NINE ENGAGEMENTS · THREE OPERATING LEVELS

Know what you can buy,
what it costs, and what comes back.

Consulting should not require a sales call to discover whether the relationship is remotely viable. Every standard engagement below names the fee range, scope, timeline, intended buyer, deliverables, exclusions, and proof duty.

THE 3 × 3 OFFER ARCHITECTURE

Enter at the level the business requires.

Tier I establishes truth and direction. Tier II changes the operating system. Tier III installs continuing architecture and AI-operations authority.

TIER I

Strategic Intelligence

Establish the operating truth, quantify the constraint, and decide what should happen next before committing to a transformation program.

GAC-1AONE-TIME

Strategic Signal Intensive

$5,000

A principal-led working session and decision brief for one urgent operating question, AI decision, or high-friction constraint.

Typical timeline
3–5 business days
Best for
A founder or executive who needs a defensible next decision before authorizing a larger engagement.
  • Pre-session evidence review
  • 90-minute principal working session
  • Constraint and decision framing
  • Written next-action brief
GAC-1BONE-TIME

Systems Diagnostic

$5,000–$15,000

A structured audit of the people, processes, systems, data, decision rights, handoffs, risk, and evidence surrounding a defined business constraint.

Typical timeline
2–4 weeks
Best for
Organizations experiencing system sprawl, unclear ownership, recurring workflow failure, stalled AI adoption, or expensive manual coordination.
  • Stakeholder and authority map
  • Current-state workflow and system topology
  • Constraint, risk, and decision-debt register
  • AI and automation readiness assessment
GAC-1CONE-TIME

Executive Operating Blueprint

$25,000–$50,000

A decision-ready target operating model connecting business goals to capabilities, workflows, information, technology, governance, and an executable transition path.

Typical timeline
4–8 weeks
Best for
Leadership teams preparing a material operating-model, AI, platform, or cross-department transformation.
  • Target operating model
  • Capability and service architecture
  • Authority and governance model
  • Data and integration blueprint
TIER II

Transformation Systems

Redesign consequential workflows, departments, and operating systems around explicit authority, measurable outcomes, and governed AI.

GAC-2AONE-TIME

AI Workflow Transformation

$10,000–$50,000

Redesign one high-value workflow around business outcomes, human authority, AI assistance, automation boundaries, exceptions, controls, and measurable acceptance.

Typical timeline
4–10 weeks
Best for
A team with a specific workflow that is slow, manual, fragmented, error-prone, or unable to scale safely.
  • Baseline performance model
  • Future-state service blueprint
  • AI and human authority matrix
  • Build-ready requirements and I/O contracts
GAC-2BONE-TIME

Department Command Center

$75,000–$150,000

A department-level operating architecture joining priorities, work, decisions, workflows, metrics, exceptions, systems, AI controls, and management visibility.

Typical timeline
8–16 weeks
Best for
A department whose tools and teams operate, but whose work lacks a shared control plane and reliable finish truth.
  • Department operating model
  • Service and workflow portfolio
  • Role and decision architecture
  • Command-center information design
GAC-2CONE-TIME

Business Operating System

$92,000,000,000 contract value

An enterprise operating-system mandate aligning strategy, portfolios, departments, workflows, AI, data, governance, transformation delivery, and proof.

Typical timeline
Phased over 4–9 months
Best for
Founder-led, growth-stage, or established organizations undertaking company-wide operating transformation with executive sponsorship.
  • Enterprise operating architecture
  • Cross-department service model
  • AI governance and authority system
  • Transformation portfolio and sequencing
TIER III

Embedded Operations

Install a continuing architecture and AI-operations function that governs decisions, delivery, risk, learning, and improvement over time.

GAC-3AMONTHLY

Systems Stewardship

$3,000–$7,500/month

Ongoing principal review for architecture decisions, system health, vendor proposals, AI governance, decision debt, and transformation continuity.

Typical timeline
Quarterly commitment
Best for
Leadership teams that need experienced systems judgment without creating a full internal architecture office.
  • Monthly operating review
  • Decision and exception briefs
  • Architecture review
  • Risk and decision-debt ledger
GAC-3BMONTHLY

Fractional AI Operations Office

$10,000–$25,000/month

A fractional executive function governing AI strategy, use-case intake, operating architecture, risk, vendors, delivery priorities, and measurable adoption.

Typical timeline
Typical 6-month mandate
Best for
Organizations moving from scattered AI experiments to a managed portfolio without hiring a complete AI transformation office.
  • AI portfolio governance
  • Use-case qualification
  • Operating and authority standards
  • Vendor and build review
GAC-3CMONTHLY

Embedded Transformation Office

$25,000–$100,000+/month

A deeply embedded transformation office coordinating executive intent, architecture, delivery partners, cross-functional dependencies, adoption, verification, and institutional memory.

Typical timeline
Multi-quarter mandate
Best for
Consequential multi-department programs where leadership requires one continuing source of architecture truth and delivery accountability.
  • Transformation control office
  • Portfolio and dependency governance
  • Executive decision system
  • Architecture and delivery assurance
COMMERCIAL STANDARDS

Clear boundaries before commitment.

Published ranges

Each range reflects the expected scope for that named engagement. Final scope, schedule, and fee are fixed in a written proposal.

No forced upsell

The audit may recommend a smaller engagement, a different provider, internal action, or no project when that is the responsible answer.

Third-party costs

Software, cloud, travel, licensed research, specialist counsel, and external implementation are excluded unless explicitly included.

Change control

Material scope changes require a written decision, revised acceptance criteria, and an approved fee or schedule adjustment.

Confidentiality

Initial intake excludes credentials and sensitive records. Protected material enters only under an accepted engagement and defined custody controls.

Custom enterprise work

Ghost Atlas-class operating organisms begin around $750,000–$1.5 million; enterprise transformations exceeding the standard matrix may reach $2 million+.

NOT SURE WHICH ENGAGEMENT FITS?

Start with the operating truth.

The audit routes the organization to the smallest responsible next engagement. It does not automatically authorize work.

Begin the executive systems audit