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Embedded AI Partner

A post-sprint retainer: fractional forward-deployed engineer plus CTO-level direction, targeting an agent a month. Owns your AI roadmap, reporting automation and governance. Pricing scoped per engagement; monthly, cancel with 30 days' notice.

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AI compounds when someone is consistently pushing it forward. The AI Deployment Sprint ships your first production agent and proves the model. The Embedded AI Partner keeps the compounding going: a fractional forward-deployed engineer and CTO-level direction, working inside your business every month.

The target cadence is an agent a month — not always a full sprint, but a consistent stream of deployed automation that shortens manual work, improves decisions, and raises the floor of what your team can do with the same headcount.

The retainer covers everything between sprints: roadmap ownership and sequencing, reporting automation, governance maintenance and vendor challenge. It also covers board-level input on AI investments and the rapid-turnaround work that does not justify a full sprint but still matters. One person who knows your stack, your roadmap and your operating model, rather than three separate engagements that have to be coordinated.

Pricing is scoped per engagement — it depends on the volume of work, the cadence of builds, and the depth of strategic input required. Monthly commitment, cancel with 30 days' notice. No lock-in beyond that.

The Embedded AI Partner is available after a completed AI Deployment Sprint. If you are at the sprint stage and want to understand what continuity looks like, raise it on the scoping call.

Related case studies

From our track record.

The AI Operating System

AI

Challenge

An 8-figure DTC brand was drowning in fragmented information across messaging, email, calendars and a dozen spreadsheets. Decisions waited on someone stitching the picture together by hand.

What was built

A unified AI operating system: a knowledge layer wired to 15-plus tools, 40-plus custom skills, and scheduled automations that read across the business and write daily and weekly executive briefings.

Outcome

  • 15+ tools unified
  • 40+ skills in production
  • Reviews fully automated
  • Hours of synthesis → minutes, automated

Unified KPI Command Center

Data

Challenge

Key metrics lived in six spreadsheets owned by different people on different cadences. Consolidated reporting was a manual weekly grind with no on-demand view.

What was built

A KPI intelligence layer: specialised skills pulling live data from all six sources, covering supply chain, finance, service and growth across four trading entities, orchestrated into one view.

Outcome

  • 6 sources unified
  • 4 entities consolidated
  • Friday reconciliation → one-line request
  • Snapshot in under a minute, on demand

Professional Services ERP

ERP

Challenge

A global professional-services firm needed a clear route from fragmented requirements to a coherent ERP plan, with confidence on scope, sequence, data migration and adoption risk.

What was built

Led discovery and solution shaping across business processes, ERP module mapping, GAP analysis, MVP definition and a phased roadmap, built around native-first configuration and business-readable effort.

Outcome

  • Clear phased roadmap
  • Scope confidence for leadership
  • Native-first delivery
  • Governed go-live plan
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