Embedded AI Partner. A senior AI team plugged into yours, by the month.

Best for

• Teams that have shipped one AI system and want to keep compounding
• Companies without a senior AI hire on the roadmap for 6+ months
• Existing clients who finished a sprint and want continuity

What you get

• ✓Dedicated senior practitioner, 2–4 days/week depending on tier
• ✓Standing weekly working session + async Slack/Linear access
• ✓Continuous tuning of shipped systems (prompts, evals, cost)
• ✓Roadmap ownership — quarterly reviews with leadership
• ✓Build capacity for new initiatives without a new sprint scope
• ✓Same-day priority response on production issues

How it runs

1. Week 0Onboarding: access, tooling, kickoff with your team.
2. WeeklyWorking session, async updates, shipping into your existing PR/review flow.
3. MonthlyHealth report: cost, evals, what shipped, what is next.
4. QuarterlyRoadmap review with leadership. Renew, adjust, or wind down.

Not included

We are honest about scope so engagements stay sharp. These items live elsewhere or are deliberately out of scope for this engagement type.

• Net-new product engineering outside the AI surface (we partner, not replace)
• 24/7 on-call coverage (we cover same-day, Pacific business hours)
• Recruiting or hiring services

Common questions

• How is this different from a retainer at a typical agency?+

  Two ways: (1) you get a senior practitioner who writes code, not an account manager, (2) you can pause or wind down at the end of any quarter without penalty. We earn each renewal.

• What happens if we hire an internal AI lead?+

  Great. We hand off cleanly — code, runbooks, evals, walkthroughs — and either step out or shift to advisory. We design every engagement assuming this happens eventually.

• Can we start with a Sprint and graduate to this?+

  Yes — that is the most common path. About half of Embedded clients started with one or two Sprints first.

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