Frequently asked
The five objections to working together, answered first.
The questions below are the ones that actually kill deals at the intake stage, in the order they tend to surface. Every answer anchors back to the same two commitments: ninety-day outcomes the client can verify, and a small practice of four to six active clients so the work stays hands-on.
If a question is missing, write nathan-scott-consulting@polsia.app and the response comes within a week.
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What does a typical engagement cost and how is it priced?
The audit is $3,000 (Standard) or $5,000 (Advanced) as a flat fee with no hourly add-ons. You pay once, get a written document, and one consultant does the work directly — not a junior team. Every recommendation is anchored to a measurable outcome you can verify inside 90 days: hours saved, dollars recovered, or revenue added.
- 02
How fast will we see ROI on the audit and implementation?
Every use case in the audit is tied to a measurable outcome you can verify inside 90 days — hours saved, dollars recovered, or revenue added. The first use case is sequenced to ship inside that same window, so the value is provable before the second retainer cycle. If a recommendation cannot be cleared in 90 days, it does not appear in the document.
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What happens after the audit is delivered?
The written audit lands as the deliverable — a ranked roadmap of use cases, each with a 90-day outcome the client can verify. From there the engagement moves into a kickoff call to align on the next quarter, the first use case is shipped against the ranked roadmap, and a governance cadence takes over covering prompts, models, and policies. A monthly review checks the build against the audit’s 90-day targets, so the audit’s value continues to be provable long after handoff rather than left as a document on a shelf.
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Is this practice a fit for our team — and how do you handle our internal data?
Built for operations that want a single consultant doing the work directly — not a delivery team handoff — and the audit runs on interviews plus the operation’s existing tools. Nothing is sent to third-party AI systems that were not already approved for your team. Outputs land as written documents in version control, not training data. The scope of what is allowed to leave the operation is written into the engagement up front.
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What does the retainer include — and what does it explicitly not include?
The retainer covers direct build and integration on the workflows the audit surfaced, plus prompt, model, and policy governance, and a monthly review against the audit’s 90-day targets. It explicitly does not cover staff augmentation, running the AI for you after handoff, or training-data preparation at scale. One lead consultant does the build — not a delivery team.
Still weighing it?
Ready to book your audit?
The $3,000 Standard and $5,000 Advanced audits are fixed-scope products with no hourly discovery — buy directly from the pricing page and the audit team picks up the packet the same day.
If the fit is still unconfirmed, the kickoff call costs nothing — a 60-minute slot that walks the audit structure before any commitment.
Or book a 60-minute kickoff call first if a tailored read on scope would help.