AI strategy, AI Strategy & Discovery.

Two-week sprint to find where AI actually pays off in your business. We sit with your team, map the workflows, and come back with a prioritized list of AI bets, ranked by hours saved, revenue earned, and time to deliver. No buzzword bingo.

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2-week engagementWritten reportRanked roadmap

About this serviceWhat it is, who it is for.

AI Strategy & Discovery is one of the 9 services in our AI Studio line. Two-week sprint to find where AI actually pays off in your business. Written report, ranked roadmap, no buzzwords. Every engagement starts with a no-charge audit so you know exactly what we will build, why, and what it will move.

We work the same way across every project: an experienced lead who scopes the work and then delivers it, a written quote tied to outcomes (not hours), weekly demos, and a working preview URL inside week one. No bait-and-switch, no junior teams handed your project, no surprise invoices.

Who it is for

Owners and founders who want ai strategy & discovery done by an experienced crew, not learned on their dime.
Small and medium businesses outgrowing template-built tools and ready for something custom.
Teams that have tried agencies before and want one accountable lead, weekly demos, and a transparent quote.
Kansas City businesses that want a local partner with global delivery capacity behind it.

What we deliverEverything in a typical engagement.

Six things you walk out with after a strategy engagement.

Workflow inventory

Every repeatable workflow in your business mapped: who does it, how long it takes, where the friction lives.

AI opportunity map

Each workflow scored for AI fit: search, generation, classification, full agent, or 'leave it alone'.

Model and tooling recommendations

Claude, OpenAI, open-source (Llama, Mistral, Qwen), or hybrid. Right model for the job, right cost shape.

Pilot proposal

The single best first project to deliver. Scope, timeline, fixed cost, and the bar it has to clear to count as a win.

Risk and compliance review

PII, IP, regulatory, vendor lock-in. The risks specific to your data and industry, with mitigations.

Stakeholder readout

One-page summary, full deck, and a 60-minute walkthrough with the team that has to live with the decisions.

How we run itThe phases, in order.

From discovery to a ranked roadmap in two weeks.

Listen

Stakeholder interviews, workflow walkthroughs, and a tour of the systems your team uses today.

Map

Inventory every repeatable workflow. Score for volume, friction, and AI fit.

Rank

Hours saved, revenue earned, time to deliver, risk. The math behind the priority order.

Recommend

Pick the first pilot. Scope, model, tools, integrations, and the success bar.

Hand off

Written report, deck, and a 60-minute readout. You can hire us to deliver the pilot or take the report and run.

Frequently askedThe questions owners ask.

Before kickoff.

How long does the strategy engagement take?

Two weeks from kickoff to the written report. We do not stretch it out. Stakeholder interviews and workflow mapping happen in week one, scoring and the ranked roadmap happen in week two.

What do we actually get in writing at the end?

A one-page summary, a full deck, and a 60-minute walkthrough with the team that has to live with the decisions. You keep the report whether or not you hire us for the build.

Does the engagement commit us to a specific AI vendor?

No. We weigh leading frontier models against open-source options based on your cost ceiling and data sensitivity, and lay out the trade-off in the report. No vendor is chosen until the pilot proposal, and you decide from there.

What if you find that AI is not worth it for us right now?

That is a valid outcome. Every workflow in the opportunity map is scored, and "leave it alone" is one of the scores. If nothing clears the bar, the report says so instead of manufacturing a project to sell.

Can we take the report and hire someone else to build the pilot?

Yes. You own the report, the roadmap, and the recommendations. Some clients hand it to their own engineering team, some come back to us to build the pilot. Either way works.

What does the strategy sprint cost?

A fixed fee for the two-week engagement, quoted after a free 30-minute scoping call. It is priced separately from any pilot build that follows, so you are never paying strategy rates for implementation work.

Want to know where AI actually fits your business?

Book a free 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you whether you need a strategy engagement or you can skip ahead to building.

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