Founders
Pre-seed to Series B founders making early AI bets: what to build, what to license, what to wait on. Direct, fast, no slideware.
Service № 02
Strategize.
AI transformation strategy for teams adopting these tools. We embed briefly to sort use cases, architecture, tooling, and build-vs-buy. The deliverable is a roadmap with KPIs you can defend and a training plan your team can run.
Most AI strategy decks tell you what's possible. We tell you what's worth doing first.
The hardest part of an AI strategy isn't knowing what the technology can do — it's knowing which of the dozen things it can do for you are actually worth your team's next quarter. That's a sequencing problem, not a research problem, and it's what we spend most of our time on.
We come in with a point of view, but no agenda. We're not reselling anyone's platform. We're not trying to extend the engagement. We're trying to write you a roadmap you can defend to a CTO, a board, or yourself in six months when you're tempted to second-guess it.
Formats
- Two-week strategic reviewWe embed briefly, audit your stack and tooling, and deliver a written roadmap with sequenced bets, KPIs, and a team-training plan.
- Architecture and tooling reviewWhich models for which use cases. How they integrate with your existing stack. Where data lives, where it flows, where it shouldn't.
- Build-vs-buy memosTargeted decisions: should you build this in-house, license a vendor product, or wait six months for the market to settle? Each memo includes cost, timeline, risk, and what to renegotiate.
- Board / CTO advisoryQuarterly check-ins for leaders who want a technical sounding board on AI decisions as they come up.
Outcomes
- A defensible roadmapSequenced bets with reasoning, costs, KPIs, and a team-training plan. Explicit assumptions throughout, so you know what to revisit when the world changes.
- Tool and vendor recommendations with receiptsNot 'we like vendor X.' Instead: 'here's why X over Y for your specific constraints, and what to renegotiate.'
- Clarity on what to ignoreHalf of strategy is permission to not chase the loudest thing. We give you the reasoning to ignore confidently.
- A line that stays openAfter delivery we stay reachable as the technology shifts.
Who this is for
Three audiences. Different shapes. Same work.
Small and mid-sized businesses
Real operations that AI could help — from solo operators to teams without an in-house AI specialist.
CTOs and ops VPs
Leaders at scaling companies who need an outside perspective on a specific AI decision: architecture, tooling, or build-vs-buy.
The stack we work with
The companies our work touches every week, across six layers of the AI ecosystem.
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- xAI
- Cohere
- Meta
- Mistral AI
- DeepSeek
- Qwen
- Moonshot AI
- Microsoft
- Perplexity
- Cursor
- OpenClaw
- Cognition
- Manus
- Replit
- Lovable
- Midjourney
- Runway
- Black Forest Labs
- ElevenLabs
- HeyGen
- Higgsfield
- Kling AI
- Luma AI
- NVIDIA
- AWS
- Hugging Face
- Groq
- Together AI
- Replicate
- Vercel
- Ollama
- LM Studio
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- CrewAI
- Pydantic AI
Other services
Educate
Practical AI training for teams that need to actually use these tools. Not just talk about them.
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Implement
We configure, integrate, and deploy AI workflows, agents, and local hardware setups.
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Get in touch
If you're not sure what to do about AI, start here.
Book a discovery call. Thirty minutes, no charge. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help. If we can't, we'll usually know who can.
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