Offers
How to work with me
Four shapes. Each has a defined end and a named deliverable.
- 01
Discovery sprint
- Shape
- One week, fixed price
- Price
- $12,500 USD, fixed. Credited in full against a build engagement started within 90 days.
- Deliverable
- A written assessment: whether the problem is tractable with current models, where the accuracy ceiling probably sits, what the evaluation set would have to look like, and what a build would cost. Delivered as a document your team can act on with or without me.
- Right when
- You are deciding whether to commit budget and you want a number before you do.
- 02
Build engagement
- Shape
- Four weeks, fixed scope
- Price
- From $35,000 USD, fixed scope. Quoted after a discovery sprint or a diagnostic call.
- Deliverable
- A working system with an evaluation harness attached, deployed in your environment, with its accuracy measured. Your team can run the harness after I leave. Acceptance is measured: the accuracy target and the sample it will be scored on are written into the scope.
- Right when
- The decision is made and you need it built by someone who has taken this kind of system to production before.
- 03
Managed operation
- Shape
- Ongoing, monthly. Available after a build engagement.
- Price
- $5,000 USD per month. Each additional workflow under management adds $1,000 to $2,000.
- Deliverable
- The system stays measured. Monitoring and error triage. Model and prompt updates as source documents drift. Eight change-request hours each month. A monthly report with the accuracy number and the hours saved, measured the same way the benchmark is.
- Right when
- The build is in production and you want the number to still be true in a year.
- 04
Fractional architecture
- Shape
- Ongoing, monthly. Three tiers.
- Advisory
- $7,500 per month. Four hours per week. A standing weekly call. Async review of designs and pull requests within one business day. Interview loops for senior hires. Vendor and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Fractional
- $15,000 per month. 1.5 days per week. Everything in Advisory. Ownership of the technical roadmap. Evaluation strategy and its execution. A quarterly technology report written for the board.
- Embedded
- $25,000 per month. 2.5 days per week. Everything in Fractional. Hands-on architecture and critical-path code. Incident command. Delivery accountability for one named initiative.
- Terms
- Three-month minimum, then month to month with thirty days notice. Hour bands are real: work beyond them is re-scoped, not silently absorbed.
- Right when
- You have engineers who can build and nobody who has owned the architecture of a production AI system.
How I work
- Fixed scope with a named deliverable. If the scope changes we re-scope.
- Evaluation before claims. I will show you the set a number was measured on before I quote the number.
- I will tell you when the answer is that you should not build this. It is a real outcome of a discovery sprint.
Book a diagnostic call
Thirty minutes. I will tell you whether the problem fits this approach, and I will tell you when it does not.