SERVICES · AI CONSULTING

Senior guidance, engaged by the sprint.

Fractional CTO, architecture reviews, vendor selection, ML-debt audits. For teams who have the engineers but need the angle.

9ACTIVE FRACTIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
31AUDITS COMPLETED
$4.2MAVG BUDGET INFLUENCED
11BOARDS ADVISED

Opinions, not vendor pitches.

Every consulting engagement ends with a written memo: what's working, what's broken, what to do next, what it will cost, what to buy, what to build, who to hire. No decks with action items that never happen. No recommendations that happen to require our implementation team.

We consult for VC portfolio companies, Fortune-500 innovation teams, and bootstrapped founders. We decline engagements where we'd be the implementer too — it compromises the advice.

Five consulting modes.

01

Fractional CTO

10–20 hrs/week. Architecture, hiring, vendor decisions, board reports.

02

Architecture review

2-week audit, written memo, 90-day roadmap.

03

Vendor / model selection

Benchmark 3 options to your rubric, pick one, justify in writing.

04

ML debt audit

Find the silent tax in your AI stack. Quantify. Prioritize.

05

Hiring support

JDs, screens, technical interviews for your first ML hires.

How a typical engagement runs.

Weekly standup, async memo on Fridays, a written deliverable at each milestone. No hours billed for status meetings.

  • →Kickoff: 90-minute deep dive with your team. We come with questions, not a template.
  • →Discovery: 1–2 weeks of interviews, code review, infra review, eval review.
  • →Memo: written recommendation, one of three flavors — change, keep, kill.
  • →Roadmap: 30/60/90 plan with owners, costs, and success metrics.
  • →Handoff: we leave when your team owns the decision. No retainer creep.

Where we've deployed it.

VESTAPLEX
$1.8M
Saved by killing a vendor contract after our audit.
SABLE BANK
6 mo
Shipped ahead of plan after architecture reset.
CADENCE AI
Seed
Raised after our model-selection memo de-risked the pitch.

How we'd scope this for you.

WEEK 1
Kickoff
90-min deep dive. We leave with questions, not answers.
WEEK 2
Discovery
Interviews, code review, infra review, eval review.
WEEK 3
Memo
Written recommendation + 90-day roadmap.
ONGOING
Optional
Monthly office hours or fractional CTO block.

Ready to ship ai consulting?

We'll scope your first use case in a 30-minute call and come back with a written proposal within 72 hours.

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