SBE
HOW WE WORK

Three ways in. Every engagement ends in production.

We are a small firm with a large knowledge base. Most of what we do lives in one of three engagement shapes below. If your situation doesn’t fit, say so on the call and we’ll tell you whether we can help.

Audit

We read your stack and write you a report.

A fixed-scope engagement. We audit an existing AI system, a proposed AI initiative, or a broader technical footprint, and we deliver a written architecture document with findings and recommendations. You get the same rigor we apply to our own systems — written down, shareable, defensible.

DELIVERABLES

  • Written technical report, 20–40 pages
  • Prioritized risk register with severity and effort
  • Implementation roadmap with sequenced milestones
  • One 90-minute findings walkthrough

BEST FOR

  • Companies evaluating whether to build, buy, or wait
  • Investors doing technical due diligence before a round
  • Teams stuck on an existing AI project with no clear path

DURATION

1–2 weeks

OUTCOME

You get clarity. We don’t sell you anything after.

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Build

We ship the system. Measured in production.

We design, build, and deploy a specific AI system — a retrieval engine, an agentic workflow, an internal tool, a customer-facing feature. We hand it over running in production with full documentation and a runbook. The system works the day we leave, and the day after, and the day after that.

DELIVERABLES

  • Live production system under real load
  • Architecture document matching what actually shipped
  • Operational runbook covering incidents and rollbacks
  • All source code in your repository, with your licenses
  • Structured handoff session with your engineers

BEST FOR

  • Companies with a defined AI problem and a willingness to ship
  • Teams who need an AI system but don’t have an AI team
  • Founders who want to move before competitors can catch up

DURATION

4–12 weeks, scoped per engagement

OUTCOME

A working system running under real load, owned by you.

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Operate

We run it. You don’t hire an ML team.

Monthly retainer engagements where we operate and evolve AI systems in production — either systems we built for you in a Tier II engagement, or systems your team built that need ongoing AI expertise. Incidents, improvements, model upgrades, cost optimization, security reviews.

DELIVERABLES

  • Named on-call engineer with your team’s Slack or email
  • Monthly operational report with metrics and cost
  • Continuous improvement queue, prioritized with you
  • Emergency response for system incidents

BEST FOR

  • Companies with AI systems in production that need specialist operators
  • Teams whose AI budget cannot support a full-time hire
  • Businesses that want AI leverage without AI overhead

DURATION

Monthly retainer, six-month minimum

OUTCOME

A running system, improved month over month, on a fixed cadence.

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PROOF OF DELIVERY

Strategy is useful when it ships.

The engagement model is built for finished work: live domains, client-ready pages, and systems that can be inspected in a browser.

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

A short call. A written proposal. Then the work.

Every engagement starts with a 30-minute conversation, free of charge and free of obligation. If it makes sense, we follow up with a written proposal that names scope, duration, deliverables, and terms. If it doesn’t, we say so and point you toward a firm that fits better.

Pricing is discussed on the call. It depends on scope, timeline, and risk — variables we don’t pretend to know before we talk.

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