Question 1

Why not just hire someone to do this in-house?

Accepted Answer

A full-time AI engineer is a $180K+ commitment and a 3-month hiring cycle, and you still have to know what to point them at. We deliver the scoped roadmap in a week and the first working system in weeks — and the retainer is a fraction of a headcount. When you have enough live systems to justify a hire, you'll hand them documentation and code we built to be owned, not a black box.

Question 2

Why can't we just use ChatGPT or Copilot ourselves?

Accepted Answer

You can, and you should — for drafting and Q&A. But a chat window doesn't read your scheduler, reconcile your invoices, or follow up with a customer at 7am without anyone clicking a button. The value is the plumbing between your tools, the edge-case handling, and the monitoring — the part MIT found 95% of companies never finish.

Question 3

What if the audit finds nothing worth automating?

Accepted Answer

Then we tell you, and we refund the audit — money back. We'd rather lose the fee than sell you a build that won't pay for itself.

Question 4

How do you price?

Accepted Answer

Fixed, not hourly. AI Operations Audit $1,500–$2,500 (credited toward a build). Build Sprint $8,000–$15,000. Ops Retainer $3,000–$8,000/month. You always know the number before we start.

Question 5

Who owns what we build?

Accepted Answer

You do — source code, prompts, configuration, all of it, from day one. If you fire us tomorrow, the system keeps running.

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