AI has made the work faster, but business results haven’t moved to match. I find what’s delaying the value, then mentor your leaders and work hands-on so you deliver more, sooner.
Hire me the way you’d hire anyone good
“Under his guidance, we’ve seen remarkable improvements in our workflow efficiencies and overall product quality of milestone delivery. … His efforts have been key in enabling Episource to maintain agility at scale.”
Rebecca Darnall, VP, Commercial Solution Development, Vatica Health (worked with me at Episource)
Screen, interview, try me on real work, then commit only while it earns its keep. You can stop at any step, and each paid one ends in a written artefact you keep. The steps below are one shape that works; on the call we can design the one you need.
Each step is small, you can leave cleanly after any of them, and the evidence leads. The default at the end is stop.
| Step | Terms | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| A screening call | 30 minutes, no fee | Tell me what’s not moving. I’ll tell you whether there’s a question here worth investigating, and whether I’m the right person to investigate it. No deck. We agree the data and access a trial would need before it starts. |
| A two-day trial | USD 5,000, credited | It starts from your own question: where is the gain from your AI spend waiting? Two days on your queues and your people’s own accounts. It shows where the gain waits and what the delay costs; it doesn’t attribute business results to the AI spend. It ends in a written decision note: what’s constrained, what’s still unknown, and whether to stop, advise, or diagnose. Move to the diagnostic within 30 days and this comes off its fee. |
| An advisory day a week | USD 6,000 a month, 30-day notice either way | If your leaders will carry the change themselves, I work with them one day a week on what the trial found. It continues only while it earns its keep. |
| The diagnostic | USD 25,000, four weeks | A bounded piece of real work together, shaped around your situation and tested against your numbers. Either of us can end it after week two; you keep everything produced. Unless the evidence supports a worthwhile next step, the default at the end is stop. |
| An embedded engagement | For as long as it makes sense | If the diagnostic’s experiment delivers, the next step is hands-on redesign four days a week on a flat monthly fee, 30-day notice either way, each month leaving an artefact with a named internal owner. You decide when it stops earning its keep. |
If what you need is an operating role, fractional or permanent, I’m open to that too. Say so on the call.
What your numbers decide
“He [led] several key initiatives when I worked with him, including rolling out milestone prioritization organization-wide, leading to better alignment between team delivery and customer needs. … I’d gladly work with Chris again.”
Frank Rossi, Senior Director of Software Engineering, NRC Health
Your AI spend is up and your cycle times haven’t moved. We start there—in your queues, your cost-of-delay, where decisions actually route—not in a framework. I carry one prior and I’ll name it so you can hold me to it: the gains tend to land inside a delivery structure designed before these tools existed. We read your numbers together, and they settle it. They show the constraint, price it, or kill the prior, and if they kill it we stop. Nothing gets installed on a hunch, mine or yours.
What I don’t sell
Training days by the dozen, certification programmes, a coach army, or change on a timeline. My coaching isn’t a workstream running alongside the redesign; it’s how the leaders carry the change. It commits to process only (cadence, supervision, review); the outcomes belong to the redesign itself, where they can be measured.How that coaching runs—method, confidentiality rules, limits—is public at /coaching-practice.
1 How that coaching runs—method, confidentiality rules, limits—is public at /coaching-practice.
Based in Nelson, New Zealand, working close to US West Coast hours. I start at 6am in Nelson, which is 9–11am Pacific depending on the time of year.Here’s the overlap visualised.