# Technology and AI advisory plans for small and medium-sized businesses

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Compare monthly technology and AI advisory plans for small and medium-sized businesses. Get practical guidance on architecture, AI adoption, systems integration, deployment workflows, and agreed hands-on implementation from $1,500 per month.

Plans start at $1,500 per month. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.

## Ongoing expertise. Work that moves forward.

I help you make sound technical decisions and carry them through, contributing hands-on or guiding the technical people already on your team. I establish architecture, standards, processes, review practices, and AI guardrails that improve output, efficiency, quality, consistency, and determinism. The work can include configuring technologies, development tools, and integrations, establishing deployment workflows, or building front-end and back-end software. The priorities and scope are agreed together.

### Bronze — $1,500/month
Make one important decision with confidence.

I help you make one important technology or AI decision each month, contributing hands-on implementation or guiding your existing team through that priority.

- One 60-minute working session each month
- One monthly planning conversation, plus preparation and work between conversations
- Initial response within 2 business days

Included:
- Preparation and one focused review of a tool, workflow, proposal, prototype, or technical approach each month
- A written decision brief: options, tradeoffs, recommendation, and next steps
- Agreed focused design, system setup, or development work for that priority, with your team retaining ownership
- Follow-through between conversations by email on that priority throughout the month

### Silver — $3,000/month
Turn competing priorities into a clear plan.

I help you turn competing priorities into a practical sequence, with regular review, roadmap upkeep, and bounded implementation or team enablement across those priorities.

- Two 60-minute working sessions each month
- Two monthly planning conversations, plus preparation and work between conversations
- Initial response within 2 business days

Included:
- Preparation and two focused technical reviews each month, with written findings and recommendations
- A prioritized 90-day technology and AI roadmap, updated monthly
- Agreed design, setup, or development work across roadmap priorities, with your team retaining day-to-day ownership
- A monthly progress review that identifies blockers and adjusts next steps
- Follow-through between conversations by email across the priorities on your roadmap

### Gold — $6,000/month
Give your team CTO-level technical direction.

I provide sustained CTO-level technical leadership across architecture, execution, priorities, and agreed hands-on work, contributing directly or guiding your team and vendors.

- Four 60-minute working sessions each month
- Four monthly planning conversations, plus preparation and work between conversations
- Initial response within 1 business day

Included:
- Preparation and four focused technical reviews each month, with written findings and recommendations
- Your roadmap, decision log, and risk register maintained throughout the month
- Agreed hands-on architecture, system setup, or development work across roadmap priorities
- Coordination with your internal lead or vendors on agreed priorities and blockers
- A monthly leadership brief covering progress, risks, and decisions needed
- Follow-through between conversations by email for your team, with a next-business-day initial response

## What a focused review and monthly engagement mean

### What a focused review is

You bring one clearly defined question about a workflow, tool, proposal, prototype, integration choice, or architecture choice. Before I start, I’ll confirm what to review and how much detail you need.

### What you keep

You keep what I deliver. That may include written recommendations, diagrams, roadmaps, checklists, implementation guidance, delivered integrations, or agreed changes to your systems or software. Everything I deliver remains yours when the engagement ends.

### Work throughout the month

I carry agreed priorities forward through architecture and design, system and development-tool setup, integration work, deployment workflows, or front-end and back-end software work. Your team keeps ownership of its systems and decisions.

### Choosing a level

Choose Bronze to make one important decision with confidence, Silver to turn competing priorities into a clear plan, or Gold to give your team CTO-level technical direction.

### What is scoped separately

One-time audits, larger projects, and emergency support are scoped separately. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.

## Which advisory plan fits your business?

Choose Bronze to make one important decision with confidence, Silver to turn competing priorities into a clear plan, or Gold to give your team CTO-level technical direction. Every plan includes preparation, follow-through, and work agreed within its priorities. One-time audits, larger projects, and emergency support are scoped separately.

| Included | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Best fit | Make one important decision with confidence. | Turn competing priorities into a clear plan. | Give your team CTO-level technical direction. |
| Included guidance | Preparation and one focused review of a tool, workflow, proposal, prototype, or technical approach each month | Preparation and two focused technical reviews each month, with written findings and recommendations | Preparation and four focused technical reviews each month, with written findings and recommendations |
| Work between conversations | I help you make one important technology or AI decision each month, contributing hands-on implementation or guiding your existing team through that priority. | I help you turn competing priorities into a practical sequence, with regular review, roadmap upkeep, and bounded implementation or team enablement across those priorities. | I provide sustained CTO-level technical leadership across architecture, execution, priorities, and agreed hands-on work, contributing directly or guiding your team and vendors. |
| What you keep | A written decision brief: options, tradeoffs, recommendation, and next steps; Agreed focused design, system setup, or development work for that priority, with your team retaining ownership | A prioritized 90-day technology and AI roadmap, updated monthly; Agreed design, setup, or development work across roadmap priorities, with your team retaining day-to-day ownership | Your roadmap, decision log, and risk register maintained throughout the month; Agreed hands-on architecture, system setup, or development work across roadmap priorities |
| Leadership and coordination | Agreed focused design, system setup, or development work for that priority, with your team retaining ownership; Follow-through between conversations by email on that priority throughout the month | A monthly progress review that identifies blockers and adjusts next steps; Follow-through between conversations by email across the priorities on your roadmap | A monthly leadership brief covering progress, risks, and decisions needed; Follow-through between conversations by email for your team, with a next-business-day initial response |
| Working rhythm and expectations | One monthly planning conversation, plus preparation and work between conversations; One 60-minute working session each month; initial response within 2 business days | Two monthly planning conversations, plus preparation and work between conversations; Two 60-minute working sessions each month; initial response within 2 business days | Four monthly planning conversations, plus preparation and work between conversations; Four 60-minute working sessions each month; initial response within 1 business day |
| Monthly fee | $1,500 | $3,000 | $6,000 |

