AI Strategy Advisory Retainer
Standing AI strategy counsel on AIR and GENOMIA. The portfolio picture is kept current; counsel is the retainer.
Operational Friction & Multipolar Mandate
Why traditional ad-hoc approaches fail at scale, and the precision protocol deployed to resolve it.
Why this engagement exists
AI strategy is a point-in-time document in a moving environment. Portfolios shift, readiness changes, and new use cases arrive monthly — while the strategy that governs them was written for a world that no longer exists.
- ✕The AI strategy is a document, not a living picture.
- ✕Portfolio decisions are made without updated readiness or dependency data.
- ✕New use cases are approved ad hoc because the strategy has no update mechanism.
- ✕Leadership asks about AI direction and gets last year’s deck.
Engineered scope & execution
We keep the AIR readiness and GENOMIA structural pictures current, and provide standing counsel as portfolio decisions arrive. AIR bills by organization band; GENOMIA by size × complexity; the retainer fee is the standing advisory around both.
- ✓AIR and GENOMIA pictures kept current across the year
- ✓Standing counsel on portfolio and use-case decisions
- ✓Quarterly strategy reviews with updated readiness
- ✓Investment sequencing advice as the portfolio moves
- ✓Board or IC-ready narrative updates
What You Take Away
Every deliverable is named, structured, and tied to an immutable operational outcome. Nothing ships as a slide deck with no longevity.
Current readiness and structure pictures
AIR readiness and GENOMIA structure kept current as the organization and portfolio change.
Strategy decisions rest on current evidence, not a stale baseline.
Standing strategy counsel
Counsel on portfolio decisions, use-case approvals, and investment sequencing as they arise.
Decisions get evidence-backed input when they happen, not after.
Quarterly strategy reviews
The portfolio reviewed quarterly against updated readiness and dependency data.
The strategy operates on a cadence instead of decaying.
Board / IC narrative updates
The AI story kept current for board or investment-committee consumption.
Oversight conversations run from the current picture.
How This Engagement Runs
Structured gates from initial telemetry and baseline ingestion to verified exit capabilities.
Baseline the portfolio
AIR band and GENOMIA sizing are confirmed; the portfolio and readiness pictures are baselined.
Run the counsel cadence
Standing counsel runs alongside quarterly reviews; pictures update as the portfolio and org change.
Review quarterly
Portfolio reviewed against updated readiness and dependencies; sequencing advice refreshed.
Keep leadership current
Board and IC narratives updated when the picture moves materially.
Interactive Pricing Studio & Scope Engine
Our pricing is engineered, not asserted. Configure your organization profile and estate parameters to see the exact real-time cost breakdown.
Configure Your Parameters
The fee moves on three objective multipliers—Sensitivity, Involvement, and Org Type. Each factor reflects real operational handling and operator time.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Specific intelligence regarding security clearance, deliverable ownership, platform telemetry, and execution cadence.
It is standing strategy counsel with platform-backed pictures — not an embedded executive. The substance is AIR and GENOMIA evidence plus advisory judgment.
Have unique mission constraints?
Our engineering leadership reviews technical architectures and custom scoping directly under NDA.
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Ready to Brief Us on the AI Strategy Advisory Retainer?
We select our client engagements carefully and confirm technical scope, operator capacity, and final pricing directly in the initial briefing.