AI Strategy Development
Decision-grade AI strategy on AIR, sequenced against a GENOMIA picture of the real organization — not pilot theater.
Why this engagement exists
AI strategy is usually a slide deck disconnected from operations. Teams ship pilots; leadership wants a portfolio thesis with ROI, governance, and a defensible sequence. The gap between the two is where AI programs stall — strategy that ignores how the organization actually runs never survives contact with it.
What it looks like in your organization
- The AI strategy deck exists, but nothing in it maps to real teams, systems, or constraints.
- Pilots proliferate without a portfolio thesis or ROI logic behind them.
- Governance is a policy document nobody operates against.
- Budget requests are approved or rejected without a shared investment sequence.
What we do and how it works
We build strategy that survives contact with operations: AIR readiness grounds the portfolio thesis, quantified ROI hypotheses sequence the investments, and a GENOMIA picture of the organization ensures the strategy lands on the structure that must execute it. Both platforms bill their own units — AIR by organization band, GENOMIA by size and complexity.
The engagement includes
- AIR readiness band and GENOMIA size × complexity scoping
- Use-case discovery with quantified ROI hypotheses
- Sequencing against real organizational constraints
- Governance and security posture designed for production
- Executive portfolio narrative for board or budget office
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Prioritized AI investment roadmap
RoadmapUse cases sequenced by ROI, readiness, and constraint — each with a quantified hypothesis, not an adjective.
Capital is allocated against a defensible sequence leadership can explain and defend.
Readiness gaps closed before budget is locked
Gap closure planThe readiness shortfalls that must be fixed before investment lands, with owners and order.
Funded projects no longer fail on predictable readiness gaps.
Governance framework for production AI
Framework documentRoles, evidence, oversight, and escalation designed for how your systems actually run.
Production AI operates under governance that works, not a binder nobody opens.
Executive-ready portfolio narrative
Briefing deckThe portfolio thesis framed for a board or budget office: what, why, in what order, at what risk.
The strategy conversation happens at decision level with defensible substance.
How this engagement runs
Read the organization
Week 1AIR band plus GENOMIA size × complexity are confirmed. Strategy without a twin of the real organization is theater — we start with the structure the strategy must land on.
The engagement is grounded in how the organization actually runs.
Discover and quantify
Weeks 1–3Use cases are discovered with stakeholders and given quantified ROI hypotheses, then sequenced against real constraints — capacity, data, dependencies.
Every candidate investment has a number attached, and the sequence respects reality.
Design for production
Weeks 3–5Governance and security posture are designed to run in production — roles, evidence, oversight — not to decorate a binder.
The operating model for production AI exists before the first production workload lands.
Lock the narrative
Weeks 5–6The portfolio thesis is assembled into a narrative a board or budget office can defend, closed with an executive readout and handoff.
Leadership holds a decision-grade strategy it can fund and defend.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
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.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
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.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
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.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
The organization or portfolio profiled against the AIR readiness ontology, sized by headcount and portfolio breadth.
The size of the organization being assessed: people, portfolios, and the systems that matter. A 200-person shop profiles at the Small band; a 10,000-person multi-portfolio enterprise profiles at Large or Extra-large.
The organizational twin: people, skills, systems, dependencies, and projects modeled as a living graph.
Headcount or agency count sets the size band; structural complexity multiplies it. Multi-system, contested, or mission-critical environments cost more to model because they are more to model.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
Every recommendation is grounded in AIR readiness and a GENOMIA picture of the organization — not intuition or vendor roadmaps. If the strategy cannot survive contact with your operations, it is not finished.
Ready to brief us on the AI Strategy Development?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.