Four engagements. One accountable person.
Each one answers a different question and leaves you with something you can hold. None of them requires the one before it, and one of them is free.
Sheet index.
| Sheet | Engagement | The question it answers | You leave with | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S-01 | AI Readiness Assessment Fifteen questions, five dimensions, one recommended next step. | “Where are we, honestly?” |
| About five minutes. Free. Runs in your browser; answers are not stored. |
| S-02 | Live Build Workshop One day. One working automation, built live on your own work. | “Can my team actually do this?” |
| One working day on site or remote, plus a short preparation call. |
| S-03 | AI Build Sprint A fixed-scope sprint that takes one to three workflows into operation. | “Get the important one into production.” |
| Days to a few weeks, depending on the workflows. Scope and price agreed before work begins. |
| S-04 | Fractional Chief AI Officer A named, accountable AI lead on a monthly engagement. | “Who owns AI here, month after month?” |
| Monthly engagement. Scope and price agreed before work begins. |
Where to start.
Find the line that sounds like your organization. If two of them do, start at the earlier one; it is cheaper to discover you were further along than you thought.
IfNobody owns AI yet and you cannot name the workflow
Start atAI Readiness AssessmentStart with the free assessment and a conversation, and do not buy anything yet.
IfYour team is skeptical, or was handed tools it quietly stopped using
Start atLive Build WorkshopBuild one real thing with them in a day, so the argument moves from opinion to evidence.
IfYou already know the workflow and need it running in production
Start atAI Build SprintScope a sprint: evaluation on real examples, a review path, documentation, handoff.
IfTools and pilots keep appearing and nobody is deciding between them
Start atFractional Chief AI OfficerPut one accountable person on the portfolio before you buy anything else.
IfLeadership disagrees about whether any of this is worth doing
Start atAI Readiness AssessmentRun the assessment separately, compare the answers, then bring the disagreement to a call.
How the set connects.
The engagements are drawn as a sequence because that is the order in which the questions usually arrive, not because you have to buy them in order.
- Assessment into workshop
- The assessment names your weakest dimension and, usually, a workflow worth testing. That workflow is what the workshop builds.
- Workshop into sprint
- The workshop ends with a ranked list of what is worth building next and a team that has seen how the decisions get made. The sprint takes the top item into production.
- Sprint into fractional lead
- Once something is operating, the questions change: what next, who approves, which vendor, what policy. That is the work a fractional lead does month after month.
- None of it is required
- Each engagement is sold and scoped on its own. Plenty of organizations start at the sprint because they already know the workflow, or at the fractional role because they already have builds running.
Reference sheets.
Supporting practices. They describe how the work is done rather than how it is bought.
AI implementation
The delivery detail behind the Build Sprint: how one workflow goes from mapped to operating, with evaluation and handoff.
AI training
Role-specific, hands-on programs for leaders and teams, beyond the one-day workshop.
Government & public sector
A distinct practice, scoped around agency authority, procurement, and public accountability.
Before you commit.
Scope and price are agreed before work begins.
How does pricing work?
Scope and price are agreed before work begins. The readiness assessment is free and self-serve. The other three engagements are scoped to the workflows, systems, and review requirements involved, so there is no list price: you get a written scope and a fixed commercial arrangement before anything starts.
Are engagements remote or on site?
Both. The workshop runs well in a room and runs well remotely, as long as the people who do the work are present and can share their screens. Sprint and fractional work are mostly remote with on-site days where they earn their cost. Travel, if any, is agreed in the scope.
Who actually does the work?
John Arndt. He leads every engagement and is in the working sessions himself. Where a build needs a specialist he will say so and agree that with you before anyone else is involved.
How is our data handled?
Engagements run on approved examples chosen by your team, under access you grant and can revoke. Data handling, retention, and which systems are in scope are written into the agreement before work starts. Nothing sensitive is needed for a first conversation. The readiness assessment runs in your browser and does not store your answers.
What happens if the evaluation says stop?
You get the stop decision and the evidence behind it. The acceptance bar and the stop condition are written into the scope before the evaluation runs, so a negative result is a result rather than a dispute. The recommendation may be to keep the current process, narrow the workflow, or come back when something changes.
Not sure which sheet you are on?
Thirty minutes with John. Describe the work that keeps slowing you down and you will get a straight answer about which engagement fits, what he would leave alone, and whether Soxoa is the right fit at all.