Every engagement follows the same five steps. Discover: we define the use case narrowly and agree what good enough means as a number, before anything is built. Prove: we build the smallest honest version and measure it against that number. Harden: evaluation harness, guardrails, monitoring, cost instrumentation and security review. Scale: widen scope, integrate properly, train your team. Hand over: documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer, because we would rather you did not need us forever. We work in three commercial shapes only, and we publish all three: a fixed-price AI Readiness Audit, a fixed-scope Build engagement, or a dedicated AI pod. No open-ended time and materials, and no surprise scope.