AI advice from people who still ship.

Where AI pays off, what to build versus buy, and how to stay the right side of the EU AI Act.

175One advisory rate, published · excl. VAT0What the first conversation costs

The whole price list

Nothing hidden.

Half‑Hour Session€8530 minutes
AI Advisory Retainer€700per month
AI Opportunity Audit€1,500fixed fee
10‑Hour Block€1,57510 hours

Underneath it all

per hour

The advisory rate

€175

All prices excl. VAT. Advisory and light hands-on alike. No discovery call to learn a price: every figure further down this page is one of these, or arithmetic on them.

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AI first, and the wider picture around it.

The work leads with AI strategy, adoption and EU AI Act readiness. When the question reaches past AI — architecture, product, the team — there is an operator’s read on that too.

If you already run GDPR properly, most of the AI Act is closer than it looks — from GDPR to the EU AI Act maps what carries over, and what has to be built from nothing.

  1. 01

    AI strategy & adoption

    The places AI actually pays off for you, evaluated from the outcome backwards instead of from the technology forwards.

  2. 02

    EU AI Act & compliance

    AI Act, GDPR and NIS2 readiness you can act on — mapped, scored, and with a named owner for every gap.

  3. 03

    AI enablement & training

    Your team fluent and your guardrails in place, in the tools they already use.

  4. 04

    Technology & product audit

    The build, buy or wait call, and what it really costs, before you commit a quarter to it.

  5. 05

    Roadmap & architecture

    A sequence that survives quarterly pressure, and the system design to carry it.

  6. 06

    Founder & leadership sparring

    A second operator in the room for the calls that do not have a clean answer.

  7. When the answer is that you do not need us

    Some of what people book an audit for is a decision they have already made and want confirmed, and some of it is a tool they are already paying for. We say so in the session rather than in the invoice, and you leave with a direction either way. The half-hour is credited in full against an audit or a retainer if you go on.

    When the advice does turn into work, it moves to one of the five practices — what we do, and which one you need first. The advice is charged separately from the build.

  8. You stop deciding in the dark, and you never stop seeing what it costs.

See the number, in the open.

Move the levers. The range settles as you go, and it is plain arithmetic off the published rate — no form, no wait, and no sales call to learn a price.

01 What do you need?
02 Refine it
Scope breadthhow much is in scope
Data & accessis it ready to hand?
Depthadvice or hands-on
Cadenceone-off or ongoing
Specification
EngagementAI strategy & adoption
ScopeOne system
Data & accessNot yet mapped
DepthAdvisory only
Hours8–18 h
Estimated total€1,400–3,150
Best value for this shape
A Block, then hourly€1,575 + hourly

This is larger than one package. A 10-Hour Block (€1,575, saves €175) covers the core; the remaining ~8h run at €175. Past this size we would scope it as its own project, so you get a fixed shape.

Orientation1–2h
Assessment4–10h
Synthesis2–4h
Working session1–2h
Biggest unknown: your data & access readiness.Start from this estimate All prices excl. VAT.

Honest by design — real ranges from real hours at €175/hour. When a package costs less than the hours, we recommend it. No server, no AI: plain arithmetic you can check.

Four ways to bring us in.Every one of them is published.

Half an hour on the one thing that is stuck, a monthly retainer, a fixed-fee audit, or a block of hours you draw down for a year.

  1. You stop circling one decision.

    Half‑Hour Session

    €85

    30 minutes · one-off

    • Thirty minutes, live, on one bottleneck
    • A short written summary after, so the answer outlives the call
    • Credited in full against an audit or a retainer if you go on
    • Not a sales call — you leave with a direction either way
    Book a session
  2. You stop queueing behind other people's projects.

    AI Advisory Retainer

    €700

    per month · recurring

    • Four hours each month, rolling over one month
    • A standing monthly session, and first claim on the calendar
    • A reply within two business days
    • Extra hours at the standard €175, with no premium
    Start advisory
  3. You stop guessing where AI pays off.

    AI Opportunity Audit

    €1,500

    fixed fee · 1–2 weeks

    • A focused review of your actual AI surface
    • A written assessment and a readiness scorecard you keep
    • A working session to walk it through
    • Capped — there is no clock to watch
    Book an audit
  4. You stop scoping every small ask.

    10‑Hour Block

    €1,575

    10 hours · valid 12 months

    • Ten hours of advisory or light hands-on time
    • You pay for nine; the tenth is on us
    • Drawn down whenever you need it, with no monthly commitment
    • Valid 365 days from purchase
    Start a block

All prices excl. VAT.

The rate

175

Per hour, excl. VAT — advisory and hands-on alike.

Retainer hours

4 a month

Unused hours roll over one month, then expire.

A block of hours

365 days

Ten hours, nine billed, drawn down whenever you need them.

Beyond the allowance

175

The same rate again. No premium and no penalty.

Separately: if you ask for advisory work on an evening, a weekend or a public holiday, that is 215 an hour excl. VAT, whatever else you are on, agreed in writing before anything starts. It is billed on its own, it never applies to a response time already sold, and there is no emergency multiplier behind it.

This is separate from the platform subscription tiers, which cover portal and build work — those are on the pricing section. Larger builds become their own custom software project, scoped and quoted before anything starts.

Not sure which of them fits?

A few sentences is plenty. There is no briefing template, and every engagement begins in the same place — a straight conversation about what you actually need.

We resource ambition.

Before you commit anything

The first conversation is free.

First conversationFree
Paid half‑hour€85excl. VAT · credited in full
A reply1business day
Briefing templateNone
Sales sequenceNone

Tell us the situation in a few sentences. You get a real reply with a proposed shape — or an honest read that an audit, a retainer, or nothing at all is the right call.