The Navigator Engagement
AI strategy consulting for British Columbia companies.
Navigator is a 90-day AI strategy engagement for British Columbia mid-market companies, delivered by Vancouver-based UNIFY ORCHESTRATION AI INC. Diagnose your workflows, prioritise your AI investments and leave with specifications for your top three bets.
CAD $25,000
Fixed fee · 3-month engagement
4 concurrent engagements max
Limited availability per quarter
Why this engagement exists
Most AI initiatives die in the gap between “we should do something with AI” and “we shipped it to production.”
You hire consultants. You get a slide deck. You hire an agency. You get a demo. You buy a platform. You get a dashboard nobody uses. Meanwhile, your competitors are either sprinting past you or quietly failing in the same pattern.
The missing layer is spec — the precise, machine-actionable description of what you actually want an AI system to do, how to evaluate it, and when to trust it. Without that, everything downstream is theater.
The Navigator is a 90-day engagement that ends with you owning that layer.
The engagement
Three phases. One decision infrastructure.
Month 1
Diagnose
Where does AI actually fit in your company?
- Intent Audit — organizational layer (context infra, workflow coherence, intent alignment)
- 7 Difficulty Axes decomposition across your top-10 workflows
- AI-Dev Level assessment (Level 0 — 5 maturity diagnostic)
- Hyperscaler Risk Radar — which of your bets die when OpenAI ships vertical
- Trust Tier classification per workflow (Tier 1 annoyance → Tier 4 irreversible harm)
Output
Diagnostic Report — 30-50 pages, executive summary + heatmaps
Month 2
Map
Which AI bets are worth pursuing?
- Workflow Capability Map — agent-ready / agent-augmented / human-only
- Agent-Readiness Audit — your website, product, and API surface (llms.txt gap analysis)
- Idea Evaluation Lens — every AI bet scored on 5 durable verticals + 3 strategic axes
- Custom Decision Mind Map (our signature deliverable)
Output
AI Bet Portfolio — build / sharpen / reposition / kill verdicts with reasoning
Month 3
Spec
How do you execute without getting stuck?
- Top 3 bets → full Dark Factory specifications (behavioral contracts, intent contracts, eval scenarios)
- Factorial stress test matrix per spec (the same methodology we use on Tier 4 systems)
- Build-vs-buy-vs-wait recommendation per bet
- 90-day execution roadmap with hand-off to your engineering team
Output
Execution-Ready Spec Pack + 6 monthly check-ins (1 hour each)
Signature deliverable
The Decision Mind Map.
An interactive navigator of your entire AI bet portfolio — every workflow, every bet, every trust tier, every hyperscaler risk, every eval requirement, connected as a living graph.
- Root node: your strategic goals, articulated via the Cascade of Specificity framework
- Workflow branches: every workflow classified by difficulty axis and trust tier
- Bet branches: every AI initiative scored with verdict and reasoning
- Risk layer: hyperscaler exposure, compliance requirements, evaluation scaffolding
Every node is a decision point with a verdict, a reason, and a next action. Every quarter, we refresh it together as the landscape shifts.
Honest fit check
This engagement is not for everyone.
A fit if you are —
- ✓BC-based company, 50-500 employees, $10M-$200M annual revenue
- ✓Leadership recognizes AI is coming for the industry — disagreement is on timing, not inevitability
- ✓Previous AI pilots have stalled, produced unreliable output, or failed to reach production
- ✓You have workflows complex enough to benefit from AI, but sensitive enough that hallucinations cost money
- ✓You want ownership of the thinking — not dependency on a vendor or consulting firm
Not a fit if you are —
- ×Looking for a tool recommendation or vendor evaluation — we do not pick products for you
- ×Expecting us to build the AI system ourselves — we spec it, your team (or ours via referral) builds it
- ×Under 50 employees — the complexity that makes this engagement valuable does not yet exist
- ×Looking for generic training or workshops — this is a working engagement, not education
How to start
No cold pitch. No aggressive sales.
- 01
Take the free 10-minute readiness audit.
You receive a personalized report with your AI readiness score, your archetype, and the three highest-leverage gaps to close first.
- 02
30-minute diagnostic call.
If the audit surfaces a real fit, we have a working conversation — not a pitch. We walk through your specific situation and the frameworks that would apply.
- 03
Tailored proposal within 5 business days.
Engagement scope, timeline, deliverables, and fit assessment. If it is not the right time or the right match, we say so.
AI strategy consulting questions
Who is Navigator for?
Navigator is an AI strategy engagement for British Columbia mid-market companies with roughly 50 to 500 employees. It helps leadership teams decide which AI investments to pursue before committing to implementation.
How much does Navigator cost?
Navigator costs CAD $25,000 for a fixed-fee, three-month engagement. The work covers diagnosis, opportunity mapping and specifications for your top three AI bets.
What do we receive after 90 days?
You receive a diagnostic, a prioritised decision portfolio, execution-ready specifications for your top three AI bets and a 90-day implementation roadmap. Your engineering team or a delivery partner can use the specifications to plan the build.
How do we get started?
Start with the free AI readiness assessment. If there is a fit, the next step is a 30-minute diagnostic conversation about your company’s situation.
Before a first conversation, some leadership teams work through our AI readiness checklist together; it covers intent, processes, data, approvals and measurement.
If your immediate need is organising business information and trying one working AI workflow, explore Business Brain. For the underlying evaluation approach, read Trust as Architecture.