Service
AI Strategy to Production
A sober assessment of whether AI or ML is the right lever, what the production architecture should look like, and how the system will be evaluated, monitored, and owned after launch. Useful for CTOs, VPs, CIOs, and investors who need more than a demo.
- Price
- From £200/hour
- Format
- Assessment route
- Booking note
- Usual first step under the AI Build door — adoption, evaluation, safety, delivery path, and ownership.
Scoped assessment work quoted after the first scheduling step
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Assess AI readiness
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Who it's for
Executive teams weighing an AI investment who need to know if it is real, what it costs to run, and who owns it after launch — not another slide deck.
What you get
- Use-case triage: which ideas justify AI/ML at all, and which are better solved conventionally.
- A target production architecture — where the model lives, how data flows, and where the boundaries are.
- An evaluation and safety plan: how you measure quality, catch regressions, and bound failure.
- An operating model: who runs it, how it is monitored, and what it costs at steady state.
- A delivery path from where you are to production, with the risks named up front.
How it works
- Discovery: your goals, constraints, data reality, and current stack.
- Assessment: use-case selection, architecture, evaluation, and operating-model review.
- Readout: a written recommendation you can take to the board — and, when build is justified, a scoped Custom AI/ML Build as a separate engagement.
FAQ
Common questions
We already have a prototype. Is this still useful?
Especially then. The gap between a working prototype and a production system it is safe to trust is where most AI efforts stall — evaluation, ownership, cost, and failure handling. That gap is exactly what this assesses.
Will you tell us not to build it?
If that is the honest answer, yes. Part of the value is ruling out AI where a simpler approach wins, before you spend the budget.
Is this the same as Custom AI/ML Build?
No. Assessment and build are separate Cal.com bookings on purpose. This route decides whether and how to proceed; the build route is for delivery once the outcome is clear.
How is this priced?
From £200/hour; scoped assessment work is quoted after the first scheduling step once the shape is clear.
Assess AI readiness?
Start with a short conversation. If it isn't the right fit, you'll hear that too.