ButterOpsEngagements and pricing

Engagements and pricing

Three ways to work together, shaped around where your team is and what you want to achieve. Start with a free conversation.

AI ROI Roadmap

Know what to pursue next.

A prioritized sequence of projects, expected results, and a roadmap your team can execute.

Two weeks · $29,000

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AI expertise retainer

Keep moving forward.

Working sessions, focused investigations, and advice shaped around your AI priorities.

Typical engagements: $10,000-$15,000/month

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Custom engagement

Tackle a specific goal.

Workshops, work alongside your team, or a project we deliver and teach your team to own.

Scoped and priced together

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A defined product

AI ROI Roadmap

Find the AI opportunities most worth pursuing, with a roadmap to act on them.

Two weeks · under an NDA

A roadmap your team can execute.

For companies unsure where to start, feeling behind, or investing in AI without seeing enough return. We understand where work gets stuck, what you’ve already tried, and where AI could make the biggest difference.

$29,000 for two weeks

We agree the scope before we begin: one business goal, several teams, or broader opportunities across the company. Your team can execute the roadmap yourselves, hire us for selected projects, or bring in other help.

Before day oneWe agree on the access, team involvement, and confidentiality needed to do the work well.

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What you leave with

A sequence of projects.

Prioritized opportunities, what each project involves, and the dependencies that shape the order.

Expected results.

Concrete outcomes, the assumptions behind them, and numerical estimates where there’s a sound basis.

A way to execute and measure.

The people, skills, safeguards, and rough effort needed, plus how to test whether each project worked.

A proposal for our involvement.

A separate priced proposal for the projects we can take on or deliver alongside your team.

An ongoing partnership

AI expertise retainer

Find where AI can help your team move faster and take on more.

We bring product judgment and AI engineering depth to help you assess opportunities, shape your roadmap, and work through the questions holding progress back.

Typical engagements

$10,000-$15,000 per month

We shape the mix around your priorities. Investigations produce findings, recommendations, and implications for your roadmap, using experiments or a small prototype when needed. Implementation is scoped separately.

An example month

A half-day working session
Two focused investigations with findings and recommendations
Advice between sessions

Is it feasible?

Assess an AI feature against your systems and constraints before committing it to the roadmap.

Where could we gain capacity?

Find where AI could speed up delivery or make a bigger goal achievable with the team you have.

What’s holding us back?

Investigate a stalled effort, compare approaches, and recommend what to change.

Scoped around you

Custom engagements

A custom engagement shaped around your goals.

We help you tackle a specific problem through workshops, work alongside your team, or a project we deliver and demonstrate. Discovery is included in the scope we agree together; a separate ROI Roadmap isn’t required.

We show your team how we approached it, how we checked the results, and how they can maintain and improve it themselves.

Workshops on your own work.

Help leaders choose opportunities, engineers work safely with AI, or business teams improve useful workflows.

Build alongside your team.

Put the setup, checks, and skills into practice on a real project while internal experts grow.

A project we deliver.

When your team has limited capacity, we take on the project and teach the decisions, tools, and verification behind it.

Free45 minutesWith Tyler and Julian

Let’s talk about what your team could do with AI.

A free, 45-minute conversation with both of us. Tell us what you’re trying to do and what keeps getting in the way. We’ll help you think through what to do next, whether or not you work with us.

On the call · 45 minutes

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We learn how your company works and where AI could make a difference.
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We sketch the scope of working together, right there on the call.
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We agree on next steps together, and nothing is decided for you.

After the call · 24 to 72 hours

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If it makes sense, you get a written proposal within 24 to 72 hours.

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