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● ADVISORY LABS DOCUMENT 004 FIELD: APPLIED AI 05/19/2026
// SERVICES · MOTION

Four ways to work with us. Each one a real "no" point.

Most agencies want a contract before they understand the problem. We work backwards. Free teardown first. Audit second. Build only when both sides know what we're shipping. Retainer only if both sides want it.

// 01

Free Lead-Flow Teardown

Free · 30 minutes

A working session, not a sales call. We look at your actual lead flow: voice intake, lead routing, enrichment, CRM, sequences. Then we tell you where the drop-off is. No quote at the end by design.

Deliverable

A short written summary of where AI moves the needle in your funnel, and where it doesn't.

// 02

AI Lead Engine Audit

From $5,000 (HEI/Mortgage: $7,500) · 2 weeks

Stack audit + 90-day roadmap + prioritized ROI estimates. The deliverable is what you should actually build, in order. We talk to your team, instrument your funnel, and come back with the plan.

Deliverable

Full audit document, prioritized backlog, fixed-price options for the Build phase.

// 03

AI Lead Engine Build

From $25,000 fixed (typical: $25K–$50K) · 6–8 weeks

Fixed scope, fixed price, production deployment. Voice AI, agentic enrichment, CRM consolidation, or sequence orchestration — scoped after the audit. We ship live to your stack, not a sandbox.

Deliverable

Production code, deployed and running. Migration safety gates, Sentry, CI/CD. Docs and runbook handoff.

// 04

Fractional AI Engineering Lead

From $7,500/month · 6-month minimum

Embedded engineering. Direct contribution, not just review. On-call for production. Roadmap ownership. Pattern library and incident retros documented in your repo, not ours.

Deliverable

Weekly shipping cadence + monthly roadmap review + on-call coverage.

// 05

HEI Eligibility Engine

From $75,000 fixed · 10–14 weeks

Vertical premium offer for HEI / HEA / SLB operators. Multi-program eligibility logic, state whitelists, LTV/CLTV caps, ownership rules — all in admin-driven config, not hardcoded.

Deliverable

Production eligibility engine + admin UI + integration with your underwriting flow.

// 06 · HOW PRICING WORKS

Floor prices. No tier comparisons.

Every offer has a floor price. We don't publish ceilings because they depend on scope. We don't run tier comparison tables ("Basic / Pro / Premium") because the work isn't the same shape twice.

The Teardown is free because it's how we figure out whether we should work together at all. Most teardowns end with a recommendation that isn't "buy our Audit." We're comfortable with that.

The Audit exists because most teams who reach us shouldn't go straight to Build. Two weeks of structured discovery saves both sides 8–10 weeks of misaimed engineering.

The Retainer is 6-month minimum because anything shorter is consulting, not embedding.

// 07 · BRIEF US

Tell us what's broken.

We'll come back with one of three things: a teardown invite, a pointed question, or an honest "this isn't us." Most briefs get a reply within two business days.

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