Pricing
Start free. Scale with proof.
Every engagement begins with a free AI Opportunity Score, so you see where the return is before you spend anything. From there, you pay a flat monthly retainer scoped to your business: a fraction of the loaded cost of the full-time AI hire it stands in for, with no long-term lock-in.
How an engagement unfolds
01
Free AI Opportunity Score
We read your website, ask a few short questions, and send you the answer: what is costing you hours, what to fix first, and one thing you can do this week. Then a working session with Mike on where to start.
02
The first 90 days
We map the workflows in the field, ship two to three working automations into the tools you already use, train your team to run them, and stand up a dashboard that shows the hours coming back.
03
Scale or hand off
Keep us as your AI department month to month, or hand the running systems and roadmap to the person you hire. Both are wins. That is the point.
AI Opportunity Score
For anyone deciding where to start
Free
about two minutes
We read your website, ask a few short questions, and send you the answer. Then a working session with Mike on where to start, if you want one.
- Your score, and the bottleneck that is costing you most
- The rough math on it: hours today, what to fix first
- One thing you can do this week, with or without us
- No pitch deck, no obligation
First 90 Days
For companies that want AI moving now
Flat monthly retainer
scoped after your free Score
The first 90 days of an AI department, delivered: mapped, built, trained, and measured.
- Weeks 1-2: we map your workflows in the field
- Weeks 3-8: two to three working automations shipped into your tools
- Weeks 9-12: your team trained to run and extend them
- A live dashboard showing the hours coming back
- Guarantee: a positive return, or you do not pay
Your AI Department
For companies that want the advantage to compound
Month to month
after your first 90 days
We stay on as your fractional AI department, or hand everything off cleanly. Both are wins.
- Continued build sprints on the next workflows in the queue
- Ongoing team training and support
- The ROI dashboard, kept honest every month
- Or: a clean handoff to your in-house hire, who inherits everything
Our guarantee
We look across your whole operation for the places an AI automation would produce a positive return. If that return is not there, we tell you and you owe us nothing. When it is there, we build it and put the hours and the dollars it gives back on a dashboard, so results is a number we both can see rather than a feeling.
The math is simple.
Our own research on 77 AI-leadership job postings found a median advertised salary of $162,000 to $230,000, before benefits, before equity, and before the three to six months the search takes while the work waits.
A fractional engagement delivers the same first-90-days outcomes for a fraction of that loaded cost, starts in weeks instead of quarters, and hands off cleanly if you hire later. The dashboard keeps the return visible every month, so continuing is a decision you re-make with numbers in front of you.
Read the researchWhat the alternative costs
- Median advertised salary, AI enablement roles $162-230k
- Typical search time while the work waits 3-6 mo
- Jobs hidden inside the one role 4
Pricing questions
What is a fractional AI department? +
The work an in-house AI lead would do, without the hire: finding where AI pays off in your business, building the automations, training your team, and proving the return. You get the outcomes of the role for a fraction of the loaded cost, and you can hand the systems to a full-time hire whenever you make one.
What does it cost? +
A flat monthly retainer, scoped after the free AI Opportunity Score, so you know exactly what it costs before you commit to anything. Every engagement runs a fraction of the loaded cost of the full-time hire it stands in for, and there is no long-term lock-in.
What if it does not work? +
Then you do not pay. We start by looking across your whole operation for the places an AI automation would produce a positive return. If that return is not there, we tell you and you owe us nothing. When it is there, we build it and put the hours and the dollars it gives back on a dashboard, so results is a number we both can see rather than a feeling. We guarantee results.
Are we too small for this? +
If repetitive work is eating real hours every week, you are big enough. The free Score is the honest filter: if the math does not work for your size, we tell you, and you keep the report.
Do we have to commit long-term? +
No. After the first 90 days everything is month to month, and one of the standard exits is handing the running systems to your own hire. An engagement you cannot leave is a hostage situation, not a partnership.
See the number before you spend anything.
Two minutes, and you leave with the bottleneck that is costing you most, what to fix first, and one thing you can do this week. Whether we ever speak or not.