One partnership. Three phases.
Built to earn its place in 90 days.
AI Product Partner is a single 90-day engagement — diagnose what's going sideways, build the fix, and prove it worked — with me staying on as your partner through whatever comes next. Not a diagnostic that ends in a proposal. One arc, start to finish.
Built for B2B product teams mid-build — when something is already going sideways.
If your team has shipped AI features that aren't landing, has AI on the roadmap without a clear strategy, or is using AI tools without changing how decisions get made — this engagement was designed for you.
AI shipped but adoption is low — the team knows something is off but can't diagnose whether it's a product problem, a positioning problem, or both
AI is on the roadmap but nobody owns the strategy — tools are being chosen before the customer problem has been defined
The team uses AI tools but decisions haven't changed — roadmaps still run on gut feel, discovery still takes the same amount of time
Build vs. buy vs. partner is unresolved — evaluating vendors without a clear view of what problem you're solving or what good looks like
Sales is hiding the AI features in demos — reps can't articulate the value prop and prospects aren't converting because of it
90 days. One continuous arc — not a diagnostic and a separate decision.
Diagnosing directly from the customers who use your product — not the intermediaries who describe them — and staying through the build, not handing off a document and disappearing.
Confirming the fit before we start
A free 20-minute call to talk about what's going sideways — in the product, on the roadmap, or in how the team is working — and confirm there's a fit before the engagement begins.
Diagnosing directly from the customers who use your product
Every layer of the work starts here — not with the intermediaries who describe your customers, but with the customers themselves. The assessment spans seven areas of your product and process.
The roadmap becomes real — not handed off
This is where the diagnostic moves into the AI Product Partner retainer: working sessions with product, CS, and sales prioritize the highest-conviction opportunities, and implementation begins directly.
A credible, board-ready answer on where things stand
A 90-day scorecard compares baseline to checkpoint across three outcomes — resource reallocation, decision quality, and business outcome.
Every deliverable is immediately usable — not filed away after the readout.
Across the 90 days, your team walks away with a complete package it can act on the same week it arrives.
Executive Summary
Two-page summary of diagnostic findings and strategic rationale — built for board and investor communication.
Customer Pain-to-AI Opportunity Map
Real customer friction points mapped to realistic AI interventions, evaluated for business impact and technical feasibility.
AI Feature Audit with Gap Analysis
What's been built, what's working, what isn't, and where the gap between product intent and customer reality lives.
Build vs. Buy vs. Partner Evaluation
For each prioritized opportunity — the right approach, relevant vendors or APIs, and the tradeoffs the team needs to own before committing.
GTM-Ready AI Narrative
How to talk about your AI to customers, prospects, and the market — grounded in the problems it actually solves, not the features it contains.
Sales & CS Enablement Starter
Updated language for demos, objection handling for AI skeptics, and talking points for customer conversations.
Decision-Process Map & Recommendation
A map of how your team currently decides what to build — and a specific recommendation for fixing the parts that will otherwise drift back to the same failure mode.
Baseline Metrics & 90-Day Scorecard
Adoption rate, wasted build-cycle length, and redundant vendor spend captured at the start — compared against results at day 90.
Structured to fit inside how your team already works.
Once Phase 2 begins — and for as long as the partnership continues — every week follows the same structure: predictable enough to build into your cadence, flexible enough to move with your priorities and sprint cycle.
| Block | Hours | Format | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership Sync | 2 hrs | Synchronous | CPO / Head of Product / Founder |
| Team Sync | Up to 4 hrs | Synchronous | Product, CS, and sales leads |
| Research & async work | ~4 hrs | Asynchronous | Delivered between sessions |
Hours shown reflect the Embedded tier as an example — see Investment below for how the mix adjusts by tier. Requirements review and backlog grooming are handled asynchronously ahead of each planning session, so the team arrives ready to prioritize, not starting from a blank slate.
Layer 2 unlocks when the team is ready.
The operational layer — redesigning how the team uses AI for research, discovery, requirements, prototyping, and delivery — isn't introduced on day one. It comes after the product strategy is stable and the team has seen what rigorous AI thinking looks like in practice. Changing how a team works before you've fixed what they're working on is the wrong order of operations.
One phased investment — priced to your size, and to how deep the work goes.
Phase 1 is a fixed fee based on company size. What follows — Phases 2–3, and any continuation after day 90 — runs at a standard rate you choose based on how much support you need, independent of company size.
Founding-client rate reflects 50% off the standard diagnostic fee.
Standard rate — no founding discount applies to the retainer. Every client pays the same rate regardless of tenure, and the tier is chosen independently of company size, based on hours needed.
| Size Tier | Phase 1 (Founding) | Phases 2–3 (~2mo) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMB + Advisory | $4,375 | $5,250 | $9,625 |
| Growth Stage + Embedded | $6,250 | $10,400 | $16,650 |
| Mid-Market + Operational | $9,250 | $15,600 | $24,850 |
Shown for reference — this is the most common size-to-tier pairing, not a fixed requirement. Any retainer tier can be paired with any size tier based on hours needed.
50% due at engagement start, 50% due upon delivery of the Phase 1 diagnostic. Phases 2–3 bill monthly at the applicable retainer rate. Continuing beyond the initial 90 days is optional and bills month-to-month — there's no separate minimum to clear.