Services
Every engagement has a defined deliverable, a fixed fee, and a handover. Not sure which fits, or whether I am the right person at all? Book the free fit call. Thirty minutes, no deck, straight answers.
Free
Is this a real problem, and am I the right person?
A$2,200
Written read of what is broken and what to build first. Credited forward.
A$35–50K
A working slice of the real system, in production, on one workflow.
A$75–110K
The full system: deployed, documented, handed over running.
A$20K/mo
Embedded operator capacity, 2 days a week. Renewable quarterly.
Engagements
01 / 04
Start here · 1 week
ForAnyone who wants a senior read before committing real budget. The free fit call comes first. This is the step after.
The brief
"I need a senior opinion before I commit budget."
What ships
90-minute working session. Written one-page diagnostic the next day. What is broken, what to build, in what order.
Duration
1 week
Fee
A$2,200 · credited in full against any subsequent engagement
Out of scope
Free advice.
02 / 04
Engagement · 4-6 weeks
ForFirms with an AI mandate who want proof before committing to a full build. The most common first engagement.
The brief
"The partners told me to do something with AI. I need a working result this quarter, not a roadmap."
What ships
A production-grade slice of the real system, live on one workflow with one team. Document intelligence, retrieval, an agentic workflow, or a computational tool, scoped to prove value fast. Includes adoption metrics and a scaling plan for the full build.
Duration
4-6 weeks
Fee
A$35K-$50K · fixed
Out of scope
Firm-wide rollout (that is the Systems Build). More than one workflow or team in the pilot window.
The Bollinger Grohmann Knowledge Hub started exactly this way: a scoped first slice that earned the firm-wide rollout. 19 offices, 62% adoption in six months.
03 / 04
Engagement · 8-12 weeks
ForFirms and teams who know what needs to be built (often off the back of a Pilot) and need someone to actually build it.
The brief
"We know what is broken. We need someone to fix it. Not hand us a deck about it."
What ships
Production system. Document intelligence, agentic workflows, data systems, computational tools. Whatever the problem needs. Documented, tested, handed over with an onboarding session and 30-day support.
Duration
8-12 weeks depending on scope
Fee
A$75K-$110K · fixed
Out of scope
Multi-system integrations beyond what is agreed at scoping. Ongoing maintenance beyond the 30-day support window (separate retainer available).
Bollinger Grohmann Knowledge Hub: 19 offices, 9 countries, 62% adoption in six months. Four months from the first commit to production.
04 / 04
Retainer · monthly
ForPre-Series A founders who need product, engineering, and operations run, not just advised on.
The brief
"I need someone who can own the whole function, not just one slice of it."
What ships
2 days per week embedded across product and engineering. 1 strategy session per month with the founder. I have run product, engineering, marketing, sales, finance, and operations simultaneously at Imersian. Not advising from the outside.
Duration
2-month trial · renewable quarterly
Fee
A$20K/month · 2-month minimum
Out of scope
Equity. Cash only.
Imersian: bootstrapped, 4-5 person team, full-funnel marketing, investor pitching, P&L, and product engineering run concurrently as CEO and CPO.
What I do not do
If you need any of the below, I will refer you on. I only take scoped, shippable engagements.
Common questions
Yes. The AEC framing is where the receipts are, and the same problems show up across knowledge-intensive professional services: engineering consultancies, legal, advisory. If your problem is workflow fragmentation, knowledge trapped in people's heads, or an AI system that needs building, book a fit call and we will figure out if it is a fit.
Book the free 30-minute fit call. If there is a real problem, the next step is the Diagnostic: a written read of your situation the next day. If the honest answer is that you do not need me, I will say that. The A$2,200 credits in full against anything that follows.
A developer builds what you spec. I spec it, build it, and hand it over running. The difference matters most when you are not quite sure what needs to be built yet. That is why the Diagnostic and the Pilot exist. Most of the time, the problem scoped at the start is not the actual problem.
Yes. That is my default posture, not an exception. The Bollinger Grohmann Knowledge Hub was built under a hard GDPR data-sovereignty requirement: thirty years of engineering IP, none of it allowed to leave the firm's own servers, no third-party AI APIs. The system was custom-built from the ground up inside their environment. If your firm handles client-confidential documents (engineering, legal, advisory) and off-the-shelf AI tools fail your data governance review, that is exactly the situation I build for.
Someone who will tell you when automation is not the answer. I have recommended against builds twice in the last year because what teams needed was a tagging convention and a shared drive structure. The workflow is broken more often than the technology. Find someone who starts with the workflow map. Most consultants will not say this because it shrinks the engagement.
Work with me
Start with the free 30-minute fit call. If there is a real problem worth solving, the Diagnostic is the next step: A$2,200, credited against any engagement that follows.