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Silicon Program Advisory Retainer

Standing SiliconAIR counsel for silicon programs: requirements, compliance, and supply-chain decisions kept defensible across the year.

Annual Advisory Retainer12 months
from $120,000Engagement fee plus the platform units the work consumes — shaped below.
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Why this engagement exists

Silicon programs make requirements, compliance, and sourcing decisions continuously — but the analysis behind them was done once, at Phase 0. As regimes shift and supply moves, program decisions drift from the evidence that justified them.

What it looks like in your organization

  • Requirements baselines go stale while the program keeps deciding.
  • Export-control and compliance shifts are handled ad hoc.
  • Supply-chain decisions are made without updated silicon context.
  • Program reviews ask for assurance nobody has kept current.

What you take away

Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.

Current silicon program context

Living context

SiliconAIR context kept current for the covered programs: requirements, compliance, and supply.

Program decisions rest on current evidence, not the original Phase 0 baseline.

Compliance-shift counsel

Advisory

Export-control and assurance regime changes handled with rehearsed responses.

Regime shifts are absorbed without program disruption.

Supply-chain decision support

Decision support

Sourcing and supply decisions grounded in updated silicon context and exposure.

Supply decisions are defensible at the moment they are made.

Program-office assurance support

Assurance support

Readouts and assurance material for program reviews on demand.

Program reviews are answered from current context.

How this engagement runs

12 months · 4 phases
01

Scope the programs

Month 1

The programs and systems in standing scope are confirmed. Hardware-trust units set the coverage line.

Deliverables
Coverage scope
You exit with

A priced standing scope across the programs.

02

Run the counsel cadence

Months 1–12

Requirements, compliance, and supply counsel run on cadence and on demand as decisions arrive.

Deliverables
Counsel recordUpdated context
You exit with

Program decisions stay grounded across the year.

03

Absorb regime shifts

As regimes change

Export-control and assurance shifts are handled with rehearsed responses, not scramble.

Deliverables
Shift responses
You exit with

Compliance continuity for the programs.

04

Support program reviews

On demand

Readouts and assurance material produced for program-office reviews.

Deliverables
Review material
You exit with

Assurance questions answered from current context.

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 fee

Sensitivity 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.

Public×0.90

Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.

Confidential×1.00

Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.

Regulated×1.15

Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.

Restricted×1.30

Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.

Involvement

×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement fee

Involvement 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.

Light×0.85

We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.

Standard×1.00

We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.

Deep×1.35

Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.

Organization type

×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement fee

The 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.

SMB / Mid-Market×0.85

Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.

Enterprise×1.00

The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.

State & Local×1.00

Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.

VC / PE×1.00

Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.

Partners×1.00

Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.

Auditors / Insurers×1.00

Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.

Federal×1.15

Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.

Defense×1.25

Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.

Scope & scale of platform units

The largest component of most totals

Every 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 actuals

WINS 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.

SiliconAIR$15,000 per system
Hardware-trust system

Each hardware-bound system profiled for trust, provenance, and silicon posture — the hardware dimension of CYBAIR.

The number of systems you nominate for assessment. This is posture on systems you run or plan to run — not Phase 0 chip-program scoping.

Engagement profile
Platform units
Fee statement
Engagement fee$60,000
Hardware trust · 4 systems$60,000
Total$120,000

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

No. Phase 0 is a per-program scoping engine. This retainer keeps existing programs defensible across the year. New programs that need full scoping are referred to Silicon Requirements.

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