AI-Native Business.

    Own your AI and data stack

    This is for you if...

    You are building your business on infrastructure someone else owns.

    Every change goes through a vendor ticket. Your roadmap is in someone else's hands.

    You are paying for capability you do not own and cannot modify when you need to.

    Your competitors are building internal capability. You are still negotiating contracts.

    If your vendor raised prices tomorrow or shut down, you would have no real option.

    DELIVERABLES
    Technology audit
    Internal operating model
    AI deployment framework
    Vendor exit plan
    Capability & hiring roadmap

    Your current technology and vendors, audited.

    An operating model you own and run.

    A framework for deploying AI in-house.

    A plan to exit vendor dependency on your terms.

    The capability and hiring you need, mapped.

    Technology audit
    ToolVendorTypeRisk
    GPT-4 via APIOpenAI
    RENTED
    HIGH
    Lead scoringHubSpot
    RENTED
    HIGH
    Contract AIIronclad
    RENTED
    MED
    Data pipelineInternal
    OWNED
    LOW
    Embedding modelOpenAI
    RENTED
    HIGH
    Internal operating model
    Your IP & proprietary dataOwned datasets, competitive advantage
    yours
    Internal fine-tuned modelsDomain-specific, trained on your data
    yours
    Orchestration & tooling layerWorkflows, agents, integrations
    yours
    Foundation modelsGPT-4, Claude, Llama — commodities
    vendor
    Cloud infrastructureAWS, GCP, Azure — rented compute
    vendor
    AI deployment framework
    Setup
    Audit vendors
    Define ownership
    Build
    Internal models
    Orchestration
    Deploy
    Prod hardening
    Monitoring
    Scale
    Hire team
    Expand capability
    Vendor exit plan
    VendorCostExit toWhenPriority
    OpenAI GPT£8k/moFine-tuned OSS modelQ3
    HIGH
    HubSpot AI£2.5k/moInternal lead scorerQ4
    MED
    Ironclad£1.2k/moCustom parserQ2
    HIGH
    Grammarly Biz£0.6k/moClaude APIQ1
    LOW
    Capability & hiring roadmap
    ML EngineerMissingHIREQ2
    MLOps EngineerPartialTRAINQ1
    Prompt EngineerMissingHIREQ1
    Data EngineerPresent
    AI Product MgrMissingHIREQ3
    CASE STUDY

    It works.

    Short-term rental management company // 100+ properties

    A property management company had built their internal platform with an external vendor who had become unresponsive. The owner had a clear vision: make the business tech-driven and outpace competitors. As fractional CTO, we built a lean AI-enabled engineering team from scratch, with strong processes for prioritisation, coordination, and delivery. The team now ships five times faster than the vendor did, at lower cost, and is building on infrastructure the company actually owns.

    Key Results

    • 5x shipping speed vs previous vendor
    • Lower monthly cost than vendor engagement
    • Core tech stack now owned internally
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