Test & Control · AI Force Multiplication · Huntsville, AL
First, who you are dealing with
Twenty three years across aerospace, defense and production companies, in design, test, software and hardware. The programs changed, the job titles changed, and the actual work almost never did.
I was the one sent in to sit down with a customer and work out what was really wrong. Not to take an order. The problem a customer describes is rarely the problem a customer has, and the part that mattered most was usually the part nobody had asked me to look at. Find the real problem, say it out loud even when it is not what anyone wanted to hear, propose the fix, then deliver it and stand behind it.
Do that for two decades and you notice you have been selling one thing the whole time, under a lot of different names.
Discovery. Analysis. Delivery.
That is the company. Everything below is that same sequence at a different size, and priced so you can buy as much or as little of it as your problem actually warrants.
Most consultants make you sit through a discovery call to find out their rate. Here is the whole ladder, priced, with the acceptance criteria I expect to be held to. The Briefing is discovery on its own. The Teardown is all three steps on one workflow. Everything above it is the same three steps with more of your operation in scope. Start anywhere. Most people start at the Teardown.
No charge
A working session with three to six of your leaders. I bring the North Alabama opportunity map, we walk it against your operation, and you keep a one-page ranked shortlist specific to your company.
You leave with at least three named workflows worth examining. If you don't, I've wasted your morning and I'll say so.
Most people start here
$2,500
One workflow, not the whole company. I interview the two or three people who actually perform it, map where the hours go, and build one working automation against your real process.
The automation runs on your inputs and produces output a member of your team accepts without rework. If it doesn't, you don't pay.
$4,500
Five structured interviews, one half-day on site, and a scored map of every opportunity across engineering and business operations — ranked on impact, effort, and data sensitivity.
Every opportunity is scored with a defensible number and the proof-of-concept demonstrably runs. No item is left as 'investigate further'.
$12,000 – $20,000
Take the top opportunity to daily-use quality inside your environment. Acceptance criteria are written and agreed before any money is committed.
The criteria we agreed in writing before the work started. They are specific, measurable, and I do not get to move them.
$2,500 – $4,500 / month
Standing monthly capacity. I maintain what's built, extend it to the next workflow, train your people, and give your leadership a monthly readout.
Month to month, cancel with 30 days' notice. If it stops earning its keep you should end it, and I'll tell you when I think it has.
$6,000 – $9,000
I teach your engineers to build this themselves. Tooling, patterns, prompt and evaluation discipline, and where the failure modes hide.
Your engineers ship one workflow without me touching the keyboard.
$3,000 – $5,000
The question that comes before all the others: can we even do this with our data? Tool selection, data-boundary rules, acceptable-use policy, and what CUI and CMMC actually permit.
Your ISSO can point at a written rule for any tool an engineer asks about.
Start with the briefing. It costs nothing, it takes ninety minutes, and you'll leave with a ranked list whether or not you ever hire me.
Book the briefing