00How to start

Four steps. No surprises.

The honest map from cold visitor to installed AI. Read first. Audit second. Install only after we've co-signed what success looks like.

Step 01 · Read

30 minutes

Free

The AI Implementation Buyer's Guide

Before you talk to any vendor — us included — read the guide. It covers the four cost buckets, the outcome-eval framework, the vendor evaluation rubric, and four signals that the right answer is to not install AI at all. Vendor-agnostic.

Step 02 · Audit

Two weeks

$5,000 – $15,000

Atlas Discovery — productized two-week audit

We sit in your operations the way an operator does. Calls, docs, voice notes, the channels where decisions actually happen. Two weeks, no PowerPoint. Deliverable: operational map, ranked AI install candidates, outcome-eval scope, and a contract framework your CFO can co-sign.

Discovery fee credits 100% toward an engagement if you proceed within 90 days.

Step 03 · Install

6–10 weeks

$75,000 – $250,000+

Engagement — 6 to 10 weeks, written outcome-eval

Three bands ($75K / $150K / $250K+) scoped to the install scope Discovery ranked. We don't write decks. We ship workflows that move the metric you co-signed in the outcome-eval scope. Every engagement gives 10% to the Institute for Human Advancement, line-itemed on every invoice.

Step 04 · Maintain

Monthly

$5,000 – $15,000/month

Post-engagement retainer (optional)

For operators who'd rather we stay in the loop. Scoped to the engagement that shipped, cancellable any month. Includes the outcome-eval recheck cadence (6, 12, 24 weeks post-install) and ad-hoc operator support.