The $5,000 that finds your $500,000 AI mistake.
Before you spend a year and a budget betting on the wrong AI tools, the wrong hires, or the wrong roadmap, find out what is actually real in your product org. A scored diagnostic and a prioritized roadmap your leadership will act on, leadership-ready in two weeks.
The expensive mistake is the one you make without knowing where you stand.
A year of engineering time pointed at the wrong build. A platform contract you sign and barely use. A senior hire to lead a transformation no one has scoped. Any one of these costs far more than the assessment, and they all come from the same place: moving on AI without a clear, honest read on where your org actually is.
The assessment is the lowest-risk, fastest way to buy that clarity before the costly decisions get made. Its real job is to make sure the next big bet is the right one.
Four things you can act on, not a report you file.
A maturity score, level 1 to 5
Exactly where your team sits today on five clear levels, from a few people poking at AI to a whole team that ships with it and keeps getting better. A number you can track, not a guess.
The one bottleneck to move next
Most orgs are strong in a few places and quietly stuck in one. I find the stage that is holding the whole line back, so you spend the next dollar where it changes the outcome.
A prioritized roadmap your leadership will act on
Not a list of everything you could do. The sequenced two-to-three moves that matter most, with what each one takes and what it changes, in language your leadership reads.
A leadership-ready readout
A clear, defensible picture of where you are and where to go, that whoever signs the check can take upstairs and stand behind.
Two weeks, a few hours of your team's time.
A few focused conversations
A handful of interviews with the people doing the work and the people leading it, plus a look at how your team actually builds today. A few hours of your team's time, not a project.
I score it against what good looks like
I map where you are against the standard for a product org shipping AI into production, find the bottleneck, and pressure-test the roadmap before you ever see it.
Leadership-ready readout in two weeks
I walk you through the score, the bottleneck, and the prioritized roadmap. You leave with a decision you can defend, whether or not you take the next step with me.
The assessment is the on-ramp, not a one-off.
Most orgs use the assessment to scope and de-risk the bigger work: the hands-on build where I guide your team as they ship their first real AI-native capability into production. So the $5,000 credits in full toward that engagement if you go further. If you do, the diagnostic effectively paid for itself; if you do not, you still own a clear roadmap and the one move to make next.
Before the briefing
How is this different from the free AI-readiness quiz?
The free quiz is a five-minute self-score: a useful first read you run yourself. This is the full diagnostic I run on your actual org, with interviews, a look at how your team really works, and a roadmap built for your situation. The quiz tells you roughly where you might be. This tells you where you are and what to do about it.
We have smart people. Why not just assess ourselves?
Because the hardest part is knowing what good looks like at production grade, and that is exactly what an org in the middle of it cannot see. I have built AI into real product orgs, so I can name the standard, spot the bottleneck you have normalized, and tell a real result from a demo that only looks like one.
What if we already know our gaps?
Then the assessment confirms it with a defensible score and, more importantly, sequences the fix. Most teams know several things are off. The value is naming the one that is actually holding the line back, so you stop spreading effort across all of them.
Will it just be generic best practices?
No. The roadmap is built on what I find in your org: your tools, your team, your constraints, your one real bottleneck. Generic is what you get from a quiz or a slideware vendor. This is specific or it is not worth $5,000.
Who needs to be involved, and how much time?
A few interviews across the people building and the people leading, plus access to how your team works today. A few hours total from your side over two weeks. The heavy lifting is mine.
Will my company pay for it?
It is priced to be approvable on signature, under most teams' procurement threshold. I provide an invoice and a manager-shareable scope, and it credits in full toward the engagement if you go further, so the diagnostic pays for itself the moment you do.
Priced to approve on signature, credited if you go further.
Under most teams' procurement threshold, so a VP can sign for it without a committee. I provide an invoice and a manager-shareable scope, and the full fee credits toward the engagement if you proceed. The Executive Briefing is the first step: a focused conversation to confirm fit and scope the assessment.
A few hours of your team's time. A 30-minute briefing first, no commitment.
Find out what's real, before you spend on what isn't.
Start with an Executive Briefing. A focused conversation to confirm fit and scope the assessment. Not a pitch.
A 30-minute conversation. No commitment.