Consult
$400 per hour
Five-hour minimum per booking
Hands-on hours with our team on your own company. We run Ask, Map, Move with you, live, and you leave with the map so far and a first move you can undo.
[ 00 — AI transformation strategy for companies without an AI team ]
Everyone wants your AI strategy. Nobody has drawn your map.
For the executive who has to present it. We map your company with you, then build the first AI systems the map calls for.
[ 01 — Pilots ]
More pilots than strategy.
In early 2025, KPMG asked 93 US board members. 41% said their companies were running selective pilots of generative AI. Just 16% said it was built into company strategy.
[ 02 — The board ]
September 2025. AI climbed the board agenda.
In NACD’s survey of 315 directors that month, 49.5% put AI among their top five issues for the coming quarter, up from 32.4% in its first-quarter survey.
[ 03 — The pull ]
Vendors. Pilots. Policy. People. All pulling at once.
Every pressure wants to be first on the map, and every one of them lands on your desk.
[ 04 — Ask ]
One owner. One question.
Ask first: who decides, what they want, and which one answer would change the plan most.
[ 05 — You ]
You are the mapmaker.
Not the AI expert. The person who knows how the company actually works.
[ 06 — Map ]
Your company on one map.
Departments, what depends on what, the AI already in use and what already works, drawn with you.
[ 07 — What you get ]
You learn the terrain. We build the roads.
When we build, beta projects can be running within days. Several are usually in production testing within a week, depending on how fast you give us access to your systems.
- A map of your company, drawn with you: departments, what depends on what, and what already works. Every claim on it has a source and a date.
- The skill to keep it current. You learn Ask, Map, Move on your own company, not on a case study.
- With Build, a dedicated Utlyze team builds the first moves with you. It wires them into the systems you already run and stays on call 24/7.
- On Build, if you ever end the contract, all of the infrastructure we built for you transfers to you to run.
Consult is $400 an hour, with a five-hour minimum. Build starts at $15,000 a month.
[ 08 — Sources ]
Every claim on the map is dated.
A claim about what AI does in your company goes on the map as a fact only with a source and a date. Until then, it stays an open question.
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The SEC found that two investment advisers had marketed to clients and prospective clients that they were using AI in certain ways when they were not. Together they agreed to pay $400,000 in civil penalties.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Press release 2024-36, March 18, 2024 · settled without admitting or denying the findings Source ↗ -
Where is the ROI? How much longer do we have to wait?
An anonymized board director NACD Quarterly Survey: Q4 2025 · published January 9, 2026 Source ↗ -
Only 25% of the leaders surveyed had moved 40% or more of their AI pilots into production.
Deloitte AI Institute 3,235 business and IT leaders directly involved in their companies’ AI initiatives, surveyed August–September 2025 · published January 21, 2026 Source ↗
[ 09 — Benchmarks ]
A benchmark is not your map.
In a PwC survey of 4,454 CEOs, published in January 2026, 12% said AI had delivered both cost and revenue benefits. 56% had seen no significant financial benefit so far. An average cannot tell you which group you are in.
[ 10 — Move ]
Move when the map holds.
Start small, and measure each move against how the work runs today. Anything you cannot undo waits for a named person to approve it.
[ 11 — Consult or Build ]
Hours for the map. A team for the moves.
Consult is time with us to draw the map with you. Build is a dedicated team that makes the first moves with you.
Build
$15K a month, and up
Dedicated team · on call 24/7
A dedicated team builds the first AI systems your map calls for, with you, and teaches your people to run them. If you ever end the contract, all of the infrastructure we built for you transfers to you.
[ 12 — Begin ]
Start with the first question.
Tell us the decision that is waiting on your AI strategy.
Thank you. Pick a time below, or watch for our reply by email.
Pick a time →[ Questions ]
- What do I get, exactly?
- Your company’s AI strategy, drawn as a map with you, and a team to build the first moves on it if you want one. Consult is hands-on hours with us at $400 an hour, with a five-hour minimum. Build is a dedicated team from $15,000 a month, on call 24/7.
- We have no AI team. Can we still write an AI strategy?
- Yes. You bring what no outside expert has: how your company actually runs. We bring the AI side and draw the map with you. If you choose Build, a dedicated team builds the first moves and teaches your people to run them.
- What should an AI strategy include?
- On our map: who decides, the outcome they want, what is true today, the hard limits, what you can change, what drives the result, how you will know it worked, and when you must decide. Then the first moves, each with a measure, and a named person approves anything you cannot undo.
- What do I show the board?
- The map itself. It shows the company in one view, with a source and a date on every claim about what AI does in it. It also shows the first moves, how each will be measured, and what would change the plan.
- We already run AI pilots. Do we start over?
- No. The pilots you already run go on the map. What already works stays on the map. What nobody can measure stays an open question.
- How long does it take?
- Consult has a five-hour minimum. How long the map takes depends on how many departments it covers and how fast answers come in. On Build, beta projects can be running within days, and several are usually in production testing within a week, depending on how fast you give us access to your systems.
- How is this different from hiring a consulting firm?
- You draw the map with us, and you learn to keep it current, so the strategy stays with you. Every claim on it carries a source and a date. Consult is $400 an hour; Build starts at $15,000 a month.
- What do Consult and Build cost?
- Consult is $400 an hour with a 5-hour minimum, so a first booking starts at $2,000. Build starts at $15,000 a month for a dedicated team that builds with you and is on call 24/7.
- Do we keep what you build?
- Yes. If you ever end the contract, all of the infrastructure we built for you transfers to you, to run and maintain. In the words of James Brady, Utlyze’s founder, “Our goal is to build people that can build themselves.”
- How is this different from CAIO of One?
- CAIO of One is for new and de facto Chief AI Officers without a team, in title or in fact. This site is for the executive asked for the strategy before there is an AI office or an AI team. Both are Utlyze sites, with the same method and the same prices.
- Is this legal or compliance advice?
- No. If a law applies to you, its dates go on the map as limits. For example, the EU AI Act became applicable on August 2, 2026, with some exceptions. Legal, security and employment calls stay with you and your advisers. We make no promise of compliance.
- How do I get started?
- Use the form at the bottom of the home page. Pick Consult to book hours or Build to ask about a team, and tell us the decision that is waiting on your AI strategy.
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