria, and cultural change architecture designed for your org structure.
Days 22–30 — Blueprint and board narrative. Final 90-day execution blueprint with sequenced milestones, owners, and decision gates. Board-ready AI narrative you can present with confidence. Live working session to walk through everything.

The day-30 outcome: a complete, defensible AI readiness strategy. Written assessment of your current state, an outcomes-first roadmap, a tool evaluation framework, a culture change architecture, and a board narrative — delivered in 30 days, built around your business, owned by you permanently.

What you own at the end

Five concrete deliverables, all owned by you permanently:

A written AI Readiness Assessment documenting your current state across five dimensions
An outcomes-first AI strategy aligned to your specific business priorities
A tool and vendor evaluation framework you can use independently going forward
A 90-day execution blueprint with sequenced milestones, owners, and decision gates
A board-ready AI narrative you can present with confidence

The six parts of the framework are the Executive AI Readiness Assessment, Outcomes-First Strategy Design, AI-Ready Culture and Change Architecture, the Tool and Vendor Evaluation Framework, the Board-Level Readiness Narrative, and the 90-Day Execution Blueprint. They are collected on the advisory page.

Three published fees

Scoped to where you are and what you need. The difference is depth, access, and what we build together. The advisory page lists the same three fixed fees.

Solo Executive — $20,000 flat. 30 days, 1 executive.
Leadership Trio — $45,000 flat. 35 days, up to 3 executives. This tier is marked Most Requested.
Full C-Suite — $75,000 flat. 45 days, up to 5 executives.

All engagements are fixed-fee. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprises. A 50% deposit is required to begin; the remainder is due upon delivery of final materials. Custom scopes are available for portfolio companies and multi-entity organizations — contact us to discuss.

For the Solo Executive engagement, expect roughly 4–5 hours of your time across the full 30 days: the initial intake session, one or two working sessions during the strategy build, and the final delivery walkthrough.

Where the free session fits

The 15-minute roadmap session is separate from the engagement above. You leave with three quick wins, a 90-day roadmap, the five questions that put you back in charge of the room, a language pack, and a resistance map. Yours to keep.

The session page says none of that is a condition of the free session, and that engagements start at $20,000. To request the readiness conversation, use the contact page.