The Navigator Engagement

Your AI strategy — diagnosed, mapped, and spec'd in 90 days.

For BC mid-market companies that want to stop piloting AI and start shipping it — with the trust infrastructure the technology actually requires.

$25,000 CAD

Fixed fee · 3-month engagement

4 concurrent engagements max

Limited availability per quarter

Start with the free audit →See what's included

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.

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.

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.

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.

Start with the readiness audit →