Starter
€1,500/month
- 1 workflow per month, targeting one named lever (time, margin, quality, or cost)
- 1 user trained per workflow
- 30-min monthly check-in
- Async Slack support
- Audit-Proof Adoption Log
- Best for firms <10 staff
AI Operator for AEC Firms — Monthly Retainer
The AI Operator that recovers one partner-day per week — by shipping one workflow into your firm every two weeks.
Monthly partnership for AEC firms ready to operationalize AI. Every workflow we ship moves one of four levers — partner time, project margin, supervision quality, or admin cost — measured monthly. Built and run by the operating MD of a 15-person civil consultancy. No “AI strategy decks.” We ship, your firm absorbs, the lever moves.
Be the AEC firm in your region whose competitors quietly ask “how are they doing this?”
What changes
Every 30 days, one more part of your firm runs on AI — and one of four levers moves.
Month 1: partner time. Month 2: project margin. Month 3: supervision quality. Month 4: admin cost. Six months in, your partners have stopped doing admin and your firm carries 30% more project load with the same team. The work gets done. You don't become the AI person.
01
We ship the lever, not the slide deck.
Each workflow we deploy targets one of four named outcomes — partner-day recovered, margin point gained, rework hour eliminated, admin head avoided. We build the prompt, deploy the tool, train the user, monitor adoption. The lever either moves or we replace the workflow on our time.
02
First workflow live in week 2.
No 90-day “onboarding.” The first workflow goes live in week 2 of month 1. By end of month 1, we report which lever moved and by how much. Measurable adoption metrics, not vanity dashboards.
03
Operator credibility, not consultant theatre.
We're already running this inside ACE Consultancy, a 15-person civil engineering firm. Founder = operator, not consultant. Every workflow ships against a named lever. Every month, we report what moved.
Recommended pre-stepPricingStarter Recommended for 10–25 staff Scale
Start with the Blueprint. €999 in 5 days, then your €500 credit applies.
The Blueprint is the diagnostic — without it, we'd spend the first month of your retainer doing what the Blueprint already does in 5 days. Strongly recommended, not required.
Coming from the Blueprint? If you bought the Blueprint in the last 60 days, your €500 Implementation Credit applies to your first month at any tier — Starter, Growth, or Scale.
Three tiers. Pick what fits your firm size.
All tiers month-to-month with 30 days notice, ever. No long-term contract. Most AEC firms (10–25 staff) pick Growth.
Growth
€2,500/month
- 2 workflows per month, each targeting a different named lever — measured against the C-Level Dashboard
- Up to 5 users trained
- Biweekly 30-min check-ins
- Async Slack support
- Monthly adoption metrics report
- Monthly C-Level Dashboard included
- Audit-Proof Adoption Log
- Typical outcome: partners reclaim 1 day/week and firm carries 30% more project load by month 6
Scale
€4,500/month
- 3–4 workflows per month, covering all four levers each quarter
- Unlimited users trained
- Weekly 30-min check-ins
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Monthly C-Level Dashboard
- Quarterly on-site or video strategy review
- Direct founder access for strategic calls
- For firms 25–50 staff
Bonuses
What's bundled into every retainer.
01
The Audit-Proof Adoption Log (€1,200 value)
We document every workflow we ship into your firm — prompt, tool, training material, adoption metrics. Yours forever, even if you cancel. No vendor lock-in.
All tiers
02
Monthly C-Level Dashboard (€600/month value)
A live one-page dashboard showing time saved, workflows shipped, adoption rate, and projected annualized capacity gain. Built for your board, not for us.
Growth + Scale
03
First-Month Quick Win Promise (Included)
A measurable win in month 1 or month 2 is on us — see the guarantee below.
All tiers
04
Quarterly Sub-Niche Benchmark Update (€400/quarter value)
Refreshed every quarter — where your firm sits vs anonymized AEC peers on adoption velocity.
All tiers
05
Direct Founder Access for Strategic Calls (€1,500/quarter value)
Vivek personally on quarterly strategy calls. Not an account manager.
Scale only
Total bundled value at Growth tier: ~€2,200/mo + €1,600/year. You pay €2,500/mo.
Risk reversal
First Win or First Month Free — plus Release-of-Service.
First Win or First Month Free.If we have not shipped at least one measurable Quick Win into your firm by the end of month 2 — a workflow that's running, with at least one trained user actively using it — we refund month 2 in full. You keep every artefact, prompt, and tool we deployed in month 1.
Plus: Release-of-Service.No long-term contract. 30 days notice, ever. If at any point you don't see the value, walk. Most retainers tie you to a year. Ours ties us to you only as long as we're earning it.
Be the AEC firm in your region whose competitors quietly ask “how are they doing this?”
Honest capacity scarcity. We onboard 2 new AI Operator clients per month. Once those slots are filled, the next slot rolls to the following month.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do I need to buy the Blueprint first?
Strongly recommended, not required. The Blueprint is the diagnostic — without it, we'd spend the first month of your retainer doing what the Blueprint already does in 5 days. If you already know exactly which workflows you want shipped and have the context to brief us, skip ahead.
How do you measure whether a lever actually moved?
The Monthly C-Level Dashboard tracks four metrics in absolute units: partner-hours recovered, margin-points gained on active projects, rework-hours eliminated, and admin-FTE-equivalent avoided. Each shipped workflow is tagged to one of the four. If the number doesn't move within 60 days of deployment, we re-build or replace at no extra workflow-count cost.
What counts as a 'workflow shipped'?
A workflow is live when it's deployed to your stack, at least one of your staff is trained on it, and they've used it on real work. We don't count 'set up' or 'demoed' — only adopted. That's what the Adoption Log measures.
Why does this still work even when competitors copy our approach?
Because by the time they start, you've already absorbed six months of compounding capacity. The AEC firms that move first don't just get AI working — they get the operational habits, the trained staff, and the adoption discipline that make the next 12 months of workflows land twice as fast. Latecomers spend year one re-running the diagnostic you already finished.
What if a shipped workflow doesn't stick?
We track adoption in the monthly metrics report. If a workflow's adoption drops below threshold in month 2, we re-train or replace it on our own time — that one doesn't count toward your monthly cap until it sticks.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. 30 days notice, ever. No long-term contract. The Release-of-Service guarantee is real — most retainers tie you to a year, ours doesn't.
What if my team doesn't actually use what you ship?
Then we haven't shipped — we've delivered. There's a difference. The First Win or First Month Free guarantee protects you against the failure mode of paid pilots that nobody touches. Adoption is our problem, not yours.
Who's actually doing the work?
Vivek leads strategy and architecture on every account. Workflow build and training are delivered by our small operator team. On Scale tier, Vivek personally takes the quarterly strategy calls.
One partner-day recovered per week, by month 6.
One workflow shipped every two weeks. First win in month 1 or 2 — or your money back.
Book a 30-minute Operator Call. We'll walk your current stack, what you want shipped first, and which tier fits. No decks, no “discovery phase” — we already run this inside our own firm.