Every plan includes preparation, agreed hands-on work, and follow-through between conversations. The upgrade boundary is how many priorities I can carry and how closely I lead; one-time audits, larger projects, and emergency support remain separately scoped.

## What does technology and AI advisory cover?

The work can cover technology direction and architecture, AI adoption and prototype review, or the systems and delivery practices that help your team carry a priority forward. The right scope depends on the decision and the people responsible for it.

### Technology direction and architecture

I help you make sound technical decisions and carry them through, contributing hands-on or guiding the technical people already on your team. I establish architecture, standards, processes, review practices, and AI guardrails that improve output, efficiency, quality, consistency, and determinism. The work can include configuring technologies, development tools, and integrations, establishing deployment workflows, or building front-end and back-end software. The priorities and scope are agreed together.

### AI adoption and prototype review

Find useful places for AI in your work, identify repetitive work worth automating, review what an AI tool has produced, and establish the security, testing, and human checks that make it dependable.

### Delivery and operating systems

Configure systems, frameworks, vendors, and development tools; build and connect the systems your product depends on through integrations; and establish deployment workflows, monitoring, and documentation that keep your team moving.

## Choose a focused starting point.

Explore the service, guide, or public product work that best matches the decision in front of you.

- [AI adoption consulting](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/services/ai-adoption-consulting) — Choose useful workflows, review data and permissions, and make team ownership explicit.
- [Technology strategy](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/services/technology-strategy) — Turn competing architecture, vendor, and product decisions into a sequence your team can carry.
- [Systems integration](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/services/systems-integration) — Map handoffs across tools and build connections people can operate, review, and improve.
- [Fractional CTO leadership](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/services/fractional-cto) — Add senior technical direction across architecture, execution, priorities, and team coordination.
- [Technology audits](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/services/technology-audits) — Get a fixed-scope review of a system, codebase, or development process with prioritized findings.
- [AI prototype readiness guide](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/resources/ai-prototype-to-production) — Use a practical checklist to review requirements, architecture, permissions, tests, and ownership.
- [DropHaul product work](https://www.promotiondevotion.com/work/drophaul) — See public product and architecture work grounded in a real operational workflow.

## Questions about technology and AI advisory plans

### Can you help turn an AI-generated prototype into reliable software?

Yes. I review the architecture, data handling, permissions, and development process, then identify the highest-risk gaps and recommend a practical path to production. If hands-on follow-through is part of the agreed priority, I can help carry it into production; larger projects are scoped separately.

### How do you make AI-assisted development more reliable?

By making the standards explicit and automatic. Work is broken into small changes with clear acceptance criteria, and the checks that guard quality run on every one of them, so the result is something the team can verify rather than something it has to trust. The same guardrails that keep people honest keep the model honest.

### Who are these advisory plans for?

Small and medium-sized businesses that need experienced technology and AI guidance. Choose Bronze to make one important decision with confidence, Silver to turn competing priorities into a clear plan, or Gold to give your team CTO-level technical direction.

### What does the month include?

The monthly fee covers preparation and analysis, written deliverables, agreed hands-on design, setup, or development within defined priorities, follow-through between conversations, and the planning conversations included in your plan. One-time audits, larger projects, and emergency support are scoped separately.

### Do you offer a one-time audit?

Yes, as a separate engagement rather than part of a monthly plan. An audit is a fixed-scope review of a system, a codebase, or a development process, ending in a written assessment: what I found, what it risks, and what I would do first. I agree the scope and fee with you before it starts. If ongoing guidance would serve you better, I will say so.

### Is implementation included?

Yes, when the work is part of an agreed priority within the plan. That can include configuring systems and development tools, establishing deployment workflows, or building front-end and back-end software alongside technical guidance. Larger projects and emergency support are scoped separately.

### How quickly will I hear back?

Bronze includes an initial response within 2 business days. Silver includes an initial response within 2 business days. Gold includes an initial response within 1 business day. For requests that need deeper review, I confirm the next steps and timing with you.

### How do we get started?

With a paid initial consultation: $250 for 60 minutes. A 60-minute working session to understand your business, your technology and AI priorities, and whether a monthly plan is the right fit. You leave with clear next steps either way. The $250 fee is credited in full toward your first month if you start a monthly plan.

### How does the monthly engagement work?

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. I agree on priorities and review scope with you before the work begins.

## Let's talk about the decision in front of you.

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