The SIGNAL Method
A six-stage system that takes AI from a verified business diagnosis to production, adoption, and protected continuity. Each stage takes a defined input, forces a specific decision, and emits an artifact you can audit.
The decision this stage governs: Is there a real, costed problem worth solving at all — before any AI is proposed?
A paid, 1:1 diagnostic session with the founders. We talk about your operation, not about technology: where time is lost, where errors cost money, where your best people are doing work beneath them.
Artifact: Product Clarity Brief (one page)
$2,000, fixed
The decision this stage governs: Which three to five workflows carry the highest return-to-feasibility ratio — and in what order?
We go into your real workflows — the plant floor, the dispatch desk, the back office — and map where intelligence creates leverage.
Artifact: Ranked opportunity map
The decision this stage governs: What does "better" mean, in numbers — fixed before development begins?
Before a line of code, we quantify a baseline for the process about to be improved: time, cost, error rate. Then we complete a twelve-point AI Toolchain Protocol — model selection, consumption ceilings, data boundaries, review rules.
Artifact: AI Impact Baseline + signed Impact Blueprint
Identify + Ground: $15,000, fixed, two weeks
The decision this stage governs: What gets built each cycle, and how the evidence reaches the person who approves the next step?
We build in two-week cycles. Every cycle produces a Decision Brief — a one-page record in plain business language — and a three-minute recorded demo ready to forward to your board.
Artifact: Working system + biweekly Decision Briefs
$18,000–$40,000/month
The decision this stage governs: Can your own team run this without us?
We transfer the capability, not just the software. Your team is trained on the system, and this stage isn't complete until they've operated it autonomously for two consecutive weeks.
Artifact: Capability-transfer sign-off
Included in Navigate
The decision this stage governs: Are results drifting — and what should you build next?
A monthly eight-point health check against model drift, plus a quarterly recommendation on what to expand next, grounded in your measured results.
Artifact: Monthly health report + quarterly expansion plan
$4,500/month, six-month minimum
The artifacts — why this is a system, not a talent
A method is only worth trusting if it survives the person who created it. Each SIGNAL artifact exists to prevent one specific, documented failure:
| Artifact | The failure it prevents |
|---|---|
| AI Impact Baseline | A deployment nobody can prove changed anything — because nothing was measured first |
| Twelve-point Toolchain Protocol | Runaway tool costs — the failure that once burned a month's budget in a week |
| Impact Blueprint (signed) | Scope drift and rejected sprints — the way a previous team lost sixteen weeks |
| Decision Brief (biweekly) | Execution that never reaches the decision-maker in time to matter |
| Vibe-to-Production Protocol | Throwing away salvageable work — or shipping demo-grade code into production |
| Institutional Knowledge Vault | Losing context when people or time change |