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AI opportunity map
A structured look at your operations that names where AI genuinely pays: which workflows, what savings, what order to build in.
AI Enablement Retainer
AI consulting from people who've actually run it.
A monthly retainer for small and mid-sized businesses that want AI working in their operations, not in a slide deck. We find where it pays, build the automations, train your people, and keep your data where it belongs. From engineers who have run AI in production since 2017.
Why businesses call us
The gap isn't the technology. It's someone who'll own it.
Everyone says use AI. Nobody says how, for your business
The advice is either hype or horror stories. What's missing is an engineer who looks at your actual operations and names the three places AI pays for itself.
Your competitors are getting faster
Companies plan to double AI spend in 2026, and most successful deployments lean on an external partner. Waiting is a decision too.
You tried ChatGPT and it didn't stick
A subscription is not a strategy. Without workflows, guardrails, and training, the tools get opened twice and forgotten.
You're worried about your data ending up somewhere it shouldn't
Reasonable. AI adoption without security judgment is how customer data quietly leaks to third parties. We treat safety as part of the build, not an afterthought.
What you get
Working automations, trained people, guarded data.
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Working automations
Document handling, customer communication, reporting, data entry: built, tested against your real cases, and shipped into daily use.
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Tool selection without the vendor circus
We pick the boring, reliable option and set it up under terms that protect your data. No affiliate kickbacks, no lock-in.
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Staff training that sticks
Plain-English sessions with your team on the workflows we built for them, not generic prompt tips.
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Security and data guardrails
Access scoping, data agreements, and review of what flows where. Run by people whose other practice is security auditing.
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A senior engineer on call
When something breaks or a new idea lands on your desk, you message us and it gets handled.
How it works
Map, build, embed.
Highest payback first, one workflow at a time, measured in hours returned to your team.
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Map
The first weeks: we sit with your operations, interview the people doing the work, and produce the opportunity map. You see the plan and the expected payback before anything gets built.
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Build
One workflow at a time, highest payback first. Each automation goes live with the people who'll use it, and we measure the hours it returns.
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Embed
Your team runs the tools, we keep improving them. The retainer continues while it earns its keep, month to month, no lock-in.
Production AI since 2017
We were shipping AI before it was a pitch deck.
Since 2017 we've built and run Receipt Rewards, an OCR document-processing platform behind national promotions for Unilever, Knorr, Hellmann's, Scotch, Fandango, and Novamex: 100,000 receipts processed to date, 3 to 6 national campaigns a year. AI reading messy real-world documents, in production, for a client who isn't a tech company. That's the exact shape of work an enablement retainer brings to your business.
“Always available, endlessly patient in explaining every decision, calm in every emergency, and the quality of the platform has never let us down.”
Michael Eliran, CEO of Gamma Communications, New York
Pricing
One retainer. Sized to your business.
$5,000 to $8,000 per month, set on the first call. Month to month, no lock-in. Every engagement is shaped around your operations, never a template; the range is what it is. Compare it to the $200,000-plus cost of a full-time AI hire, if you could find one.
Book a Free 30-Min Call →In the retainer
Opportunity map, working automations built and maintained, tool selection and setup, staff training, security guardrails, and a senior engineer on call.
Where it leads
Some clients stop once the automations run themselves. Others grow into full technical leadership: our fractional CTO engagement.
About the fractional CTO engagement →FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Finds the handful of places where AI genuinely saves you money or time, builds those workflows, and teaches your team to run them. In practice that means automating document handling, customer communication, reporting, and the repetitive work your staff does between the real work. The measure of success is hours returned, not demos.
Most AI consulting is slideware or a chatbot bolted to your website. We're engineers: we've run an AI-powered document processing platform in production since 2017, and we build automations that survive contact with real staff, real data, and real edge cases.
Our enablement retainer runs $5,000 to $8,000 per month, sized to your business on the first call. The scope is tailored to you; the range is firm. Most clients see the first automation live inside the first month.
It's designed for you. The retainer exists precisely for businesses without a technical team: we handle the engineering, the vendor choices, and the security, and we train your people in plain English.
That question is why an engineering-and-security firm should run your AI adoption. We set up the tools under agreements that keep your data out of model training, keep access scoped, and never route customer data anywhere you haven't approved. Security is our other practice, and it shows up in this one.
Tell us on the call. Every engagement is shaped to the client, and if a bounded project serves you better than a retainer, that's what we'll propose.
Start with the map
Bring us the most repetitive week in your business.
In a free 30-minute call we'll tell you where AI would pay for itself first in your operations, and whether the retainer is worth it for your size. Straight answer either way.
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