Hours Assessment
We list your recurring work, measure the hours it takes today, and show which skills to build first, with an expected-hours table and a 12-month plan.
From $7,500, in 2 to 3 weeks
For consulting and knowledge-services firms that turn data into analysis and reports.
Grow your firm by growing your people.
We turn your firm's recurring expert work into AI skills your own staff train, own, and trust. The hours that come back go to higher-level work, not to layoffs.
Hours back, one task
Try your own numbersEstimated hours back
about 120 to 180 hours
An estimate, not a promise. An Hours Assessment replaces it with your own measured hours.
AI is saving firms time. Fewer than a third are turning it into growth.
| 84.8% | of professional-services firms say AI saves them time. |
| 29.9% | say it brings in revenue. |
| 36.8% | do not formally track a single AI outcome. |
Source: SPI Research, 2026 Impact of AI on Professional Services, as summarized by Teamwork.
Saved time disappears unless someone decides where it goes. Without a plan, an hour saved on a report becomes an hour of email. With one, it becomes a deeper analysis, a better client meeting, or a service the firm could not offer before.
That plan, and the measurement behind it, is what we build with you.
Growth, not cuts.
An AI skill is only as good as what your experts teach it. People who fear for their jobs hold back what they know. People who see AI as a step up share all of it, and the skills get better every week.
So we do not sell headcount reduction. We help your staff do higher-level work, and help your firm take on the clients and services that work makes possible.
Research supports this: consultants using AI on suitable tasks finished 12.2% more tasks, 25.1% faster, at 40% higher quality.
Dell'Acqua and colleagues, a field experiment with 758 consultants, Organization Science.
Three ways to start
Each one stands on its own and leads naturally to the next.
Key-Person Knowledge Capture
When an expert is retiring or leaving, we capture their practice as a searchable knowledge base and working AI skills, tested and handed to named successors.
From $8,000 per expert
Fractional AI Lead
We act as your firm's head of AI: new skills each month, working sessions with your staff, the release gate, policy, AI spend, and a quarterly report on hours.
Monthly plan, quoted after a short call
How a skill is built
The same four steps for every workflow, so you can trust the result before anyone relies on it.
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Built from your real work
We start from a past year's actual inputs and the report your staff delivered, not from a description of the process.
Your expert decides what is judgment and what is rule. -
Tested blind
The skill rebuilds a year it has never seen, and we compare every figure with what your firm actually issued.
Your expert resolves every difference. -
Trained by your staff
Staff run it on live work. The questions it raises go to your experts, and their answers become written rules.
A member of your staff approves every output. -
Owned and measured
Each skill has a named owner and backup, re-tests after every change, and logs the hours it saves.
Your owner approves every release.
What this looked like inside a consulting firm
Results from our principal's own work leading AI at a mid-size consulting firm. Your workflows will differ; the method does not.
Most of the firm, within months
From a handful of early users to most of the staff in AI user groups, trained and licensed, in about three months.
Every department moving
Each department converting its recurring work into skills, several skills each, with staff training them on live engagements.
Thousands of hours a year, expected
The first skills alone are expected to return thousands of staff hours a year across reports, proposals, reviews, and studies.
Questions became rules
Hundreds of questions raised in training were answered by the firm's own experts and written down as rules, so practice no longer lives only in people's heads.
Expertise that stayed
Skills captured from experts before they left are published firm-wide and used every day.
A 15-year-old system, replaced
A core desktop application fully replaced by a web application built with AI coding agents, with features the old system never had.
Bring one real workflow. Leave with a working skill.
The Consultant AI Cohort is an eight-week virtual program for consultants and analysts from different firms. Each participant brings one recurring piece of work and builds it into a tested skill, with the method to build the next one.
From $1,500 per seat
Also: your technology and your website
Technology oversight. Many smaller firms pay for software, devices, and IT services they no longer use. We review vendors, invoices, licenses, and budgets, and oversee them going forward. Hands-on IT work goes to an established IT solutions partner, so you have one accountable lead without hiring an IT department.
Websites. We design, build, host, and care for websites, now faster with AI, with optional features such as an assistant that answers visitors from your own content.
Common questions
Will this cost people their jobs?
Not if we are doing it. We do not take engagements whose purpose is cutting staff. We help firms move people to higher-level work and grow, and our reports show where the saved hours went.
Which AI tools do you use?
We are vendor-neutral. We work mainly with Anthropic and OpenAI models, and the same workflow can run on either, so each output can use the most cost-effective model. If you have already chosen a platform, we work with it.
What happens to our client data?
It stays in your environment, under your accounts and your AI usage policy. Your past work is used to build and test skills, and it never ships inside them. We help you write the policy if you do not have one.
Do we need developers?
No. Skills are built with the people who do the work. When a workflow needs software, we build it with AI coding agents and hand it over with tests and documentation.
Do you work outside California?
Yes. We work with firms across the United States, almost entirely by video. We come on site for training or workshops when travel is covered.
Where should we start?
Try the hours calculator, then book a 30-minute call or email us. A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to tell whether an Hours Assessment, Key-Person Knowledge Capture, or a First Skill Pilot is the right first step.
Tell us about one workflow.
Send a few lines about the work that takes your experts the most time. We will reply with what we would do first and what it would take.