Every engagement starts with a fixed-fee diagnostic and ends with a system your team uses every week.
Diagnose, Build, Adopt, Run. Four stages, one catalog, priced before any build.
Stage 01 · Diagnose
Two weeks to find where AI pays and price the build before you commit.
How we find the valueFree tool
Map the WorkflowForge Diagnostic
Two weeks of commercial and performance diligence to find where AI pays across the business, rank each business case, and map the one workflow worth building first.
Term
2 weeks
Fee basis
Fixed fee
Agreed up front.
Eval and Reliability Audit
For AI systems your company already built. Deliverables: an eval harness, reliability gates, a fix plan.
Term
2 weeks
Fee basis
Fixed fee
Agreed up front.
Forge Sprint
10 to 14 weeks from kickoff to a live production system. Every Sprint ships with daily output checks and step-by-step run tracing.
Term
10 to 14 weeks
Fee basis
Scoped in the Diagnostic
Agreed before any build.
Stage 03 · Adopt
The team uses it every week, or the work is not done.
How the return is measuredFree tool
Take the scorecardForge Scale
The Adoption Mile: a named operator, a weekly working cadence, and a live adoption scoreboard.
Term
Ongoing
Fee basis
Monthly retainer
Scoped to the system.
Fractional Chief AI Officer
The top tier of Forge Scale. Standing AI leadership across the whole company.
Term
Ongoing
Fee basis
Monthly retainer
Top tier, scoped to the engagement.
Forge Run
Monitoring, daily output checks, SLAs, and model upgrades for every system we built.
Term
Ongoing
Fee basis
Monthly retainer
Per system, after the build.
PE Portfolio Pack
Portfolio AI scan
Diagnostic multipack across portfolio companies
Sponsor-level adoption scoreboard
Pricing: scoped with the sponsor.
Third-party research
- 98%
- of sponsors have mandated AI adoption
- about50%
- of portfolio companies are actively implementing
Source: Accordion, The PE AI Adoption Benchmark, May 2026, n=150