Commercial AI engagement
Two weeks. The diagnosis and the business case.
- Fixed fee, scoped to size
- Report and playback
Home / Approach
Advisory that has to live with its own recommendations
Most advisory stops at the roadmap. Ours exists to decide what to build, and the same people build it — which changes what gets recommended.
I — The ladder
Nothing moves up until the last rung is measured
Detailed report
Where a recommendation needs more rigour before anyone commits.
- Full analysis of one or two opportunities
- Costed delivery plan
Build
Proof of concept first, then the real thing.
- Outreach and follow-up automation
- Website, conversion and quote capture
- Quoting, bid and CRM tooling
- Agents inside the sales process
Harden and run
Production standard, or a documented handover.
- Integration, monitoring, support
- Training and exit plan
II — The standard
A demo is not a system
Most pilots die in the gap between something that works in a meeting and something that survives a Tuesday. Everything we build meets the same production standard, written into the contract rather than the sales pitch.
- Access
- SSO, roles, least privilege. No shared logins.
- Audit
- Logging, traceability, versioned prompts and models.
- Reliability
- Environments, backups, rollback, monitoring, alerts.
- Evaluation
- Test sets, human in the loop, drift and regression checks.
- Data
- Minimisation, no-training terms, residency and retention.
- Regulation
- GDPR and DPIA, EU AI Act posture, decision records.
- Security
- Dependency hygiene, secrets management, pen-test ready.
- Handover
- Documentation, training, and an exit plan you could actually use.
III — Your data
It can stay in the building
Client lists, drawings, pricing and contract terms are the most sensitive things most of these businesses own. Where they cannot go to a third-party cloud, they do not have to.
Cloud, properly configured
Enterprise terms with no training on your data, UK or EU residency, minimisation by default and a retention position we can evidence.
On your own hardware
Models deployed on infrastructure you own and control, through our sister practice AIOD — air-gapped where the work demands it.
Nothing by accident
Every system we build records what it sent, where, and on whose instruction. If you are ever asked, you can answer.
IV — How we price
Fixed scope, quoted first
The engagement is a fixed fee. Build work is quoted per scope once the report exists. We do not sell open-ended day rates, because they reward the wrong thing.
If it will not pay for itself, we say so. Some of these businesses do not need AI yet — they need a working contact form and someone answering the phone faster. When that is the finding, it goes in the report in those words.