AI; what it is, what works, and what breaks in any business.
Most owners are sitting with the AI question. Most don’t have a substantive answer that respects how their business actually runs. We do.
We help operators map what AI is in their business, what’s actually working, and what’s quietly breaking when AI gets layered on top of accidental process. No tool-selling. No transformation pitch.
Pick your role and vertical. See three moves we’d actually recommend.
Three concrete moves per pick. Honest about what each requires from your business.
AI on top of accidental structure is chaos at scale.
If you haven’t architected the structure underneath your operation, AI will not serve you outside narrow use cases. AI amplifies whatever structure is already there. Coherent operations get five to ten times more leverage. Incoherent ones get five to ten times more chaos.
“Structure” is unsexy. Naming what the work is about. Writing the rules. Mapping the decisions. We’ve done it for lenders and adjacent operators. We publish the framework free.
For the longer answer, in 5 minutes.
What AI actually does inside an operation. Why structure matters when AI lands. Why the operators who do this work now are buying out the ones who don’t. Free, no email gate.
Free framework. Self-serve toolkit. Engagement when you want help.
Start free. Upgrade when you want more. Hire us when you’re ready to build.
- 5-concept framework on GitHub. Apply to any operation.
- Stack Audit, Tech Spend Calculator, Ask Wade Intel. Self-serve.
- AI-Readiness Self-Assessment. Get your score in three minutes.
- Wade School essays. Monthly, deeper reading.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- AI-Readiness full prescriptive roadmap (not just the score).
- AI Moves Picker. Save your selections, export to PDF.
- Conditions Library Builder soon
- Project Tracker soon
- Field Notes monthly. Anonymized engagement deep-dives, sub-only.
- New tools added quarterly as our engagement work produces them.
- Methodology Assessment. Map your stack, find gaps, prioritize. $30-50K.
- Implementation Lead. Run a workstream as architect-coordinator. $40-80K.
- Advisory Retainer. Embedded methodology + AI advisory. $7.5-15K/mo.
- Deepest in lending + insurance. Adjacent verticals at standard rates.
Read what we’re writing.
No email gate. Long-form essays + biweekly notes from the work.
If something here connected, talk to us.
No deck. No pitch sequence. Forty-five minutes.
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