AI Strategy & Engineering Consulting.
We sit with founders and operators who need to make a call on AI — what to build, what to buy, what to scrap, what to wait on. The output is always the same shape: a short written plan, named owners, and a next step you can act on by Monday. No PowerPoint. No roadmaps that gather dust on a shared drive.
Four shapes most AI
consulting takes.
We don't have a monthly retainer model or a 'fractional AI lead for hire' template. Engagements are shaped to the decision in front of you — a one-day audit, a week-long diagnostic, a month of shadowing, or an ongoing advisory seat. Here's what each looks like.
The one-day AI audit
You share access — current AI usage, data sources, model spend, integration map, codebase — and we spend a day going through it. Output: a written, ranked list of what's worth automating, what's overbuilt, and what's burning model spend for no return. Ends with a 90-minute walk-through call.
The one-week diagnostic
A focused week on one question: should we build this agent ourselves or buy a vendor? Is RAG the right shape, or fine-tuning? Which model fits this workflow? We talk to the people doing the work, look at the data, benchmark options, and write a recommendation you can share internally. No 40-slide deck, just a document.
Decision-time advisory
A month of open access while a specific AI decision is live — a build-vs-buy call, a vendor selection, a model swap, a data-boundary review. You get someone to think with, pre-read your RFPs, sit in on vendor calls, and catch obvious traps before you sign. Billed flat for the month; no retainer tail.
Ongoing advisory seat
A seat at your monthly product / engineering / leadership meeting, plus async availability during the month. Useful for small teams that don't need a full-time AI lead but want a consistent outside voice across roadmap, vendor choices, and model strategy. Reviewed every quarter; cancelled cleanly if it's not paying back.
Four principles.
No slogans.
A plan, not a deck
Every engagement ends with a written document — ranked actions, named owners, estimated effort, expected impact. If a PowerPoint is what you wanted, you hired the wrong firm.
Opinions, not options
We'll lay out trade-offs, but we'll tell you what we think you should do and why. 'It depends' is a diagnosis, not an answer. If we don't know enough to recommend, we'll say that — and scope the work to find out.
Short beats ongoing
Most problems that walk through the door are one-week problems, not one-year retainers. We'd rather do two short engagements a year with you than a monthly check-in that quietly stops producing value.
Operator first
We've shipped enough AI workflows, killed enough demos that wouldn't survive production, and unpicked enough vendor pitches to know what's real and what's theoretical. Advice here comes from engineers who build the systems, not from people who've only ever read about them.
How we work, start to finish.
- 01Intro call
60 minutes. You describe the decision or the situation; we ask enough questions to scope it honestly. If it's not a consulting problem — it's an execution problem, or it's a problem that doesn't need outside help — we'll say so.
- 02Scope & brief
Written scope: what we're looking at, what we're not, what the output is, who we need to talk to, timeline and cost. Nothing starts until you've signed off on that one page.
- 03The work
Access review, stakeholder interviews, data deep-dive, benchmarking as needed. You get a weekly written check-in during longer engagements — what we've looked at, what we're thinking, what we need next.
- 04Hand-over
Final document + 90-minute walk-through with the people who'll act on it. Plus one follow-up session two weeks later to answer anything that came up while the plan hit contact with reality.
Before you
ask us.
Get a second opinion, with skin in it.
Tell us what you're weighing. If it's a consulting problem, we'll scope it. If it isn't, we'll tell you that too — and point you at who should handle it instead.
or email hello@genvoid.com