Senior strategic capacity on retainer, with agent-firm access — for founders, CEOs, and COOs who need ongoing strategic thinking but don't need, or can't yet justify, a full-time executive hire.
The retainer replaces the scramble of re-explaining your business every time a decision comes up. You get a partner who already knows the context, on call for the calls that matter — scoped to your needs each month, not sold as a fixed package.
A senior partner in the room for the calls that matter — pricing, hiring, positioning, the AI bet you're weighing.
The metrics that tell you if the strategy is working, kept current — not a quarterly deck that's stale by the time you read it.
Pressure-test a move before you make it. Bring the decision as it comes up — you don't wait for the next scheduled session.
The AI agent team on tap for fast research and modeling, so answers arrive in days, not the back half of a quarter.
Someone who knows your business, your data, and your constraints — not a fresh SOW and a re-briefing every time something comes up.
For companies navigating AI adoption without a full-time exec, this retainer functions as a fractional CAIO: judgment on where AI fits, what to build, and how to govern it.
The retainer runs on a rhythm that repeats every month, plus the availability that makes it useful in between. Scope flexes to what you need — this is a standing relationship, not a project with an end date.
We learn your business deeply — the data, the goals, the people, the constraints — before the first real decision.
Decisions, dashboards, and reviews on a set cadence, so you always have a standing checkpoint on the strategy.
Something comes up before the next meeting — you don't wait for it. That's the point of a retainer over a project.
A deliberate pause to ask if we're still pointed the right way, before the next quarter's decisions compound.
The retainer tends to fit one of three moments. If one of these sounds like where you are, it's worth a conversation.
You ran a Strategy Sprint and have the plan. Now you need help steering it month to month — decisions come up that the original plan didn't fully anticipate.
A company that needs a Chief AI Officer's judgment on adoption, build-vs-buy, and governance — but the decision volume doesn't justify a full-time CAIO salary yet.
A founder or CEO who wants a senior strategic sounding board on standing call — someone who pushes back, not just someone who agrees.
This isn't the right fit for a single decision with a clear deadline — that's a Strategic Diagnostic or a Strategy Sprint. The retainer is for the decisions you can't fully predict yet.
The same approach behind PVT built ShowOps.AI — an AI-native operations platform for large-scale live-event broadcast infrastructure, with a Claude-powered agent layer, per-tenant learning, and human-in-the-loop review across 13 modules and roughly 474 API endpoints.
It's a separate company we founded, not a client engagement — but it's the clearest proof that this way of working ships serious, production-grade Claude systems that other shops staff with a full team.
Tell us where you are — post-Sprint, weighing an AI hire, or just wanting a sharper sounding board. We'll scope a retainer to fit, starting with the first conversation.
Let's talk