Start small, and scale only as far as it's worth.
There's a low-cost way to begin and a clear path onward from there. Most organizations start with the orientation or the assessment; the rest is here when the work grows into it. Prices are scoped to your size — and this kind of work often fits inside a grant budget.
AI Orientation
Not sure where to begin? A focused working session where we look at your organization, cut through the hype, and map where AI could genuinely help — so you can decide what's worth doing next, with no big commitment.
Where most engagements go from there.
Three ways to move from “what's possible?” to something real, in the field, that your team can run.
AI Readiness Assessment
Two to three weeks to a clear, board-ready plan: where AI can genuinely help your work, where it can't, and what to do next.
$6k–$12k 02 · BuildAI Pilot Build
Four to eight weeks. One real, working AI tool — built, set up in your systems, and handed over with a plain guide your team can run it from.
$18k–$45k 03 · LeadFractional AI Lead
A senior AI leader on your team part-time — for organizations that need the expertise and steady hands, but not a full-time hire.
From $6k / moWhen data has to stay put, and the AI has to be defensible.
For missions where the data can't leave the country or the building — and where you have to be able to explain your AI to a board, a donor, or a ministry.
Sovereign AI Deployment
For work where the data has to stay in-country, in-building, or on-device. We run AI on infrastructure you control — local models on a Hyracbox Edge Server, your own hardware, or an in-country cloud. This is the invest-in-offline-AI path, built on the platform we've shipped since 2017.
From $75k 05 · GovernAI Governance
The data flows, retention rules, approval steps and checks that let you stand behind your AI — to a board, a donor, or a ministry. Not a slide deck; an operating guide your team actually uses.
Engagement-basedThe work that happens once the AI is in the room.
Engagements that live alongside the tools — taking AI into the field, building your team's skills, and turning a grant proposal into delivery.
Field Deployment
AI that has to run where power, signal, devices and languages all vary. We build for those conditions from the start, not as an afterthought.
Engagement-based 07 · TrainTraining
Hands-on training for your staff: AI literacy, safe use, and the judgement to know when to trust a tool and when not to. Your team learns to run things without us.
Engagement-based 08 · FundGrant Implementation
We'll help shape the proposal before it's funded, at no cost, and be named as your implementation partner. Once the grant lands, we deliver against it.
Pre-proposal · no feePrices are scoped to your context and budget. This kind of work often qualifies as capacity-building or technology infrastructure in a grant proposal — and grant-funded engagements are welcome. If the fit is right, we'll find a way to make it work.
A 30-minute call usually sorts it out.
Most people know what they're trying to solve — they're just not sure which of these it maps to. A short call ends with a clear recommendation. If the honest answer is “you don't need us yet,” that's what we'll say.
However you start, the first conversation is the same.
Thirty minutes, no slides, a clear recommendation — with people who've actually done this in the field.