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— Services

Three ways to work with us

TL;DR

AI discovery / audit · Build and hand-off · Fractional AI lead. Diagnose, prioritize, build and hand off. FAQ.

Start here

AI discovery / audit

We interview the people doing the job, map how it actually runs, and check what is realistic with the data you hold today.

  • Know exactly what to automate first, ranked by what pays off
  • See the real cost and trade-offs before you commit to anything
  • An honest "don't build this yet" when that is the truth
  • Walk away with the roadmap, even if you never hire us again

Fixed fee, scoped to the size of the business and quoted after a first call.

Build

Build and hand-off

Once we know what's worth building, we build it, in phases you can watch land, using the tools your team already runs on. If the data can't sit on someone else's servers, we build it on infrastructure you own instead.

  • You see it working early, not just planned
  • Your team learns to run it, not just watch us run it
  • You keep the docs, the accounts and the code
  • It keeps running once we're gone

Fixed fee per phase, quoted once the first phase is scoped.

After hand-off

Fractional AI lead

Some clients want to keep working with us. This keeps the same person who built your systems on your team, without adding a full-time hire.

  • One real working session with us, every week
  • We keep making what's running better, not just keeping it alive
  • One of your AI systems breaks or changes? You call us first
  • Every quarter, we sit down and look at what's worth building next

An ongoing engagement, reviewed every quarter.

— How it works

Diagnose, prioritize, build and hand off

  1. Step 01

    Diagnose

    We interview the people doing the work and map how it actually runs, not how the process document says it runs.

  2. Step 02

    Prioritize

    Every candidate gets a feasibility check: what exists off the shelf, what it would cost to build, and the pros and cons of each. You get a ranked roadmap.

  3. Step 03

    Build and hand off

    We break the project into phases, each one a working piece your team can use before the next starts. Then we train your team and hand over the system, the documentation and the keys.

— FAQ
How does an engagement usually start?
With a paid discovery. We interview your team, map the work, and come back with a ranked roadmap of what to automate and what to leave alone. You can stop there and take the roadmap to anyone, including your own team.
Do we have to keep paying you to keep the system running?
No. We hand over the system, the documentation and the credentials, and we train the people who will run it. Some clients keep us on afterwards as a fractional AI lead. That is a choice, not a condition.
Our data is confidential. Where does it go?
That depends on what your rules allow, and we agree it in writing before any work starts. Where sending data to an outside provider is not acceptable, we build on infrastructure you own, so the data never leaves it.
What do you build with?
Mostly self-hosted workflow automation, databases and custom code, with the AI models chosen per task. We prefer tools your team can read and audit over a black box only we understand.
I am not technical. Can I still do this?
Yes. We build the system and train the people who will use it. If your team can use email and a shared drive, they can run what we hand over.
We already tried AI tools and they did not stick. Why would this be different?
Generic tools sit beside the work instead of inside it, so using them is extra effort and people quietly stop. We build into the process your team already follows, so the system does the step rather than reminding someone to do it.
How long before we see something working?
Builds are split into small phases, so the first working piece lands in weeks rather than months. Each phase starts from a measurement of how the process runs today, so you can see what changed instead of taking our word for it.
Could we take your roadmap and build it ourselves?
Yes, and some clients do. The discovery is yours once it is paid for, including the feasibility notes and the ranked list. We would rather you build it in-house than pay us for something your team can do.
Where are you based, and what languages do you work in?
Compass AI Consulting LLC works with clients across the US and Europe, remotely, in English, Spanish and Italian.