Most AI projects die because nobody agreed on the problem. You have a rough idea, a budget conversation coming, and no honest answer on whether this is a two-week build or a six-month one. This is the engagement that settles it.

A written problem definition your whole team actually agrees with

An architecture that fits the stack you already own, with a diagram you can put in front of leadership

A build plan with phases, effort, and a clear first step

An honest list of what will not work, and why

A cost estimate for running it, not just for building it

Two or three working sessions with the people who own the process

I look at the real data and systems, not the description of them

I test the risky part early, so you know it is possible before you commit budget

You keep the document whether or not you hire me to build it

I am not selling you one tool. I build across Azure, AWS, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and plain Python, so I can tell you when the no-code path is the right answer and when it will fall over in month three. A vendor with one product cannot say that.

Two hours from whoever owns the process, and read access to a sample of the real data.

You know something in your business should be automated but not yet what to build, or you are holding two quotes that differ by 10x and cannot tell which one is honest.