Rung 5 of 5 . Done with you
95% of AI projects fail.
We are the 5% that succeed.
AI Architect is the team of two that ships your team's first AI project in 2 weeks, on a 4-approval CTO-aligned architecture, then expands one department at a time as the wins compound. Built with your people. Owned by your people.
The wedge
You are not solving for one audience. You are solving for three.
Most AI vendors solve for the board mandate only. Architect solves for the board, the team, and the CTO peer at the same time. That is why it lands when other vendors stall.
01 . Above
Board and CEO
Measurable AI deployment by quarter end, story reportable, wins visible. We deploy fast, surface the wins, and help you present them.
02 . Below
Your team
Overloaded, wary of one more tool. The Hero Transfer: 1-on-1 onboarding, they own the workflow, they present the win as theirs.
03 . Lateral
CTO peer
Architecture they can sign off on: the 4-approval CTO doc, an isolated GCP project, read-only by default, countersigned at engagement start.
Solve for one audience and the other two break the engagement. Solve for all three and the engagement compounds.
The receipts
Why 95% fail, and how the 5% pattern wins.
| The 95% pattern | The 5% pattern (Architect) |
|---|---|
| Proprietary architecture they own | Architecture lives on your GitHub |
| Shared client data | Isolated per-company GCP project |
| Vendor lock-in | Open-source, tool-swappable, model-agnostic |
| Black-box deliverable | Source of truth in your repo, inspectable |
| Consultant is the hero | Your team is the hero |
| Pre-built solutions looking for a fit | Problem-first design |
| Read and write access by default | Read-only by default, explicit before write |
| No migration path | Easy to take in-house when you are ready |
CTO alignment
Four approvals your CTO countersigns at engagement start.
Not theory. Already shipped at a DTC subscription brand whose CTO signed off on this exact architecture. "GitHub is the source of truth. Everything else is a view."
Approval 1
GitHub structure
Personal folders plus department canons, review-gated. Git history is the audit trail. Your CTO approves the org structure before we write a line.
Approval 2
Tool calls and Secret Manager
All credentials in Secret Manager inside a company-isolated GCP project. Read-only by default. We notify before any non-read-only tool call.
Approval 3
BigQuery isolation
Quantitative data lives in a separate isolated GCP project. No comingling, no shared datasets, no cross-project queries with other clients.
Approval 4
Orchestration
Open-source orchestration self-hosted on a client-only VPS. GitHub stays the source of truth. Easy migration in-house later.
The Hero Transfer
Your team is excited, trained, and adopting. Not managing another vendor.
Most consultants make themselves the hero. We make your team the hero. We listen to each person we will work with, design against their actual problem, and invite pushback before we build. Then we sit 1-on-1 with each operator until they can run, break, and fix the workflow themselves. When it ships, their name is on it, and we help them present the win to the org as theirs.
The result: your metric moves because your team is AI-powered, your board hears that your team shipped AI, and your CTO is calm because the architecture was aligned from day one.
Pricing
$5,000 setup. $5,000 per month per department.
Transparent up front. The 2-week setup phase ships your first AI project and locks the recurring number before you commit to it.
$5,000 setup + $5,000/dept/mo
Each department engaged is its own workflow track with its own canon, onboarding, and internal AI champion. Expand horizontally as the first win lands. Architect runs on the StarMynd ABI data foundation, priced separately at $895/month starting.
Five ways in
The deepest rung of the ladder.
Most engagements start smaller: a Company Brain first, the ABI data layer second, Architect when the team wants workflows built with them. Enter at any depth.
A Company Brain is one company's private, owned instance of the Infinite Brain pattern: that company's documents, SOPs, workflows, and decisions structured as plain files it owns, which its AI tools read before they answer so every answer is specific to that business and cites its source. Start there if the team has no brain yet.
Start
Start with the fit call.
20 to 30 minutes. We name the actual problem your team is solving this quarter and propose the architecture shape that fits. If Architect is not the right rung yet, we say so and point you at the right one.
If we are full at three engagements, you join the waitlist. We do not oversell capacity.