Where AI actually pays back. And where it does not.
Honest technical advice from a builder who has shipped against Claude, GPT, and Bedrock in production. No vendor partnerships, no affiliate kickbacks.
Stack review for a $30M company picking between OpenAI, Claude, and Bedrock. 1-hour call, 3-page memo, decision made.
What you get
Advisory from a technical lead who has shipped production AI — not a management consultant who read a whitepaper. NDA before the first call.
Stack and vendor selection
Claude vs. GPT vs. Bedrock vs. open-source. We have shipped against all of them. We pick based on your data, latency budget, and unit economics — not on whose homepage you saw first.
Operations audit
We read the workflow, not the org chart. Tools in use, hand-off points, hours per task, current cost. Output is a ranked list of automatable work with hours-saved-per-dollar attached.
Architecture for the build that survives
What gets built, what stays manual, where the LLM sits in the pipeline, how human-in-the-loop is wired. Streaming, function calling, prompt caching, retries. The decisions that are cheap now and expensive later.
Build vs. buy vs. wait
Sometimes the answer is a $20/mo SaaS, not a custom build. Sometimes it is “wait six months for the model to get cheaper.” We have no affiliate deals. The recommendation is based on what fits, not what pays us.
Engagement options
30-min intro is free. 1-hour technical advisory is $200. Scale up only if it makes sense.
You describe the business and where you think AI fits. We tell you whether to engage us at all. No pitch deck, no funnel.
Architecture review, vendor pitch sanity-check, second opinion on a quote you got. Written summary of findings emailed within 24 hours.
Operations audit, opportunity ranking, architecture recs, written roadmap. Includes 2-3 follow-up calls after delivery.
Monthly check-ins, architecture reviews, vendor evals as your stack evolves. For teams actively building and shipping AI features.
Who this is for
Founders and CEOs
Every vendor pitch sounds the same. You need someone technical who can tell you what is real and what is hype — without trying to sell you a product.
Clear view of where AI fits, what it costs, and what return to expect. In writing.
CTOs and engineering leads
Your team is evaluating LLMs but nobody has shipped against the API in production. You need architecture guidance from someone who has.
Architecture for your specific case, with implementation notes your team can execute.
Operations managers
Your team is drowning in manual work but you do not know which tasks are worth the engineering spend. You need the math.
Ranked automation backlog with hours-saved and dollars-spent estimates per item.
How engagement runs
Intro
30-min call. You describe the business and where you think AI might help. No charge.
Scope
1-hour advisory ($200), strategy sprint, or ongoing — whichever actually fits. No upselling.
Work
Calls, async Loom, shared docs. Whatever format works for your schedule.
Output
Written roadmap, architecture doc, or specific recommendations your team can execute — or hire us to build.
What we do not do
Transparency about our limits saves your time and ours.
Talk it through.
30-min intro is free. 1-hour technical advisory is $200. NDA before any details. No pitch deck.