Question 1

How much do engagements cost?

Accepted Answer

Engagement cost depends on scope. Discovery calls are free. A typical 2-week analytics pilot lands in the low five figures; AI red-team reviews scale with surface area; local-first AI builds are quoted after a hardware and architecture assessment.

Question 2

Do you work with companies outside the US?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Most work happens asynchronously over Slack, Linear, or email, with weekly video syncs. Time-zone overlap of at least 3 hours per business day is preferred but not required.

Question 3

Can you sign an NDA before scoping?

Accepted Answer

Yes. I will sign your NDA or provide a mutual NDA before any sensitive details are shared.

Question 4

Do you offer ongoing retainers?

Accepted Answer

Yes. After a successful initial engagement, many clients move into a monthly retainer for iteration, on-call analysis, and training.

Question 5

Why local-first AI?

Accepted Answer

Local-first AI keeps data, prompts, and conversations on your infrastructure. It eliminates telemetry leakage, supports air-gapped environments, and gives you full reproducibility. For sensitive work it is often the only defensible architecture.

Question 6

Why both analytics and AI?

Accepted Answer

Both are systems work. A dashboard a leadership team uses every Monday and a three-subagent stack with a persistent identity layer share more than they look like — both are exercises in modeling a workflow, instrumenting it, and shipping something that survives contact with reality. Working across both keeps each grounded in the other.

Engagements that ship.