The hours you sell should be close to the only hours you spend.

Where consultancies bleed hours

This is worth being specific about, because it is rarely the delivery work itself. In a senior-led consultancy the leaks are almost always in the connective tissue:

• Proposal production. Every serious engagement starts with a document that takes days: scoping notes turned into structure, past material hunted down and reworked, pricing tables rebuilt. The thinking takes an hour. The document takes the rest.
• The follow-up gap. Conversations that went well and then went quiet. Not because the interest died, but because nobody's job is to notice that day 12 of silence has arrived. For most consultancies this gap is the single largest source of lost revenue, and it is invisible because nothing fails loudly.
• Research legwork. Before your judgment can act, someone has to gather: the client's numbers, industry benchmarks, prior reports, what changed since last quarter. Senior people doing junior collection work is the most expensive version of this.
• The author's backlog. You have books, frameworks, and decades of material. Turning that into a steady public output that keeps you visible between books is a production job, and production jobs lose to client work every single week.
• Onboarding and admin. Agreements, kickoff packs, access requests, the same ten emails per new engagement, written fresh every time.

The team we would install

Not a tool you learn. A working team, run by us, operating inside your existing systems. Five lanes:

• Inbox and pipeline. Every inbound and every warm conversation tracked, qualified, and kept moving. Nothing goes quiet by accident; you see one clean pipeline view instead of a mailbox.
• Proposal and document drafting. Your frameworks, your past proposals, and your voice become the base. New engagement scoping goes in, a structured first draft comes out the same day, and you spend your time editing judgment into it rather than assembling it.
• Research desk. Engagement prep, data gathering, benchmark pulls, and summarization done before you need them. You start each engagement at the analysis stage, not the collection stage.
• Content engine. Your existing body of work, books, reports, talks, mined and turned into a consistent publishing pipeline, drafted in your voice, always yours to approve. An author's visibility, maintained without the author doing production.
• Ops reporting. A weekly picture of the business itself: pipeline state, proposal status, content shipped, hours where they went. The numbers you would check every week if getting them took a minute.

The first fourteen days

• Days 1 to 3. We map how work actually flows through your firm: where enquiries land, how proposals get made, where the follow-up gap is, what your content backlog looks like. Short calls, no workshops.
• Days 4 to 10. We build the first two lanes live, usually inbox/pipeline and proposal drafting, because they pay back fastest. You see real output in the first week, on your real work, and you correct it until it sounds like you.
• By day 14. The install is live. Not a pilot document, a running system: pipeline tracked, first drafts flowing, and the weekly report in your inbox. The remaining lanes come online across the first month.

A day, before and after

What stays human, permanently

This matters more in a consultancy than anywhere else, so it is worth stating plainly:

• Your judgment is the product. The AI team never advises your clients, never signs off analysis, and never speaks with your authority. It prepares, drafts, tracks, and reports. You decide.
• Your relationships stay yours. Client-facing substance goes out under your review. Drafts wait for you; nothing meaningful is sent on autopilot.
• Your name is protected. Content ships only when you approve it, in your voice, from your material. The engine gives you back the time to be the author; it does not replace him.

What it costs

$4,000 per month

No setup fee. Three-month minimum, so $12,000 for the term, with 50% of the term paid upfront and the balance billed monthly. After the minimum it runs month to month.

Two things make this a safe purchase:

• You own everything we build. Every playbook, workflow, and system built for your firm is yours, documented, from day one. If we ever part ways, the machinery stays with you.
• You see everything, weekly. Full transparency on what was built, what ran, and what it produced. You are never guessing what you are paying for, and the install is live by day 14, not after a quarter of setup.

Questions a skeptical consultant should ask

"I have seen AI write generic slop. Why would this sound like me?"

Because it starts from your material, not from the internet. Your proposals, your books, your voice, corrected by you in the first two weeks until the drafts pass your own bar. And nothing ships without your approval, so the bar is enforced by you, not promised by us.

"My clients pay for confidentiality. Where does their data go?"

Client material is handled under your instructions, scoped to the engagement, and never used anywhere else. We agree the boundaries in writing during the first week, before any client data is touched.

"Is this just tools I could buy myself?"

The tools are the easy 20 percent, and yes, you could buy them. What you are buying here is the operation: someone accountable for the follow-up actually happening, the drafts actually arriving, the edge cases actually handled, every week. That is the part that quietly dies when it is nobody's job.

"What happens when it gets something wrong?"

It will, especially early. That is why the design is draft-and-approve on anything that matters, why week one and two are correction-heavy on purpose, and why you get a weekly report instead of a black box. Errors get caught in your review queue, not in front of a client.

"What if it does not work for my firm?"

The minimum is three months because that is an honest install-and-prove window, not a lock-in. You hold the transparency to judge it week by week, and you keep everything built either way. If it is not earning its place by the end of the term, you walk away owning the machinery.