How to Engage

Three ways to start.
One standard of work.

Every engagement starts with a direct conversation — no sales team, no qualification process. Vijayalakshmi reviews your situation personally and recommends where to begin.

01
AI Clarity
Session
A focused 90-minute working session to diagnose your highest-leverage AI opportunity.

You have questions. You may have internal proposals, vendor pitches, or a board mandate and no clear direction. We spend 90 minutes together reviewing your specific situation and leave you with a concrete diagnosis — not a sales pitch for more work.

What's included
  • Pre-session intake review of your organization and current AI situation
  • 90-minute live working session with Vijayalakshmi
  • Written diagnosis of your top 3 AI opportunities and risks
  • Recommended next step — whether that's us or not
Investment $2,500
Timeline Schedulable within 5 business days
Format Video call + written follow-up
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02
AI Readiness
Diagnostic
A two-week structured assessment that tells you exactly where to invest and where to wait.

Most organizations waste their first 12 months on AI initiatives that were never going to succeed — wrong use case, wrong sequencing, or wrong infrastructure. This diagnostic eliminates that risk. You receive a clear, honest assessment of your AI readiness and a prioritized roadmap anchored to your specific business outcomes.

What's included
  • Structured readiness assessment across five dimensions: data, infrastructure, talent, culture, and competitive context
  • Stakeholder interviews (up to 6 leaders) and current-state technical review
  • Prioritized use case portfolio with ROI modeling for each initiative
  • 12-month implementation roadmap with phasing and resource requirements
  • Board-ready executive presentation (optional)
  • 60-minute readout session with Q&A
Investment $12,000 – $18,000
Timeline 2 weeks from kickoff
Best for Organizations beginning a serious AI program
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03
Full Program
Engagement
End-to-end AI program design, implementation, and ongoing advisory.

For organizations ready to build a serious AI capability — not just run a pilot. We design the strategy, architect the systems, oversee implementation, and stay alongside your team through deployment and into compounding value. Scoped specifically to your program and outcomes.

Typical scope includes
  • AI strategy and architecture across one or more capability areas
  • LLM implementation, agent systems, or data infrastructure buildout
  • Governance framework and model risk management
  • Team enablement and internal capability building
  • Ongoing principal-level advisory (monthly retainer available)
  • KPI framework and performance measurement through 90-day horizon
Investment From $45,000
Timeline Scoped to program; typically 8–24 weeks
Best for Enterprises with budget and board commitment
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The Process

From first contact to first deliverable — what to expect.

01

Submit an inquiry

Tell us what you're working on. A few sentences is enough. No RFP required, no lengthy intake form — just context.

02

Direct response within 24 hours

Vijayalakshmi reviews every inquiry personally. You'll hear back within one business day with an honest assessment of whether and how we can help.

03

45-minute briefing call

A direct, working conversation. No deck, no pitch. We review your situation and recommend a starting point — usually one of the three engagements above.

04

Scoped proposal within 48 hours

A one-page scope document with deliverables, timeline, and investment. We move fast. Most engagements kick off within two weeks of first contact.

Fit

We work with a small number of organizations at a time. This is intentional.

We're the right fit when you areA serious buyer with real stakes.

  • A mid-market or enterprise organization ($50M+ revenue) with a genuine AI mandate
  • A leadership team that has budget authority and is ready to make decisions
  • Willing to be honest about where you are — not where you'd like to appear to be
  • Looking for a partner who will tell you what's true, not what's comfortable
  • Operating in a regulated or competitive-moat industry where AI has real stakes
  • Ready to begin within 30–60 days, not "exploring for future budget"

We're probably not the right fit if you needA different kind of firm.

  • A large team staffed with junior consultants billed at senior rates
  • Reassurance that your current AI strategy is correct (we'll tell you if it isn't)
  • A proof-of-concept with no path to production
  • Body-shop implementation at the lowest possible rate
  • A firm that will tell you AI can solve problems it cannot
  • Someone to manage an existing vendor relationship you've already committed to
A note on how we
price and structure
our work.

We don't bill by the hour and we don't staff projects with people you won't meet in the briefing. When you engage AI Gents, you get Vijayalakshmi's direct involvement — not a team of analysts she supervises from a distance.

Our fees are anchored to outcomes, not inputs. The Diagnostic has a fixed price because we know what it takes to do it well. Full engagements are scoped based on your specific situation — complexity, size, and what success actually requires.

We work with a limited number of clients at any given time. This is not a positioning strategy — it's a consequence of how we work. If our capacity is full, we'll tell you and we'll give you a realistic timeline for when we can begin.

Ready to start

Not sure which engagement is right?
Start with the inquiry.

Describe your situation in a few sentences. Vijayalakshmi will review it and recommend a starting point — usually within one business day.

Submit an Inquiry