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How we work

Seven ways
we work together.
Each with an honest exit.

Every engagement has a defined scope, a tangible artefact and a published “what we won’t do”. We do not sell vapourware — every service we offer is contracted through one of these seven.

Book a call Our delivery model →
2–3
Weeks — an Advisory Sprint, and it can end in “not this year”
6–12
Weeks — a Production Build: system, evals, monitoring, handover
30 days
Notice on every rolling engagement — exits are designed in
1
Named founder who signs your engagement and carries it

The contract shapes

Start from the decision, not the deliverable.

Seven ways to engage: what each is for, how long it takes, and what you hold at the end. Five are contract shapes in their own right; two — the Proof of Concept and Team Enablement — are delivered under a Feasibility Sprint and a Lab Retainer respectively. Every service on the Consulting Desk and every class of system on the Factory Floor is contracted through one of these. Where the AI estate is the question, the engagement is a product — Sentinel.

Choose an EAIC engagement by the decision you need to make A five-way chooser routes the buyer to seven engagement shapes: Advisory Sprint, Feasibility Sprint, Proof of Concept, AI Workforce Deployment, Team Enablement, Lab Retainer and Venture Build. THE FIRST FORKDecision · Proof · Capability · Continuity · Venture DECISIONWhat should we do?Fixed view, no code. PROOFWill it work here?Test before funding. CAPABILITYCan we run this?Build or learn the discipline. CONTINUITYWhat keeps moving?Capacity after the build. VENTUREShould this be a firm?Shared risk and upside. Advisory Sprint2–3 weeks · no codeYOU HOLD · WRITTEN POSITION Feasibility Sprint2–3 weeks · running testYOU HOLD · EVIDENCE HARNESS Proof of ConceptBuilt only to answerYOU HOLD · PROOF + COST AI WorkforceDeployment8–16 weeks · your estateYOU HOLD · LIVE WORKFORCE Team EnablementMonthly · on your codebaseYOU HOLD · THE DISCIPLINE Lab RetainerRolling · capacity past the buildYOU HOLD · DIRECT CAPACITY Venture BuildPer venture · fee + equityYOU HOLD · CODE + EVALS + IP
Seven ways in. Each one links to its own page, with its scope, duration and what you hold.
EngagementScopeDurationYou hold
Advisory SprintOne decision, fixed fee, no code2–3 weeksWritten position + evidence pack + ranked risk view
Feasibility SprintOne concrete problem, tested against an evals harness2–3 weeksRunning PoC + harness + build/no-build recommendation
Proof of ConceptOne use case built far enough to answer honestly2–3 weeksThe proof of concept, its harness, and the written call
AI Workforce DeploymentA governed multi-agent workforce, in your environment8–16 weeksDeployed workforce + review discipline + audit trail + handbook
Team EnablementYour engineers working to our standards, on your codebaseMonthly, rollingYour own standards corpus + the review discipline
Lab RetainerOngoing capacity past the first buildMonthly, rollingWorkforce hours + eval maintenance + quarterly reviews
Venture BuildA new AI product built with you, equity in the considerationScoped per ventureThe venture — code, evals, docs, IP — on terms agreed at the outset

Fixed fee on every fixed-scope engagement, quoted in writing before work begins. Rolling engagements carry 30 days’ notice on both sides. Two further shapes sit behind these: a Production Build is how most Factory Floor work is contracted, and Fractional AI Leadership puts a founder in a seat inside your organisation.

Bring us the decision you keep circling.

Thirty minutes with a founder. No sales deck, NDA available beforehand. If a two-week sprint is the wrong shape for it, we will say so and tell you what the right one is.

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Price agreed before we start · Founder-led · NDA available