We retain monthly with a handful of operators who know they need to move on AI — and help them actually do it. Strategy, team structure, hiring, and yes, building. We close the gap between where you are and where the market is moving.
Pick how deep you want us in. You can move up or down a tier with 30 days' notice — most clients start at advisor, graduate to operator, then oscillate based on what's on fire.
A weekly call with a senior operator who's seen the pattern before. You bring the decisions, we pressure-test them — stack choices, build-vs-buy, hiring timing, where AI fits and where it doesn't. Lightweight by design. Bolt on hiring support or architecture review when you need it.
The senior AI leadership you need before you're ready to hire it permanently. We assess where you are, set the AI strategy with your leadership, pressure-test every hard call — org design, vendor choices, hiring plan, build-vs-buy — and stay reachable async between sessions. Good for orgs that know they need to move on AI but aren't sure where to start.
Where most relationships land. We embed with your org — shaping the AI roadmap, running hiring loops, standing up the team, and building alongside them on whatever is load-bearing this quarter. Strategy and execution in the same engagement. The goal: get you to the point where you don't need us anymore.
Scoped to the shape of your organization. Multi-team coverage, multi-quarter horizon, on-call rotation, direct reports into your leadership. For companies where one person in the room isn't enough and the stakes justify more of us. Every detail is negotiated.
One paragraph about your org, your team, and what you want an AI partner to own. Not a brief. Not an RFP. hello@b0gy.com.
We talk about the organization, not a project. Where's the AI capability today, where does it need to be, and what's in the way? We pressure-test fit and pick a starting tier — most clients start at advisor.
Week one is a trial. Full retainer, pro-rated. At the end we both decide: continue, change tier, or part friends. Either way you keep what we built.
One invoice per month. Tier changes with 30 days' notice. Most relationships run 18+ months; the shortest was 4. We plan in quarters, not sprints.
$ cat ./what_we_dont_do.txt — no statements of work, no change orders — no hourly timesheets or minimum-hour clauses — no offshore team you've never met — no 40-slide strategy decks before a line of code
They feel like part of the company. They've set our AI strategy, hired two of our best engineers, and shipped the systems our board actually asks about. The retainer is the easiest line item I renew.
One invoice per month. No change orders, no hourly timesheets, no "phases". Move up or down a tier with 30 days' notice. Cancel the same way if we're not earning the retainer.
from $2k / mo 4 calls / month | advisor from $12k / mo ~1 day / week | operator from $32k / mo 2–3 days / week | enterprise custom scoped to your org | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calls / month | 4 (weekly, 45 min) | ~1 day / wk | 2–3 days / wk | scoped |
| Leadership working session | weekly call | weekly | weekly + standups | daily |
| Async access (Slack) | 48h response | 24h response | same-day | real-time |
| AI roadmap + capability planning | — | advisory | co-owned | we help run it |
| AI readiness assessment | — | initial + quarterly | ongoing | continuous |
| Team structure + org design | — | advisory | co-designed | we run it |
| Hands-on delivery | — | architecture review | embedded with your team | multi-team |
| On-call / escalation | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Board / exec memo cadence | — | quarterly | quarterly | monthly |
| Hiring + interviewing | bolt-on | advisory | panels + scorecards | we run the loop |
| start signal → | start advisor → | start operator → | talk enterprise → |
* Prices are monthly floors. The real number depends on team size, stack, and how loud the pager is. We'll quote an exact retainer after call one.
* For context: an in-house VP AI Engineering runs $350k–$550k/yr before equity and benefits. Our operator tier delivers the same strategic depth at a fraction of the commitment — no ramp time, no recruiter fees, 30-day cancellation.
Evals are not the thing you add after launch. They are the thing that tells you whether launching is a good idea.
read · 10 min →Half the 'agent architectures' we audit are a cronjob with a LLM call and a retry loop. That is a good thing.
read · 7 min →Most AI roadmaps we see are 14 features with a velocity assumption. The fix is not better estimation.
read · 11 min →You're an operator at an org with real stakes — revenue, regulatory, or reputational — and you want a long-horizon AI partner rather than a one-shot build. You have a team (or are hiring one). You want someone in the room on the hard calls for the next 12–24 months. If that's the picture, email us.
No — that's actually where most engagements start. We help you figure out the right team shape, write the job descriptions, run interview panels, evaluate vendors, and set the technical direction before your first AI hire walks in the door. The advisor tier exists specifically for this. By the time you hire, they're walking into a strategy and architecture that's already been pressure-tested.
Good — that's a better starting point than most. Month one of any engagement starts with understanding your business, your data, and your team. We'll help you find the use case that compounds — the one that's feasible with your current stack and meaningful enough to justify the investment. We'd rather you build one thing well than five things badly.
Because the work we do best — strategy, team, and systems together — is not a project. It's a relationship with the organization. A retainer lets us pivot with you when the roadmap changes (and it will) without re-opening a statement of work every time.
30 days' notice at advisor or operator, 60 days at partner. No exit fees, no lawyers. Honestly, if we're not earning the retainer we'll flag it before you do — we'd rather pause than collect a fee that isn't pulling its weight.
Yes. Most clients start at advisor, step up to operator when a big build lands, then drop back down once it's in maintenance. Tier changes take 30 days' notice in either direction. The relationship is the constant — the intensity flexes.
We write strategy memos (quarterly at every tier) and present them to your leadership or board. What we don't do: 40-slide consulting decks as a deliverable. Our strategy shows up as decisions made, code merged, and people hired.
Yes — the retainer only works if we do. We work in your repo, your Slack, your standups. We review PRs from your team. We help you hire. We do not bring a "pod" or a bench, and we do not bring junior engineers we're trying to train on your time.
Python, TypeScript, Go for services. Postgres, SQLite, Redis, Kafka. Most of the common model providers + a lot of open-weights work. If your stack is weirder than that (Rust, Elixir, a LISP of some kind) we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Yes. Our standard mutual NDA is one page; we'll also sign yours if it's reasonable. What we won't sign: anything that prevents us from writing vendor-neutral field notes about patterns (never specifics, never you).
If we're not right for what you're doing, we usually know two or three firms who are. Email us anyway — a good referral takes 20 minutes and we'd rather do that than nothing.
Tell us about your org, your team, and where you are with AI — the honest version, not a brief. We'll reply with a proposed tier, a call invite, or (rarely) a referral to someone better suited.