How we work
Prepared, embedded, and yours when we leave.
READY. Five phases. Six weeks is typical.
We don't charge you to teach us your industry. We show up prepared, embed with the people doing the work, and deliver a system your firm owns when we leave. No intake forms. No overrun charges. No lock-in.
Ready.
We arrive having done the homework. You're not teaching us your industry, your vocabulary, or how your firm makes money. If we're asking you for things we could have learned on our own, that's our failure.
Embed.
Inside your firm, with the people running the processes. Not executives. Not the people who wrote the manual. We listen for what doesn't work and for why nobody has fixed it yet.
Assess.
A written plan in plain language. Scope, price, trade-offs, reasoning. You can show it to anyone, including competing bidders. No kickoff until it's agreed.
Develop.
We build. One team, embedded with yours. Six weeks is typical. Three months is possible for larger scope. Progress is visible the whole way. Nothing ships until it works.
Yours.
We train the people who'll use it, document how it runs, and hand it over. Support stays available. Lock-in is not the business model. The system belongs to your firm.
OPEN isn't a marketing word here. It's the operating model.
Most consulting firms run on friction. Long intake forms. Discovery phases that bill you for teaching them your business. Proposals you can't show anyone. Methodology held like a trade secret. We do the opposite, on purpose.
On our side of the intake.
We come prepared. You shouldn't have to fill out a 40-question form before a first conversation. If we're asking for information we could have learned ourselves, that's our failure. Intake is our job.
Partners on the engagement.
We're on the same side of the problem. "Both sides of the table" is the framing of people who expect to negotiate against each other. We don't. If one of us wins and the other loses, we scoped the engagement wrong.
Everything visible.
Scope, price, trade-offs, build decisions. All written down. Show our proposal to competing bidders if you want to. The ones who'd feel threatened by that are the ones you shouldn't hire. Competition at this level of the market is largely a myth. There's more real work than there are people who can do it properly.
No gatekeeping. No lock-in.
We build in public. We publish what works, what doesn't, and why. The system we build is yours, and so is everything that runs it: source code in your repository, accounts and API keys in your name, prompts, your data, documentation and the architecture diagram. We stay available because you might want us, not because you'd be stuck without us.
Tell us what's broken.
30 minutes. No deck, no intake form. You describe what's not working; we tell you whether it's ours to fix.