Advisory

What holds the big pieces together?

A keynote lands, a workshop runs, and then there's a set of questions that belong to neither one. Advisory is where those get answered, usually me and a few of your leaders on a call.

Two that come up a lot. You've booked a talk for the leadership offsite, and the real value turns out to be the ninety minutes the next morning when those same people decide what to do about it. Or you've run an Applied AI Workshop with one team, and now you want to know how many AI leads you actually need and how the program should sit across your business areas. Neither of those is a program. Both of them matter.

So this is the cement between the big pieces. It's rare that someone buys it on its own, and that's fine.

You already have most of it

The people who call me are rarely starting from nothing. There is a talk on the calendar, or a team that redesigned its own workflow and liked the result, or a CAIO title that arrived eight months ago with a budget and no map. The raw material is in the building.

What is usually missing is the half hour where somebody decides what the thing you just proved means for the other eleven teams. That half hour has no owner. It is not anyone's program, it does not have a budget line, and it is the one that sets up the next two quarters.

I have watched that decision get made in a lot of organizations. That is the only thing I am bringing that you do not already have.

The decision gets made either way

If nobody makes it deliberately, it gets made by whoever moves first. Four versions of that, and I have seen all four.

You scale the pilot for the wrong reason. The workflow it ran on was already clean, so the AI looked like the cause. Now eleven teams have licenses and messy workflows.
You name AI leads and give them nothing. Either the role gets real hours or it decays into a volunteer job by March, and the people you picked learn that the program was not serious.
You sequence it backwards. Governance shows up after three hundred agents are running. Or a North Star gets set for teams that have nowhere to put it yet.
You wait for more information. The quarter ends, the budget renews, and the shape you did not choose has settled anyway.

What that costs is usually a year. The money is the smaller part. All four are recoverable, and every one of them is cheaper to get right in ninety minutes than to unwind two quarters later.

The two ways in

Two shapes, depending on whether you need one decision unstuck or a standing place to bring them.

Clarity Session

$2,500

Intake before we meet, ninety minutes together, then a written synthesis from me with two or three prioritized recommendations. The written piece is the part that matters, because it's what you forward to the people who weren't on the call.

Suits a leadership group turning a talk, a workshop or a board question into a decision.

intake · 90 minutes · written synthesis follows

Retained Advisory

from $2,000 a month

A standing place to bring what's in front of you while the bigger work is running.

Essentials

from $2,000 a month

Up to three sixty-minute calls a month, async access by Slack, Teams or email, and a quarterly progress review.

Plus

from $3,500 a month

Up to ten hours a month of fractional support, up to four calls, priority async access, and a ninety-minute structured quarterly review.

Suits a CAIO or head of transformation who is the only one in the building holding the whole picture.

three month minimum

Say what's already scheduled, what's in front of you, and roughly when. I'll tell you whether this is the right shape, and I'll say so if it isn't.

Tell me what you're working on

Looking for someone to deliver a program inside your organization? Start with the programs.

The usual questions

Does this have to attach to something else?: No, though it usually does.
Can you just do the work for us?: No. Delivery goes to a Hyperadaptive delivery partner trained in the model.
Do we have to take the class first?: No.