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Most firms either sell you a deck or sell you code. We do both, scoped, dated, and priced, because the gap between judgment and delivery is where the vast majority of AI programs quietly die.

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Three questions. We’ll point you at the engagement that fits. Request a call with our team and we’ll carry your answers into the thread.

Question 01 / 03
Where are you on AI today?
Question 02 / 03
What’s the bigger risk for you right now?
Question 03 / 03
What’s your function?

We’d start with Diagnose.

Given where you are, the highest-leverage move is a 2–4 week fixed-fee diagnostic. You walk away with a board-ready brief and a ranked shortlist, whether or not we continue together.

The AI Success Pack · featured offer

Design×Data.
Productized as a 30-day pack.

Most AI programs fail because they're either data without design (an analytics deck no one acts on) or design without data (a prototype no one trusts). The AI Success Pack fuses both into a fixed-fee, 30-day engagement that ends with shipped output, not a slide review.

The Design Side

Workflow mapping, decision-mode UX, and the human-in-the-loop ergonomics that decide whether AI gets adopted or quietly deleted from the workflow.

The Data Side

Metadata fabric, retrieval architecture, and evaluation harness. The plumbing that decides whether the AI gives the same answer twice in a row.

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Fixed fee 2–4 weeks Exec-led

Diagnose.

Before you build anything, know exactly what to build, and what not to.

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AI Readiness Diagnostic · fixed fee · calendar-clear in 3 weeks

$65KUSD · fixed

Credited against a Build engagement if we continue.

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Use cases to assess3
Stakeholder interviews12
Regulated environment?No
$65K – $78KIndicative range · fixed-fee on contract

Every Ariana engagement starts the same way: we listen before we pitch. Over two to four weeks we run a structured discovery, 8–12 interviews with leaders and frontline operators, a full stack and data-flow audit, a shadow-AI inventory, and a risk map the board can actually read.

You come out with a ranked, defended shortlist of the three bets that will move revenue or margin in the next 12 months, and a clear view of which ideas to kill. Every number is traceable. Every recommendation has a named owner, a cost, a timeline, and a way to know if it's working.

This is the deliverable that pays for itself before anything else ships. Clients routinely tell us the most valuable output was learning what not to build.

What you walk out with

Board-ready brief

A 12-page document written for your board, not your intern. Problem, ranked options, risk, recommendation.

Opportunity register

Top-3 bets ranked by ROI, time-to-value, and implementation risk. Each with a named owner and a kill trigger.

Shadow-AI inventory

Every AI tool in use across the org, official or not. Who's using it, what data flows where, what it costs.

Risk & governance map

Regulatory exposure, vendor concentration, audit gaps. Sized for your industry, healthcare, financial services, retail, logistics.

12-month roadmap

Month-by-month sequencing. Dependencies, decisions, budget envelope, hiring needs. Calibrated to your capacity.

Read-out with your team

A working session with your leadership. Not a presentation, a conversation that ends with decisions and owners.

They killed our two worst ideas in week one. By the end we had a board pack, a ranked roadmap, and the political cover to actually move.

VP Engineering, Fortune 100 insurer3-week diagnostic · Q3 2025
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Scoped engagement 6–16 weeks Outcome-linked

Build.

Pick the priorities from Diagnose. We ship them into production, with your team, not around them.

From

Scoped build engagements · fixed fee or outcome-linked

$180KUSD · scoped

Typical sprint program: 6–16 weeks, 2 pairs, production code from week two.

Scope a build →
Engagement length (weeks)10
Engineering pairs2
Outcome-linked fee?No
$180K – $240KIndicative range · fixed or outcome-linked

We are opinionated about how work gets done. Two-week sprints. Production code from week two. No black-box deliverables, your engineers pair with ours, so whatever we build, you can run, change, and extend the day we leave.

A typical Build engagement ships one flagship capability, an agentic workflow, a customer-facing assistant, a pricing or underwriting model, plus the governance, evaluation, and training wrapper around it. Because the wrapper is usually what determines whether the thing survives contact with your real business.

We write the prompts, the evals, the guardrails, and the runbook. We sit in your Slack. We show the work every two weeks in a 45-minute demo your CFO can watch without a translator.

What a Build engagement ships

Production systems

Agents, workflow automations, retrieval pipelines, deployed into your environment, behind your SSO, on your cloud.

Evaluation harness

Automated tests for correctness, safety, and cost. Regression suites that catch drift before a customer does.

Governance pack

Policy templates, approval workflows, audit logs. Shaped for your regulator and your legal team's appetite.

Training & enablement

Role-specific playbooks for the people who'll use the thing. Fluency, not fear. We measure adoption, not attendance.

Runbook & handoff

Every decision documented. Every prompt version-controlled. Your team owns the keys from day one.

Biweekly exec demo

45 minutes. Working software. No slides. Your board can drop in any week and see real progress.

Production code in week two, not slides. The biweekly demos kept everyone honest, including us. Adoption hit 80% inside a month of go-live.

CTO, North-American health system14-week build · underwriting copilot
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Monthly retainer Ongoing SLA-backed

Run.

