AI consulting
that ships code.

Scoping engagement — €8–10K · 2 weeks · fixed price

Two weeks of front-loaded diagnostic work that produces concrete artifacts your team, leadership, and Legal can act on. Stakeholder interviews, architecture document, sovereignty / vendor decision record, realistic build plan with phasing, cost estimate. End of week 2: a written readout and a meeting.

Best for teams facing a build/buy decision on a meaningful AI investment, where the cost of getting the architecture wrong is high. The deliverables stand on their own — even if you don't continue working with me, you walk away with a usable plan.

Advisor retainer — €7–11K/month · 3-month minimum

Weekly architecture call (90 min) plus async availability between calls. Your team owns delivery; this engagement keeps them aimed at the right target. Architecture decision support, vendor management input, eval discipline, code-review feedback as needed.

Hours scale with price: €7K/mo covers 5–6 hrs/wk (call + async); €9K/mo adds light hands-on review; €11K/mo includes active design work and code review. No implementation — your team writes the code.

AI product development (embedded build) — 3–6 months

I embed with your product team and own AI features end-to-end. Architecture, implementation, evaluation, deployment. RAG copilots, AI agents, meeting bots, structured-output features, LLM automation. I've shipped this kind of work inside SaaS platforms (Teamwork.com), enterprise tools (Roche), and automation systems (Universal Music Group).

Pricing is a monthly retainer scoped to the engagement on the discovery call. Engagements start at three months — less than that and there isn't enough time to do useful work. Part- or full-time depending on the scope.

Architecture & audit — 1–3 months · part time

I review your AI stack, surface the risks (vendor lock-in, scaling cliffs, missing evals, observability gaps), and deliver a written migration or improvement plan with options and trade-offs. I can lead the implementation or hand it off to your team.

This was the engagement at Roche — what started as a LangChain → LangGraph migration ended with a vendor lock-in fix in the observability layer that turned out to be the bigger risk.

AI team setup — 3–4 months · 10–15 h/week

I hire your first AI engineers, define the tech stack, plan the architecture, and mentor the team until they can ship without me. Then I step back. The goal is your independence on a schedule.

This is what the EuroPharma engagement looked like — three months from "no AI team" to a team that ran their own roadmap.

Technical assessment — $750 · 90 min · paid working session

Lighter entry point. Bring an architecture diagram, a vendor proposal, an eval question, or a specific stuck point. I review it live, ask the questions a senior advisor would ask, and send a one-page written take within 48 hours. Useful for validating fit before committing to a longer engagement.

Scoping and assessment are fixed-price. Advisor retainer scales with hours, listed above. Build, audit, and team-setup engagements are quoted per scope on the discovery call once we've named the problem. Most engagements start at three months; retainers have a three-month minimum.

I don't quote hourly rates on a public page because the answer depends on what we're solving. Senior AI consulting in the regulated / production-AI space typically lands between €120–180/hr or €15–22K/month retainer for full-time work — happy to walk through specifics on the call.

Two-week notice either side. If the engagement isn't earning its keep, we end it cleanly. The work I've done is yours — in your repo, with docs.

Companies adding production AI to an existing product, or building one from scratch in a regulated environment (pharma, finance, healthcare-adjacent SaaS, regulatory intelligence). Teams that have raised seed or Series A and need senior AI engineering judgment without the time-to-hire of a full-time lead.

I work well with technical founders, engineering directors, and CTOs who already have a strong eng team and need an AI specialist who can write the code, not just review it. I've shipped features through Roche's IT review and built systems where Legal sign-off was the hard requirement, not a nice-to-have.

I'm probably not a fit if you need an offshore contractor at $50/hr, a generic "AI strategy" consultant who doesn't write code, or a 12-month full-time hire. Those are real needs — just not what I do.