A $25K to $50K transformation plan, without the price tag or the six weeks of workshops.
Built on the RAISE framework. Done from your desk. A guided, AI-facilitated planning journey that turns how your organization actually works to a board-ready AI transformation roadmap, in a few sittings instead of a quarter of consulting.
Most mid-market organizations aren’t behind on AI.
They’re ahead of their own leadership’s picture of it. Individual adoption is already real inside most companies. It’s just invisible at the top, unsequenced, and never written down anywhere a leadership team can act on together.
The failure data backs this up: 95 percent of GenAI pilots stall before they produce a return (MIT). 56 percent of CEOs report getting nothing measurable from their AI efforts (PwC, 2026). 79 percent of enterprises report real adoption challenges. The common thread isn’t a tools problem. It’s the absence of a clear target state, honest readiness data, and a sequenced plan that respects how the organization actually runs.
Ask three leaders on the same team where the company stands on AI, separately, and you’ll often get three different answers. That disagreement isn’t noise. It’s the finding.
Nothing today fills this gap.
Free assessments from the big platforms are lead-gen. They’re single-respondent and they hand you a score with no plan.
A $299 RAISE OS baseline tells you where you stand today. Useful, but it still leaves the “now what” question open.
A traditional consulting engagement answers “now what” for $25,000 to $50,000 and six or more weeks of workshops your calendar doesn’t have room for.
Nothing today gives a mid-market executive a rigorous, personalized transformation plan for a credit-card price with zero scheduling. That’s the gap this journey fills.
Four phases, built around your calendar.
A guided, conversational planning process, not a form to fill out. You talk through how your business actually runs; the roadmap gets built from that conversation, the same way a skilled analyst would work through it in interviews, just without six weeks of their calendar or yours.
Backcasting
After a short conversation makes sure we’re aimed at the transformation that actually fits, operational, strategic expansion, or both, you describe your business fully AI-native a few years out, and the process keeps asking until that picture is concrete and specific to your operations, not generic.
Present-State Reconstruction
A structured conversation reconstructs how your key workflows actually run today, including the workarounds and bottlenecks that never make it into an org chart.
Capability Check
A lightweight readiness read across the five RAISE pillars, weighted for the path you’re on.
Synthesis
The roadmap comes together. Confirmed path, target state, capability gaps, the top redesign opportunities, a sequence to act on, and explicit next steps, delivered as a professional document your leadership team or board can actually use.
Nothing here requires a scheduled call, and you can complete it across more than one sitting. It’s built to fit around your calendar, not the other way around. You can run through the entire process in a week or take more time if you need it.
The conversation is the ingestion engine.
Most mid-market organizations don’t have clean, current process documentation, and asking for it first is where these projects usually stall before they start. This journey doesn’t require any of that. Documentation describes the official process; a structured interview surfaces the real one, including the parts that never made it into a diagram, and for a transformation plan, the real process is the one that matters.
For most executives, the transcript this journey produces is the first coherent documentation of how their organization actually works that has ever existed.
See it before you commit.
Read a complete sample roadmap for a fictional mid-market company, start to finish, exactly as a real customer receives it. No sign-up required.
Read the sample roadmapWhat’s included, and what comes next.
The roadmap is the deliverable today. It’s designed as the start of an ongoing relationship, not a one-time report.
Transformation Discovery
The full guided journey and roadmap described above, plus assessment access for up to six leaders on your team so the plan reflects more than one person’s view.
Transformation Planning
A deep redesign of an additional workflow beyond your roadmap’s top three, one we already noticed but didn’t have room for, or a new one as your business changes. No extra session required. We’re building this next.
Tell us in your application if this is something you’d want, it directly shapes what we build.
Transformation Guidance
Ongoing quarterly reassessment and roadmap refresh, so the plan stays current as conditions change.
Also in development. Same ask: tell us if this matters to you.
“Why not just ask an AI myself?”
This is the question every skeptical executive asks, and it deserves a real answer instead of a brush-off.
Asking a general AI directly for a transformation plan means asking it to interview itself. It only knows what one person types in one sitting, and that person is both the only witness to how the business runs and the only editor of what counts as relevant. Four things a solo chat session structurally cannot produce:
A team, not one respondent
A team’s disagreement about where the company stands, because there’s only one respondent.
Traceability
Generic output states numbers with no way to tell measured fact from invented plausibility, while every number here traces to a labeled, correctable assumption.
Hours vs. dollars
The distinction between hours saved and dollars saved, which a disciplined process forces and an open chat has no reason to enforce.
Institutional memory
Memory of what your organization already tried and failed at, which shapes the sequencing here and has no place to live in a generic best-practice list.
You can get an AI to produce something that looks like a transformation plan in five minutes. What you can’t get from one unaided conversation is a plan built from structured, multi-respondent evidence, with every number traceable, that survives five minutes in front of a CFO. Read the sample roadmap above and judge that gap for yourself.
We’re opening Transformation Discovery to the first 10 companies at $1,495, founding-customer pricing, not a permanent discount. In exchange, we ask for a short feedback conversation and, if it’s earned, a testimonial. Applications are reviewed and accepted in order; once the 10 are filled, the next cohort opens at the standard $2,500 price.
Apply for the Founding Cohort.
Short enough to complete in under three minutes. Every field earns its place either in qualifying fit or in shaping what gets built next.
Submit applicationGot it. Applications are reviewed within a few business days; if there’s a fit, you’ll hear directly from Andi with next steps.
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- ✓What’s driving you to look at this now?
- ✓Which sounds closest to where you are?
- ✓Beyond the roadmap, would any of what’s next interest you?
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