Most AI programs fail after launch, not before. We operate as your fractional AI team, every month, every release, every board cycle.

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Monthly retainer · right-sized team · 90-day notice

$28KUSD · /mo

Three tiers. Most clients start at the middle one and grow from there.

Scope a retainer →
Production AI systems2
Monthly active users (k)10
24×7 incident response?No
$28K – $42K /moIndicative monthly retainer · 90-day notice

The quiet truth of AI work is that the model you launched isn't the model you're running six months later. Providers swap underlying weights. Prompts rot. Data shifts. A chatbot that was 94% accurate at launch is 71% by July, and nobody notices until a customer on Twitter does.

Run is how we stop that. A small, named team, staff-level engineer, an evals lead, a governance partner, embedded in your org, operating your AI systems the way you'd operate any production service. Monitoring. Iteration. Incident response. Monthly exec readout with the numbers your CFO and CISO both need.

Clients who run with us for 12+ months see their systems get measurably better over time, more accurate, cheaper to run, and more trusted by their own people. That's the whole point.

What Run covers every month

Drift & accuracy monitoring

Live dashboards. Alerting on the metrics that matter, not the vanity ones.

Prompt & model iteration

Continuous A/B of prompts, models, and retrieval strategies. Ship what wins, revert what doesn't.

Spend & unit economics

Token cost by feature, by team, by customer cohort. Finance never has to ask twice.

Exec readout & board pack

Monthly one-pager. Quarterly board-ready deck. Plain language. Numbers you can defend.

Incident response

24-hour response SLA on production issues. Root-cause write-ups your team gets to keep.

Capability expansion

Every quarter we propose, and scope, the next capability. You decide. Nothing gets shipped without approval.

A year in, our accuracy is up 9 points and our token spend is down 31%. The monthly readout is the only deck my CFO and CISO both read end-to-end.

Chief Data Officer, Tier-1 retail bank16 months on retainer
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Productized 4–10 weeks Fixed-fee

Verticals.

Pre-built accelerators for the asks we see most. Faster to stand up than a custom Build, and still standing on the same foundations.

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Vertical accelerators · fixed-fee · brand-safe in 6 weeks

$95KUSD · fixed

Priced per accelerator. Bundles available for multi-function rollouts.

Explore accelerators →
Accelerators in scope1
Custom integrations2
Multi-region rollout?No
$95K – $115KIndicative range · fixed-fee on contract

Some problems repeat. Résumé triage. Sales-call intelligence. Close-the-books automation. Underwriting pre-screen. Patient-intake summarization. We've built these enough times to know the shape.

Our vertical accelerators are productized versions of the work, scoped, priced, and pre-integrated with the platforms you already run (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake). You get production value faster, and you still get our Run team around it.

HR

AI résumé triage

Cuts recruiter screen time by 60%. Built on myndQ verification infrastructure. Bias-audited, SOC 2 ready.

6 weeks · fixed fee
SX

Sales-call intelligence

Every call summarized, scored, and synced to Salesforce. Coaching prompts for managers, next-step drafts for reps.

4 weeks · fixed fee
FN

Close-the-books automation

Accrual drafting, variance narrative generation, audit-trail exports. Sits next to your ERP, doesn't replace it.

8 weeks · fixed fee
CX

Omnichannel journey ops

Stevie Award-winning CIM platform. Chat-based personalized digital service tied to your CRM and CMS.

10 weeks · fixed fee

We stood up résumé triage in six weeks on top of myndQ. Recruiter screen time dropped 60%, and our bias audit cleared first pass.

SVP Talent, global logistics carrierHR accelerator · 6 weeks
Frequently asked

Questions we get before we sign.

If yours isn't here, write us. We'll answer it in plain language, usually same day.

How do you price fixed-fee work when the requirements aren't clear?
We don't price what isn't scoped. Diagnose is fixed-fee because we've run it fifty times; Build and Verticals are fixed-fee because they start from a scope we co-wrote in Diagnose. If a requirement is genuinely unknown, we say so, and we propose a one-week spike to de-risk it before we commit.
We already have a data team. Will you step on them?
No. We're complementary by design. Our engineers pair with yours, usually 1:1, and our governance work wraps around whatever your data org has already standardized. We often end up making your in-house team look better to the board, which is fine with us.
We're in a regulated industry. Can you actually work in our environment?
Yes. Most of our work is in healthcare, financial services, insurance, and logistics. We sign BAAs, we work inside your cloud tenancy, we do not retain PII, and our governance pack is shaped for HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and the sector-specifics. Bring your CISO to the kickoff.
What happens when we want to stop?
You do. Run is 90-day notice, no claw-back. Every artefact we ship is yours from day one, prompts, code, evals, policy, runbook, and we document the handover as part of the retainer so there's never a moment where you couldn't take it all in-house tomorrow.
We've been burned by a consulting firm. Why would this be different?
Because you can check. Every deliverable is working software or a document your board will read. Every two weeks you see a demo, not a status deck. And the first thing we ship in Diagnose is a list of things we recommend you not do, which is how you know we'll tell you hard things later, too.

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