Four weeks, one production thing.
Most of my engagements look the same: pick one real workflow, ship the AI integration, hand you the keys. Four to eight weeks end-to-end. No deck, no retainer, no "transformation strategy".
Week 1 — Scope & sign
20-min call first. If we click, I send a one-page SOW the same week — fixed fee, clear deliverable, calendar dates. You sign or ghost me, either's fine. If you sign we kick off within 3 business days.
Week 2 — Build
I shadow your team, poke at your data, prototype the thing. Usually takes 3-5 days to have something running against real inputs. I share Loom walkthroughs every couple days — no meetings unless we need them.
Week 3 — Ship
We move it into your stack. Your database, your API keys, your auth. I write the monitoring so your team sees if it breaks. Short doc on how to operate, roll back, or swap the model.
Week 4 — Handoff
One session with whoever will own it. Not "training" — more like "here's why I made these choices and what to change when the bill gets weird." You keep me on Slack for 30 days free for questions. After that I'm off the books unless you want me for something else.
What I don't do
- Decks. I'll literally refuse.
- "AI strategy" as a product — if you need that, hire McKinsey.
- Rebuild your stack. I use what you already have.
- Change management. I ship the tool — you change the people.
- Monthly retainers without a scope. Too easy to coast.
Pricing
Scoping call: $0. Fixed-fee pilot engagement (4 weeks, one integration): typically $18-42k depending on complexity. Discovery + scoping work alone: $4k flat if you just want someone to write the spec and you build it. Extensions by the week after that.
What kind of AI work
Whatever your team's actually stuck on. Lately: RAG over internal docs, email + Slack classifiers, sales-call summarizers, PDF extraction pipelines, customer support deflection, internal-tool copilots. I avoid the "build your own foundation model" conversations — there's rarely a reason.
Where I work
Remote-first. I'm in Florida. I've had clients in ~30 states — most never saw me in person. I'll fly for scoping if you're in FL/TX/NY/CA. Otherwise Zoom works fine.